6th Grade

December 8-12

Friday:  Christmas Gift Shop - bring money, booklet & bags if you will be shopping

Bible

Learning Targets:  We will be discussing some of Jesus' parables and applying them to our lives.

Bible test:  Wed. - THURSDAY DUE TO SNOW DAY

Bible memory:  due Thursday, Dec. 11 - Psalm 23 - FRIDAY DUE TO SNOW DAY

Math

Learning Targets:  We will be discussing how to find the area of parallelograms, triangles, and trapezoids

Homework:   due the next day 

• • Mon.:  7.1 EP & write work

  • Tues.:  7.1 Puzzle

  • Thurs.:  7.2 EP, not #6 & 12, write work

Language Arts 

Learning Targets: This week, we will continue discussing non-fiction text structures. Due to the snow day, I moved our descriptive writing to this week. Students will write a descriptive paragraph on Monday. The remainder of the week, we will discuss plagiarism. 

 Assessment: 

Tuesday- Description Paragraph due

Science

Learning Targets:  We will continue in our new unit of Planetary Science. We will be learning about our moon and its phases. 

Assessment: none

Social Studies

Learning Targets:  We will be discussing Mexico City and how it is dealing with the problems within it. 

Assignments: Mexico City Proposals due Tuesday, December 9

Specials

Upcoming assessments in Spanish, physical education, art and band will be listed here.  If it is empty, there are no assessments.

Spanish:  

Physical Education:

Art:

Band: Starting on Monday, December 15, we will have our second playing test of the year! Here is what each section will need to prepare.

Everyone: p. 43 Concert Eb Major Scale and Arpeggio (if there are two octave, play the upper octave)

The following measures from our new piece "Spring"

Flutes: m. 19-34 (no repeat)

Clarinets: m. 1-11

Saxophones: m. 37-45

Trumpets: m. 11-27

Trombone/Baritone: m. 11-27

Tuba: m. 11-27

Percussion (this section will have to perform the scale listed above, a portion on mallets for Spring, and a snare excerpt out of the TOE book):

Bells - m. 47-55

Snare - TOE p. 30 #135