6th Grade Course Updates - October

The skills being taught are:

• Understand why exploring our passions is important for achieving our dreams.

• Understand why identifying our core values is an important step toward achieving our dreams.

• Understand the importance of being more comfortable with who we are and less affected by peer pressure.

Students should be able to:

• Journaling & discussions

Students should be able to:

• Identify personal strengths and core values

Here’s what’s coming next:

• “We are Connected” Mindset (11/11 - 12/11)

What are some of the challenges and triumphs of growing up?

Unit 1 Family Letter: English & Spanish

• The skills of standards being taught are:

  • Writing a personal narrative about a true experience that answers the essential question. (W.6.2c)

  • Write a summary of grade level stories.

  • Identify Greek and Latin roots to help identify the meaning of unknown words.

  
  

  Some learning experiences we’ve been engaging in are:

  • Peer group learning where students work with a group of a few peers on their work, instead of whole class instruction.

  
  

  Students should be able to:

  • Craft a true personal narrative about a time they learned a life lesson.

  • Analyze a grade level story and identify the theme or central idea within it.

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  Here’s what’s coming next:

  • Next, we will move into independent learning in the unit. Students will read and analyze a story on their own, write their summative narrative essay, and take their end of unit test.

  
  

  Look for this month’s assignments in PowerSchool:

  • This month did not have any summatives as we will begin working on those next week. However there are several formative assignments currently in PowerSchool such as:

  • Exit Ticket: Pronoun -Antcedent Agreement

  • Exit Ticket: Latin Root -vis-

In October, we are working on Ratios and Proportions. Please check out this website for family information, videos, and activities to complete with your student. Website in Spanish

Students should be able to:

• Identify ratios

• Represent equivalent ratios

• Solve ratio and rate problems

Here’s what’s coming next:

• Unit Rates and Percentages (English link)

• Unit Rates and Percentages (Spanish link)

Look for this month’s assignments in PowerSchool:

• Checkpoints A, B, C, D, E

• Daily Lesson Cooldowns

The skills of standards being taught are:

• Plate Tectonics (SCI.ESS.2.A)

• Using Fossil Evidence (SCI.ESS.1.C)

• Analyze and Interpret Data (SCI.SEP4)

• Construct Explanations and Design Solutions (SCI.SEP6)

Some learning experiences we’ve been engaging in are:

• Examining cross sections of Earth’s surface and the mantle

• Modeling plate boundaries

• Calculate rates of plate movement based on evidence from the Sim

• Analyze and sort evidence based on claims

Students should be able to:

• Model a plate boundary to show what the land is like where Mesosaurus fossils are found

• Model the plate boundary between the South American and African Plates

• Examine and reason about evidence and claims related to plate motion

• Write an argument to support one claim

Here’s what’s coming next:

• Plate Motion Engineering Internship

Look for this month’s assignments in PowerSchool:

• Lesson 2.4 Activity 4

• Lesson 3.1 Activity 3

• Lesson 4.2, Activity 2

• The skills of standards being taught are:

  • Identifying examples of human-environment interaction (Geo.5.A)

  • Constructing a mental map of North America (Geo.1.c)

  • Analyzing the relationship between natural resources and patterns of human settlement (Geo.3.A)

  • Interpreting patterns between a variety of maps (Geo.2.b)

  
  

  Some learning experiences we’ve been engaging in are:

  • Chapter 3 (North America) sections/nonfiction text strategies

  • Locating and identifying North America’s landforms and bodies of water

  • Inquiry Task relating scientific research to geography

  • Test taking strategies
    
    

  Students should be able to:

  • Identify and describe physical and human geography

  • Categorize sustainable and unsustainable human activities

  • Use reading strategies for nonfiction text

  • Interpret patterns between maps

  • Apply map skills from unit 1

  
  

  Here’s what’s coming next:

  • Causes and effects of colonization in North America

  • United States, Canada, and Mexico development as nations
    
    

  Look for this month’s assignments in PowerSchool:

  • Unit 1 Inquiry Task

  • Exit Ticket: Human Geography

  • Exit Ticket 3.1-3.3

  • Chapter Test

The skills of standards being taught are:

• Perform: I can demonstrate the ability to play while using proper technique.

Some learning experiences we’ve been engaging in are:

• Repeating 5 note patterns

• “Say it and play it” say the letter names in an exercise, then play the notes.

• Pages 5 - 8 in Measures of Success

Students should be able to:

• Name and play notes 1 - 5 on their instrument

Here’s what’s coming next:

• Notes 6 and low 7

Look for this month’s assignments in PowerSchool:

• Playing assessment #1

Reminder About First Concert Date:

• Monday, December 8th, BRMS/CKCS 6th Grade Band

Link to Concert Schedule

The skills of standards being taught are:

• Perform: I can demonstrate the ability to sing on pitch and in rhythm.

Some learning experiences we’ve been engaging in are:

• Preparing for our first concert!

• Connecting to our music.

• Listening, without judgment, while other parts are performing.

