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February is here! Go out and show your love to the people around you, there is caring energy in the air! This week we have been working on how to show others empathy throughout the school day as well as in their everyday lives. Here are some fun facts about the month of February that you may or may not have previously known!
Here’s a look at what is happening in each of the classes:
What’s happening in Science?
Sixth graders discussed, cultivated, observed, researched, and learned about microorganisms this week! They learned how to culture an agar plate by selecting a location in the classroom they think has bacteria. Well, they definitely got their answers! By the end of week, we have many different colonies of bacteria growing in the petri dishes with samples from the tea cart, a sock, pencils, the floor, and more. The sixth graders have also tried to grow fungi on bread this week to see where in the room fungus may be hiding. Next week, they will contemplate where they think bacteria and fungi may be living amongst us around the school. Can’t wait!
What’s up in ELA?
This week sixth graders are polishing up their literary essays. Students were expected to use MLA for the cover sheet, in-text citations, and the bibliography. Students also took their grammar week twelve and figurative language assessment.
Next week, students will be working on preparing for self-assessments and beginning a new reading unit titled “Tapping the Power of Nonfiction.” Nonfiction is a broad genre of writing that encompasses all books that aren’t rooted in a fictional narrative. Nonfiction writing can be based in history and biography, it can be instructional, it can offer commentary and humor, and it can ponder philosophical questions. If a book is not rooted in a made-up story, then it is nonfiction (https://www.masterclass.com/articles/learn-about-nonfiction).
Feel free to take your child to the library to pick out a nonfiction book they may be interested in.
What’s going on in Math?
Hi everyone! The 6th graders finished a unit this week! And we all know what that means: an
assessment. We reviewed a lot for it, covered all the topics, and went through a lot of examples,
until there were no surprises left. Seems to have worked, because they did well on it. For the
few points missed, they can get half of them back by submitting corrections to me by the end of
the week. Assessment over, new unit begins! We’re on Unit 5 now, which is all about
proportional relationships. What makes these connections proportional is that they start with
nothing…literally. If you spend 0 money, you buy 0 products; If you walk for 0 hours, you travel 0 distance. Once you start walking, it’s calculated at a steady rate – a constant: Let’s say 15
minutes per mile. Once you start buying, you pay the same amount for each pound: $5 for each
pound of cherries. We get caught up sometimes in how unrealistic some of the scenarios are,
like with prices from the Andy Griffith show rather than 2023, but it brings up an important point
to follow: In Math, if they don’t tell you it is, it isn’t. For now we’re doing proportional
relationships in tables, but I expect we’ll be graphing them very soon, starting at the crosshairs
on the graph where everything is 0, and shooting out lines that match the answer to the
problem.
What’s happening in Social Studies?
Students dove deep into the Roman Republic and the transition it took to become the powerful Empire that it once was. Students were challenged to master the society and the fall of the republic and teach their peers what they learned.
Next week, the students will be diving into the Empire and the transition to becoming the Byzantine Empire. Students will then compare life in the Ancient Greek, Rome, and Byzantine Empires.
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