1. 6th Grade Science 6th Grade Language Arts
Mrs. Spangler
6th Grade Science
6th Grade Language Arts

2. homework calendar (updated weekly)
My Website
Useful for:
homework calendar (updated weekly)
class insights
extra resources
study guides

3. To save my time this year, the homework calendar will be a link which opens a google calendar.

4. Student Responsibility
In order to be more successful, your child will be taught to
access the website
use the homework calendar
use a planner
Please support them as they learn.

5. Warning:
Becoming organized and managing time for homework, (as well as learning to turn homework in) can be a long process and every child goes through this 1st year of middle school differently.

6. The New 6th Grade Team Mrs. Spangler: Science and Language Arts
Mrs. Runyan: Social Studies and Language Arts
Mrs. Hutchinson: Math and Language Arts
Please contact the correct teacher with questions and concerns.

7. Daily Schedule Period 1: Homeroom/ Writing 8:00-8:32
Period 2: Core class/ Science
8:35-9:37
Period 3: Core class/ Science
9:40-10:42
Period 4: Specials/ 6 day rotation (students have study skills with Mrs. Martinelli rather than science)
10:45-11:32
Period 5: Homeroom/ Grammar
11:35-12:10
Lunch/Recess
12:10-12:50
Period 6: Core class/ Science
12:52-1:57
Period 7: Homeroom/ Reading
2:00-3:00
Period 8: Homeroom AA/ T/Th Recess
3:00-3:25

8. Infinite Campus Please check your child’s progress.
I normally update grades Saturday night (after 8 pm).
Your child will be taught to monitor their progress on IC. Please allow them access to a computer and check with them.

9. ACS Policies Rachel’s Challenge: Daily Activities Attendance:
Sports/activities
Tardiness: 10 tardies lose 1 dress of choice tardies lose all dress of choice.
Dress Code: Please refer to the handbook
Late work: 80/50/0

10. Sports at ACS
ACS is an academically rigorous school. We will cheer our athletes to no end; however, academics come first, sports come second.
Eligibility:

11. Mrs. Spangler’s Classroom
Science Grading: point for point
Language Art Grading: Weighted
Writing
Grammar homework
Tests and Quizzes
L.A. assignments
No Name File
Automated IC messages go out weekly beginning the 2nd or 3rd week of the trimester.

12. School should be interesting,
not necessarily fun. (Fun is for parties and vacations.)

13. Boredom is a dieing, though necessary, art.

14. I don’t like to be bored, nor do the students (I think),
but we have to learn to deal with it sometimes.

15. Ways to avoid boredom Engage clay vocabulary 1 down 3 up review
build a sentence
competitions
self designed investigations
dissections
outside
SMART technology
Make it better

16. You Made it to Middle School
What to Expect

17. Outdoor Ed!!!

18. Language Arts Curriculum
Grammar: Curtis Hake (Saxon like)
Writing: Wonders/ Step Up
Reading: Wonders Balanced Reading with CK Literature, Realms of Gold and other sources.
Core Knowledge (CK) Literature
Greek Mythology
The Iliad
The Odyssey
Julius Caesar
The Prince and the Pauper

19. Science Curriculum: CPO Units
(I also use some outside supplemental programs offered by the business community.)
Units
Safety, measurement, and procedures
Atoms /energy
Astronomy (stars)
Oceanography (physical ocean)
Ecosystems/biodiversity (oceanography)
Water systems
Earth’s changing surface
Plate tectonics
Earthquakes/volcanoes
Circulatory and Immune System