Quarter 1, Week 9, 10-26 to 10-30

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

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This is the last week of the first quarter! Can you believe it?
No School for students on Thursday and Friday for Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences!

Math & Science Mondays - Garden Day! (Our classes have garden in the afternoon.) Monday to Friday -  Math - This week we will complete the following assignments, On Monday, we will do some problem strings ratio table practice. 036 Practice 6.2.06 on Tuesday On Wednesday, we will do some more ratio table practice problem strings. On Tuesday, we will participate in some Pacific Science Center activities! Science - This week we will work on the following: Student teams are finishing up their kit inspections and will begin taking the Robot Educator lessons to learn and practice using the Lego Mindstorms EV3 robots and the software to program the robots. NO Fish Trapping this week because there is no school for students on Thursday and Friday due to conferences. =================== Any work that is not completed during class time becomes homework so that students stay caught up and so that all students can access ALL the learning. Regular HW available for anyone who needs it -  For Math, students have a workbook that they can take home for lessons that need more work if they don't get it during class or if they miss due to absence. Students can also finish or review any online assignment once we complete it in class on a computer, tablet, or phone. The workbook will stay at home, and students can rip out completed pages for me to check for accuracy. For Science, if students fall behind on their classwork, they can catch up at home (if students do not have access to a computer at home, ask Mr. Gonzalez for an alternative activity or assignment). If students want to access the practice quizzes and games on Google Classroom at home, they can work on those as well on computers, tablets, or phones.

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Quarter 1, Week 8, 10-19 to 10-23

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

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Math & Science Mondays - Garden Day! (Our classes have garden in the afternoon.) Monday to Friday -  Math - This week we will complete the following assignments, 031 Pizza Maker 032 Practice 6.2.02 033 Practice 6.2.03 034 Fruit Lab 035 Balancing Act Science - This week we are going to finish taking notes on energy, forces, and motion. Students are learning the middle school standards for physical science. This week we should be ready to assign LEGO Mindstorms EV3 robotics kits to each small team so that we can start learning how to use them. We will begin with lessons on how to build a robot, how to program it, and how to use the sensors. Fish trapping, if the weather is safe! 6G will set the traps on Wednesday, then retrieve the traps on Thursday to ID and count the fish. 6B will set their traps on Thursday and retrieve the traps on Friday to ID and count the fish. =================== Any work that is not completed during class time becomes homework so that students stay caught up and so that all students can access ALL the learning. Regular HW available for anyone who needs it -  For Math, students have a workbook that they can take home for lessons that need more work if they don't get it during class or if they miss due to absence. Students can also finish or review any online assignment once we complete it in class on a computer, tablet, or phone. The workbook will stay at home, and students can rip out completed pages for me to check for accuracy. For Science, if students fall behind on their classwork, they can catch up at home (if students do not have access to a computer at home, ask Mr. Gonzalez for an alternative activity or assignment). If students want to access the practice quizzes and games on Google Classroom at home, they can work on those as well on computers, tablets, or phones.

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Quarter 1, Week 7, 10-12 to 10-16

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

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My homeroom, 6G, click here to sign up for Parent/Teacher/Student Conference (Ms. Berg's homeroom, 6B, get her link on ClassDojo.)

Math & Science Mondays - Garden Day! (Our classes have garden in the afternoon.) Monday to Friday -  Math - This week we will complete the following assignments, 026 Practice 6.1.14 027 Practice Day 2 for the Test! 028 End of Unit 1 Assessment 029 Unit 1 Assessment Reflection 030 Unit 2 Pre-Unit Check Science - This week we will work on the following: We will finish looking at when using AI can help and when it's best to avoid it completely. For best results, the learner should do most of the work. Productive struggle is the way to learn, so when learning something new, avoid AI that does the work and thinks for you. This week, students will also take some quizzes to show what they already know about physical science. Once we start our robotics unit, we will focus on energy, forces, and motion. Tuesday, we will have a music assembly at 11:15 am. Thursday, we will have the Great Shakeout earthquake drill at 10:15 am. Fish Trapping if the weather is safe! 6G will set the traps on Wednesday, then retrieve the traps on Thursday to ID and count the fish. 6B will set their traps on Thursday and retrieve the traps on Friday to ID and count the fish. =================== Any work that is not completed during class time becomes homework so that students stay caught up and so that all students can access ALL the learning. Regular HW available for anyone who needs it -  For Math, students have a workbook that they can take home for lessons that need more work if they don't get it during class or if they miss due to absence. Students can also finish or review any online assignment once we complete it in class on a computer, tablet, or phone. The workbook will stay at home, and students can rip out completed pages for me to check for accuracy. For Science, if students fall behind on their classwork, they can catch up at home (if students do not have access to a computer at home, ask Mr. Gonzalez for an alternative activity or assignment). If students want to access the practice quizzes and games on Google Classroom at home, they can work on those as well on computers, tablets, or phones.

