Homework

• Work for 4/8:

  SS/ELA Combined Current Events Assignment for Wednesday, 4/8 - See assignment posted in Teams assignments

  6th Grade Team Perspective

• Assignments for March 30 - April 3

  Note: Monday morning, we will be holding optional check-in meetings on Zoom with students. An assignment has been created in Teams with a schedule for students to follow and a link to use to connect with us during your meeting time. Please check Teams assignments for more information!

  ELA (Grossman/Smythe): see this week's ELA assignments in Teams

  ELA and Math (Rekow)- Your assignments are in One Note.  We will have a Zoom at 9:30 am 3/31 to 4/3.  Check your  One Note to be sure you have all of your materials assembled and ready to go before the Zoom starts! 

  SS (Grossman): see this week's social studies assignments in Teams

  Math (Loeb/Smythe): see this week's math assignments in Teams

  Science (Loeb): see this week's science assignments in Teams

  6th Grade Team Perspective

• Friday Morning Zoom Meeting Announcement

  This Friday, 4/3, we want to hold four Zoom meetings to check in with everyone! If your time does not work for your schedule, please jump in on another time!! If you can't make any of the times, please feel free to reach out to us through the call/chat tools between 10:15 and 11:00 on Friday to say hi! Please look closely at the schedule below. The groups are the same, but the times of the meetings are different than on Monday!

  Here is the schedule for our FRIDAY morning Team Perspective Check-in Zoom Meeting:

  9:00 AM to 9:15 AM: Science Period 8: First half of alphabet by last name (Arefieg to Kelly)

  9:20 AM to 9:35 AM: Science Period 8: Second half of alphabet  by last name (Kempa Nussbaumer to Zaken)   

  9:40 AM to 9:55 AM: Science Period 9: First half of alphabet by last name (Berg-Mueller to Milich)

  10:00 AM to 10:15 AM: Science Period 9: Second half of alphabet by last name (Oram to Yoon)

  The link for this meeting can be found in your Teams assignments.

  6th Grade Team Perspective

• Assignments for Friday, March 27, 2020

  TGIF!  YOU made it through a whole week of distance learning!  We are proud of all of you who are stepping up to this new way of  instruction, learning, and sharing your knowledge with us!  It is a very fast learning curve for all of us!  Please remember to reach out to your teachers if you have any questions or concerns about any of our assignments: we are available to chat or conference on Teams from 9-11 AM! 

  ELA (Grossman / Smythe): A Long Walk to Water chapter 4, 5, and 6 assignment (posted in Teams)

  SS: No new assignment today. Please complete your section 2 notes and submit them through Teams if you have-not yet done so.

  Math (Loeb/Smythe)- Complete pearsonrealize.com Lesson 6-5 Quiz- show all work on paper and submit your work in Teams Assignments

  Science: Complete Building Pangaea and submit your finished Student Exploration and CER in Team assignments

  Math (Rekow) - Your assignments are in One Note Math Notebook.  

  ELA (Rekow)- Your assignments are in One Note ELA Notebook.  

  6th Grade Team Perspective

• Assignments: Thursday, March 26, 2020

  ELA (Grossman / Smythe): A new ELA assignment has been posted in Teams. There is a form attached to the assignment for you to complete when you have finished.

  SS (Grossman): Please complete the Greece, section 2 notes assignment that is due today. The assignment directions are posted in Teams.

  Math (Rekow)- in One Note Notebook

  Math: (Loeb/Smythe)- there will be a quiz on Friday on this week's work, so make sure you ask questions in Math chat this morning if you need some review!

  1. Log in to pearsonrealize.com & watch Virtual Nerd: How do you use a proportion to find what percent a part is of a whole?

  2. On pearson, complete 6-5 Math XL for school Practice and Problem solving- click on Question help in the upper right corner of the screen if you'd like to see an example or watch a video tutorial. Do you work for each of the questions on paper to submit in Team assignments

  3. Review any missed problems

  ELA (Rekow)- in One Note Notebook

  Science- Continue working on Building Pangaea- remember to screenshot each map and save them into a document in the assignment tab as you go- these maps will be important for your CER on Friday

   

  6th Grade Team Perspective

• Assignments: Wednesday, March 25, 2020

  ELA (Grossman / Smythe): Finish completing the Sudan/South Sudan note sheet assignment that was posted in Teams yesterday. I have provided several links with this assignment to help you get started if you have not started yet. I am available on Teams from 9-10:30 AM this morning if you have questions or need help. 

  SS (Grossman): I have posted a new assignment in Teams called NEW SS Assignment GREECE Section 2 Notes. Please read the directions and review the scoring rubric before beginning. I have included a note sheet you may use, but I encourage you to experiment with taking notes in your own way! I am available on Teams from 9-10:30 AM this morning if you have questions or need help. 

