WELCOME TO 6th GRADE!
Please take a seat at your child’s desk.
NANCY MAGUIRE
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30th YEAR TEACHING (2ND-HIGH SCHOOL)
UCI TEACHING CREDENTIAL
MASTERS IN EDUCATION
IUSD DISTRICT TEACHER OF THE YEAR 1992
PRESIDENTIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN
TEACHING MATH 1994 and 1995
NOMINATED FOR THE DISNEY AMERICAN
TEACHER AWARD 2002
DISTRICT MATH MENTOR, TEACHER TRAINER,
AND CURRICULUM WRITER
WESTPARK SCHOOL’S TEACHER OF THE YEAR
2008
CLASSROOM ORGANIZATION
 SCHEDULES
ATTENDANCE
 WEB PAGE
 CONDUITS
 NO LATE WORK
 BLUE MOONS
 ABSENT WORK
 TABLE POINTS, PIZZA PARTIES
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HOMEWORK POLICY
90 minutes per night
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15 minutes looking for assignment
11 minutes calling a friend for the assignment
13 minutes explaining why the teacher is mean
8 minutes in the bathroom
10 minutes getting a snack
7 minutes checking the TV Guide
16 minutes telling parents that the teacher never
explained the assignment
10 minutes at the kitchen table waiting for a family
member to do the assignment
Long Term Assignments are always given the night
before they are due
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6 GRADE MOTTOS
 PERSONAL BEST: “Never settle for
less than your
best!”
 HOME COURT IS IN SESSION: Where people feel
encouraged and supported to risk and do their best,
just as they do if competing on their home court.
 MAKE AN EFFORT, NOT AN EXCUSE: Encouraging
Responsibility
 AIR: Accountability, Integrity, Respect
HOW YOU CAN HELP YOUR
CHILD:
Encourage
organization and responsibility
Avoid rescuing/helping too much
Be the coach on the side
Model thinking
Value learning
Expectations
FOCUS CHANGE IN MATH
IUSD is moving towards more blended
assessments in math because this is the
direction the state is moving. Our
students have become expert multiple
choice test takers and they need to
become more in-depth thinkers who can
handle open-ended, complex,
application problems.
COMMON CORE STANDARDS
 The
Common Core State Standards seek to
better prepare students across the nation for
college and careers, raising both
expectations and achievement.
 National Standards (46 states have adopted)
 2014-2015 Smarter Balanced Assessments
MATHEMATICS
Blue book/Green book
Hands-on activities
Teaching for understanding
Problems of the Week
Brain Book
Thinking
Transitional Year
6th Grade CCSS Math
Ratios and Proportional Relationships
 The Number System
 Expressions and Equations
 Geometry
 Statistics and Probability
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STANDARDS FOR MATHEMATICAL PRACTICE
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Make sense of problems and persevere in
solving them.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Construct viable arguments and critique the
reasoning of others.
Model with mathematics.
Use appropriate tools strategically.
Attend to precision.
Look for and make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in repeated
reasoning.
 Currently:
• 6th Grade Math
• Pre-Algebra
• Algebra 1
 Common Core Math:
• 6th Grade Common Core
• 7th Grade Common Core
• 8th Grade Common Core
• Algebra 1
Current
California Algebra 1
25 Standards
7th Grade Common
Core
2
8th Grade Common
Core
7
Algebra 1
Geometry
None
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1
5
ACCELERATION IN
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Common Core Standards for Gr. 6-8 are
comprehensive, rigorous, and non-redundant.
Acceleration will require compaction and not the
former strategy of deletion.
 The previous models for acceleration will no
longer be viable, so that critical concepts are not
omitted and that the continuity of the mathematics
learning progression is not disrupted.
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WRITER’S WORKSHOP
 “Read
like a Writer.
Write like a Reader.”
 WRITING PROCESS
 PLEASE DO NOT HELP
 WRITING KEEPSAKE:
HARDBOUND
ANTHOLOGY
 CCSS: Argument,
Research, Narrative
LITERATURE
CLASS NOVELS
 JR. GREAT BOOKS:
Collection of Short Stories
 LITERATURE CIRCLES
 TRIMESTER BOOK PROJECTS
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Historical Fiction; Biography; Informational Text
 CCSS:
Foundational Skills,
Reading Literature,
Reading Informational Text
LANGUAGE SKILLS
 Vocabulary:
Classical Roots
 Grammar: Easy Grammar
SOCIAL STUDIES
 ANCIENT
CIVILIZATIONS
 HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES AND
PROJECTS
 RESEARCH SKILLS
 CIVILIZATIONS PROJECT:
Big Book
SCIENCE
 Vicky
Anthony
 vanthony@iusd.org
 Science Website
 HANDS-ON EXPERIMENTS
 PARTICIPATION
 REQUIRED SCIENCE
FAIR PROJECT: see samples
in the science room tonight
 TEXTBOOK/Tests
OUTDOOR SCIENCE SCHOOL
 November
20-22th (Wednesday-Friday)
 Pali Institute near Lake Arrowhead
 Parent Information Meeting:
Tuesday, August 27th at 6:00 pm
in MPR
 Popsicle sales help pay
for the busses.
COMING ATTRACTIONS
D.A.R.E. (Officer D’Alena)
 Leadership Opportunities:
• Valets
• Green Team
• Student Council
 IRVINE JR. GAMES
 MATH FIELD DAY
 SPECIAL 6TH GRADE
END OF THE YEAR ACTIVITIES
(Parent meeting in May)
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Volunteers Needed:
Conduits: Thursday
 In Class Help: Clerical
cutting, etc)
 At home jobs: Scholastic Book Orders,
project preparation
 Special activities and fundraising
 WISH LIST CONTRIBUTIONS
 FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS
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(copying, stapling,
correcting papers,
Nancy Maguire
E-mail:
Nmaguire@iusd.org
Phone: (949) 936-6428
No Perfume Please!
DON’T FORGET ...
Goal
Setting
CONFERENCE:
August 26-30
Note to Child
PTA support
Shoe Drive Fundraiser