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6th Grade Weekly Overview!

April 28- May 2, 2025

Course

Teacher

Here is what’s happening this week!

ELA

Melanie Carpenter

melaniecarpenter@icimagine.org 

WOW! Our Hero’s Journey presentations were really impressive! The creativity, structure, and perseverance they put into this project was unparalleled to anything they’ve completed this year.

We will be starting a new unit on Monday on Teen Activism. This will be an informational unit, so students will strengthen their nonfiction reading, learn to properly cite sources, and summarize articles. We will focus on this for four weeks before heading into EOG preparation.

No Red Ink is a fantastic app that we’ve been using in the classroom for the first 20 minutes of every class. Students have been reviewing grammar, parts of speech, spelling, and sentence structures. This learning should be applied to any and all writing assignments. This app is also available to them anytime and includes thousands of mini activities they can complete at any time!

Math

Steven Sarnie

stevensarnie@icimagine.org

This week in Math we will be starting our biggest unit of the year, Algebra! We start with algebra basics in identifying terms and coefficients, but quickly move into solving fun, creative algebra puzzles. Instead of using variables we begin with emojis and icons. We have new vocabulary added to our Composition Notebooks.

Weekly Standards

  • 6.EE.7 - Solve real-world and mathematical problems by writing and solving equations.

 

Weekly Spiral Homework

Where It All Fits

Science

Andy Pond

andypond@icimagine.org

We will Continue our study of earth’s layers and Plate tectonics.  We will explore the causes of volcanoes and earthquakes.  As the weather improves, we will be taking time to observe and journal about the nature on our campus.

Social Studies

Robin Wilson

robinwilson@icimagine.org

This week in Social Studies we are continuing our study of Ancient Rome. We will continue our Julius Caesar CSI activity and begin the study of Rome as an empire.

Homework:

Assignment(s) and makeup work  that may need to be completed at home if not finished in class this week are:

Daily reading assignments

Notes on the Punic Wars

Spanish

Bethany Croese

**Casa de la Dentista nuggets are due next Thursday, 4/17** 

¡Vamos! Tema 4- Barriletes- ¡Vamos a Guatemala!

Vocabulario-

Va-he/she goes

Vive-he/she lives

Puede ver-he/she can see

Los días de la semana-Days of the week

Los meses del año-Months of the year

Los números 1-31- Numbers 1-31

Actividad con el vocabulario-

We will use a variety of games to help us learn and reinforce the vocabulary-Like playing a variety of games to reinforce vocabulary. La Cometa Roja is a story that we will be working with.

Canciones-

La cucaracha, la cucaracha

Los días de la semana

Los meses del año

Locura de Marzo-Spanish Pop Music Competition

***During Spring Break, if your student has not finished Casa de la Denista-Capítulo 2 in Sr. Wooly, they should be working toward that goal.***

PE

Coach Grey

Teamwork and cooperative games

AVID

Robin Wilson

Melanie Carpenter

Bethany Croese

Students are starting their second Genius Hour Projects this coming quarter.

This quarter, students are expected to reach beyond their “passion” and combine it with a community service project. Students will be presenting their final presentation in the IPAC to all our AVID classes the last week of school.

To understand more about the “Genius Hour”, please watch this informative video. 

Art

Nate Barton

This week we paused on our work with self portraits and photo realism so that we could focus and have enough time to create art on skate decks.

Please be aware that if your child would like to make art on a skate deck they will need to purchase one. They are currently available on the Infinite Campus and they are $15 each.

Let me know if you have any questions about this project.

Chorus

Melanye Crayton

Please refer to the weekly choral newsletter.

Band

Chelsey Montgomery

Jeff Tippins

We will be sending out a bi-weekly band specific newsletter that will have all necessary reminders and upcoming events for band! If you do not receive it, please email us so we can add you to our list!

Theater

Bryan Campbell

Important Contacts

  • Administration:
  • Counselors/ Family Support/ Questions about 504 Plans
  • Jesse Mitchell: jessemitchell@icimagine.org
  • Technology Support:
  • Contact Homeroom teachers for general questions.
  • Contact specific course teachers for course specific information.
  • Notes about attendance: attendance@icimagine.org
  • Exceptional Children: Laura Marsden,  lauramarsden@icimagine.org or the appropriate case manager