All Things Graduation!

We are just a little over a month away from our end of year graduation! We cannot wait to celebrate all the great memories the 6th graders have made over the years at Timber Lane Elementary. 

To continue enforcing and reminding for classroom procedures, we have implemented a virtual ticket system using Class Dojo to allow students to earn points into the graduation party. Students only need two points to enter but can earn or lose points throughout 4th quarter based on their choices throughout the school days. Please reach out to your classroom teacher for more questions! 

We are looking for volunteer help/donations for the 6th grade party. Please use this link to help! https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0d4faea62da2f5c25-6thgrade1

Students will have a dress code for the Graduation Ceremony. Please reach out to students to show you the slideshow of examples on Schoology! Students should wear dress attire. No jeans, sweatpants, or hoodies allowed the day of the ceremony.

Important Dates & Reminders

• May 10- Math SOL 
• May 30- No School Memorial Day 
• June 10 9:15 AM - Graduation Ceremony 
• June 10 11:30- Graduation Party

Language Arts

What We Learned This Past Month:

Students were preparing for the Reading SOL this month and implementing the skills they have learned this year into their own writing project. Some students are creating cookbooks, graphic novels, comic strips, novels, and research papers. 

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

The last unit of the 6th grade year will be Persuasive Writing. Students will learn to build arguments and back their claims with evidence, debate with students, and write in a persuasive manner.. Language Arts will have one more round of book clubs to finish off the year.  

Math

What We Learned This Past Month:

Students are wrapping up the unit on proportional relationships and unit rates. Students made connections between various representations
such as verbal descriptions, ratio tables, and graphs. Students explored proportional relationships in practical situations by using ratio tables and also visually represented proportional relationships using graphs. 

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

Students are beginning the unit on data distribution where they will apply knowledge of fractions, decimals, and percents to the creation and interpretation of circle graphs. Students will also work with measures of center to determine how changes in the data affect the mean, median, and mode. Students will then learn how to use a line plot to describe mean as a balance point. Previous knowledge of other types of data representations may be revisited in this unit (i.e., bar graphs, line plots, line graphs, and pictographs) by comparing representations of the same data.

Advanced Math 

What We Learned This Past Month:

Students finished the unit on Probability of Random events. They compared theoretical and experimental probabilities as represented by rational numbers and connected those probabilities to the Law of Large Numbers.

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

Students will explore the volume and surface area of rectangular prisms and cylinders in large part through the deconstruction and reconstruction of those figures. Through this exploration, students will understand how the formulas are developed to generalize the relationship between the dimensions of a rectangular prism or cylinder and the surface area or volume of that figure. 

Science

Students have started the unit on Energy and its uses. Students will investigate and understand basic sources of energy, their origins, transformations, and uses. They will investigate renewable and nonrenewable resources and understand public policy decisions relating to the environment. Students will complete a Project-Based Learning inquiry asking them to create a proposal advocating for a new energy source to be added to to our community prioritizing clean energy and increased efficiency.

Social Studies

What We Learned This Past Month:

Students finished the New Nation Unit. Students investigated the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and The Northwest Ordinance. 

What We Will Be Learning Next Month: 

Students will finish the school year beginning the Civil War Unit. Students will learn about significant battles, important people, the conflicts of slavery in the United States, the role of women and African Americans in the war, and the impact this war left on the future of the country.