Zixth Grade

AIMS Assessment officially begins this week when we take the Writing assessment on Wednesday. Make sure to get plenty of sleep on Tuesday night and eat a good breakfast that morning. Drinking a glass of water before coming to school will also help your mind to be laser-focused for the assessment.

In addition to the Writing assessment, we will also be reading about the famous painter Chuck Close. The story of his life is almost as amazing as his painting. In Science, we will continue to learn about animals in their ecosystems and proofread, revise, and publish our work about owl pellets. Hold on tight, it’s going  to be busy week!

Objectives:

• Compare and contrast a person at two different times in that person’s life.
• Write statements of comparison and contrast.
• Read words with suffixes -ent/ence, -ant/-ance, -able/-ible, and -ate.
• Learn that many common words have their origins in languages other than English.
• Use a dictionary to find word histories.
• Identify and correct double negatives.
• Identify and write contractions.

Assignments:

• PB 122-123 (selected pages)
• Weekly Skills Tests
• Owl Pellet Essay
• RS 16-17
• AIMS Writing Assessment (Wednesday)

By Brian Scott

This week we dissect owl pellets as we explore organisms and their ecosystems. We’ll try to identify what owls eat by the waste they expel. We’ll also work to identify problems and solutions in several reading selections.

Objectives:

• Identify problems faced by characters in a selection.
• Evaluate alternative solutions and select the best ones.
• Read plural forms of nouns, including irregular forms, and identify the singular form.
• Write plural forms of words ending with f or o.
• Use sentence context to identify the appropriate dictionary definition of multiple-meaning words.
• Identify and use possessive and indefinite pronouns.
• Identify and write who, whom, and whose correctly.
• Learn how animals obtain nutrients.
• Identify an ecosystem’s energy source.
• Describe how energy moves through an ecosystem.
• Sequence: Look for the sequence of organisms, from producers to decomposers, in a food chain.

Assignments:

• Practice Book 107-119
• The Diet of Owls: Lab Report, Data Sheet, and Analysis

For those students who haven’t logged in scores from completed Practice Book pages, use the links below to enter that information.

Practice Book 23-37

Practice Book 38-52

Practice Book 53-67

Practice Book 69-83

Practice Book 87-101

Variations of Green by Giant Ginkgo

We begin two new units this week. In Reading, we read the first in a series of selections on doers and dreamers. This week’s dreamer: Jackie Joyner-Kersee. In Science, we zoom out from our cell study to examine organisms in their environment. We’ll answer the question “What are ecosystems?”

Objectives:

• Word Roots ven and graph
• Identify persuasive techniques commonly used in propaganda.
• Distinguish between statements included in propaganda that are supported by facts and statements that are not supported by facts.
• Read words with parts ven and graph.
• Write Spelling Words that end with /iz/, /iv/, /ij/, /ik/, /cher/, and /es/.
• Identify antonyms in sentences or sentence pairs.
• Identify subject and object pronouns
• Use correct pronouns in compound subjects and objects.
• Compare different climates.
• Describe how organisms interact in ecosystems.
• Explain how climate affects ecosystem diversity.

Assignments:

• Practice Book pages 87-99
• Chapter 1 Assessment Corrections
• RS 14-15