Team Almaty Week 4
Week 4: September 18
Save the Date!
Tues. Sept. 22: Picture Day (all students get their picture taken for the yearbook-see flier below)
Wed. Sept 23: Term 1 Half-Way Point (last chance to turn in late work from first half of the term)
Sat. Oct. 3: 6th Grade BBQ (11am-1pm)
Tues. Oct. 6: Sandy Spring Adventure Park Field Trip
Mon. Oct. 12: NO SCHOOL, Indigenous Peoples' Day
Tues. Oct. 13: Student-Led Conferences (no regular school)
Thurs. Oct. 29: Last Day of Term 1
Fri. Oct. 30: NO SCHOOL, Grading day
In case you haven't yet seen it, students should be bringing their agendas & yellow homework folders home DAILY. Many/most of our 6th graders would benefit from a little 1:1 help going through those folders each week to prioritize what needs to be kept, completed & returned, or recycled.
Volunteer for the 6th Grade BBQ!
We will host our annual 6th Grade BBQ at Deal on Saturday, October 3 from 11 AM - 1 PM. Please join us and celebrate the start of the school year with students, staff, and families!
We are still in need of volunteers to support the BBQ and we can use all the help we can get! Please use the following link to sign up if you are interested. Sign up here!
Even if you are unable to volunteer, we hope to see you at this special celebration
Ms. Trenkle, Individuals & Societies, Team Lead
Thank you to all the parents who came out to Back to School Night! So nice to see you again/meet you!
This week in Geography we practiced, practiced, practiced our map skills in preparation for our Unit 1 Summative which we took on Friday. Students had their formative on vocabulary on Monday and formative on map skills (compass rose, legend/key, grid, and scale) on Wednesday. All retakes were given on Thursday and students learned their score for each day on that day. I will work to grade the summative and go over the summative by mid week next week.
On Monday, we will roll out our first CEA (Current Events Analysis). This will be the model/template for our weekly homework. More will be described next week. Students are not assigned a CEA for homework next week, rather we will discuss expectations and model how to do the assignment moving forward.
Next week we will begin investigating our own communities. Students will be asked to make observations and a map of their community as a homework assignment. They may walk and take notes and map and/or use Googlemaps. We will do a practice example of Wisconsin and Abelmarle as our study in class. Ultimately, students will be asked to write an action letter about an improvement to their community they would like to see addressed by a community leader.
On Orientation Day students shared a song they would like to add to our class playlist. This Spotify playlist can be found here.
A final request—if you, or anyone you know is traveling, and can send a postcard to our class, or post a picture with description from their travels, it would be greatly appreciated! Please see the flyer below.
Amy Trenkle
Mr. Brown, Math
In the coming week students in Accelerated Math 7 will work on Rigid Transformations (translations, reflections, and rotations) in Geometry, while continuing to review multiplication, and division of decimals. This week students in Accelerated Grade 6 will work on calculating equivalent ratios and unit rates to solve real world problems, while also continuing to discuss multiply ing and dividing by decimals Students requiring a class period change due to acceleration scheduling will receive an adjusted schedule if necessary. Homework is assigned weekly every Monday and due every Thursday by 11pm. Accompanying work should be submitted every Friday. Students will receive an accuracy per percentage grade for the assignment and will be penalized 10 points from their score.
Students are to pass one iReady Lesson per week where students will be given time during class and must complete by Monday morning. Students are permitted and encouraged to also work on iReady Lessons at home to ensure completion and success.
On Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays students will have access to my classroom during recess for “iRecess” which is a safe space for students to quietly work on Math assignments (HW/Classwork/Studying) during their recess time. Students must retrieve a pass on their way to lunch with limited spaces available on a first come, first served basis. Students with chronic missing HW assignments may be required to attend “IRecess.”
Marcus Brown
marcus.brown@k12.dc.gov
Ms. Johnson, Science
Hello Scientists!
You all did a fantastic job exploring the scientific method through case studies and hands-on demonstrations in our Slime Lab. I was so impressed to see you identify and test a single independent variable and measure its effects on the dependent variable. Thank you for helping save Slime Inc. from bankruptcy!
Next Monday, students will complete their Scientific Method Post-Test. This is the same assessment as the Scientific Method Pre-Test; however, this time it will be graded. Students have a study guide to help them prepare, and the corresponding Blooket review can be found in Canvas. On Wednesday, we will begin Unit 1: Plate Motion with an exploration of the laws of relative rock dating.
Blooket: How to Use
Blooket is an online platform that turns multiple-choice questions into engaging study games. Before each summative assessment, I post links to Blooket sets created by the Deal 6th Grade Science Team to encourage independent studying. Please support this effort by checking in with your student and encouraging them to study and prepare to the best of their ability.
Roots!
The roots for quiz 1.4 are:
Pyro = fire (think pyromaniac, pyrotechnics, pyroclastic flow)
*Geo = earth (think geology, geography, geospatial)
*Multi = many (think multiple, multigrain, multiverse)
*Seismo = shaking (think seismic, seismology)
Trans = across, over, through (think transportation, translate, transparent)
*Keepers: uni, bi, tri, pre, post, -ic, mis, manu, micro
Ms. Byrns, English Language Arts
Thank you for the awesome turnout at Back to School Night. Please don't hesitate to say hi if I see you out in the real world!
This week students completed CER/ER paragraphs about character change in "The Scholarship Jacket" and then tracked the role of secondary characters in Mike Jung's "Thrown." They also took a very short vocabulary quiz based on the words from our class texts. We worked on that vocabulary in class, and unless students are regularly absent or tardy, there shouldn't be a need to study for these quizzes outside of class.
Next week, do a more hands-on activity related to dialogue and plot. Students will also complete the first Unit Skills Assessment. Fingers crossed that you will be able to see their typed and graded work in Class Notebook. On Thursday, we will visit the school library and Friday we will begin another short story.
Students will have two weeks to complete the homework students bring home on Monday. It will serve as the draft for the Term 1 Book Project. Students should pick a book they have read since school started and that they enjoy.
Katy Byrns
ELA 6 Resouce with Mr. Shufelt
This week, we took our first vocabulary quiz for Unit 1. Scores are now in Aspen. We started reading “The Scholarship Jacket” by Marta Salinas and continued to practice highlighting text evidence and annotating. We looked at how interactions with secondary characters influence the protagonist. Our first formative assessment will take place on Monday, 9/21 - this is a Formative B which means the focus is on organization. Students will be asked to write a complete paragraph in response to a prompt. They will practice selecting appropriate text evidence to support their claim.
Next week after the formative, we will be reading our next short story: “Thrown” by Mike Jung. You can access copies of the short stories either through CommonLit or from our class Canvas page.
Library Corner
Meet Deal's librarian Mr. Reichlen! Learn about the great things happening this month at Deal's library. Check out great books and media, read about events at Deal and around the city, and stay connected with Deal's Library:
