Last 10 Days of School

Because there are no more packet pick-ups, there is no more STEM work to be completed and returned. There are enrichment activities in each Google Classroom that can be completed to keep your skills sharp.

May 2020

22 May 2020: The weekly pacing guide is here. ALL WORK SHOULD BE TURNED IN ON GOOGLE CLASSROOM, if at all possible. Remember that all questions require COMPLETE SENTENCES (unless it is a chart or fill-in-the-blank question). Answers not in complete sentences will be marked accordingly.

As always, please do your math, science, social studies, and language arts work first. The pacing guide is just a general guideline of how to spread the work out over the five days. If you work ahead, that is fine. Anyone who has not joined the Google Classroom needs to do so right away. To turn work in, complete the activity and click "turn in".

TO ACCESS VIDEO CHATS: Video chats are held on Tuesday and Thursday, 11:30 - noon. Go onto the Google Classroom and click the video link at the top. This is a recorded meeting, only available to students in this class. The Google Hangout chat (no video) is available from 8-4 each weekday for answers to specific questions.

Be sure to check out my fun science fact of the day on the main page of this website. Check back each weekday for a new one!

Independent Work (due May 26th): Both articles, answered in complete sentences turned in on Google Classroom. Answers not in complete sentences will be graded accordingly. IF YOU CHOOSE TO TURN IN PAPER, MAKE SURE YOUR NAME AND "STEM" IS ON EVERY PAGE!

15 May 2020: The weekly pacing guide is here. ALL WORK SHOULD BE TURNED IN ON GOOGLE CLASSROOM, if at all possible. Remember that all questions require COMPLETE SENTENCES (unless it is a chart or fill-in-the-blank question). Answers not in complete sentences will be marked accordingly.

As always, please do your math, science, social studies, and language arts work first. The pacing guide is just a general guideline of how to spread the work out over the five days. If you work ahead, that is fine. Anyone who has not joined the Google Classroom needs to do so right away. To turn work in, complete the activity and click "turn in".

TO ACCESS VIDEO CHATS: Video chats are held on Tuesday and Thursday, 11:30 - noon. Go onto the Google Classroom and click the video link at the top. This is a recorded meeting, only available to students in this class. The Google Hangout chat (no video) is available from 8-4 each weekday for answers to specific questions.

Be sure to check out my fun science fact of the day on the main page of this website. Check back each weekday for a new one!

Independent Work (due May 18th): Both articles, answered in complete sentences turned in on Google Classroom. Answers not in complete sentences will be graded accordingly. IF YOU CHOOSE TO TURN IN PAPER, MAKE SURE YOUR NAME AND "STEM" IS ON EVERY PAGE!

07 May 2020: The weekly pacing guide is here. ALL WORK SHOULD BE TURNED IN ON GOOGLE CLASSROOM, if at all possible. Remember that all questions require COMPLETE SENTENCES (unless it is a chart or fill-in-the-blank question). Answers not in complete sentences will be marked accordingly.

As always, please do your math, science, social studies, and language arts work first. The pacing guide is just a general guideline of how to spread the work out over the five days. If you work ahead, that is fine. Anyone who has not joined the Google Classroom needs to do so right away. To turn work in, complete the activity and click "turn in".

TO ACCESS VIDEO CHATS: Video chats are held on Tuesday and Thursday, 11:30 - noon. Go onto the Google Classroom and click the video link at the top. This is a recorded meeting, only available to students in this class. The Google Hangout chat (no video) is available from 8-4 each weekday for answers to specific questions.

Be sure to check out my fun science fact of the day on the main page of this website. Check back each weekday for a new one!

Independent Work (due May 1th): Both articles, answered in complete sentences turned in on Google Classroom. Answers not in complete sentences will be graded accordingly. IF YOU CHOOSE TO TURN IN PAPER, MAKE SURE YOUR NAME AND "STEM" IS ON EVERY PAGE!

01 May 2020: The weekly pacing guide is here. ALL WORK SHOULD BE TURNED IN ON GOOGLE CLASSROOM, if at all possible. Remember that all questions require COMPLETE SENTENCES (unless it is a chart or fill-in-the-blank question). Answers not in complete sentences will be marked accordingly.

