Week 25: Midquarter

Second half of the 3rd quarter began on Monday.  This is a good time to review grades on Sycamore with your child and help him or her set goals.  Has an AR test been taken?  Does your child need to ask more questions of a teacher in a subject?  Teachers are typically available in study hall times to answer questions and work with students.  We are in the "meat" of the school year and subjects that came easily early in the year may be more challenging now.  Learning how to take charge of one's learning is a step in your maturing child's development.  God blesses us as parents as we support and encourage this growth!


What's Happening in 6th grade:
 
G Math:  Negative Numbers and Inequalities


 T Math:  Finishing fraction operations.  We start dividing mixed numbers and reviewing for our fraction test.  Students may have "correct and return" papers. 


Religion: 
We have been following Saul, David, and Solomon's stories and used them to apply the petitions of the Lord's Prayer to our lives.  As we looked at "and lead us not into temptation," We saw David's downfall and how God led him to repentance.  We rejoice in God's love and grace!  As we saw Solomon build the temple, we discussed "thine is the Glory" and giving God the glory through our day to day actions.  This will inspire a class faith project: building awareness among our schoolmates about our chapel offerings.

Literature:   We have begun a non-fiction unit with a look at a war diary.  In honor of President's day, we read a biography of Lincoln.  We are comparing this literary style to an autobiography of beloved children's author, Beverly Cleary.  We will move on to expository essays on breaking the color barrier in baseball.  This will lead up to our FIELD TRIP  to the MO History Museum and to see the drama Cassius Clay later in the month.  Permission slips came home today.

As we study non-fiction, we look at structure (chronological, compare/contrast, ...) as well as styles (essay, biography, narrative...).  During this unit, I am steering students who are interested toward some excellent nonfiction works as well as historical novels.

English:  Adjectives and Advertising!

Social Studies:  We are looking at India and the comparative advantages a country has that lead other nations to outsource jobs.  Our Asian studies will take us next to China, then Japan to explore population issues.

Science:  CELLS!!

 

MARK THE DATE:  Feb. 23 is our field trip to the MO History Museum

                                      March 11 is Grandparents' Day for grades 1-8.

Book Order Due Date    TOMORROW Friday, Feb. 12 Online Code:  GV2FP 

After learning about the temple and how we are to be a living sacrifice, we played a game

It was about finances and making decisions to SAVE, SPEND, or SHARE

Serving God is about all of our lives, not just worshipping on Sunday

Of course, we were all in it for the money!  But the game made us think about caring for our families (insurance, investments) or serving our neighbors (charities)

Working on our IT articles for Social Studies

Ask your child what they have learned about outsourcing (they may need help to use the vocabulary)