Weekly Updates

Vocabulary Practice: http://www.wordlywise3000.com/

This week on the Red Team:

• Exam schedule- Thursday, March 11th, 2nd and 5th period

                         Friday, March 12th, 1st and 4th period

• The deadline to order a 2009-2010 yearbook has been extended until Thursday, March 25, 2010.  If you have not yet ordered a yearbook, visit www.ybpay.com and order yours today!  The cost is $43.50.

• Free yoga class offered to all females starting on Tuesday from 3:15 - 4:00. Mats are provided. 

Math - Westphal/Maraccini

Topics to review for exam:

All operations with decimals: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division

Finding a percent of a number

Calculating tax and discount

Comparison statements with ratios, fractions, differences, and fractions

Writing equivalent ratios

Please help your child review each night!

Math - Fowler

Unit 9 – Measuring Area and Volume

Monday

How can nets be used to calculate surface area?

Drawing nets and using them to calculate surface area

Tuesday

How is surface area calculated for pyramids and cones?

Calculating surface area of pyramids and cones by using dimensions and drawing nets

Wednesday

Review for 3^rd Quarter Exam

Thursday

3^rd Quarter Exam

Friday

How can I interpret and sketch various views of solid figures?

Sketching Solid Figures

Language Arts - Bray

To conclude our poetry unit, students will be asked to recite a poem at our very own Poetry Café on Friday.  I have provided several poems to choose from.  Some of the poems have a value over 100; this provides an extra credit opportunity for those students who would like to advantage of it.  The recitations will be assessed on a rubric that I will provide to the students.  Please practice the recitation a little each night, so students will feel confident and prepared for this challenge.  There is no vocabulary or DGP quiz this week, but the final exam will be administered on Thursday.  Have a great week!

Social Studies -- Butler

sbutler@jeffcityschools.org

We're continuing our journey through Latin America this week. This part of the world -- Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and South America -- has been in the news a great deal lately; just ask your sixth grader.

Here's a glance at the week ahead:

Monday

In class - Map interpretation work; videos over 1) Pizarro and the Incas and 2)  Cortez and Pizarro as explorers for Spain

Homework: Flashcards for Mexico -- mestizo, mulatto, NAFTA

Tuesday

Review Mexico guided notes

More currency conversion

Wednesday

Station rotation review for 3rd 9 Weeks exam

Thursday

1,4 - Columbian Exchange

2,5 - Exam

Friday

1,4 - Exam

2,5 -- Columbian Exchange

Science - Simmons

csimmons@jeffcityschools.org

Monday - Coral Queen Party

Tuesday - Test 2 Hydrology (Periods 1, 2, and 5 only) Students should focus on vocabulary from the page numbers listed in their binders. These page numbers were listed on the homework board today.

Wednesday - 3rd 9 Weeks Exam Review

Thursday/Friday - Exams; Tides - Chapter 18: SC 3; Moon phases and their relationship to tides

HWK: Please check agendas nightly as homework assignments will vary for each class period.

Have a great week,

6 Red Team

6 Blue Newsletter 3/8/10

Important

• 3rd 9-week exams are this Thursday and Friday.  It is VERY important that students begin reviewing tonight and throughout the week.

• Spring Break is March 29 - April 2nd

• The deadline to order a 2009-2010 yearbook has been extended until Thursday, March 25, 2010.  If you have not yet ordered a yearbook, visit www.ybpay.com and order yours today!  The cost is $43.50.

• Please remember that students cannot enter the school at the end of the 6th grade hallway.  They need to be dropped off at the gym or in the front.

Tutoring

Monday              Language Arts

Tuesday             Science

Wednesday        Math

Thursday           Social Studies

Science/Stephenson

THANKS!!!!  We had a great Flush party today.  The kids dressed up so good.  Be looking for pictures on the website.  Thank you so much for all the food and drinks!!! 

Tuesday and Wednesday will be spent reviewing concepts from this 9-weeks.  Please have your students go back through their notebooks and books to review.  We will be doing practice in class as well.

Math-Cain/Park  Week of March 8, 2010

Exam schedule- Thursday, March 11th, 2nd and 5th period

                         Friday, March 12th, 1st and 4th period

Topics to review for exam:

All operations with decimals: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division

Finding a percent of a number

Calculating tax and discount

Comparison statements with ratios, fractions, differences, and fractions

Writing equivalent ratios

Please help your child review each night!

Language Arts/Wood

Poetry:  We will continue our study of poetry this week.

Vocabulary:  There will be no vocabulary lesson this week due to exams.

Please make sure your child studies each night, so he/she is not overwhelmed the night before the exams.

Language Arts exam will include:

Poetry Elements

Conjunctions

Sentences

Complements - direct/indirect objects and predicate nouns/adjectives

Colons and semi-colons and other grammar (review)

Where to study:  Use the Grammar, Usage, Mechanics Book (G.U.M.) and notes that have been given through out 9 weeks.

Language Arts/Bray

To conclude our poetry unit, students will be asked to recite a poem at our very own Poetry Café on Thursday.  I have provided several poems to choose from.  Some of the poems have a value over 100; this provides an extra credit opportunity for those students who would like to advantage of it.  The recitations will be assessed on a rubric that I will provide to the students.  Please practice the recitation a little each night, so students will feel confident and prepared for this challenge.  There is no vocabulary or DGP quiz this week, but the final exam will be administered on Thursday.  Have a great week!

Math/Fowler

Unit 9 – Measuring Area and Volume

Monday

How can nets be used to calculate surface area?

Drawing nets and using them to calculate surface area

Tuesday

How is surface area calculated for pyramids and cones?

Calculating surface area of pyramids and cones by using dimensions and drawing nets

Wednesday

Review for 3^rd Quarter Exam

Thursday

3^rd Quarter Exam

Friday

How can I interpret and sketch various views of solid figures?

Sketching Solid Figures