6th Grade Newsletter

📸 Picture Day is almost here!

🗓️ Mark you calendars for Tuesday, October 13th, because Strawbridge Studios is visiting EJMS!

We can't wait to see everyone here, ready for the cameras to capture their signature style!

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When: October 5-9

Please start sending in bags of Halloween Candy to your child's homeroom teacher for the Costume Parade at the end of October!

• 10/2: Club Day; Grade Level Rally; Flag Football Event ($ cost involved)
• 10/5-9: Fall Break
• 10/14: Field Trip: Devine's
• 10/16: End of Grading Period
• 11/2: No School, Conference Day
• 11/3: No School, Staff Development Day

Students must have at least 4/5 points on our behavior system in order to attend. Homeroom teachers have been communicating with students about where they currently are due to the school-wide incentive on October 2nd, and eligible students will be given a permission slip to attend.

Who: Any 6th grade student with 4/5 points

When: October 14th

Where: Devine's Pumpkin Patch; Harrodsburg

Cost: $20

Chaperones: Any parent interested in chaperoning must review the packet below and complete the required paperwork at least 2 weeks before the event.

Topic 1 will continue through October 14th, and we will take our summative October 15-16. We will send home a study guide for students the Thursday before Fall Break. If your child will not be in attendance that day, a digital copy will be sent via ParentSquare.

Topic 2 will kick of our second 9 weeks! Skills include:

• Understanding integers
• Representing Rational Numbers on the Number Line
• Absolute Values of Rational Numbers
• Representing Rational Numbers on the Coordinate Plane
• Finding Distances on the Coordinate Plane
• Representing Polygons on the Coordinate Plane

There will be a formative for each skill, and one summative at the end of the topic. To help students be successful, please encourage their best effort on their classwork/homework, and work on the extra practices that are posted in Google Classroom to prepare for the formatives.

Topic 1: Family Engagement

Topic 2: Family Engagement

Math Department Memo about ReTake Policy

In ELA, we’re continuing our Discovering Your Voice unit by putting everything we’ve learned into action. Students are analyzing how authors use personal experiences, language, text structure, images, humor, and perspective to communicate meaningful messages. They are applying these skills by analyzing and comparing texts, discussing different perspectives, supporting their thinking with evidence, and creating pieces that allow them to share their own ideas and experiences. As we continue through the unit, our focus remains on helping students recognize that their voices matter—and giving them the tools and confidence to use them effectively.

Social Studies is wrapping up our unit on Prehistory and our learning will be focused around the challenges early humans faced as well as the transition from being hunters and gatherers to becoming farmers with the development of agriculture. When we return from Fall Break, we will investigate some modern day environmental challenges before moving into our first civilization unit: Mesopotamia.

For school-wide incentives each quarter, EJMS operates on a point system. Please review the graphic, and for more detailed information, please review the EJMS Parent-Student Handbook.

Cell Phone/Electronic Device Use

House Bill 208 of the 2025 legislative session amended KRS 158.165 to require schools and districts to adopt policies that "at a minimum, prohibit a student's use of a personal telecommunications device during instructional time." While the school policy has not changed, it is now a law that cell phones are prohibited.

• Beginning at 8:40 (or entry to the building)

• The use of cell phones and other electronic devices (including headphones/earbuds of any type) is prohibited during the school day. Students may keep their cell phones in their lockers and turn them off throughout the school day.

• When a student is caught using an electronic device, the teacher will take the device and put it in a tan envelope and send it to the front office. At the end of the day a teacher will be in the office to return all confiscated devices.

• Headphones/earbuds are NOT ALLOWED in any common area (gym, cafeteria, hallway, library, ect.) during the school day unless authorized by the teacher during THAT class period.

Students in violation of the school procedure for cell phones and other electronic devices will be subject to the following:

1st offense: The device will be confiscated and sent to the office where it can be picked up by the student in the office at the end of the day.

2nd offense: The device will be confiscated and sent to the office where it will need to be picked up by a parent (guardian).

3rd offense: The device will be banned from school for the remainder of the school year.

4th (or more) offense: Administration discretion

*Electronics violations will be reset after winter break.

The 6th grade will be taking a field trip in October! This is our first behavior field trip, so students must have 4/5 points in order to attend. If you are interested in chaperoning or volunteering, please read the JCS Volunteer packet, and complete the necessary information.

Bathroom passes will be utilized beginning 8/31. The passes are in addition to any transition times. Please review the graphic, and email your child's homeroom teacher for any additional questions!

Don't be surprised with report cards! You can stay on top of your child's grades in Infinite Campus. Each week, teachers will be posting grades. Parents (and students) are able to access them at any time. Simply log on to Infinite Campus, and click grades. Please review the Summative Assessement Retake policy and the JCS Grading Policy below!