What You Can Expect Next Week...

• End of Trimester
• Unit 3 History Project Presentations
• Vocab Unit 10 Quizzes Tuesday
• More Poetry
• James & the Giant Peach presentation preparations
• Volcanoes with Miss Hirsch
• Memory on Thursday - Choose one to re-take if desired.
• Coordinate Planes

Ask Your Child About...

• Engineering Week Activity
• Spring Play
• Is your history project ready to present?
• What is an ode?
• What is a haiku?
• What reading strategy are you studying in James & the Giant Peach?
• Stump the Pastor - What was your favorite answer?
• Earthquake structure building
• Measuring earthquakes
• Math Test

Earthquakes!!!!!

Sixth grade is currently studying earthquakes. We took some time on Monday and Tuesday to build some structures using gumdrops, mini-marshmallows, and toothpicks. Our goal was to build strong structures that would withstand a "jello" earthquake as well as a "springy" earthquake. I am happy to report that all survived. Take a look at some of the structures. They are quite creative.

What to expect this week February 22-26

• History unit 3 project work
• Poetry
• James and the Giant Peach
• Earthquake buildings
• Auction project work
• Stump the pastor
• Vocab unit 10 due

Ask your 6th grader....

• Which civilization is your group studying?
  
• What do adverbs do?
• What are you reading for your book report?
• What is the new novel in literature?
• How does stress relate to Earthquakes
• What are the three types of faults
• About Jacob and Laban and the twelve tribes of Israel