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Quarter 1, Week 6, 10-5 to 10-9

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

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Math & Science Mondays - Garden Day! (Our classes have garden in the afternoon.) Monday to Friday -  Math - This week we will complete the following assignments, 021 Plenty of Polyhedra 022 Practice 6.1.10 023 Practice 6.1.11 024 Practice 6.1.12 025 Face Value The lessons above will bring us to the end of the surface area section of Unit 1. That means that by next Wednesday we will be taking the end-of-unit assessment. Science - This week we will work on the following: Students will take another survey to provide information about what they already know about the topics we are going to be studying in Science. I will be asking about familiarity with Legos and designing and building things, as well as familiarity with robotics and programming robots or other similar items. The survey also contains questions about environmental topics, especially local issues, as we begin to collect data on Chimacum by trapping fish to identify and count them. Then we have an AI activity to learn more about it and especially to determine when, if ever, it's okay to use AI for learning and, more importantly, when to NOT use AI because it will NOT help students learn. Fish Trapping if the weather is safe! 6G will set the traps on Wednesday, then retrieve the traps on Thursday to ID and count the fish. 6B will set their traps on Thursday and retrieve the traps on Friday to ID and count the fish. =================== Any work that is not completed during class time becomes homework so that students stay caught up and so that all students can access ALL the learning. Regular HW available for anyone who needs it -  For Math, students have a workbook that they can take home for lessons that need more work if they don't get it during class or if they miss due to absence. Students can also finish or review any online assignment once we complete it in class on a computer, tablet, or phone. The workbook will stay at home, and students can rip out completed pages for me to check for accuracy. For Science, if students fall behind on their classwork, they can catch up at home (if students do not have access to a computer at home, ask Mr. Gonzalez for an alternative activity or assignment). If students want to access the practice quizzes and games on Google Classroom at home, they can work on those as well on computers, tablets, or phones.

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Quarter 1, Week 5, 9-28 to 10-2

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

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Math & Science Mondays - Garden Day! (Our classes have garden in the afternoon.) Ms. Berg's class will take photos at 10:55 a.m., and my class will take photos at 11:15 am. Monday to Friday -  Math - This week we will complete the following assignments, 016 Practice 6.1.02 017 Area Review Practice (we will use Snorkl AI) 018 Unit 1 Mid-Unit Quiz! (Quiz taken on paper.) 019 Quiz Reflection (Students will learn from their mistakes.) 020 Renata's Stickers (Starting surface area.) Assignments 014 and 015 are work for students who need more practice finding the area of parallelograms, triangles, and other polygons. Science - This week we will work on the following: Monday, students will get more time to finish 009 Starship Avatar Character Card. Then we have to start setting up eportfolios on Tuesday so that students will have them ready to go for their Math quiz reflection (students keep track of what they are learning in their eportfolios). Assignments 010, 011, 012, and 015 have work for students who finish classwork early and have no missing assignments to work on. Sometimes we will do one of those as a whole-class activity, too. =================== Any work that is not completed during class time becomes homework so that students stay caught up and so that all students can access ALL the learning. Regular HW available for anyone who needs it -  For Math, students have a workbook that they can take home for lessons that need more work if they don't get it during class or if they miss due to absence. Students can also finish or review any online assignment once we complete it in class on a computer, tablet, or phone. The workbook will stay at home, and students can rip out completed pages for me to check for accuracy. For Science, if students fall behind on their classwork, they can catch up at home (if students do not have access to a computer at home, ask Mr. Gonzalez for an alternative activity or assignment). If students want to access the practice quizzes and games on Google Classroom at home, they can work on those as well on computers, tablets, or phones.

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Quarter 1, Week 4, 9-21 to 9-25

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

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Math & Science Mondays - Garden Day! (Our classes have garden in the afternoon.) Monday to Friday -  Math - This week we will complete the following assignments, 009 Off the Grid, Part 1 010 Practice 6.1.06 011 Triangles and Parallelograms 012 Off the Grid, Part 2 013 Pile of Polygons Science - This week we will complete setting up our class characters to create the character cards for our ePortfolios. Students will also get access to their starship portal where they can keep track of their points (XP), class ranks for teamwork, team roles, and also to more easily check on completed and missing assignments. Students all got an email and instructions showing them how to message me that they completed work late so that I can update their points and know exactly what each student has actually completed. Google Classroom assignments: 007 Beginning of Our Voyages 008 Can you recreate an image? 009 Starship Avatar Character Card Assignments 010, 011, and 012 have work for students who finish classwork early and have no missing assignments to work on. Sometimes we will do one of those as a whole-class activity, too. =================== Any work that is not completed during class time becomes homework so that students stay caught up and so that all students can access ALL the learning. Regular HW available for anyone who needs it -  For Math, students have a workbook that they can take home for lessons that need more work if they don't get it during class or if they miss due to absence. Students can also finish or review any online assignment once we complete it in class on a computer, tablet, or phone. The workbook will stay at home, and students can rip out completed pages for me to check for accuracy. For Science, if students fall behind on their classwork, they can catch up at home (if students do not have access to a computer at home, ask Mr. Gonzalez for an alternative activity or assignment). If students want to access the practice quizzes and games on Google Classroom at home, they can work on those as well on computers, tablets, or phones.

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Quarter 1, Week 3, 9-14 to 9-18

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

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Math & Science Mondays - Garden Day! (Our classes have garden in the afternoon.) Tuesday - Math MAP - then 6B will have Science after testing. Monday to Friday -  Math - This week we will work on Lesson 1: Shapes on a Plane, Lesson 2: Letters, Practice 6.1.03, and Practice 6.1.04. Science - This week we will finish going over our class expectations and reviewing the class rules. Then we will work on setting up our class assignment portal, learning how we will and will not use AI this year. =================== Any work that is not completed during class time becomes homework so that students stay caught up and so that all students can access ALL the learning. Regular HW available for anyone who needs it -  For Math, students have a workbook that they can take home for lessons that need more work if they don't get it during class or if they miss due to absence. Students can also finish or review any online assignment once we complete it in class on a computer, tablet, or phone. The workbook will stay at home, and students can rip out completed pages for me to check for accuracy. For Science, if students fall behind on their classwork, they can catch up at home (if students do not have access to a computer at home, ask Mr. Gonzalez for an alternative activity or assignment). If students want to access the practice quizzes and games on Google Classroom at home, they can work on those as well on computers, tablets, or phones.

Email me or message me on ClassDojo with any questions.