Week of March 14th

The 6th Sense

Important Dates:
3/15 Writing Assessment
3/16 Picture Day

Looking Ahead
Greetings to all those who read this document!

3/25-28 Spring Break

3/31 Historical Society
Field Trip
4/15 No School Teacher
Workday

The 6th grade County-Wide Writing Assessment will take

place on Tuesday. Students will be responding to a writing
prompt. This test has taken the place of the writing SOL in
5th grade and is given to students in 3rd-7th grade.
SPRING PICTURES will be WEDNESDAY! These pictures will
be both for individual and class photos. Dress nicely
please!
Pennies For Patients is this months outreach project that
students are participating in throughout the school Your
spare change goes towards the Leukemia and Lymphoma
Society to help children with cancer. Letters about the
project were sent home with report cards!

Student Section
Congratulations to our
Destination Imagination (DI)
team on their 1st place win at
Regionals last weekend! The
team will compete at the state
level on April 9th!
Pictured L to R Logan C,
Nichole H, Olivia J, & Skyler B.

Sixth Grade Summary

Math & U.S. History
M. Dickerson
dickersonm@floyd.k12.va.us
540-745-9410 ext. 1613

Reading Corner

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History:
We will wrap up our
PBA projects this
week and start our
discussion of World
War II.

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Math:
Our fraction operations
assessment has been
moved to Wednesday or
Thursday. We will begin
ratios this week as well!

English
S. Nelson
nelsons@floyd.k12.va.us
540-745-9410 ext. 1644
Sixth graders will take the county wide writing
assessment on Tuesday, March 15. We will
have writing conferences on Monday to
review writing techniques. Additionally, we will
finish up our study on mythology. Students will
have a test on mythology on Friday. The test
will cover Baucis and Philemon and
Medusas Head in the literature book. New
reading logs will be given on Monday and are
due on March 28.

5 Fun Facts about Reading:

Neighbors will never complain that your
book is too loud.
Knowledge by osmosis has not yet been
perfected. You better read!
Books have stopped bullets reading
might save your life.
Dinosaurs didnt read. Look what
happened to them.
Reading can make you a better
conversationalist.

Abibliophobia uh-bib-li-uh-fo-bee-uh
The fear of running out of reading
material.

Science
K. Thomas
thomask@floyd.k12.va.us
745-9410 Ext. 1631
This week we will finally continue our weather
unit study. We will become young meteorologist
by reading weather maps and working on a
project in which we will report on major
weather events!