6th Grade Newsletter

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Our 7th grade Character Council at WBMS and the AMMS Water Committee have already begun their grassroots efforts. Our goal is to raise $15,000 to help 15 villages with approximately 15,000 people in South Sudan through our partnership with Water is Basic.

To date, our students have raised $2,325. That’s 2325 lives changed because of student efforts ❤

Registration and t-shirt sales are now open for our 4th Annual Walk for Water, which will take place on Sunday, March 23rd from 2-5 pm at WBMS.

Below are all the links you may need.

• Register to Walk
• Buy a T-Shirt
• Sign up for the Village Market (*WBMS and AMMS students and clubs only*)
• Direct Donation Site

If you have a WBMS or AMMS student, please encourage them to sign up for the Village Market. We love to see all of the amazing entrepreneurs who practice CITIZENSHIP by helping make a positive impact on tomorrow’s world.

Hope to see you in March,

Lisi Berger, Jen Foil, Mary Liming, and Kathy Cook

Yearbook Staff is looking for photos in the following categories:

• Extracurricular activities (sports, dance, chess, etc)
• Family vacations/events
• Students with their pets
• After-school events (chorus concerts, volleyball games, etc.)
• Jr. Gladiator sports (all)
• Holidays (Halloween, New Year's, etc.)
• Spirit Days (college teams, etc.)

Please submit photos using this link (and bookmark for future submissions!): photos.jostens.com

Purchase your child's yearbook HERE before we sell out!

Look at the calendar below for the upcoming minors and majors for the next two weeks!

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Students have started Unit 5, our last unit of the year! These next two weeks the focus will be on:

• Characterization
• How a part contributes to the whole
• Impact of word choice
• Narrative Writing
• Comma usage

Important Dates:

• March 26th – Gladiators Field Trip
• April 4th – Narrative Writing Quiz (minor)
• April 7th-11th – SPRING BREAK!!

Students have started Unit 5, our last unit of the year! These next two weeks the focus will be on:

• Theme Development
• Figurative Language
• Impact of Events, People, Ideas
• Predicate Nominatives & Predicate Adjectives
• Phrases – Appositive, Gerund, and Infinitive

Important Dates:

• March 26th – Gladiators Field Trip
• March 27th – Theme Development & Figurative Language Quiz (minor)
• April 7th-11th – SPRING BREAK!!

Graphing Quiz - 3/28

Unit 7 Test - 4/4

Over the two weeks, we will continue our unit on Numbers and their Opposites. During the week of March 24th - 28th, we will learn how to graph points on all four quadrants on the coordinate plane. We will review and have a quiz on graphing points on Friday, March 28th.

During the week of March 31st - April 4th, we will learn how to reflect points on a coordinate plane and find distance between two points on a coordinate plane. We will then review and have our unit 7 test on Friday, April 4th.

Unit 7 Test - 4/4

Over the two weeks, we will begin our unit on graphing. During the week of March 24th - 28th, we will learn how to graph points on all four quadrants on the coordinate plane, as well as how to find the distance between two points.

During the week of March 31st - April 4th, we will learn how to reflect points on a coordinate plane and how to find area/perimeter of shapes on a graph. We will then review and have our unit 7 test on Friday, April 4th.

Quiz - 3/28

Test - 4/4

We have kicked off our new math unit on probability! Students are learning about the likelihood of events and simple probability before diving into theoretical vs. experimental probability. As we progress, we’ll explore independent and dependent events and how to calculate their probabilities.

To wrap up this portion of the unit, students will have a quiz on Friday, March 28, after a review session. The following week, we will revisit mean, median, and mean absolute deviation (MAD), analyze box plots, and compare data sets. The unit will conclude with a Probability Unit Test on Friday, April 4.

Please encourage your student to review their notes and practice problems at home. Thank you for your support!

Unit 4.2 Astronomy – New Unit

Friday, March 21 - Major Assessment: Tides, Moon Phases, Eclipses, and Seasons

Monday, April 2 - Minor Assessment: The Big Bang Theory, Galaxies, and The Universe

Please be sure to review your ISN notes, and study materials to ensure you're fully prepared for the assessments.

What We're Learning in Unit 4.2

This unit will focus on the vastness of our universe and our place within it. We will discuss topics such as:

• Earth’s position in our solar system, Milky Way galaxy and universe.
• How the universe formed and how scientific theories have evolved over time.
• The differences between the geocentric (Earth-centered) and heliocentric (Sun-centered) models of our solar system.
• Different types of galaxies and a comparison of Earth to other planets in our solar system based on size, atmosphere, and surface.

Get ready for an adventure through space and time.

Hello!

Students will continue their government and economics unit over the next two weeks in social studies.

Important dates:

• Government quiz: 3/25
• 6th grade field trip: 3/26
• Gov/econ test: 4/3

Hi Reading Families,

We really enjoyed our novel study of Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. We hope your student has told you about the book! Perhaps you’ve even been talked into going to the public library to get the next book in the 5-book series!

We’ll keep this momentum going with a novella study of the short book, Resist, by Alan Gratz. We will be using all of the skills we’ve been working with all year (characterization, building background, plot diagram, building vocabulary, comprehension, making predictions, inferring, etc.).

We’ll also develop new skills such as figurative language and summarization.

We will have our first quiz for this novella on Thursday, April 3.

Bonjour!

In French6, students just wrote (practice grade) and spoke about what they like to eat and drink at each meal. They also just quizzed over gender memorization of the vocab and applying the article THE to each word. This is such an important concept in the Romance languages. We are next practicing vocab for ordering food at a restaurant then preparing skits as though we’re at a Parisian café! (Major assessment)

I’d love to have students meet at a French café to put their French in action! Say, Douceur de France in Roswell Saturday March 29th 10a-12p! Please let me know if your child can make it. Then, I’m headed to the 2p High School Musical play with my daughter - hope to see you there! I’ll be there Sunday at 2p, too. Best of luck to my Frenchies in the play!!

This weekend Alliance Française in Roswell is hosting a short French films showing for ages 8-12. It’s from 10:30-12:30. There will be English subtitles. The kids vote on their favorite short film which will be shown as the winner at a later date. You have to reserve a spot, but it’s free! I think I saw that it lasts 2 hours. Please let me know if you attend!

French Club is Wed Mar 26.

Parents and students, please do let me know if you ever want to meet or have any questions.

If you have any questions about Latin, email mcelroyk@fultonschools.org.

Practice Grade – Family Tree Projects due Thursday, March 20th

Major – Tuesday, April 1st

Over the last few weeks Spanish students have developed mastery in using Spanish to describe their family members. They mastered the words for various family relations in Lingco. This week, they are applying their new words to describe members of their own family trees. The written descriptions include relationship, name, age, eye/hair color and personality, all in Spanish!

After describing their own families, next week they will be studying the Madrigal family in the Spanish version of Encanto. Listening with audio in Spanish, students will be provided extensive comprehensible input from native speakers. Their comprehension will also be enhanced by background knowledge of the family. Anytime students can experience a film in Spanish that they previously watched in their first language, listening comprehension is very high. We are pleased that our students showed mastery in applying Spanish to a family tree other than their own.

Please remind our students to practice 15 minutes a day with Lingco to nail down their Spanish vocabulary.

We appreciate your support from home, Ms. Brown and Ms. Santos