6th Grade News
Athlos Leadership Academy
10/29/2014
Edition 1, Volume 2
Math
Ms. Van Rybroek
In math, we are continuing to work on understanding and
working with decimals. This week, we are working on
multiplying and dividing decimals as well as solving equations
Science
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Ms. Elsen
with decimal numbers. Ask your 6th grader to explain to you the
Students are just finishing
difference between 3 x 0.5 and 0.3 x 0.5! We’ve been using
their chapter projects this
decimal models to show that we understand what happens
week. We will be testing
when decimals are multiplied. Remember that 6th graders will
their boats on Thursday
have homework in math every day, unless we have a test the
and Friday.
next day. Students should be writing their assignments in their
daily planner. The next math test will be the week of November
3rd.
We will be taking the
chapter 3 test on
Wednesday, November
5th. We will spend Monday
Social Studies
and Tuesday reviewing
Mr. Lundgren
for the test.
With the deadline for the
research paper coming up,
Upon completing our part of the unit on the Dakota, we
students will have the
moved into the Ojibwe and learned of their migration from
opportunity to work on
the east coast over a long period of time until they reached
their papers in class. If you
Lake Superior, where they still remain today. We also
would like, you can email
compared how the Ojibwe lived seasonally just as the
me progress the students
Dakota did where they would move with the seasons to
have made and I will print
wherever would provide them with more resources. We
then started looking at how the fur trade started coming
about post-European contact and how it is going to
transform the lives of the indigenous forever.
off work for the students.
The first paragraph of
their research paper is due
this Friday, October 31st.
Language Arts
Ms. Nord
In English language arts we have started a new unit on folklore. The
Upcoming Dates
class is covering Greek mythology and folktales throughout the
deration of this unit. The students have a reading assignment every
night. Each day in class the students have a comprehension quiz on
the previous night’s chapter to help me see the students’
Free Dress Day
Oct. 31
comprehension and retention. In addition, students are practicing
their writing skills and working on facilitating the habit of daily
writing by writing a daily journal entry that should contain about half
a page of writing. The class is continuing to work on their wordly
Picture Retake Day
Free Dress
Nov. 4
wise packets, lesson 6 is due October 31. The wordly wise packets are
due on Fridays of complete weeks. In the grammar curriculum the
students are currently working on subject/verb agreement and we
will be moving on to eliminating double negatives in speaking and
PTO Meeting
Nov. 11
5:00-5:45pm
writing. Some important dates to remember are: November 14th is the
test on The Lightning Thief, and November 25th is the test on The
Odyssey the graphic novel.
Tumble Book Library
Tumble Book Library is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking
picture books) with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles, ReadAlongs (chapter books with sentence highlighting and narration but no
animation), TumbleTV which consists of pre-set playlists of a sequence of
books, Tumble Puzzles & Games, and TumbleResources for teachers and
students. TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books which we
have licensed from children's book publishers and converted to the
TumbleBook format.
To access: www.tumblebooklibrary.com
Username: athlos
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