September 30, 2024

Mrs. Hall's Happenings

Please check out the PTA Fundraiser paper that came home on Friday.  Sixth grade uses our PTA "teacher grants" to pay for our Clark Planetarium field trip and our Medieval Feast in April.  We appreciate your support!

What We’re Learning This Week

This week we are continuing to talk about our class novel, Hatchet.  We will also be starting the second unit in our new Amplify ELA curriculum.  This new unit is called Mysteries and Investigations.  We will be reading about the search for the cause of yellow fever along with some Sherlock Holmes stories.  I've attached the "Caregiver Letter" for this unit to the email in case you want to read over what we will be learning the next few weeks in more detail.

On Friday we'll be taking a quiz on the first set of root words.  I showed the students how they can study the words on quizlet.com.  They need to search for my user name "wogger."  I have a panda icon.  Then they can find Root Words Set 1.  There are several different games to play to practice. 

Our writing assignment this week will be combinging writing and social studies as we answer the question: Hammurabi's Code: Were the laws just or unjust?  We had some very good discussions last week about Hammurabi's laws.  Ask your student what they think!

This week in math we'll be learning how to use equivalent ratio tables and tape diagrams to solve ratio problems.  Last week we talked about unit prices.  If you are at the grocery store with your student, have them help you figure out the different unit prices for different sizes of the same product--math in the real world!!

In science we'll be analyzing some data about the planets in our social system.

October Book Report

Students received a copy of the October book report today.  The book report is due our last school day of the month, October 31, but can be turned in earlier.  Remember, they need to read an entire book during the month of October.  Sixth graders should be independently reading one to two books every month.  

Cell Phones and Group Chats

Mrs. Pickett talked to our sixth graders last week about group chats.  It would be good to follow up with your student about how they should always text kind things to friends and that they should never be part of a group chat if there are numbers they do not recognize.  She reminded them they need to show a grownup and get out of the group chat if they don't know who else is in the chat.  These are good reminders for all of us in helping keep our kids safe online.