As always, please do your math, science, social studies, and language arts work first. The pacing guide is just a general guideline of how to spread the work out over the five days. If you work ahead, that is fine. Anyone who has not joined the Google Classroom needs to do so right away. To turn work in, complete the activity and click "turn in".

TO ACCESS DAILY VIDEO CHATS: Go onto the Google Classroom and click the video link at the top. This is a recorded meeting, only available to students in this class. If you have any questions about your assignment, join me any weekday from 11:30 until noon on this meeting. The Google Hangout chat (no video) is available from 8-4 each weekday for answers to specific questions.

Be sure to check out my fun science fact of the day on the main page of this website. Check back each weekday for a new one!

Independent Work (due May 4th): All five articles, answered in complete sentences turned in on Google Classroom. Answers not in complete sentences will be graded accordingly. IF YOU CHOOSE TO TURN IN PAPER, MAKE SURE YOUR NAME AND "STEM" IS ON EVERY PAGE!

April 2020 - Quarter 4

24 April 2020: The weekly pacing guide is here. Due to the unavailability of internet resources for some of our students, we will suspend working on the next ciphers in Cryptology for the foreseeable future. The work being sent home will no longer require internet access and can be accessed and completed either on paper or on Google Classroom. ALL WORK SHOULD BE TURNED IN ON GOOGLE CLASSROOM, if at all possible. Remember that all questions require COMPLETE SENTENCES (unless it is a chart or fill-in-the-blank question). Answers not in complete sentences will be marked accordingly.

As always, please do your math, science, social studies, and language arts work first. The pacing guide is just a general guideline of how to spread the work out over the five days. If you work ahead, that is fine. Anyone who has not joined the Google Classroom needs to do so as that is now the location for joining the daily Google Meet. On the classroom is a link dedicated solely to students in 6th Grade STEM Quarter 4. As always, the Google Hangout is monitored from 8-4 every weekday for questions concerning your assignments, but the daily meeting is now accessed through Google Classroom. Look for the Google Meet link at the top of the classroom page.

Be sure to check out my fun science fact of the day on the main page of this website. Check back each weekday for a new one! If you have any questions about your assignment, join me any weekday from 11:30 until noon on the Google Hangout. You will be invited using your school email.

Independent Work (due April 27th): All five biographies with answers in complete sentences. It is preferred that you turn in your work on Google Classroom.

09 April 2020: The weekly pacing guide is here. The next chapter of work (to be used AFTER Spring Break) is in the materials given to you in your pick-up envelope and is available in the Google Classroom. There is also an alternative packet that MAY BE USED, if needed. DO NOT complete this packet (science articles) unless you receive notification. I will email all parents if we switch to this format.

As always, please do your math, science, social studies, and language arts work first. The pacing guide is just a general guideline of how to spread the work out over the five days. If you work ahead, that is fine. Anyone who has not joined the Google Classroom needs to do so by Tuesday at noon. To turn work in, you will need to scan/take a photo of the pages and email them to jjacobs@pinnacleclassicalacademy.com or bring back the pages during packet pick-up on April 6th.

Be sure to check out my fun science fact of the day on the main page of this website. Check back each weekday for a new one! If you have any questions about your assignment, join me any weekday from 11:30 until noon on the Google Hangout. You will be invited using your school email.

Independent Work (due April 20th): Chapter 2 through page 22 (keep page 23 for a future assignment). MAKE SURE YOUR NAME IS ON EVERY PAGE!

03 April 2020: With the school building still closed, we are continuing to learn! STEM packets are in the materials given to you in your pick-up envelope and are available here and the syllabus is here. Please be advised that, after this first week, all work will be posted to the Google Classroom rather than here (due to copywrite issues). Please do your math, science, social studies, and language arts work first. The pacing guide is just a general guideline of how to spread the work out over the five days. If you work ahead, that is fine. You will want to join the Google Classroom (the join code is in the packet and was sent to your child via Google Hangout) to access more tools and the tutorial videos. To turn work in, you will need to scan/take a photo of the pages and email them to jjacobs@pinnacleclassicalacademy.com or bring back the pages during packet pick-up on April 6th.

I am diligently working on making this class entirely on Google Classroom so that no exchange of papers needs to take place. Please email me (see above address) if you DO NOT have any access to the internet (you will need a paper packet even if nothing needs to be printed).

