Baby Pictures for 6th Grade Bulletin Board

Families,

We are collecting baby pictures of all 6th graders to celebrate their final year at Timber Lane Elementary. Please help us ensure all students are represented by sending us a baby picture of your child.  Pictures can be sent to [email protected]  Please include your child’s name in the email so we know whose picture it is.   

The 6th Grade Team

Important Dates & Reminders

6^th Grade Field Trips

1. February 15: George Mason University
2. March 7th: National Gallery of Art in Washington DC 
3. June 7th: Camp Highroad in Middleburg, Va

Student Holiday

February 20 President's Day

Language Arts

What we learned this past month:

• Students have been learning the elements of poetry and discussing the meaning behind various poems: 
• Readers respond to poetry through performance, art, and writing in order to express their thoughts about a poem. 
• Through multiple readings, readers analyze the effects of poetic devices in a variety of poetic forms (rap, musicals, lyrics, novels written in verse). 
• Writers deliberately choose poetic tools to reveal images, evoke feelings, and produce sound.

What we will be learning in next month:

Next month, students will be entering their Content Area Research Unit, where they will conduct research about a social studies/science topic of their choice. 

• Researchers engage in a process of inquiry to ask and seek answers to compelling questions.
• Researchers synthesize information across multiple texts and experiences in order to construct emerging understandings. 
• Researchers collaborate and discuss to seek new ideas or clarify unresolved questions.

Math

What we learned this past month:

Unit 5 Coordinate Plane & Congruence

Students learned about congruence of segments, angles and polygons. As this unit continues, students will explore graphing polygons on a coordinate plane. Students will also determine congruence of segments, angles, and polygons.

What we will be learning next month:

Unit 6: Expressions, Equations, and Inequalities 

To develop an understanding of and fluency with multiplication and division of fractions, decimals and integers. How does the content emphasis come to life in this unit? In this unit, students will work with variables, write expressions, solve expressions, solve one-step linear equations and inequalities, and graph inequalities on a number line.

Advanced Math 

What we learned last month:

This past month, students learned to…

•  evaluate algebraic expressions for given replacement values of the variables.
•  solve two-step linear equations in one variable, including practical problems that require the solution of a two-step linear equation in one variable.
• solve one- and two-step linear inequalities in one variable, including practical problems, involving addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, and graph the solution on a number line

What we will be learning next month:

Next Month we will begin Quarter 3 and begin to..

• Graph points and lines on coordinate planes
• Determine the slope, m, as rate of change in a proportional relationship between two quantities and write an equation in the form y = mx to represent the relationship
• Graph a line representing a proportional relationship between two quantities given the slope and an ordered pair, or given the equation in y = mx form 
• Determine the y-intercept, b, in an additive
• relationship between two quantities

Science

What we learned this past quarter:

Students learned… 

• weather vocabulary
• that weather is predictable and presented in a variety of formats
•  the difference between greenhouse effect, global warming, and climate change
• air pressure and temperature changes in the layers of the atmosphere 
• the role of a convection current in the atmosphere 
• what fronts and air pressure system symbols mean on weather maps 
• the weather associated with fronts and pressure systems

What we will be learning next month:

After social studies, students will spend the fourth quarter engaging in Water and Energy units.

Social Studies

What we learned last month:

Students learned about the 13 colonies and the American Revolution: 

• The student will understand and make connections between the issues of dissatisfaction that led to the American Revolution and the political and economic relationships between the colonies and Great Britain
• The student will determine the economic relationships between the New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies as a result of their geographical location 
• The student will describe specialization of and interdependence among New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern colonies

What we will be learning next month:

Students will be learning about the development of the United States of America.

• Explain the outcomes of the first Constitution of the United States
• Describe the historical development of the Constitution of the United States. 
• Evaluate territorial expansion and how geographic and economic factors influenced the westward movement of settlers. 
• Analyze the cause and effect relationships of westward expansion and its impact on American Indians