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Dear Parents & Guardians,


Reminders:

- Meet the Teacher is taking place between 6-8 pm (note the change in time).

There will be 2x 45min sessions and a short break before the second session begins at

7:00pm.

- Friday, September 24th is a PD-Day. No school for students. 


Welcome to Week 4 of our 2021/22 school year.

By now we are fully immersed in our learning in all subject areas. My goal is to focus during each blog entry on 1-3 subject areas in more detail to keep parents informed about our units, SLOs (specific learning outcomes), assessments and key terms/ skills.

Math:

This week we are starting to dive into the realm of decimals.

Decimals and fractions are closely related. 

In grade 6 students need to be proficient in decimal math up to the thousandths place.

0.892 = 892/1000

Today we introduced:

tenths - 0.1-0.9

hundredth 0.01- 0.99


LA:

Every week, I plan to have several writing component. Last week we did 5 sentences tied in with our current grammar review of nouns and adjectives. This week, students started journaling about Fall.

Our overall theme for this and next month is poetry. Tomorrow students will begin to learn about the various elements of poetry. Stay tuned for more updates.


























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