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6th Grade Newsletter

November 2, 2025

- In Language Arts, students will establish a purpose for reading by monitoring their understanding by using annotations, questioning, connecting, and summarizing techniques to interpret how setting and characterization influence the plot; write the introduction of a short story focusing on using descriptive details to give readers a sense of who and where the characters are, what is happening, or what will happen; and contribute to discussions and shared projects by listening to others’ ideas, by offering my own ideas, and by providing feedback.

- In Accelerated Math, students will complete operations using rational numbers.

- In Science, students will construct an explanation of how the movement of lithospheric plates (i.e., convergent boundary, divergent boundary, and transform boundary), called plate tectonics, is due to convection currents below the lithosphere, and can cause major geologic events such as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.

- In Social Studies, students will compare and contrast the economic systems of the United Kingdom, Germany, and Russia and explain how specialization encourages trade between countries in Europe by analyzing graphs and diagrams.

Monday - B Day

Tuesday - A Day

Wednesday - B Day

Thursday - A Day

Friday - B Day

November 4 - DLD (Students learn from home), Election Day
November 5 - 6th Grade Clubs during Advisement
November 6 - Basketball vs Sweetwater @ South Gwinnett High School at 5:30
November 11 - Progress Reports Emailed Home, Veteran's Day, STEAM Night from 5:30 - 7:30 at GSMS, Basketball vs Richards at Discovery High School at 5:30
November 13 - Basketball vs Bay Creek at South Gwinnett High School at 5:30: WHITE OUT!
November 14 - Diabetes Awareness Day - Wear blue in honor
November 15 - Battle of the Comets: Basketball vs Snellville at South Gwinnett High School at 9:00
November 19 - Boy Scouts Registration from 6:30 - 7:30 in the Media Center
November 20 - Basketball vs Shiloh at Shiloh High School at 5:30
November 21 - PBIS Friendsgiving during connections (attendance is based on discipline)
November 24 - 28 - Thanksgiving Break - No School

Congratulations to this month's PBIS Students of the Month!

Savannah S.

Giovanni M.

Makhai H.

Aubrey S.

Ameliah E.

Kaylonnie F.

Bibi K.

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