South Canton Scholars Charter Academy

6th Grade

Weekly Newsletter for February 10, 2012

Language Arts
Biography Project Timeline Anything not completed in Media needs to be completed outside of school. Powerpoints can be emailed to teachers or brought in on a flash drive.
Week of February 27th Final presentations Friday, March 2nd Living Museum

Calendar Counts
African American Heritage Month

February

Field Trips!
Chaperones/Drivers NEEDED! Check Friday Folders for more details! April 5th---Detroit Institute of Arts

10th Princess Ball

13th Bucket Filling Workshops

14th Valentines Day 15th Credit Union deposit day 17thNo School for Students 20th No School for Students 29th-March 12th Book Fair Looking Ahead to March
7th and 8th Student Run Conferences

Please Remember. . .
Students might not get any more Media time for their powerpoints due to scheduling. If it is not completed in school then it needs to be completed at home.

April 20th Howell Nature Center

Conferences are back!

Please stop by or to call the font office to sign up for your March Conference date and time. Teachers will once again be in their classrooms and invite you to join them and you child to discuss the progress that has been made this year. Students will also share their goals for the spring. Conferences are limited to 15 minutes a piece

Please email Mrs. Lee if you are interested in driving.

Permission slips sent home TODAY!

NHA Academic Language

This week Features: African American History Reading Passages with Mark Ups

Courage
Rigor at SCS
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 rigorous assignments, assessments, and projects. Rigor occurs when a teacher works hard to create an environment in which each student is expected to learn at high levels.

Moral Focus

Core Democratic Value

Assertiveness
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak . Courage is also what it takes to sit doen and listen.

Teachers take NWEA Test too!

This week, all of the 6th grade teachers took the NWEA tests in order to better prepare their students for the future. Teachers were able to finally see what their students see during the test. They were challenged, frustrated, and definitely worked on persevering to get through the entire test.

Letters of Courage
This week students have been working on writing letters to the most couragous person they know. Students have been going through thw writing process for this letter and will publish it next week.

ENGLISH LANGUAGE ARTS

Vocabulary and Spelling This week marks Week 8 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. Students have also stared to analyze the meanings of their weekly words through synonyms and antonyms. Grammar Adjectives Bringing Color, numbers, and descriptions to all types of writing! Students were introduced to adjectives this week and will more to adverbs next week. Writing MLA note cards are coming along nicely. Please see www.MLA.org if you need any clarification for the information that is to be presented on each card. Students can have more than ten! ReadingMark Ups! Students used Mark Ups this week to analyze historical passages based on famous African Americans and events.

SOCIAL STUDIES WITH MS. TEXTOR

92.ktextor@heritageacademies.com

tudents have wrapped up their study of

ancient Greece and are now traveling to the beautiful city of Rome. They will discover the land, the people, the culture and those who changed history.

Look out for new assignments and travels to

new places in the coming weeks!

Celebrating Valentines Day

On February 14th classes will be taking one half hour out of their schedules to celebrate Valentines Day. Students are allowed to bring in valentine cards store bought or homemadefor ALL of their classmates. If a student decides to participate they must have a valentine for each student in their homeroom class.
Students can also bring in treats for their homeroom class. There must be enough for everyone and should try to be healthy. There will be a flyer next week with name lists and snack suggestions.

MATH WITH MR. OWENS

92.bowens@heritageacademies.com

Next week, our math rotations will continue to make progress towards our goals. Rotation 1 will multiply and divide fractions and mixed numbers. Rotation 2 will graph linear equations and find ratios for real life scenarios. Rotation 3 will be working on rate of change and slope. The assignments will be posted on the website next week.

Snacks and treats

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

Box Tops for Education

Class Contest

SCIENCE WITH MRS. LEE

92.rlee@heritageacademies.com
http://mrsawesomelee.weebly.com/index.html

Each teacher has a collection box in their classroom for Box Top labels. There is a new competition for tops from now until February 17th and the classroom that brings in the most will earn a pizza party. Thank you to all of the families who have already taken the time to cut the box tops. We appreciate your support and time!

grade went on a field trip this week to the Mono Lake. They studied its organisms, limiting factors, biotic and abiotic factors, and worked hard to differentiate the between the four levels of an ecosystem. They will continue their field trip next week as they start to analyze symbiotic relationships within different ecosystems.
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

The scientists of the

6th

Jump Rope for Heart

Coach Morgan is heading up a fundraiser for the American Heart Association. Look in Friday Folders for more details regarding this amazing cause!