Today the students will take a fraction quiz. This is the fourth quiz on adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions. Most are getting quite good at it. If your student is still struggling, try working on the IXL website. Students should have their login and password both at home and at school.
Today is ipad day in our class. Students will get the opportunity to work on IXL with the ipads.
No homework today. Have a great weekend!
Today is the final assessment for our section on volume. Students will be taking a part of the district common assessment. We will finish our Geometry unit in November.
Please encourage your student to continue working online at IXL.com. This website is a great practice site. A list of topics to work on was sent home, along with their login and id.
FRACTION FRIDAY! quiz tomorrow. Study your warm ups from the week and last week’s as well.
Now that MEAP is over, we are back to our regular routine!
This Thursday students will take a test covering the volume section of our district common assessment. We have been working with this concept for the past few weeks. A study guide will be started in class, along with a review activity. Both are due back tomorrow.
On Friday we begin our next section, which covers positive and negative integers, along with graphing in the coordinate plane and finding areas.
Thank you to everyone that has sent in rolls of tape!
Today the students took an assessment on the first Geometry standard for sixth grade. Tomorrow is a quiz on operations with fractions. We have been reviewing operations with fractions each day this week. Ask your child about being an expert in the field of fractions!
ISN’s will be collected tomorrow so that I can grade them. I will be grading this time on following the set up format, complete pages, neatness, and showing their knowledge on each page. A rubric will be used to grade the ISN’s.
Next Friday is the end of the marking period. Conferences are on Monday, October 28 and Wednesday October 30. More information to come on times.
Today our focus was on drawing triangles and rectangles/squares with the same area. Our activity will be part of the ISN. On Thursday the students will take a test on the first Geometry standard. A study guide will go home on Tuesday.
Students will be quizzed on warm ups this Friday. Each day this week our warm up will be focused on a different operation with fractions. The quiz will be 12 questions.
Homework today was practicing multiplication with decimals. The students need to complete the first and second column tonight.
Today we added to our ISN notebooks with information about the area of triangles.
Homework : Finish last two rows of 3 digit multiplication times 2 digit multiplication.
Yesterday and today were ISN days in sixth grade math. We finished two pages reviewing decimals, and two pages reviewing the area of squares and rectangles. Homework was due today and homework was sent home tonight to be returned tomorrow.
We played an area game with dice and graph paper, practicing the area formula.
Next week MEAP starts!! I will be sending home a schedule so that you can know what days your student is taking the MEAP. All MEAP tests are given the first three hours of each MEAP day.
WE NEED TAPE! Just rolls of tape would be fantastic. We have many dispensers that are empty.
Students can each 1/2 point for each wrong answer on their quiz by completing three steps. The first step is to check their work and make corrections using the answer key attached to this post. They must return their checked quiz on Monday to qualify for steps two and three.
Today the class took their first quiz covering operations with fractions. They will get their quiz back tomorrow, and will have an opportunity to make quiz corrections over the weekend. More information to come!
Homework tonight is to bring a picture of themselves to class for a project tomorrow. Also, finishing the Operations with Decimals pages in their ISN.
Tomorrow is our first quiz of the year. Students should study their ISN’s and their homework from the last week. The quiz covers adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing fractions.