Be sure to check out my fun science fact of the day on the main page of this website. Check back each weekday for a new one! If you have any questions about your assignment, join me any weekday from 11:30 until noon on the Google Hangout. You will be invited using your school email.

Homework: Syllabus signature sheet, two PigPen worksheets, Chapter 1 through page 8 (keep pages 9 and 10). MAKE SURE YOUR NAME IS ON EVERY PAGE!

March 2020

27 March 2020: With the school building closed, we are still learning! STEM packets are in the materials given to you by your homeroom teacher and are available here. Please do your math, science, social studies, and language arts work first. Each worksheet should take you no more than 30 minutes each and represent what we would try to accomplish in a class period (we would have included a class discussion about the material as part of the lesson).

We are in Week 2 of the closure, so read the five biographies and answer the questions in complete sentences. A separate piece of paper is recommended.

Be sure to check out my fun science fact of the day on the main page of this website. Check back each day for a new one! If you have any questions about your assignment, join me any weekday from 11:30 until noon on the Google Hangout.

Homework: Nothing else.

20 March 2020: With the school building closed, we are still learning! STEM packets are in the materials given to you by your homeroom teacher and are available here. Please do your math, science, social studies, and language arts work first. Each worksheet should take you no more than 30 minutes each and represent what we would try to accomplish in a class period (we would have included a class discussion about the material as part of the lesson).

• Week 1: Read the Science Literacy articles and answer the questions in complete sentences. A separate piece of paper is recommended.
• Week 2: Read the five biographies and answer the questions in complete sentences. A separate piece of paper is recommended.

Homework: Nothing else.

13 March 2020: Teams are diligently working on their gliders.

Homework: Due 10 Mar: None

11 Mar: None

12 Mar: None

13 Mar: None

16 Mar: None

06 March 2020: New teams were made and the Flight Unit was begun.

Homework: Due 03 Mar: Flight presentation notes, History of flight video notes

04 Mar: History of flight video notes

05 Mar: Parts of a plane worksheet (Google Classroom)

06 Mar: All work missing since Monday! No other homework.

09 Mar: None

February 2020

28 February 2020: Students finished the Multiplicative Cipher and moved on the seventh and final Cipher: Vigenère .

Homework: Due 26 Feb: Study for Test! Test begins on 26 Feb 20

27 Feb: None. (Testing day 2)

28 Feb: None. (Testing day 3 - final day)

2 Mar: None

21 February 2020: Students finished the Multiplicative Cipher and moved on the seventh and final Cipher: Vigenère .

Homework: Due 18 Feb: None

19 Feb: Chapter 5, Page 59, Message #1 (Message #2 can be cracked for extra credit)

20 Feb: Chapter 5, Page 62, Problem 1 only (just counting, factoring, and finding likely keylength)

25 Feb: Review packet, Study for Test!

14 February 2020: Students continued working on the Keyword Cipher before moving on to the Substitution Cipher and the Multiplicative Cipher.

Homework: Due 11 Feb: Substitution Cipher Message 325, given e, t, a, o, i, and n

12 Feb: Chapter 4, Page 42, Problem 1, A-D

13 Feb: Chapter 4, Page 44, Problems 1&2

14 Feb: Chapter 4, Page 48, Problems 2 & 3

17 Feb: Chapter 4, Page 50, Problem 2B

07 February 2020: Students began working with the Additive Cipher on Friday, before the snow day. During this week, we finished the Additive Cipher and moved on to the Keyword Cipher.

Homework: Due 04 Feb: Last chance to turn in flight permission form. Student will have alternative, written assignment for

flight unit if not turned in. Chapter 2, Page 18, #1-3

05 Feb: Chapter 2, Page 20, #3 and #4, Page 21, #2

06 Feb: Chapter 2, Page 23, #5-12 (matching and key only)

07 Feb: Chapter 3, Page 29, #1-3, #1 Keyword APPLES, keyletter f, plaintext dessert; #2 Keyword TIME, keyletter c, plaintext harry potter; #3 keyword LAVENDER, keyletter d, plaintext grape

10 Feb: Chapter 3, Page 31, finish

JANUARY 2020 - QUARTER 3

31 January 2020: We began the week with a presentation on the history of Cryptology (students took notes). We continued our exploration of the Caesar Cipher.

