Sixth Grade

	Clyde, Lynda	Morgan, Kate	Ryan, Debbie	Yorke, Micah
Birthday	6/21	7/19	07/16	08/04
Color	Turquoise	Light purple	Pink	Blue
Food	Mac and Cheese	Italian	Mexican	Prime Rib
Candy	Peanut Butter Cups	Reese's	Mr. Goodbar	Twix
Hot Drink	Caramel Macchiatto w/oat milk	Cappucinno	Matcha Green Tea Latte w/coconut milk	Dunkin Donuts iced coffee reg cream and sugar w/1 shot carmel
Cold Drink	Diet Dr Pepper or Dr. Pepper Zero	Iced vanilla latte w/ oat milk and diet coke	Matcha Green Tea Latte w/coconut milk	Root Beer
Flower	All flowers	Tulips	ALL	Roses
Animal	Penguins and Otters	Mini lop rabbits	Jaguar	Cat
Restaurant	Doordash/ Pita Jungle	Babbos and Chipotle	DoorDash Salad and Go	Outback or Olive Garden
Hobbies	Reading Exercise Hiking Piano	Reading Pickleball/tennis Hiking	Reading, Camping, Baking	Playing Guitar, Photography
Collect	Pens/Markers	Anything Denver Broncos	Barbies	Gems/Rocks
Class Theme	World Travel	Stars	Football	Superman
Gift Cards	Amazon Target Starbucks Dunkin	Target Starbucks Amazon	Starbucks Amazon	Amazon

Keys to Student Success:

• Pay attention and participate in class
• Use time given in class to complete work
• Complete homework on the same day it was assigned!
• Use the retake process when needed
• Struggle means you are learning and growing!
• Ask questions!…lots of them – questions encourage thinking

How Can Parents Support Their Student:

• Pay attention and participate in class
• Use time given in class to complete work
• Complete homework on the same day it was assigned!
• Use the retake process when needed
• Struggle means you are learning and growing!
• Ask questions!…lots of them – questions encourage thinking
• Create a distraction-free place in the home to work and study
• Help your student create a schedule that provides work time at home
• Refer to the 6th grade assignment link often
• Check your child's Canvas and ClassDojo frequently.
• Cook, build, or make things together at home!  This helps apply learning in the real world
• Make reading part of your child’s daily routine.

 

English Language Arts (ELA) 

• The district's adopted curriculum is StudySync.  We will also be completing Novel Studies from the approved district novel list.  

• Dissecting literature and informative texts through written responses, annotation, and discussions with cooperative learning.
• Providing text evidence to support a response, identify/analyze elements of literature, and plot diagrams 
• RACE Method: Restate, Answer, Cite Evidence, Elaborate
• Writing with complete sentences, capitalization, and correct use of commas, dashes and hyphens

TYPES OF WRITING

• Use of Collections Curriculum to teach the writing process and elements of the different types of writing

Students will be writing across the curriculum:

• Narrative 
• Argumentative
• Informative
• Literary Analysis

Presenting Skills (All Content Areas)

How is your child's grade calculated?

20%  Course Work

80%  Assessments

Welcome to Sixth Grade Math!

Units of Study

This year in 6th grade math, we will focus on 9 units of study using Illustrative Mathematics curriculum.  These units are designed to meet the AZ College and Career Ready Standards in Mathematics.  They include:

• Unit 1: Area and Surface Area
• Unit 2: Introducing Ratios
• Unit 3: Unit Rates and Percentages
• Unit 4: Dividing Fractions
• Unit 5: Arithmetic in Base Ten
• Unit 6: Expressions and Equations
• Unit 7:  Rational Numbers
• Unit 8:  Data Sets and Distributions
• Unit 9: Putting it All Together

 Eight Mathematical Practices

 1) Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

2) Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

3) Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.

4) Model with mathematics.

5) Use appropriate tools strategically.

6) Attend to precision.

7) Look for and make use of structure.

8) Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.  

Practice Problems

Practice Problems will be assigned on a nightly basis.  Practice Problems are designed to reinforce the concepts that are taught in class.  I strongly feel that parental involvement in practice is beneficial to students.  I don't want you to do your child's homework, however, it is okay to help your child when he/she is struggling with a concept or assignment.  Feel free to write me an email/note letting me know when this happens so I can spend time with your child reviewing the concepts in class.

• It must be completed in pencil.

• All work must be shown to receive full credit.  "NO WORK, NO CREDIT!"

Parent Resources: https://access.openupresources.org/curricula/our6-8math/en/grade-6/unit-1/family.html

How is your child's grade calculated?

80%  Assessments 

20%  Course Work

Helpful Websites for Math

https://www.ixl.com/ 

http://www.tenmarks.com/ 

http://www.commoncoresheets.com/ 

https://www.khanacademy.org

Science Overview

Physical Science

• Atoms
• States of Matter
• Changing States of Matter
• Potential and Kinetic Energy
• Gravity

Earth Science

• Radiation and Greenhouse Effect
• Seasons
• Scale of Solar System
• Constellation Movement
• Eclipses and Moon

Life Science

• Food Chains and Webs
• Ecosystem Relationships
• Change in Species
• Human Impact on Ecosystems

Students will engage in many science and engineering practices:

• asking questions and defining problems
• developing and using models (both conceptual and physical)
• planning and carrying out investigations
• analyzing and interpreting data
• using mathematics and computational thinking
• constructing explanations and design solutions
• engaging in argument from evidence
• obtaining, evaluating, and communicating information

Instruction will bridge boundaries between science and other disciplines and connect core ideas and practices throughout the fields of study:

• patterns
• cause and effect
• structure and function
• systems and system models
• stability and change
• scale, proportion, and quantity
• energy and matter

Sixth Grade Social Studies 

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  

The focus of history will not be memorizing facts and events but rather how to think critically about historical events, with an emphasis on ancient civilizations.

SOCIAL STUDIES SKILLS:

Students will become fluent in defending claims with evidence and how to determine if a resource is reliable.  Social Studies will be a collaborative time for students to engage in purposeful discussions.  Throughout the units there will be projects and quizzes giving students an opportunity to show what they know. 

The sixth grade Social Studies curriculum focuses on Ancient World History and includes topics such as:

Early Humans          Mesopotamia          Ancient Egypt          Early India          Early China          Ancient Greece                

Ancient Rome          Middle Ages          Renaissance             Early Civilizations of the Americas          Economics

Map skills, as well as historical research, will be integrated in all of the above topics throughout the year. 

With each unit, we will be actively learning with interactive notebooks, technology, STEM activities and group/ individual projects. 

GRADING:   

20% Course Work

80% Assessments 

As we move towards standards-based grading, our categories will reflect true mastery of the standard.  Assessments will not exclusively be tests.  They may also include projects and writing.

Students will be given sufficient time in class to complete most of the assigned work. If a student does not complete his/her work within the class period, it will be homework unless otherwise stated. Students may check out a textbook if it is needed to complete the homework assignment. Students will be expected to work independently, with a partner, in cooperative groups or as a whole class.

Students have access to the textbook online through their SS Canvas page.