South Canton Scholars Charter Academy

6th Grade

Weekly Newsletter for January 20, 2012

Calendar Counts January 2012

January 20TONIGHT! Winter Festival 5:30-8:30 p.m.

Wacky Wednesday Returns!

February 1, 2012

School Spirit
Students can now wear spirit wear to school on designated Spirit Days. Polo shirts, sweatshirts, fleeces, and even sweatpants can be ordered online at Heritage Logo works. http://heritagelogoworks.com (Look to the left for the South Canton Scholars link) The direct Link http://heritagelogoworks.com/in dex.php?main_page=index&cPath =13&zenid=08r9t0fepbo9pfli0uhi gm2040

School Requests

We are asking that you

please donate any used bottle caps to the school. These bottle caps will go towards a school wide mural. Thanks for your support!

Doughnuts Bagels Juice Friends Laughter

See you there!

We are now collecting

gently used uniform pants and white polo shirts. These donations will be used for students who have accidents and these clothes will also be available for trade-ins for students. If you have extra uniform clothes your children can no longer use, we will take them!

Moral Focus

Perseverance
This month our Moral Focus is Perseverance. We are all working together to try our best and to never give up. Language Arts
Biography Project Timeline Students will need to locate one online article, one book, and one encyclopedia entry on their person.
Adapt and change in order to overcome trying circumstances *Analyze how working hard affects the ability to achieve academic success * View setbacks as opportunities for growth and essential to the learning process *Complete complex tasks despite distractions and difficulties *Try new tasks with confidence and a positive attitude

College Ready
At South Canton Scholars, teachers are working hard to ensure that all students are college ready by the time they leave the eighth grade. This means that teachers work with students to provide challenging assignments, project opportunities, and enrichment. Students in the sixth grade are already on their way to being college ready!

Tuesday, January 17th (Mrs. Lee Due Thursday 1/19) Selected Historical Figure and one article about that person
Monday January 30th All Sources Due *1 online source *1 encyclopedia entry *1 book Week of January 30th Students will work in class on 10 research notecards Friday, February 3rd 10 Notecards Due in MLA Format February 6th-February 24th Put Powerpoint together Week of February 27th Final presentations Friday, March 2nd Living Museum

NHA Academic Language

This week Features select words from Math Absolute Value Function How can I Sample Words use them th Adjacent every 6 outside of grader school? Inverse should Scatter Plot know Bias Linear Function Scientific Notation

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

Vocabulary and Spelling This week marks Week65 in the Wordly Wise series. Students are starting to make connections between subjects by using their newly acquired words on a regular basis. Please encourage your student to start using these words on a daily basis in the proper context. Grammar Verbs Its what you do! All classes will wrap up their verb units next week. The final test will be later in the week. Writing Students will being using their collected research this week to begin writing 10 MLA style notecards. These notecards are intended to assist in the information gathering process. They will take this information and create a powerpoint to present to the class. If a student needs a flash drive to save work please see Mrs. Lee. She a donated collection of brand new drives to share with students. Reading Text features have been a huge part of this weeks learning process. Students have been using the various text features to analyze different sources from newspaper articles to websites.

SOCIAL STUDIES WITH MS. TEXTOR 92.ktextor@heritageacademies.com Students are continuing to learn about the citizenship of ancient Greece and what the Greeks valued in their lives. This week students will be focusing on fables and drama. They will be making connections to how fables were created in ancient Greek times and yet still told today. Each rotation will be put into groups and will have the chance to create their own fable. At the end of the week students will put on their original fables for the class as a puppet show using toilet paper rolls... so if you have any please have your scholar bring them to class next week!! Students will continue to learn about the drama of Greece and compare it to drama today. Next week students will continue their weekly current event articles. One article needs to be of their choosing, and the second needs to be a current event happening in Greece. This will occur every Friday.

MATH WITH MR. OWENS

92.bowens@heritageacademies.com

The Next two weeks mark the beginning of new units in all three rotations. Rotation 3 will continue to work on coordinate planes and formulas. Rotation 2 will complete their work on rational numbers and begin their coordinate plane activities. Rotation 1 has begun a new unit entirely devoted to operational fractions. Please be sure to check the website for the weeks homework assignments.

Remember to check the website at https://sites.google.com/site/mrowensonlineclassroom/

SCIENCE WITH MRS. LEE

http://mrsawesomelee.weebly.com/index.html

NWEA Testing
Almost Complete!

After a very exciting unit of taking on the role of engineers, students will switch their scientist hats and become ecologists. They will start this new unit next week with an investigation centered on biotic and abiotic habitats. Unit Topics and Standards The Living Environment: Ecosystems The Living Environment: Food Chains and Webs Continuing Skills The Nature of Science: Scientific Knowledge The Nature of Science: Scientific Inquiry- The Scientific Method The Nature of Science: Scientific Inquiry- Data Collection and Analysis The Nature of Science: Scientific Enterprise- Science and Society The Nature of Science: Common Themes in Science

As we start to complete the winter NWEA testing, students will be setting new goals for the spring. We tested once again in Math, Reading, and Language Usage. It is important that all students are putting forth their best effort each and every day in and out of the classroom. When they try their best it is reflected in both classroom assessments and RIT scores.