Homework: Due 28 Jan: None

29 Jan: Chapter 1, Page 7, #4 & #5, Page 8 #3 & #4

Signed syllabus signature sheet (it MUST be signed by a parent/guardian)

30 Jan: Chapter 1, Page 9, finish #3, do #4, #5 can be done for extra credit.

31 Jan: Chapter 1, Page 10, all (time was given in class for this assignment) Flight permission form

03 Feb: Chapter 2, Page 14, all

24 January 2020: Students were introduced to the requirements for the class via the syllabus. Then they began their exploration of Cryptology.

Homework: Due 23 Jan: None (but, if you return your completed syllabus signature sheet, you earn a piece of candy!)

24 Jan: PigPen Worksheet #1 (this link can be used to print out a new sheet if you lose yours)

27 Jan: PigPen Worksheet #2 (this link can be used to print out a new sheet if you lose yours),

Chapter 1, page 4, problems 1 & 2

29 Jan: Signed syllabus signature sheet (it MUST be signed by a parent/guardian)

31 Jan: Flight permission form

JANUARY 2020

17 January 2020: Students finished building and assembling their gliders, performed basic trimming in the hallway, and had two days to practice flying the gliders in the gym.

Homework: None. Time was given in class to complete all worksheets.

10 January 2020: Welcome back to school! Students continued to work on building their gliders. This involves cutting out the pieces, shaping them (using X-acto knives and sandpaper), and gluing them together using cyanoacrylate (CA) glue. Permission slips were due in December. If you do not have a signed permission slip, you will have an alternate assignment.

Homework: Bring in your permission slip, if you did not turn it in on time.

December 2019

13 December 2019: Students took their final test for the unit

Homework: Due 10 Dec: Review Packet

11 Dec: None (Testing)

12 Dec: None (Testing)

13 Dec: None (Testing)

16 Dec: None

05 December 2019: Students began the final cipher.

Homework: Due 02 Dec: Chapter 4, page 52, all

03 Dec: None

04 Dec: Chapter 5, Page 59, Message 2

05 Dec: In class, work on either review packet OR coding exercise

06 Dec: In class, guided Reading "Tears" and "Spicy Foods"

10 Dec: Review Packet, "Vestigial Structures" Guided Reading.

November 2019 (Quarter 2)

22 November 2019: Students worked on the Multiplicative Cipher.

Homework: Due 19 Nov: Chapter 4, page 42 all

20 Nov: None, iReady growth testing done in class 11/19

21 Nov: Chapter 4, Page 44, problems 2 and 3

22 Nov: Chapter 4, Page 48, Problem 2

25 Nov: None (Field Trip)

26 Nov: Chapter 4, Page 51, all

15 November 2019: Students worked on Keyword and Substitution Ciphers.

Homework: Due 13 Nov: Chapter 3, page 29, #1 (ice cream sundae, keyword FROZEN, keyletter p), #2 (the city of ember,

keyword READING, keyletter f, and #3 (barney the dinosaur, keyword VIOLET, keyletter h)

14 Nov: Chapter 3, page 30 and 31 (entire classtime given)

15 Nov: Chapter 3, page 32 and ONE of the two worksheets. Second worksheet can be Extra Credit!

18 Nov: Chapter 3, page 36 finish (began in class)

08 November 2019: Students worked on Caesar cipher and Additive cipher.

Homework: Due 05 Nov: Chapter 1, Page 9, Problems 4 & 5 (hints given in class)

06 Nov: Chapter 1, Page 14, Problem #2, Page 15 problem #1 (a dishwasher - key 13), problem #2 (a mortgage - key 7)

07 Nov: Chapter 2, Page 18, Problems #3 and #4.

08 Nov: Chapter 2, Page 20, Problems #2 and #4

12 Nov: Chapter 2, Page 23, All

01 November 2019: Students began their exploration of Cryptology.

Homework: Due 28 Oct: None

29 Oct: None.

30 Oct: None.

31 Oct: PigPen Cipher Worksheet #1 and #2

01 Nov: Chapter 1, Page 5, #1 and #2, page 6, #1, #2, #3 (minimum 8 letters in each), Syllabus signature page

04 Nov: None

OCTOBER 2019

25 October 2019: Students learned the basics of programming in Arduino

Homework: Due 22 Oct: None

23 Oct: None. Last day of quarter

18 October 2019: Students used "trimmed" gliders (tested in the hallway) and elastic launchers to test the flight characteristics of their gliders in the gymnasium. Students completed a unit wrap-up activity before moving on to a brief coding practice.

