Science Fair

Science fair judging and presentations will take place on December 17th! If you have any interest in judging, please let me know! We are in need of more judges.

Students will work on graphing and data analysis next week. Their presentations on the 17th will serve as a learning target grade.

The end of the semester is approaching and it is no coincidence that Commitment is our character key of focus this month! We know it is a busy yet festive season. We want to guide our students in ending successfully.

• Due date for all missing assignments and corrections is December 12th.
• December 16th-18th will focus on wrapping up our units and classes with assessments and/or projects.
• We do have plans in the works for a fun day on Dec. 19th. We will keep you posted on details as we finish organizing!
• Please encourage your child to follow up with absent work, so their work is completed and turned in by end on time per the hand book; 2 calendar days for every 1 missed school day.

Here's The Happenings:

Science:  Our week was filled with science fair projects and studying stars!  We started our December unit by exploring constellations and galaxy basics.  We had a good discussion about the connection between constellations, mythology, and history.  We also begin our science fair experiments!  Students will finish up experiments next week, as well as learn about the life of  a star.  Thank you for the support you have given your child in science this year!

Homework: Constellation Packet, Parts A and B, DUE 12/10

Math: Unit 3 (Chapter 8)- Integers & Rational Numbers

This week we worked on understanding Absolute Value as well as completing our mid-year NWEA testing. Please ask your student what absolute value measures? Next week we will work with the coordinate plane- graphing points, polygons, and using our absolute values to find distances between points. We will skip the writing inequalities portion of this chapter as we will cover this in a later chapter. We will finish up with doing our chapter review next week and Test the last week before break! All missings/corrections need to be turned in no later than Friday, December 12th.

Homework: Missings/ Corrections

Social Studies: Students will be learning about The French Revolution. We will learn about Marie Antionette and the Bourbon Kings as well as the Third Estates Revolts.

English: The 6th grade has begun preparing for CCA’s first annual Shark Tank. They have identified problems within our community and developed solutions to address them. Each student will write three individual paragraphs, and then, as a group, they will prepare a presentation.

To stay on track please see the schedule below:

December 9th &10th

• NWEA testing

December 11th & 12th

• Finalize paragraphs 
• Create presentation 
• Practice!!!

December 16th

• Shark Tank Day!!!

Writing & Research: Middle school is at the finish line for their science fair essays! It has been a long road, and I am proud of how much effort they have put into this assignment. They have worked on adding a thesis statement as well as topic sentences. On Monday or Tuesday, we will focus on completing the introduction and concluding paragraphs. Then, on Thursday or Friday, they will finalize and make finishing touches.

Essays must be completed and turned in no later than December 12th.

Eligibility for WCMS Sports is pulled on Thursdays. Missing assignments must be turned in to teachers by 7:30am Thursday morning. Missing flags can be removed from the gradebook before pulling eligibility, but assignments may not be graded. Most of the time, they will be graded along with other assignments from the week.

Please remind your athlete that they are expected to check in with their elective teachers/classes for their make-up work, due to leaving for practice and games. Depending on the class, material may need to be self taught using the teacher provided resources.