This week during our first ‘Hawk’ week, students were able to choose and begin participating in afternoon clubs. These clubs will meet Wednesday and Thursday during ‘Hawk’ weeks. The clubs include the Naturalist Club, Community Service Club, Spirit Club and Board Game Club. Clubs will be rotated by trimester, allowing students to experience and try new clubs throughout the school year.
Students also participated in their first week of our Social Emotional Learning program. This curriculum is done within advisory groups and is a time for students to learn new skills to help them become positive members of our community. This week was all about mindfulness and sense of self.
Enjoy the long weekend and we’re looking forward to seeing you all back on Tuesday!
-KH
Math:
Last week, we began creating formulas for the area of different shapes before building on this knowledge to find the surface area of different three-dimensional shapes. Next week, we’ll review for and take our Unit 1 test. I’ll send out more information about this early next week!
ELA:
This week, 6th grade readers amped up their annotation skills by identifying dialogue. Readers also learned how to distinguish between tone and mood, while also analyzing the ways tone and mood influence one another in a passage. In Civil Discourse, students entered their first critical conversations around gendered toys and birth order stereotypes.
Next week, readers will finish Boy. Civil discourse will center around the deeper issues of environmental responsibility and putting our conversations in context.
Social Studies:
This week we began learning about the importance of farming and the growth of human civilization and the rise of cities. Students finished and presented their city project which went fantastically! We have now moved onto studying our first civilization which is Mesopotamia. Learning about the geography of the land and how it helped shape civilizations as well as learning about how society functioned back then. We will be moving into great inventions of the Mesopotamians as well as laws, writing and their religious practices.
Science:
Sixth graders learned about the study of meteorology this week! They created their own weather report, looking at a location’s temperatures, humidity, air pressure, and wind. They also explored air by using syringes, tubes, clips, and bubble wrap. They observed that air is matter and does indeed take up space. The sixth graders also learned about ways weather can be dangerous, specifically tornadoes and hurricanes. Next week, they will have a quiz about weather factors and air.
Important Dates:
September 2nd – Labor Day (No School)
September 4th – MS Curriculum Night (5:30pm)
September 7th – Family Fun Night @ The Charleston Battery
September 13th- Parent Coffee (8:15-9:00)
