In this folder is: the weekly progress report, important school information and graded papers.

Please carefully go through this folder with your child and sign the weekly progress report.

Your child should return the folder the following Monday or when school resumes again.

Multiplication is the foundation for many math skills including division, fractions, measurement, and geometry.

Your child should be practicing his multiplication facts for at least 10 minutes each day.

You may purchase flashcards from the dollar store, Target, or Wal-mart, or create flashcards using index cards.

You can make reviewing the facts fun by rewarding your child when he answers correctly. The facts can also be used as “passes” for extra privileges. For example, your child can stay up 10 minutes later or watch a favorite TV show if she can tell you the 6s and the 8s.

Some students are still not completing homework. While the immediate consequence of this may be the loss of recess or Fun Friday, the long-term, more significant consequences include: poor grades and possible retention, if the student is failing.

Your child is assigned homework every day. Students are instructed to write the assignments in their agenda books. The homework is also listed online for Ms. Clarke and Mrs. Heskett at: http://www.pgcps.org/~sthills/homework_page.htm

Ms. Segears’ homework as well as other information can be accessed at: www.scholastic.com. Ms. Segears sent a letter home, providing login information for this site.

· perimeter, area, units of time (seconds, minutes, hours), elapsed time, equivalent units of measurement, (pints, quarts, gallons), measurement tools, weight, mass, capacity, fractions, mixed numbers, greatest common factor, multiples, least common multiple, decimals, create a graph in a coordinate plane, probability

· Strategies: predict/infer, monitor/clarify, summarize, evaluate, phonics/decoding, question

· Skills: fact and opinion, story structure, relationships among characters, setting, and the mood, poetry

· Grammar: common and proper nouns, action verbs, main/helping verbs, keeping verbs in the same tense

Be sure to check your child's book bag each night to see if any correspondence or homework has been sent home.

FIRST QUARTER NEWS

Here’s a peek into the Sixth Grade

Reading/English Language Arts Curriculum!

Reading Strategies

Students will use their Reader’s notebooks and establish Independent reading routines, and record brief constructed Responses/reading reflections

Students will utilize General Reading Comprehension- Before, during, and after reading; responding to literature; Express ideas, inform, and/or persuade, Revise and edit their writings

Poetry/ Introduction to Writer’s Workshop

Students are introduced to the phases of the writing process and the use of writing journals. Students will read thematically linked poems, examine elements of poetry, and create an original poetry book. Students will develop responses to poetry that include analysis and evaluation of texts.

Here’s What’s Going on…

Parents, please remember to sign your child’s agenda book each week. If the teacher’s initials are next to an assignment, that assignment is either incomplete or was not turned in.

Please be sure to adhere to the uniform dress codes, as many students are creatively altering their attire (colorful jackets, low cut and/or see through tops, jackets adorned around the waist, etc.) in violation of the dress code. Also, be sure to dress appropriately for the weather (and PE). Uniform sweaters or vests may be worn at any time, if needed.

Homework is posted on the school’s website.

Please send healthy food for snacks.

Read each night. Record the time read on your calendar.

If you have not paid your activity fee, please do so promptly. Thank you!

The Sixth Grade Team,

Ms Radford, Ms Dreikorn and

Ms Findlater

Sixth Grade Math

First Quarter At A Glance Note: By the end of the First Quarter, your child should be able to:

Knowledge of Geometry

 Identify, describe, and label points, lines, rays, line segments, vertices, angles, and planes using correct symbolic notation

 Draw geometric figures using a various tools

 Identify or describe angle relationships

 Identify and describe line segments

Knowledge of Statistics

 Organize and display data to make frequency tables

 Interpret frequency tables

 Read and analyze circle graphs

 Organize, display, and interpret data from a stem & leaf plot

Knowledge of Algebra, Patterns, and Functions

 Evaluate numeric expressions using the order of operations

Knowledge of Number Relationships and Computation/ Arithmetic

 Determine prime factorization for whole numbers and express them using exponential form

 Compare and order fractions, decimals, alone or mixed together with and without relational symbols (<, >, =)

 Identify and determine equivalent forms of fractions as decimals, as percents, and as ratios

Word of the Week: integrity- doing the right thing, even when no one is looking.

Be sure to check your child's book bag each night to see if any correspondence or homework has been sent home.