Team Abuja Newsletter

ELA – Thank you for an awesome Week 1. This week, your student should be reading at least 20 minutes every night in an independent reading book. Your student selected a book in class to read. Your ELA supply list is:

• 1 Composition Book

• 1 Ream of Copy Paper [no lines]

• Copy of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred Taylor (By Sept. 9)

• Future: Copy of Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt (November)

• Future: Inside Out & Back Again by Thanha Lai (January)

Grade 6 All grade 6 students entering Alice Deal must take the i-Ready Assessment to be appropriately placed in a math class based on mastery of the standards.

Math 7 in Grade 6 For a grade 6 student to be placed in Math 7, the student must: a) achieve an overall score of Mid 6 on the Beginning of Year i-Ready Assessment OR b) score Mid 6 in Number and Operations with an overall score between 500 and 513 on the Beginning of Year i-Ready Assessment.

Math 8 in Grade 6 For a grade 6 student to be placed in Math 8, the student must: a) achieve an overall score of Grade 8 on the Beginning of Year i-Ready Assessment OR b) an overall score of Grade 7 with a Grade 7 in Number Sense and Grade 7 in Algebraic Thinking on the Beginning of Year i-Ready Assessment.

What a great first week getting to know your young geographers! We spent most of the week getting to know each other, the classroom, making compacts, and getting to know about Geography here at Deal. We made maps of the Continents and Oceans on Friday. They should be reviewing them over the weekend. They have also been given a Nearpod code to have some additional digital map practice (see chart above).

On Tuesday, we will assemble their class binders. These binders will stay in the classroom for the year. They need to have a 1” binder and 5 tab-dividers in class on Tuesday. We will then have time to do a short review and some videos. On Wednesday, they have a quiz on Continents and Oceans, then we launch Unit 1: Map Skills.

Hello scientists, and welcome to 6th Grade! My name is Ms. Sagan, and I am thrilled to be your science teacher for our amazing year of exploring Earth and Space Science.

For our first week, we will be focusing on classroom norms to ensure that all students feel confident navigating their way through the class in both physical and virtual spaces. We will also complete a fun first lab - The Gab Lab - which is designed to help students get to know their classmates!

As we approach the first day of school, all I need you to do is make sure you have all your science supplies ready by Tuesday, September 3rd (the day after Labor Day).

Your supplies include:

• one 3 ring binder

• one notebook

• 5 tab dividers

• pencils/pens/colored pencils

• pencil pouch/handheld pencil sharpener

• tissues

• paper towels

Thank you for a great week! Students will use map skills to identify the coordinates of cities around the world and neighborhoods in DC.

Hello everyone! Thank you, students and families, for an amazing first week of school! For MLL ELA, students will need to bring their supplies by Tuesday, September 3. Supplies include: a 3-ring binder, composition notebook, copy paper, and pencils. I look forward to working with all of you this school year!

This week 6th grade students will be visiting the library with their ELA classes for the first time this year. They will be choosing one book to use for personal reading and for their ELA 40 book challenge. I will be asking all students to be responsible with their books this year and return them in a timely manner. We do not charge fines for lost books, but I do ask students to donate a replacement book if one is lost and if they are able. Students should always come to me to let me know when a book is lost or damaged so that I can update the system and remove it from their record. If a student leaves Deal with overdue books on their account, they will be asked to pay for them before they graduate high school so it is always a good idea to let me know so that we can prevent additional expenses to families.

I will be sending overdue notices out once a month. These notices do not include the titles of the books as we want to protect the students' privacy. Students and families can login to their account in Follett Destiny (Can be found in Clever) to see more specific information about the books that they have out. Families can also reach out to me with any questions or concerns.

Our library book orders are going to be sent out at the end of October. I am asking students to send me any book recommendations that they would like to see in our library. Students and families can make book recommendations at the link below:

https://bit.ly/DealMSLibraryRecommend

In addition, families can refer to our library's website (aka LibGuide) for more information and links related to the library, reading, newsletters, research, and more at the link below:

https://bit.ly/DealMSLibGuide