Sixth Grade Growing Together
Posted on 02/26/2015
Despite a week’s vacation, February has been a busy month in 6th grade!
In ELA, sixth graders are exploring non-fiction, specifically in the area of social justice, by studying the civil rights movement. We are reading non-fiction texts to explore people and movements that have greatly impacted our world... from Gandhi to Claudette Colvin and beyond. Please ask your sixth graders to share what they know!
Our young mathematicians are working on our Ratios, Rates, and Percentage unit. They are learning to interpret information presented in mathematical data represented as ratios, rates, and percentages.
Sixth grade scientists are creating stop motion animation videos to show what happens to tectonic plates. They are modeling what happens to tectonic plates during earthquakes, mid-ocean ridges, and Tsunamis. The geology unit will wrap up with a discussion of renewable and non-renewable resources and fossil fuels. Students will engineer and test ways to treat wastewater in order to answer the question, "How renewable is water as a resource?"
In social studies students are learning about “Race the Power of an Illusion”. This unit is based on a PBS documentary that explores race to see if there is any scientific differences between races. Some 6th graders are surprised to what they discover.
Ask your sixth grader what they have discovered about the science of race.
February has been a blur with a week off and so many snow days. We look forward
to get back into our routines and the spring that can’t get here soon enough.