6th Grade Announcements

Current Curriculum

SEL - Ongoing embedded social emotional lessons occur daily. Class meetings are regularly embedded into the day and a reflection will end each week. In addition to these, we are #aldrinallin. We encourage acceptance, flexibility, and noticing the world around us.

Literacy - For our sixth unit of the year, we are focusing on a variety of fictional texts about legends and myths. The students will learn and practice how to cite text evidence to support analysis and inferences, determine key events and summarize, practice describing how characters respond or change to plot events, and compare and contrast how authors write to teach lessons. Our next reading test of the year will be on Thursday, January 29th.

Writing - For our fifth writing unit, students will be learning about argumentative writing for the first time this year. Students will learn about strong beginnings and endings, writing to a particular audience, and how to research and prove their ideas. They will write a letter of a topic they are passionate about or interested in related to helping the world. This will then be turned into a blog post as a final product.

Social Science- Our next social science unit of the year is exploring different types of government. Students will learn about this topic through reading, watching videos, and completing a mythbusters activity related to government. Students will also practice taking notes related to the question "What is the best form of government?" that will then help them demonstrate their understanding and complete their own government report card at the end of the unit.

Science - The students will be exploring rock transformations through the essential question of the unit, "How do rocks form and change?" The anchor phenomenon centers around why rock samples from the Great Plains and from the Rocky Mountains are composed of similar minerals but look so different and come from different areas. They will be focusing on this topic through simulations, readings, a lab, and evaluating evidence. Students will demonstrate their understanding in a written response at the end of the unit.

Mulvihill/Walsh/Zeller Math - The seventh math module of the year focuses on algebra (simplifying expressions) and solving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division equations with variables. Within the module, students will be learning how to simplify expressions with one variable and more than one variable. Then, they will learn and practice how to solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division equations, both on their own and in word problems. There will be two checkpoints that students will complete; one after the 4th lesson, and one after the 12th lesson of this module.

Weber Math - Unit 4 focuses on expressions and more equations. Students will learn how to rewrite expressions with fewer terms, apply the distributive property to factor, solve linear equations and describe features of linear equations that have on solutions, no solution, or many solutions. The end of unit assessment will be on January 16th.

Important Dates

Friday 1/16 - Pizza Day (money due on Thursday)
Monday 1/19 - No School (MLK Jr. Day)
Friday 1/23 - Hot Dog Day

PTA LINKS-3.pdf

Click on the links above to access information on PTA membership, spirit wear orders, yearbook orders, hot lunch orders, and more!

Multicultural Night Signup

Multicultural night will be on Thursday, February 12th, 2026! We're looking forward to an exciting night. Please click the link below to get involved and represent your culture.

Multicultural Night Link

PACC Survey

Personal Assessment of Core Competency (PACC) In District 54, we are dedicated to supporting the academic and social-emotional growth of every student. Your perspective as a parent or guardian plays a vital role in helping us build a complete understanding of your student’s strengths and areas for growth. To gather your valuable input, families of students in grades K–8 received an email on Jan. 5 with a unique link to complete the District 54 Personal Assessment of Core Competency for your student(s). The survey will be open through Jan. 23. We sincerely appreciate your participation, as strong collaboration between home and school is essential in supporting your student's overall well-being.

Cell phones and other personal electronic devices

According to Board Policy 7:190, all personal electronic devices must remain out of sight and powered off while students are at school. We have informed the students that phones must remain in their backpacks and be powered off while in the school building or on school provided transportation.

Students that have an electronic device out of their backpack during the day or fail to power off their device during the school day will have their device taken away until the end of the day. Families will be notified of this consequence. The device will be returned to the student at the end of the day after the first incident. A second occurrence will result in the device being taken from the student and sent to the school office. At this point, a parent or guardian will be asked to retrieve the device.

Please reach out to your child’s classroom teacher if you have any questions. Thank you.

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