Dear 6th grader,
It is almost time to start a new school year. Can you believe it? I hope you had a good summer. I hope you had time to go swimming, hiking, biking, and just time to relax. I hope you had time to spend with your family and hang out with your friends.
I am excited that this year I get to teach both 6th grade English Language Arts and Social Studies. I am excited to teach both because we will really be able to dig deeper into the work and have enough time in our day to do some very intriguing STEM activities. Examples of STEM activities are to develop your own Ziggurat marble run, mummify an apple, make your own Masada, create an ancient irrigation system, invent an ancient Greece chariot. I love to make history come alive and I hope you develop of love for Ancient history as well. We will learn about the Ancient countries of Mesopotamia, China, India, Greece, Rome, Egypt. Then end the year learning about the Middle Ages.
We are going to start a new ELA curriculum that will really push you and help you to develop the necessary skills to prepare you for 7th grade. The new curriculum will bring in different articles and readings that will allow you to relate to a topic a number of ways. We will begin learning about Steve Jobs and what he had to overcome to become the famous and successful "Steve Jobs." We will work on citing answers with textual evidence, supporting a claim, identify the central idea, dig into the point of view. You will also develop and strengthen your writing skills by writing many different papers such as a compare and contrast, narrative, and argumentative essays.
This year we are also switching the spelling program and will begin working with Words Their Way. This is a program that move with you at your pace. It is a proven program that will help you to strengthen your spelling skills and learn a word for your life not just for the test.
Well these are just a few of the things you will learn this year. I hope you are as excited as I am.
See you soon,
Mrs. Bonner
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