Sixth grade News to Use

MONday, May 4 - Friday, May 8

Every School Day is Important! By 9th grade, regular and high attendance is a better predictor
of graduation rates than 8grade test scores!
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School Calendar

5/4 - Gifted Field Trip

5/5 - Beta Club Meeting (Students must be picked up by 3:45)
5/8 Library books due; Holt, Wendt, Freeman field trip
5/11 - Etheredge, Smith, Stoehr field trip
5/11 - Basketball Tryouts for 7th grade (MJHS gym, after school - 5:00pm)
5/12 Beta Club Field Trip
5/12 - Basketball Tryouts for 7th grade (MJHS gym, after school - 5:00pm)
5/14 - 6th grade orientation to MJHS @ 9:00 Parents are welcome to meet us at MJHS in the multi purpose room
5/15 Field Day
5/19 Talent Show @ 8:30
5/20 - Honors program and End of the Year Celebration

Announcements

STUDENTS AND PARENTS WILL NEED TO BRING A SACK LUNCH FOR THE FIELD
TRIP.
Students who wish to try out for basketball for the 2015-2016 school
year must attend
both
days of tryouts on Mon., 5/11 and tues., 5/12.
Tryouts will be held after school, in the mjhs gym, until 5:00pm.

Language Arts - Mrs. Wendt (

sara.wendt@sccboe.org
)
HATCHET BY GARY PAULSEN NOVEL STUDY - FINISH READING, WRITE, DISCUSS, TAKE QUIZ
Math - Ms. Etheredge (
aubrey.etheredge@sccboe.org
)
Review learned concepts to prepare for MJHS placement test
Math Exploratory - Mrs. Stoehr (
kathleen.stoehr@sccboe.org
)
Review learned concepts to prepare for MJHS placement test
Reading - Ms. Holt (
gail.holt@sccboe.org
)
We will review reading skills for the remainder of the year. Check AR at home. AR counts 40%
of the total grade.
Science - Mrs. Freeman (
ginger.freeman@sccboe.org
)
WE will begin our study of planets. Students should have 10 pages in their journals. We will
PLAN on having a test may 7, 2014. (Please understand this may change!)
Social Studies - Mrs. Smith
(

april.smith@sccboe.org
)
For the rest of the year we will be doing, History in the Movies. I will present a historical
issue and the students will watch movie clips from a variety of movies to see the issue
acted out. We will cover World War II, the development of pop culture, the Cold War, Civil
Rights, the Space Race, the Sixties, and the cyber wars. Students will complete exit slips in
class to demonstrate their understanding of each topic.