Sixth Grade
by Mrs. Andel and Mrs. Schatz
November 20, 2008
With another holiday season upon us, staying focused on school work can be a challenge. Sixth graders still have much to accomplish before the end of the second quarter, December 12th.
Fractions, fractions, and more fractions! The sixth grade students have been working with renaming fractions as mixed numbers and mixed numbers as fractions, adding and subtracting fractions and mixed numbers, multiplying fractions and mixed numbers, and writing their answers in simplest form. Give them a problem involving fraction operations, and they should be able to solve. If you need help doubling or tripling the ingredients in some of those Thanksgiving or other holiday meals, just give a sixth grader a call. Soon they will also be able to do some conversions between those fractions, some decimals, and percents. Encourage them to keep practicing and applying what they know to the REAL world.
In reading, we continue with our ECRI groups. Our mornings are very busy. After keyboarding practice time is whole group, then skills, and finally spelling. Groups have completed at least 2 chapter books since the beginning of the year.
We completed our life science unit the last weeks in November. We ended that unit by studying the Nervous System and the Endocrine Systems. Puberty is always a topic that comes up when the Endocrine System is discussed.
Our social studies lessons are covering events of the early part of the 20th Century. Topics such as Teddy Roosevelt and the U.S. Expansion will lead us to World War I and the Roaring 20s.
Until next time…
Happy Holidays!
