1. 6 th Grade Weekly Newsletter Volume 4 Issue 10 November 20 th, 2015 Science Next Week Science Weekly Review 11/23 Students will begin the new unit on Weather and Water. Students will create a concept map on weather. 11/24 The students will receive the tests on Density from last week. New Schedules Students were given new schedules that displayed a change in their 8 th period class. However students will be receiving yet a new schedule that will have their core classes rearranged. The team has adjusted the groups accordingly and this will be affective Monday November 23 rd, 2015. 11/16 Students revisited their Life Jacket data and wrote modifications they would make to it. 11/17 Students read Science in a Bathtub. They answered the Focus Question: How can science be used to solve a mystery? 11/18 Students revisited the orange experiment and reflected on what they think about it now, after they completed the life jacket challenge. 11/19 Students wrote claims and evidence based upon the Big Question: How can an understanding of density help to design a life jacket? They reviewed the unit on density. 11/20 Students were tested on the density unit. 6 th Grade Thanksgiving Feast

2. 6 th Grade Weekly Newsletter Math with Ms. York Week in Review This week students have used prior knowledge to help aide with the division of decimals. Students have revisited all decimal operations in Topic B with extensive experience of decimal operations to the hundredths and thousandths (5.NBT.7), which prepared them to easily compute with more decimal places. Students begin by relating the first lesson in this topic to mixed numbers from the last lesson in Topic A. They found that sums and differences of large mixed numbers can sometimes be more efficiently determined by first converting the number to a decimal and then applying the standard algorithms (6.NS.3). Within decimal multiplication, students began to practice the distributive property by using arrays and partial products to understand and apply the distributive property as they solved multiplication problems involving decimals. By gaining fluency in the distributive property throughout this module and the next, students will be proficient in applying the distributive property in Module 4 (6.EE.3). Volume 4 Issue 10 November 20 th, 2015 Take A Peek At Next Weeks Math!  Monday 11.23 Mid Module 2 Test  Tuesday 11.24 Mid Module 2 Test HALF DAY  Wednesday 11.25 NO SCHOOL  Thursday 11.26 NO SCHOOL  Friday 11.27 NO SCHOOL Mid Module 2 Test Monday & Tuesday! STUDY REVIEW SHEET!! ELA with Mr. Knowles *All students are required to read at least three AR books every marking period. One of these books has to be based on Social Studies. The first AR book and quiz will be due on December 15, 2015. This past week students completed their re-test on the Writing Process and the 6+1 Writing Traits. Students also read chapters 13-16 of The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan. For each chapter students had to identify and journal the main idea, unfamiliar vocabulary words, blog responses on Edmodo.com, and collaborate effectively with peers. ELA Next Week Next week students will continue Module #1. Students will connect different themes and stages of The Hero’s Journey to the events from chapters 17-18. You can find Module #1 here: https://www.engageny.org/resource/grade-6- english-language-arts https://www.engageny.org/resource/grade-6- english-language-arts Social Studies Next Week Next week students will work on the focus question, “How has Egyptian society changed through time? How does/did religion influence women’s roles in Egyptian society”? Students will research the significance of mummification and analyze how religion dictated the role of King Tut. Social Studies With Ms. Hall This Week This week students completed the unit on Mesopotamia and their essay for Skara Brae. They tested on Wednesday after reviewing with jeopardy and the review pages for Chapter 1 and 2. We discussed ISIS, The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which ties in to our study of Mesopotamia. Iraq and Syria are located in the area where Mesopotamia existed.