Hall 6th Grade
March 7, 2025
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Math
Math
Over the past two weeks, our 6th graders have been hard at work! Last week, we wrapped up our unit on fraction division and revisited key concepts in rates, ratios, and percentages. Ratio thinking is one of the most important math skills in 6th grade, and we will continue to build on this foundation throughout the year.
This week, students took the CAASPP interim assessment to practice and prepare for the statewide CAASPP test at the end of the school year. This practice helps familiarize them with the test format and reinforces their problem-solving skills.
Homework Reminder: Students now have nightly math homework! They should complete 20 minutes of math homework per night. Assignments are given at the beginning of the week and are due every Friday. Homework is posted in our Google Classroom on the Homework Assignment Google Doc and is also displayed in our classroom. If a student is absent, they are still responsible for checking the daily slides and completing their homework.
Thank you for your support in helping our students stay on track in math!
Language Arts
Language Arts
New Curriculum Launch
New Curriculum Launch
This week, we rolled out our pilot curriculum with EL Education. Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief is our anchor text. Each student received a copy which they are responsible for bringing to class every day. The reading is fairly light (1-2 chapters/ lesson). By Monday, students should have read Chapter 1-3.
YouTube is a great resource for listening at home if said book was forgotten at school.
Grammar Focus:
Adverbs and Prepositional Phrases
Unit Vocabulary: mythology (ology = the study of), infer, gist, empathy, point of view.
☀️ Happy Daylight Savings! ☀️
Science
Science
In 6th grade science, students have been diving into the fascinating world of extreme weather! For their summative task, each group was assigned a location that holds a world record for extreme weather conditions, such as the driest desert or the sunniest city. They researched the geography, ocean currents, and other factors that contribute to the unique climatic patterns of their location. For example, students studying the Atacama Desert explored how its geography and ocean currents make it one of the driest places on Earth. By gathering evidence and connecting these scientific concepts, students have developed a deeper understanding of why different places experience such extreme climates.
Social Studies
Social Studies
This week, we graded our SSNB with the rubric pictured to the right. Some students did outstanding work, while others showed a lot of room for growth. Please review the notebook with your child. We are all set to earn prodicients for our Trimester Three SSNB!
Next week, your child will prepare a campaign speech and poster for a chosen Hindu Deity. Speeches will be given in class on March 17 - 18. Then, each class will vote for the deity of their class. See the sample campaign poster from a past class to the right.
Physical Education
Physical Education
The classes have been playing doubles matches over the last 2 weeks, learning the proper rules and refining their paddle skills. The culminating activity has been for students to participate in a doubles tournament with classmates in the same skills division (Fast Play or Good Times divisions). It has been great to see the improvement in skills for all of the students as they have been practicing with their peers.
Our next unit will be out of the blacktop, working on our Basketball skills.
Music
Music
Band - Both band classes are making great progress on their third grade .5 arranged piece. One class is playing, "Midnight Mission" and the other class is playing, "Tambora." I'd really like to see the students practicing a minimum of 10-15 min per night. With more challenging pieces, comes the need to put more time into the music outside of class. Thank you for your support on this!
Music Exploratory - We've made a successful transition from choir to ukes and keyboards. On ukes, we're learning the chords: C, C7, F and G7 in order to play our first song, "You are my sunshine." On keyboards, we started learning from a method book and tomorrow (thursday) in class we're going to learn improvisation.
Wheel Elective
Wheel Elective
Mr. Rodgers - As speech concludes this week, the class have learned the panel debate format, and engaged with their teams in debates. When students are not in debate, they because judges and timers for the other class teams that were engaged in debate.
There are a number of future lawyers and critical thinkers. Many of our students really know how to take apart an argument, find excellent evidence, and connect the evidence to the claim with excellent reasoning.
Debate topics included Summer versus Winter, Online versus In Store Shopping, Crumbl vs. Home Made Cookies, and other topics. These were intended to be fun topics, but building arguments was also stressed.
Photography starts March 10. Students that have Smart Phones will be given a pass so they can bring phones for the class, but phones must be returned to their lockers at the end of each class. Other students will be provided digital cameras in class. Students should not bring SLR style cameras to class under any circumstances. Photography is very popular because we regularly take pictures near Larkspur Creek in Piper Park, the flower garden, and use number of different areas of the school for photo assignments.
Student samples pics from 2023-2024
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