Boomerang Newsletter • Grade 6A

May 26, 2023

Dear Sixth Grade families,

This past week was very special; We had a wonderful time taking your children to Miracle Ranch. We loved to see kids branch out to make new friends, and work together to problem solve. This was a wonderful bonding experience for our class, and has set the stage for 7th grade. The Wax Museum was also a huge success. Students worked so hard on this, and it truly showed in their speeches and costumes. We hope you have a nice, relaxing Memorial Day weekend. Students have earned it!

Homeroom Updates:

Kindness Challenge: We will continue to encourage our students to always be more kind than is necessary; to show kindness to ALL students by saying and doing nice things. We want every student at HRS to feel welcome and loved. With that, we want to encourage students to report things they hear or see when no adult is present. They will remain anonymous, and we will do our best to respond to the situation as soon as possible.

Curriculum Updates:

Math (Mrs. H):

Monday: *No school – Memorial Day

Tuesday: *11.3 Polygons

Wednesday: *11.4 Translations and Reflections on the Coordinate Plane

Thursday: *11.6 Dilations

Friday: *TBD

Math (Mrs. C): We will begin Chapter 12, Statistical Displays, on Monday. Students will learn about different ways to display statistical data.

Math (Mr. W): Next week, students will take the chapter 11 test on Tuesday and Wednesday. Then, we will begin chapter twelve, which focuses on Statistical Displays. Have a great weekend!

ELA: We will start our last vocabulary unit on Tuesday. We will spend the rest of the week working in groups creating a children’s book.

Social Studies: Next week we will be moving on to Chapter 28, The Persian Wars. Students will learn about the Ionian Revolt, The Battle of Marathon, The Battle of Thermopylae, The Battle of Salamis and The Battle of Plataea. Students will be learning the vocabulary for this chapter as well as completing reading notes.

Science: Students will finish their experiments using a model propeller-driven plane that flies along a fishing line. They will create graphs to look for relationships between different variables and the flight of the model plane over a flight line.

Religion: Students will do the Acts of the Apostles presentation. Then they will also focus their learning on the Seven Sacraments.

Note: Act of Hope Prayer is due on or before June 2.

Calendar Updates: