We are diving deep into Greek Mythology now! Mr. K and I are unleashing our inner nerds and we are so excited to share myths from around the world with the whole middle school. While the deep dive is not only about Greek myths, it seemed a logical place to start since they are most widely known.
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Please mark your calendars for the “Middle School Winter Concert”, which will be held on Monday, December 16th at 6:00 on Main Campus. We will have a rehearsal on Friday, December 13th at Main Campus from 1-3 pm. Students will be bussed to Main Campus and will need to be picked up at Main Campus.
6th Grade Happenings:English w/ Mrs. McFadden –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes- Friday spelling quiz – ch says /k/ in Greek words
- Played Percy Jackson Trivia
- Learned the myths of Medusa, Pan, and Prometheus
- Learned about idioms
Math w/ Mrs. McFadden –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes- Spiral Review Wednesday – Practice sheet on Monday
- Made Anchor charts explaining exponents, oder of operations, algebra vocabulary, and the commutative, distributive, commutative and identity properties.
- Reviewed exponents and order of operations. Played order of operations battle ship.
Deep Dive w/ Mr. K and Mrs. McFadden –
- Wrote an original myth to explain a natural phenomenon
- Used the wheel of fortune to pick “cabins” as in Percy Jackson
- Reserached the god/goddess associated with that cabin. Next week we are building the cabins!
Social Studies w/ Mr. Jividen –
In 6th grade we discussed the presidential transition period. We compared and contrasted past transition periods in order to understand what makes a transition successful.
Science w/ Mrs. Farris –
- Upcoming Tests/Quizzes – none scheduled
- Our grow tower is surviving but not thriving, so we’ll focus on understanding and improving its health over the coming weeks.
- To start, students learned about pH levels and practiced testing different solutions to classify them as acidic, neutral, or basic.
- Our tests showed that the grow tower has a neutral pH of 7, but we discovered our plants would thrive better within a slightly acidic pH range of 5-6.
Music w/Mrs. Chelsey –
- This week we learned our first section of “The Wellerman”, as well as figuring out who is playing uke, and tambourine. We went over the uke chords for the verses and beats for the tambo; it’s going to be a great musical piece!
- Our journal prompt this week was “ Describe how you feel when you listen to your favorite song”
Elective
- Coding – Nutcracker Ballet – An email was sent to all parents regarding sign-ups for the Nutcracker Ballet. Please sign up for a performance here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n9zMbqkHVC5MWuLtX2m6IShSoMvbeayohNxEuY101kg/edit?usp=sharing
- Adulting 101 – We have started a new trimester and we all know what that means, new elective! Mr. Jividen and I are excited to have our kiddos for Adulting 101. During this elective we will be taking a look at everything from changing tires to how to budget for a meal. We will also be taking a look at how to write a professional email and learning about stocks and how they work. We hope that the students will learn alot in this elective and we can help them navigate their way to becoming an “Adult”.
- Design- We dove right in on day one and had each student create a table using only a few objects- paper, pipe cleaners, tape and straws. Logan Huffs table won the “most weight” contest and there were some pretty interesting designs. We spent a class period learning about the design process. Ask your child the 5 steps in the design process and ask them about their groups idea for improving our middle school campus classrooms.