Students should be able to:

• Sing in unison, matching pitch and rhythm;

• Sing a scale on solfege (do, re, mi) with hand signs;

Here’s what’s coming next:

• Expanding vocal range, higher and lower;

• Sight-reading with solfege (do, re, mi);

Reminder About First Concert Date:

• Thursday, October 30th - 6:30 pm

Link to Concert Schedule

The skills of standards being taught are:

• Perform: I can demonstrate the ability to play on pitch and in rhythm

Some learning experiences we’ve been engaging in are:

• Reading new notes

• Reinforcing notes on the D String

• Starting the song “Ode to Joy”!

Students should be able to:

• Play D, E, F#, G, and A

• Read the same notes, possibly with support

Here’s what’s coming next:

• New notes and more songs!

Look for this month’s assignments in PowerSchool:

• Note reading practice

• Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star Video

Link to Concert Schedule

The skills of standards being taught are:

• Understanding and applying value (light and dark) to create the illusion of form and depth

• Using shading techniques such as blending with a blending stump

• Observational drawing skills focused on proportions and details

• Developing hand-eye coordination and fine motor control

• Exploring contrast to enhance three-dimensional effects

Some learning experiences we’ve been engaging in are:

• Drawing shoe outlines from observation

• Practicing different shading techniques to represent light, shadow, and texture

• Analyzing the light source and how it affects the shadows on the shoe

Students should be able to:

• Accurately depict the shape and details of a shoe using value shading

• Identify light and shadow areas on a three-dimensional object

• Apply at least 5 values within their composition

• Explain how value contributes to making drawings appear realistic

Here’s what’s coming next:

• Introduction to color theory and how color interacts with value

Look for this month’s assignments in PowerSchool:

• Shoe Drawing

The skills of standards being taught are:

• Presentational Speaking

• Interpretive Listening

• Culture & Extension

Some learning experiences we’ve been engaging in are:

• Listening to short stories

• Reading the text

• Asking questions with “What else?”

• Recording the dialogue

Students should be able to:

• Answer the relevant questions orally

• Read the text

• Make sentences with vocabularies

Here’s what’s coming next:

• Chapter 2: Discussing tourist attractions in Beijing

Look for this month’s assignments in PowerSchool:

• C1S1 Notes

• C1S2 Notes

• C1S1 Worksheets

• C1S2 Worksheets

• Chapter 1 Dialogue

The skills of standards being taught are:

• Fitness Concepts

Some learning experiences we’ve been engaging in are:

• Fitness Testing

Students should be able to:

• Identify a specific fitness area to improve on.

Here’s what’s coming next:

• Football / Soccer

• Passing, Receiving, Game Play

Look for this month’s assignments in PowerSchool:

• Fitness Testing Result Sheet

• Daily Activity and Fitness

• Creating a SMART Fitness Goal

The skills of standards being taught are:

• Demonstrate health-enhancing practices and behaviors that help maintain or improve the health of self and others.

• Analyze the relationships between healthy behaviors and personal health.

Some learning experiences we’ve been engaging in are:

• Learning about the components of fitness

• Learning about what kinds of energy we get from the foods we eat

• Practicing compression only CPR

Students should be able to:

• List the health and skill related components of fitness

• Describe the difference between simple and complex carbohydrates

• Demonstrate correct technique of compression only CPR

Here’s what’s coming next:

• Dangers of substance abuse

• Healthy vs. unhealthy relationships with others

• Human Growth and Development (anatomy of the reproductive system, menstrual cycle, pregnancy/birthing process/contraception/STD-STI awareness)

Look for this month’s assignments in PowerSchool:

• Fitness Refection

• Nutrition Exit Ticket

• Compression Only Skills Test

• AODA Reflection

• Relationships Reflection

• Awareness of Sexting Handout

• Healthy Choices Test

• HGD Quiz

The skills of standards being taught are:

• Demonstrate measuring and estimating skills

• Construct a sewing project

• Select appropriate studio tools

• Identify key nutrients and list ways nutrients can promote health and prevent chronic disease.

Some learning experiences we’ve been engaging in are:

• Sewing

• Cooking

Students should be able to:

• Label the different sections and identify foods on a MyPlate chart.

• Answer pre-food lab and post-food lab questions.

• Construct a sewing project.

Here’s what’s coming next:

• Individual Pizza Lab

• Pumpkin Muffin Lab

• Relationships

Look for this month’s assignments in PowerSchool:

• Stuff it Bag Evaluation

• Monster Pillow Evaluation

• French Toast Rubric

• The skills of standards being taught are:

  • Demonstrate an ability to persevere through authentic, open-ended problems. ( 2020.8.INF.ID.2)

  
  

  Some learning experiences we’ve been engaging in are:

  • Coding with Code.org

  • Designing 3D objects in TinkerCAD. Modifying, grouping, and cutting basic shapes.

  
  

  Students should be able to:

  • Group, assemble, and cut objects in TinkerCAD

  
  

  Here’s what’s coming next:

  • Importing and Modifying objects to be 3D printed

  • Building Aluminum Boats to carry as many pennies as possible.

  
  

  Look for this month’s assignments in PowerSchool:

  • 3D object to build.

  • More Code.org projects and activities.

  • Build a Boat Day 1 and Day 2

If you have questions, please reach out to the course teacher.