Sunday, March 17, 2024

Quarter 3, Week 6, 3-18 to 3-22

6B - Ms. Berg's 5/6 Homeroom Class
6G - Mr. Gonzalez's 6th Grade Homeroom Class

Math & Science

Monday to Friday - Garden on Monday!

Math - We are continuing our work with fractions, adding and subtracting for 5th graders and dividing for 6th graders. Sixth graders are almost done with their unit so they should be taking the end of unit test this week.

Science - Teams are continuing to work on their Hydrodynamics Robotics Challenge, which is due next week!

Writer's Elective (Monday and Friday only) - This week will work on getting our Kindness posters done and placed around the school so that we can start wrapping up our kindness unit. This is happening to help kids use strategies to get along better and make our school a safe and happy place for EVERYONE. 😊


HW - Students are encouraged to go back and practice problems they missed on their unit quizzes to make sure they learn anything they didn't get the first time around.

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Sunday, March 10, 2024

Quarter 3, Week 5, 3-11 to 3-15

6B - Ms. Berg's 5/6 Homeroom Class
6G - Mr. Gonzalez's 6th Grade Homeroom Class

Math & Science

Monday to Thursday - Garden on Monday.

For Math we are continuing our work with fractions. Adding and subtracting fractions for 5th graders and dividing fractions for 6th graders. 

Teams are working on the Hydrodynamics Challenge for robotics and they until Friday, March 28, to finish.

Writer's Elective (Monday only) - Our focus is on Kindness and Differences.


HW - Once students finish practicing the problems they got wrong on their quiz, they can get back to working on Aleks for Math.

Thursday - Student of the Month assembly.

Friday - 
 No School for students today - Parent/Student/Teacher conferences. (Check Classdojo for information about signing up for your child's conference.)

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Sunday, March 3, 2024

Quarter 3, Week 4, 3-4 to 3-8

6B - Ms. Berg's 5/6 Homeroom Class
6G - Mr. Gonzalez's 6th Grade Homeroom Class

Math & Science

Monday through Friday - Garden is back for March on Mondays during Math/Science class.

Monday we also have a music assembly!

Math this week - we will continue working on fractions after our quiz last week.

Science this week - Teams are working on the Hydrodynamics Challenge in robotics.

Writer's Elective (Monday and Friday only) - We are still working on our Kindness Posters to give students tangible strategies to make our school safer and fun for everyone.


HW - Students need to go over the problems they got wrong on their Math quiz and do some practice problems to see if they need to review or if they made arithmetic/calculation mistakes.

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Sunday, February 25, 2024

Quarter 3, Week 3, 2-26 to 3-1

6B - Ms. Berg's 5/6 Homeroom Class
6G - Mr. Gonzalez's 6th Grade Homeroom Class

Math & Science

Monday to Friday - 
Math check-in for students to finish any work they did not complete before mid-winter break. We will do a rich task on fractions to get ready for a check in quiz this week.

In Science students need to submit anything they got done on their tsunami and/or simple machines webquests so that we can get back to work on our Hydrodynamics Robotics Challenge. Teams need to finish their research and solution ideas so they can get started on building, programming, and testing their robots.

Writer's Elective (Monday and Friday only) - We will continue our SEL lessons to gain strategies that will make our school safe and fun for everyone.


HW - Catch up on any missing Math work in preparation for check in quiz and finish any Science work from before the mid-winter break.

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Sunday, February 11, 2024

Quarter 3, Week 2, 2-12 to 2-16

6B - Ms. Berg's 5/6 Homeroom Class
6G - Mr. Gonzalez's 6th Grade Homeroom Class


Earthquake Drill on Tuesday
Student of the Month Assembly on Thursday


Math & Science

Monday and Tuesday - 
Math - 5th graders are still working on Unit 2, now module 2, while 6th graders work on Unit 4 on Desmos. Both units are on fractions.

Science - teams are working on researching different types of water pollution to design a robotic solution to one specific problem of their choosing.

Writer's Elective (Monday and Friday only) - We will continue to work on ways to get along and solve problems with kindness.


HW - Practice multiplication facts is a great daily practice.

Wednesday to Friday - I will be at the NCCE conference presenting and learning so I will have a guest teacher sub for me.

Math - The same on Monday and Tuesday.

Science - For teams that finish their water pollution research and their robotic solution design, they will be working on two different webquests, one about tsunamis and one about simple machines.

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Sunday, February 4, 2024

Quarter 3, Week 1, 2-5 to 2-9

6B - Ms. Berg's 5/6 Homeroom Class
6G - Mr. Gonzalez's 6th Grade Homeroom Class

Math & Science

Monday through Friday - No Garden during Math/Science time this month.

Math continues with fractions, Unit 2 for 5th grade Bridges and Unit 4 for 6th grade Desmos. Both units deal with fractions so we will all be working on fractions! :)

In Science we are going to begin the Hydro Dynamics Challenge with the EV3 Robots. This project will combine our robotics unit with our upcoming environmental unit!

Writer's Elective (Monday and Friday only) -
We are going to take this time to learn some strategies to help all students have a safe and happy time at recess and so that students can return to class ready to learn. Books are postponed for the time being unless students want to work on them at home.


HW - No homework for those who are all caught up. Report cards will be coming home next week!
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Sunday, January 28, 2024

Quarter 2, Week 10, 1-29 to 2-2

6B - Ms. Berg's 5/6 Homeroom Class
6G - Mr. Gonzalez's 6th Grade Homeroom Class

Last week of the semester!

Math & Science

Monday - Science MAP Today!
We are starting the day with our homeroom classes unlike we usually do on Mondays to work on the Science MAP assessment. We will have time to meet with both classes after everyone is done testing today and in Math & Science class we are going to work on our robotics unit.

Writer's Elective - No Writer's class this week.


HW - Students can work on Aleks or Khan Academy for Math practice including the daily Multiplication by Heart, which only takes a minute or two per day.

Tuesday & Wednesday - 
Math will continue with Unit 2 on Bridges for the 5th graders and Unit 4 on Desmos for the 6th graders.

Science we will continue learning how to program the different sensors on the EV3 robots so that we can begin our first challenge.


Thursday & Friday - No School
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