Announcements - 

• 2/6 - Science Fair Data Due
• 2/3 - 6 - 6th Grade Denis Sullivan field trip (afternoons)
• 2/14 - 16 - Agriculture Fair
• 2/16 - No School
• 3/2 - STEM Fair week begins! (All projects complete and displayed)
• 3/9-13 - Spring Break week, no school

Science Fair - This is coming up fast and students will need time to write up all of their information. In order to do that, they need to have their data collected NLT Feb. 6. We will work on writing out all of the science fair report sections in class and creating graphs of the data. Display boards will be be assembled Feb 23-27th.

No Gum Please - 6th grade students have been told before that there is no gum allowed- due to wrappers left about and misplaced gum wads. This week the same issues popped up again. Please remind your child that there is no gum chewing in class. Thank you for your assistance. 

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• Morning Meeting, wellness/personal growth
• Our Friday afternoon was very busy, and included joining the 2nd Grade for their Publishing Party! They are our 6th grader's reading buddies, and this was our way of re-introducing the groups and supporting the younger authors. 

• Math
• Decimal practice and review: flash cards, tricky long division, multiplying bigger numbers, many opportunities for students to work on challenge problems and teach each other as they discussed solutions
• Unit Test and review of test
• Next week we start our new unit on Angles!

• English
• Complete news articles - adding details, quotes, captioned pictures
• Sentence Stalking
• Continued our read-aloud (The Golden Bull)
• Create flashcards for Root word practice

• Science
• Begin Agriculture Fair class project - groups are learning/researching/designing/planning all about drone use on farms
• Students watched a video about technology in agriculture, practiced notetaking, then reflected on whether or not technology is a necessary thing for the future of agriculture.

• Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• Continued discussions of globalization and finalized group brand-recognition surveys

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01/16/26

       Announcements - 

• 1/19 - No School
• 2/3 - 6 - 6th Grade Denis Sullivan field trip (afternoons)
• 2/14 - 16 - Agriculture Fair
• 2/16 - No School
• 3/2 - STEM Fair week begins! (All projects complete and displayed)
• 3/9-13 - Spring Break week, no school

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• Morning Meeting, wellness/personal growth
• SEL with Ms. Bird! Students took a focus practice test while we (the teachers) got to make all of the distractions! This fun exercise was then followed up with stations that taught different focus strategies.
• We had a full week of earning tallies for meeting expectations in the classroom! Top winners picked from the prize basket, and other honorable mentions received a certificate. We are all appreciating this new system of reflection for behavior expectations.

• Math
• Decimal practice and review: deeper work with dividing decimals
• Decimal game stations (loved the students teaching students and all of the math talk during these 2 days!)

• English
• News articles - elements and features
• Note-taking skills practice
• Co-writing an article about a famous person using notes they took in class
• Root word work: - fer-, and creation of study packet for our first set of roots

• Science
• Reviewed types of energy
• Discussed how energy is stored, useful, transferred, wasted
• Experimented with cars and ramps to investigate energy and forces
• Unit review and Open-book unit test 

• Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• Continued discussions of globalization and creating brand-recognition surveys

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01/09/26

      Announcements - 

• 1/19 - No School
• 2/3 - 6 - 6th Grade Denis Sullivan field trip (afternoons)
• 2/14 - 16 - Agriculture Fair
• 2/16 - No School
• 3/2 - STEM Fair week begins! (All projects complete and displayed)
• 3/9-13 - Spring Break week, no school

- Ask Your Child About - 

• Morning Meeting, wellness/personal growth
• Expectation Experts! We reviewed the general classroom behavior expectations then I handed out a chart. Every time I point out an expectation being met (like having their supplies ready, maintaining appropriate level voices, or using kind words during partner discussions) they get to add a tally mark. We will be totaling the tallies each day, then on Friday. The top Expectation Experts will receive a certificate and get to pick an item from the prize bin. They took to this quickly and we had fun! I think it also acted as a great reminder of what is expected and they enjoy being highlighted for doing something positive. I will continue this for a few weeks.

• Math
• Trashketball algebra review, MashUp math puzzles
• Long division practice, decimal work (adding, subtracting, multiplying decimals)

• English
• Figurative language work
• Began Unit 3- read and discussed text extracts, reviewed types of nouns and identified examples, along with contractions and direct speech. Students identified characteristics of the main character and supported their thinking with evidence from the text.

• Science
• Science Fair discussion, research

• Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• Began Global Perspectives Unit highlighting research and analysis skills. Reviewed how to design clear, concise, questions and design a questionnaire. Working in pairs, they identified a local issue, created a questionnaire, received data, and analyzed the process and results. Then the groups presented their findings to the class, along with courses of action they could take to help with the local issues. We began a discussion about globalization then students identified good and bad points of being globally connected.

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