6^th Grade SOUTH Team

 

 

                                      LANGUAGE ARTS       

Mrs. Ferguson: We will continue working on our Egypt Team Night by completing our pyramids, sarcophagi, and masks.  The week after Thanksgiving, we will write a District Common Assessment on personal narrative and read nonfiction Egyptian stories.

 

Mrs. Krahn:  We will finish reading the novel The Boy of the Pyramids.  As part of the end of novel activities the students will be writing a Diamonte poem, writing a short narrative essay explaining what makes a good friend and which character in the novel would make the best friend.  The students will also be writing the District Common Assessment written narrative essay.

MATH

Mrs. Amezcua: We will be doing triple-duty the next several days. We will focus on our content, fraction operations. We will also be reviewing for the next District Formative Assessment, which will be given Thursday, December 4^th. The final task is working on pectoral plates and the math quilt for team night. Both of these projects will be completed in class.

 

 

 

Mrs. Loux/Miss. Wallace:

Course 1: We will work on hieroglyphics and chest plates the week of November 24^th and then continue our fraction operations unit with multiplying and dividing fractions.

Course 2: We will work on hieroglyphics and chest plates the week of November 24^th and then begin a unit on ratios and proportions when we return from break.

 

SCIENCE

Mrs.Amezcua: Our animal triptychs are done for team night! Now we will return to focusing on content, namely chapter 4, which addresses genetics and advances in genetics. Once we finish with this chapter, a new book will be issued, From Bacteria to Plants.

 

 

SOCIAL STUDIES

Mrs. Krahn: The students will be constructing a paper pyramid with each side of the pyramid requiring the students to draw, design, and write information from their studies of ancient Egypt.  We will also finish reading and discussing the Middle and later Egyptian time, and finally painting our salt dough maps.

 

 

 

 

 

CONTACT INFORMATION

Julie Amezcua:         jamezcua@usd259.net

Donna Ferguson:       dferguson@usd259.net

LaVonne Krahn:         lkrahn@usd259.net

Carrie Loux:              cloux@usd259.net

 

Link to Exploratory:  http://allison.usd259.org/exploratory.htm

 

 

Julie Amezcua:         jamezcua@usd259.net

Donna Ferguson:       dferguson@usd259.net

LaVonne Krahn:         lkrahn@usd259.net

Carrie Loux:                          cloux@usd259.net