Monday, December 5, 2011

6th Grade Newsletter

December 5-9

Semester Exams: The countdown is on for the Semester Exams. The 6th Grade team is finishing up with the curriculum for the 2nd Nine Weeks and the information we are teaching this week, will be on the exams.

READING: Students will finish their unit on Expository Literature analyzing different types of expository text.

MATH: Students will continue their unit on Statistics, Graphing and Measures of Central Tendencies. This week students will create a Bar Graph It! Project for a Major Grade. Projects will be completed in class and are due Wednesday. Students will have a quiz over Mean, Median, Mode and Range this Wednesday. The quiz will be one of the last daily grades for the semester. Students will begin working on their math review in class this Wednesday.

SCIENCE: Students will complete their unit on Earth’s Structure and Processes and The Rock Cycle. A test will be given over Plate Tectonics and the Rock Cycle this Friday.

SOCIAL STUDIES: Students will continue to apply the 5 themes of Social Studies to North America and Canada. Some of this unit will carry over into the 3rd nine weeks.

WRITING: Students will complete their final drafts for their Literary Response papers. Papers are due this Friday for a Major Grade.

TUTORIALS WILL BE HELD THIS WEEK. SEMESTER EXAM REVIEW’S WILL BE HANDED OUT BETWEEN WEDNESDAY AND FRIDAY OF THIS WEEK.

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