6 th Grade Weekly Newsletter Volume 4 Issue 19 February 12 th, 2016 Science Next Week Science Weekly Review This week students have been working on their comparative essay of the five major world religions. They are looking at the evolution of these religions from their origin. They split the religions into two groups: Christianity, Judaism, and Islam and Hinduism and Buddhism. Students discussed commonalities and differences among these groups as well as their differences. The final piece of their essay was to determine which two were the most similar of the five and which two had the least in common. Social Studies - 2/15 NO SCHOOL 2/16 NO SCHOOL 2/17 Rough draft is due. 2/18 Self and peer proofreading and rubric completion. 2/19 Final copy is due. - New Academic Detention Policy The 6 th grade team has sat down and discussed a more effective academic detention policy There is no more Lunch Detention it is now a 9 th Period Detention that is assigned daily for incomplete work. If by the end of the week (Friday’s) students that have been assigned a 9 th Period Detention are not caught up on all of their missing assignments for the week, they will be assigned an Academic Detention for the following Tuesday. 2/17 Students will use the FOSSweb to view how molecules act as they become heated. The students will also whiteboard the chain of energy from their experiment from last week. 2/18 The students will create and carry out a plan to answer the question: Can heat conduct through an object like a spoon? 2/19 The students will write a claim and explanation based upon the outcome of the experiment on Thursday. 2/8 The students discussed which materials heated and cooled the fastest and slowest. They listed the properties of the earth materials that they thought may have caused the temperature differences. 2/9 The students completed a Close read of A Device to Measure Temperature. 2/10 Students created a word bank and developed a plan on how they could raise the temperature of cold water to 30 degrees. 2/11 The students implemented the plans from Wednesday and wrote claims and evidence based upon their results. 2/12 The students wrote an explanation as to how heat is transferred from hot materials to cooler materials. The Science Fair will take place on March 3 rd from 3:00-4:30 in the High School Cafeteria.

6 th Grade Weekly Newsletter Math with Ms. York Week in Review This week students have experienced special notations of operations. They have determined that 3x = x + x + x is not the same as x 3, which is x times x times x. They have been able to apply their prior knowledge from Grade 5, where whole number exponents were used to express powers of ten (5.NBT.A.2). As a result they have also been able to examine exponents and carry out the order of operations (PEMDAS), including exponents. Students have demonstrated the meaning of exponents to write and evaluate numerical expressions with whole number exponents (6.EE.A.1). Students have also been able to represent letters with numbers and numbers with letters. In past grades, students discovered properties of operations through example (1.OA.B.3, 3.OA.B.5). Now, they are using letters to represent numbers in order to write the properties precisely. Students have been able to identify the following identities; a times b = b times a, a + b = b + a, g times 1 = g, g + 0 = g, g divided by 1 = g, g divided by g = 1, and 1 divided by g = 1/g. Volume 4 Issue 19 February 12 th, 2016 Take A Peek At Next Weeks Math!  Monday 2.15 NO SCHOOL  Tuesday 2.16 NO SCHOOL  Wednesday 2.17 Lesson 11: Factoring Expressions  Thursday2.18 Lesson 12: Distributing Expressions  Friday2.19 Lesson 13: Writing Division Expressions 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. Our first AR book and quiz will be due on March 9, This past week students finished reading, journaling, and reviewing chapters for the novel Bud, Not Buddy. Students discussed the plot and explained which themes are evident throughout the story. After using Kahoot.it to review, students completed the Accelerated Reader comprehension quiz and responded to a writing prompt on themes. ELA Next Week Next week students will continue Module #2a by beginning to write a literary argument essay. Students will skillfully and logically explain how evidence supports ideas. You can find Module #2a here: DID YOU KNOW?! George Washington Carver discovered hundreds of uses for peanuts and sweet potatoes. Martin Luther King Jr. improvised the most iconic part of his “I Have a Dream Speech.” February was chosen as the month to observe Black history because it is the birth month of abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass (Feb. 14) and President Abraham Lincoln (Feb. 12).