March 26, 2015
Dear Families,
I look forward to seeing you at Parent
Teacher Conferences. Your conference
time has been emailed to you and there is a paper copy of the conference time
in your child’s Friday folder today, as well.
With spring well under way, it is
important that your child have boots to go outside. In the warmer weather, we
may have an opportunity to go outside at the end of the day, but all students
must have a pair of boots in order for us to go out. It will be a while before the fields on the playground are
dry. Thanks for your help with
this. It also keeps the inside of
our new building clean!
As I write this on Thursday, I am
looking forward to seeing all the 3-D human body projects tomorrow. From 2:30 to 3:30 on Friday, we will
have other classrooms in the building touring, looking at the presentations and
listening to the “experts” talk about their particular system. Please join us if you have time at the
end of the day!
In math, we are working on measuring
angles and learning about the different kinds of angles: obtuse, acute, reflex,
right and straight angles.
Students completed the opinion writing pre-assessment in writing. We will begin in earnest our opinion
writing work next week. We are wrapping up the human body science unit and will
move onto the Middle Ages, our next social studies unit.
Students were also assigned a new quote
response, “Happiness”. This quote
response is due on Wednesday, April 1.
While it is wonderful to discuss the quotes and the questions with your
child, students should write the responses themselves. It is important for 6th
graders to have opinions and ideas, to be able to clearly articulate their opinions
and ideas, and to be able to give evidence to support their opinions and ideas. Having well thought opinions and ideas,
supported by clear evidence, is an important skill for students to
develop.
Please remember that there is a 12:30PM
dismissal time on Thursday April 2 and Friday April 3 for parent teacher
conferences.
Have a wonderful weekend, Ellen
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