HCMS Team 6B

What a great week in 6B! Sixth graders are doing a wonderful job learning routines and schedules! Please take a moment to review the information shared this Friday about the upcoming week. Reach out to your student's teachers with any questions or concerns.

- August 29th - School Improvement Day - Early Dismissal at 10:45 a.m.
- September 1st - No School - Labor Day!
- September 3rd - Hickory Creek Curriculum Night 5:30 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
- September 8th - School Picture Day
- September 9th - FastBridge Fall Screening for Reading
- September 10th - FastBridge Fall Screening for Math
- October 10th - No School - Teacher Institute Day
- October 13th - No School - Indigenous Peoples' Day!
- October 15th - School Physicals are due by this day!
- October 24th - End of Quarter 1
- October 27th - October 31st - Red Ribbon Week
- October 31st - School Improvement Day - Early Dismissal at 10:45 a.m.

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Picture day across all three schools will be held on Monday, September 8. VIP Photography is our vendor for all student photographs again this year.

VIP Photography has a convenient process for picture ordering. Students will first take their photos, and then families will receive an email on how to order photos after the pictures are taken. There is no need to fill out an order form ahead of picture day. Students will take two photos and parents will choose which one they prefer after reviewing the proof images that are emailed to them.

In addition, after the photos are taken, families can also manually search for each student by:

Visiting https://www.vipis.com/
Clicking View and Order Photos green button on main page
Searching for the school
Clicking School Portraits Grades 3K-12 in red box

Ordered photographs will be mailed directly to families’ homes.

For students who are absent on September 8th, the school portrait retake day is Monday, October 20th.

The Tiger TV Crew is hard at work creating content for Hickory Creek Middle School. Consider subscribing to the channel, so you don't miss an update. Our weekly Tiger TV episodes will be a weekly regular soon. Stay tuned! The student Tiger TV Crew appreciates the community support and hopes to bring some live streaming of HCMS events in the upcoming school year. The students love seeing those viewing numbers and followers subscribing to the channel increase.

Brendlinger Honors Classes

Next Week: September 2-5

We are continuing to work through the first unit on Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple. Students will be exposed to online resources, Khan Academy and IXL, to provide opportunities to practice and reinforce skills.

All work can be found in One Note, and we will learn how to find this in class.

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Brendlinger CORE classes

Next Week: September 2-5

We are continuing to work through the first unit on Greatest Common Factor and Least Common Multiple. Students will be exposed to online resources, Khan Academy and IXL, to provide opportunities to practice and reinforce skills.

All work can be found in One Note, and we will learn how to find this in class.

Next Week: September 2 - 5
- Concepts to be taught: Finding GCF & LCM (least common multiple) Word Problems, using GCF & distributive property, and find the LCM
- IXL homework can be accessed through ClassLink. (Be sure your student is logged in! Their name will be in the top right corner)
- All lessons, homework, and support videos are available in Microsoft One Note.
- The Unit 1 Outcome Assessment is projected to take place on Thursday, September 11th. Students will be given a green Unit 1 Review to help prepare them for this assessment. It will be handed out to students during this week and it is suggested that they complete a few problems on it every day. It will be due on Tuesday, September 9th.
LeGrand Daily Homework Checklists, Topics, & Learning Videos can be accessed through my webpage: This week in Math class... – Carolyn LeGrand – Frankfort School District 157-C (fsd157c.org)

This Week in Class :(August 25-29)

Quarter 1 Essential Question: How do we form and shape our identities?

Caudill Book discussion

IXL

Journaling

Scope magazine activity

Next Week in Class (September 1-5)

Model Close Reading Strategies

Model Notice & Note Strategy

Introduction to quarter novel

Plot diagram

Journaling

Character Traits

Theme

This Week in Class :(August 25-29)

Quarter 1 Essential Question: How do we form and shape our identities?

Caudill Book discussion

IXL

Journaling

Scope magazine activity

Next Week in Class (September 1-5)

Model Close Reading Strategies

Model Notice & Note Strategy

Introduction to quarter novel

Plot diagram

Journaling

Character Traits

Theme

This Week in Class :(August 26-30)

♦ We got into Teams and Onenote

♦ We worked on our Pre-Activity Color Lab

Next Week in Class (Sept. 3rd-6th)

à We will start Activity 1.1 Noticings and Wonderings

à There is no homework this week

Housekeeping:

If your student is absent, they can chat with me through Teams and check in on our class OneNote notebook to see what is new.

All activities should be completed by the end of each week.

I ask the students to write down our class objectives every day to help keep themselves organized, as we usually do not have homework.

I always keep a good copy of class notes in my OneNote notebook. The students can access them to double-check their work or to use it to help them complete the missing work.

For some fun, you can follow me on Instagram: schumacher science 2

This Week in Class (August 25th-29th)

Q1 essential question: "How do geographers look at the world?"
How does the geography of a region impact the development of its people? ...and eventually the emergence of a civilization.
Students started the Block A & B schedule.

Students received a sheet protector sleeve to keep in the front of their binders for all project directions
"Autobiography Island" activity. Students had day 2 of the block to complete the activity (goal for all students to have assignment completed by Friday. If extended time is needed, due dates are as follows:
Monday -Tuesday Block has a final due date of September. 3rd
Tuesday - Thursday Block has a final due date of September 2nd

Next Week (September 2-5)

Next week is a four-day school week.

SS Group A will meet Wednesday & Friday

SS Group B will meet Tuesday & Thursday (regular days)

"Autobiography Island" due
Students will present and share the island project in small groups on Thursday & Friday (gallery Walks)

Maps skills: World map

Continents, Major bodies of water, lines of longitude & latitude, Equator, Prime Meridian, Arctic Circle, Antarctic Circle, Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn. North Pole, South Pole, compass rose, Cardinal Directions, Intermediate directions, map scale

A basic World Map assessment is scheduled for the following week, Friday, September 12th. A practice map will be given to students and should be in their binders.

SS Group A – due next Wed. SS Group B- due next Tues.

SS Group A will do their class share gallery walk & presentation on Friday

SS Group B will do their class project share gallery walk & presentation on Thursday

Microsoft Teams: A short daily narrative of what we did in class is posted in the student’s ELA Microsoft Teams. As we progress through the year, digital copies of materials will be added to the “files” section of Teams in “Class Materials.”

School Calendar 25-26

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Is your School Physical turned in? 6th Grade physicals are due by October 15th! Please be sure to bring a completed physical form to Hickory Creek's main office as soon as possible.

Students need to be wearing their school lanyards with IDs daily.

Computers need to be charged each evening. Computer issues The HCMS computer tech help station is conveniently located in the HCMS Library for students.