Homework: Due 15 Oct: None

16 Oct: Glider reflection piece

17 Oct: None

18 Oct: None

21 Oct: None

11 October 2019: Students were given written and oral information about the scope of the project and instructions on how to construct the glider. Building continued. Initial flight tests were conducted.

On Tuesday, October 8, 2019, the class took a break from our flight unit to learn about our Character Education: Objective Reasoning.

Homework: Due 8 Oct: None

9 Oct: None

10 Oct: None

11 Oct: None

14 Oct: None

4 October 2019: Students were given written and oral information about the scope of the project and instructions on how to construct the glider. Building began.

Homework: Due 1 Oct: None

2 Oct: None

3 Oct: None

4 Oct: None

7 Oct: None

SEPTEMBER 2019

27 September 2019: Students began their exploration of flight with a BBC video on 100 years of flight. This was followed by a presentation on the parts of a plane and the forces of flight. Finally, students were introduced to the project: building a glider.

Homework: Due 24 Sep: 100 Years of Flight notes (handwritten)

25 Sep: Parts of a plane worksheet

26 Sep: None

27 Sep: None (no school)

30 Sep: None

20 September 2019: Students continued their exploration of Cryptology through practices with the Vigenere Cipher. The final test will begin on Wednesday, September 19, 2019. All materials used in the class are available to students during their test.

Homework: Due 17 Sep: Chapter 5, page 59, message #2 (twenty minutes of class time was given to work on homework)

18 Sep: None

19 Sep: First day of Unit Test, Review packet due

20 Sep: None

23 Sep: None

13 September 2019: Students continued their exploration of Cryptology through practices with the Multiplicative Cipher.

Homework: Due 10 Sep: Chapter 4, page 42, all (4 problems)

11 Sep: none

12 Sep: Chapter 4, page 50, all

13 Sep: Chapter 4, Page 51, #3. For extra credit, Page 52, #1 (it's a letter, so the first word is probably "dear")

16 Sep: Chapter 5, Page 58, #3 (encrypt "my grades", keyword DOG) and #4 (decrypt "PLAV PW NHVSG ALRG" keyword TEACHER)

6 September 2019: Students continued their exploration of Cryptology through practices with Additive, Keyword, and Substitution ciphers.

Homework: Due 4 Sep: Chapter 2, page 23, all

5 Sep: Chapter 3, page 29, problems 1 & 2 (#1 keyword CANDY, keyletter n, plaintext "junk food",

keyword DOG, keyletter l, plaintext "harry potter")

6 Sep: Chapter 3, finish page 31 (2 pts for finishing, 1pt each for table, keyword, keyletter)

9 Sep: Subsitution cipher worksheet, begun in class

AUGUST 2019

30 August 2019: Sixth graders took an open-note quiz on the history of cryptography. They worked on the Caesar cipher and the Additive cipher, as well as learning about how to "crack" codes.

Homework: Due 26 Aug: PigPen Worksheets #1 and #2 (on worksheet #2, decrypt EITHER the first quote OR the second two)

27 Aug: Chapter 1, Page 6, Problems 2 and 3. (Encrypt "giraffe", key 6.

Decrypt "DZCCRIU WZCCDFIV", key 17)

28 Aug: None

29 Aug: Chapter 1, Page 10, problem 2 , graded for accuracy

30 Aug: Return signed course syllabus, Chapter 2, page 12, all

3 Sep: Chapter 2, page 20, problems 1, 2, and 3

23 August 2019: Sixth graders went over the course syllabus and expectations. We began the first unit: Cryptography.

Homework: Due 22 Aug: History of Cryptography notes (done in class)

Due 26 Aug : PigPen Worksheets #1 and #2 (on worksheet #2, decrypt EITHER the first quote OR the second two)

26 Aug: History of Cryptography quiz (open note)

Due 30 Aug: Return signed course syllabus