MATH

On Tuesday we will review the 15 questions from your Chapter 21-23 warmups and selected items from your Practice Exam. This Practice Exam was supplied as homework so you could actually experience and practice the kind of questions that will be on your Final Exam. Tuesday is your last day to ask questions about how to interpret a question or a problem. On Wednesday, during your final exam, I will not entertain any questions about how to interpret a problem or how to respond to a question as posed in the exam.

Your 90 minute Math exam will be on Wednesday: 6B at 8:15 , 6A at 9:57  

YOU SHOULD RETURN YOUR MATH TEXTBOOK AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EXAM PERIOD.

After you have completed the exam, you should clean out your locker and your file folder. You should also bring something to read in case you need to sit quietly.

SCIENCE

Your Practice Exam is your best guide to the information you need to be able to recall when you take the Final Exam. As in Math, the practice opportunities were given with the expectation that students would actually use the Practice Exam as an opportunity to practice responding to the questions. To use this practice opportunity properly, first give yourself the test: see what you readily recall and what you are confident about. Then,  based on what you do not recall or are not confident about, use the practice questions as a prompt for what to look up and read over in your text. 

Your 90 minute Science exam will be on Thursday: 6B at 8:15; 6A at 9:57

Mrs. Foster will administer the Final Exam for me because I will be observing a High School Math teacher on Thursday morning. No questions about how to interpret a question on the exam will be entertained during the exam. Tuesday is your last day for inquiring about how to interpret a question or how to respond to a prompt.

YOU SHOULD RETURN YOUR SCIENCE TEXTBOOK AT THE BEGINNING OF THE EXAM PERIOD. After you have completed your exam, you should clean out your locker and your file folder.

FRIDAY

On Friday 6B all homeroom students will have assigned clean-up tasks. Students who are not going to be in school on Friday should inquire what they can do to help clean up on Thursday.

Construction in Progress

              As represented in the character Bob-the-Builder, the theme for this year is “Construction In Progress.” In Sixth Grade Math & Science we will use this theme to remind us that 11 , 12, and 13 year-old boys and girls are entering a phase of rapid and important growth. Like Jesus in the temple at age 12, these young men and women of the Upper School can and will begin to behave like adults.  

As one of their teachers, I plan to provide these students with many opportunities to shoulder real responsibility as a kind of construction zone for them. Much of this “heavy lifting” will occur with regard to doing academic assignments correctly, on time, neatly and efficiently. But I also look forward to observing and helping with the construction of these our youngest adults in our labs and during projects, on field trips, at meals, in the gym and on the playing field.

Sincerely,

Charlie Sneed

Sixth Grade Math & Science