Team Dublin Weekly Update

ELA – This past week, students continued reading Tuck Everlasting. Students should have completed Chapters 5-7 Mastery Check in CANVAS. If they are not at that place, they should work on their progress over the weekend. I posted the full text on CANVAS as well and it is also available on Clever-Sora. This coming week, students will continue working on writing strong claims with supporting evidence. Students should bring in wired headphones to use in class if they have them.

The following is the reading calendar for CANVAS work completion and student pacing for the next few weeks:

• Feb 20 - Chapters 8-10 Lesson

• Feb 21 - Chapters 8-10 Mastery Check

• Feb 22 - Essay Writing Formative

• Feb 23 - Essay Writing Fine Tuning

• Feb 26-27 - ANET 2 testing

• Feb 28 - Chapters 11-14 Lesson

• Feb 29 - Chapters 11-14 Mastery Check

• March 1 - Chapters 15-19 Lesson

• March 4 - Chapters 15-19 Mastery Check and RCT 4

• March 5 - Chapters 20-23 Lesson

• March 6 - Chapters 20-23 Mastery Check

• March 7 - Chapters 24-End Lesson

• March 8 - Chapters 24-End Mastery Check

We wrapped up the week by giving our United Nations Simulation Opening Speeches (worth two test grades – Summ B/C). Next week, we will finish speeches, debate, and vote to decide how to spend our budget to better access to education for children around the world. We will finish out the week with a movie about some students’ trips to school.

Please note – if your student is absent, they need to arrange or ask about make-up assignments. Once I have graded all assignments, I enter ‘WS’ into ASPEN if it has not been completed/turned in. If your student sees any WS assignments they have already completed, they should see me or email me.

Hello scientists! This week, students wrapped up their unit on Earth’s Changing Surfaces. They applied their knowledge of plate tectonics and heat transfer and how those processes are involved with the rock cycle, types of rocks, and weathering, erosion, and deposition. Next week, we will be moving into a different earth system by understanding ocean and atmospheric currents. Students will apply their knowledge of how thermal energy from the sun unevenly heats the earth to create such currents. They will explore how land, water, and air heat at different rates during the Land and Air Lab and complete a Gizmo on convection currents.

This week’s Roots

Aqua = water

Think: cumulative

Cirrus = curl

Think: cirrostratus

Photo = light

Think: photosynthesis

Nimbus = dark cloud

Think: cumulonimbus

Keepers: angle, deci, semi, alp, morph, sed, gram, hydro, iso

As we move forward, we will be using devices in Science more often. Please remind your student that you support the rule that devices must be returned to their charging slots every day. While you are at it, please ask your student if more pencils or erasers are needed. We have had very generous donations for Science and yet the pencil supply can't keep up. Perhaps you find a stash of pencils under a bed? or in the bookcase? Please send in your extras!

Hello, all! Next week, 6th graders will take a break from ACCESS testing and will have a normal class schedule. In English Language Arts for Beginners, students will work on their reading comprehension strategies via two extensive reading assignments. They will also begin a new vocabulary study on 10 placement verbs. This work will culminate with a vocabulary quiz on Thursday, Feb. 29.

In World Geography for Beginners, students will begin their Unit 3 research project about a selected country in Asia. Students will engage in deep research about their countries and then create a digital book about this country using the Book Creator app.

In Beginning Literacy for MLLs, students have been making great progress in meeting their weekly goals for the online intervention program, System 44. They have also regularly been learning on the BrainPOP app, which allows them to practice their listening, speaking, and reading in English through interactive videos and activities. Finally, all students are now able to read leveled texts in English and they are really working on improving their reading lexile through the reading comprehension quizzes assigned for each book they read.

Join the Deal Battle of the Books Team!

Come to the interest meeting on Monday, January 29th at 3:30pm in the Deal library if you are interested in participating with this year's Battle of the Books competition in May! Teams compete with other middle schools in DC by reading 8 books selected by the DC Library Association and answer questions to win awards! The team will meet once a week after school to prepare for the competition. See more information at the link below or reach out to Mr. Reichlen if you are interested and cannot attend the interest meeting.

https://forms.office.com/r/CY3pKFEjAa

All Deal students are expected to be in class and ready to learn promptly at 8:45 AM daily. To help build strong, healthy habits and ensure that students do not miss instructional time, the 6th grade team is assigning tardy hall to students who arrive to school after 9 AM or who have established a pattern of late arrivals that are resulting in lost learning time. Students who are assigned tardy hall will stay afterschool with Ms. Watson, 6th grade dean, until 4:15 PM.

Ms. Wesselhoft, team lead - naeemah.wesselhoft@k12.dc.gov

Mr. Kirschenbaum - adam.kirschenbaum@k12.dc.gov

Mr. O'Malley - michael.o'malley@k12.dc.gov

Ms. Osman - catherine.osman2@k12.dc.gov

Ms. Patsalos - constance.patsalos@k12.dc.gov

Ms. Garcia - maria.garcia@k12.dc.gov

Mr. Memminger, 6th grade counselor - jacob.memminger@k12.dc.gov

Ms. Barr, 6th grade social worker - ellen.barr@k12.dc.gov

Attendance: For any attendance related concerns, including absence notes, please be sure to contact Ms. Stephens our attendance counselor at dealattendance@k12.dc.gov.

ASPEN Help: For any ASPEN related issues, including help resetting a password or accessing your account, please email Ms. Lerum at dealaspenhelp@k12.dc.gov