WEEK OF 3/15/10

The Sixth Grade World’s Fair

Beginning soon, your sixth grader will begin working on his/her World’s Fair project. This is an interdisciplinary project involving your student’s Reading, Language Arts, and Social Studies classes. All sixth graders participate in these activities, with different parts assessed in the aforementioned subjects. To begin the research, he/she will be assigned a foreign country, will check out a non-fiction book on that country, and will read that book. Next, using the book as well as other reference sources, your child will take notes on his/her country using the Five Themes of Geography. During Language Arts, he/she will use the notes to generate a written report (expository essay). Based upon that information, your sixth grader will then build a cardboard display for the World’s Fair night, which will be held on June 8^th. This fair will be open to the public; so many people will be able to enjoy the fruits of the students’ labor. Finally, in his/her Language Arts class, an oral presentation will be given on what your child has learned about that country. As you can see, this will be a huge undertaking, so you may want to begin discussing it with your child sometime soon.

Reading:

This week we will be starting to read the novel House on Hackman"s Hill. Students will be tested every Friday on their weekly reading.

First Quiz is on Monday. It covers Chapters 1&2

Spelling and vocabulary words this week will be 10 math terms.

Language Arts:

We will be working on conferences.

We will be doing more coding.

We will be writing Expository Paragraphs.

Math Book 2:

Monday:Warm up - 8.3 Learn to find the Circumference of a circle - HW: Page 388 #7-9 and 12-14.

Tuesday & Thursday: Accelerated Math

Wednesday: Warm up - 8.3 continued - HW: pages 388-389 # 10, 15-22

Friday: Warm up - 8.4 - Finding the area of a parallelogram

Math Book 1:

Monday: Warm up - 8.5 Using reciprocals to divide fractions - HW: pages 389-399 #7-27

Tuesday & Thursday: Accelerated Math

Wednesday: Warm up - 8.6 Dividing mixed numbers - HW: pages 402-403 #6-35

Friday: warm up - 8.7 Area of a right triangle

History:

This week we will learn how Rome went from a republic to an Empire