  ELA (Rekow)- Your assignments are in your One Note Notebook.  Log in to get the link for our Zoom meeting! 

  Math: (Loeb/Smythe)-

  1.Complete/ refine work based on feedback on Lesson 6-5 if necessary

  2. Complete IXL Skill S.6  - show work on paper & submit in Teams assignments : be sure to use the process demonstrated in Lesson 6-5- work for 20-30 minutes on this, remember quality over quantity with this skill!

  Math: (Rekow)- Your assignments are in your One Note Notebook.  Log in to get the link for our Zoom meeting! 

  Science: You should be well underway with your Building Pangaea Gizmo as you should begin work on your Claim by Thursday to be able to refine and hand in on Friday- See Teams Assignments and make sure you ask questions during Team confering hours of 9-10:30 AM if necessary.

  6th Grade Team Perspective

• Assignments: Tuesday, March 24th

  Office Hours: All Team Perspective teachers will be online and available to respond to questions between the hours of 9 and 11 AM today. Please reach out through Teams if you need to be in touch. If you are unsure how to do so through Teams, please use email. We look forward to helping you with any question or concerns you may have!

  ELA (Grossman / Smythe): A new assignment has been posted for you in you Teams Assignments. Please read all directions carefully.  If you are unable to access the assignment on Teams, please email me to let me know.

  SS: Read Greece, Section 2 (you do not need to take notes at this time - just be sure to read the entire section)

   

  6th Grade Team Perspective

• Assignments: Monday, March 23

   

  Office Hours: All Team Perspective teachers will be online and available to respond to questions between the hours of 9 and 11 AM today. Please reach out through Teams if you need to be in touch. If you are unsure how to do so through Teams, please use email. We look forward to helping you with any question or concerns you may have!

  ELA (Grossman / Smythe): Please use today to finish writing the two responses that are due by 3 PM this afternoon if you have not yet done so. See last week's directions if you are unsure of what to do. 

  SS (Grossman): Please use today to finish your Greece, section 1 notes that are due by 3 PM this afternoon. See last week's directions if you are unsure of what to do. 

  ELA (Rekow) -in One Note Notebook 

   

  Math (Rekow)- in One Note Notebook 

  Math (Loeb/ Smythe)- Lesson 6.5- Find the Percent of a Number

  1. Go to the Loeb- Smythe Math Channel in Teams, go to Files and select the 6-5 Whiteboard lesson 

  2. After watching the model problem, complete problems # 4, 6, 8 and 11 on p.364 and #'s 15 -16 on p. 365 in your Envisions book using the modeled process. If you forgot to take your Envisions book home, you can access the lesson pages on pearsonrealize.com and just recopy the problems from the online version into your notebook or solve on a piece of looseleaf to submit in Teams.

  3. Take a picture of your work and submit it in the Math Lesson 6.5 assignment in Teams

  Science Assignments for the Week of 3/23-3/27

  This week we will continue learning about Slow Changes to Earth's surface as we take a virtual “look” way back in time.  Work at your own pace through the activities- the work is due by Friday, 3/27 at 3:00 PM, but you are welcome to submit work to me ahead of that so that I can give you feedback. 

  1. Sign into Teams using your Microsoft outlook account & go to Team Perspective Assignments in the General Channel

       Read and preview the Building Pangaea vocabulary document attached in the assignment in Teams

   2. Login to your explorelearning.com account to access the Gizmo that I have added to your classes, called “Building  Pangea”. https://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspView&ResourceID=633

  reminder: we did two explore activities already in school- you login with your normal school credentials hat you use for everything.

   3. Remember to stop and take screenshots & label your work as you are guided when you build Pangaea in the Gizmo- upload them to  assignments. Directions have been added to the distance learning information block below for you to upload work into Teams for those of you who are still having trouble.  

   4. Complete the Student Exploration sheet by editing your copy using the attachment Building Pangaea SE document in Teams or your can print it and take a picture to upload into assignments if you prefer to handwrite your responses.

   5. . Make a claim about how the fossil evidence supports the existence of Pangaea using the document linked in Teams: ExploreLearning_LM- see the CER rubric for grading to remind yourself of the  criteria for a CER

  6th Grade Team Perspective

• Thursday, March 19, 2020

  Hi guys!  We are so impressed by the work we have seen from so many of you already!  We hope you are all adjusting to the new norm for learning.  Reminder- we are hoping many of you will join us for a Team Perspective video chat this morning between 10 and 10:30!  Go to Teams and you should be able to just click on your icon in the chat to join.  Mr. Grossman, Mrs. Loeb, Ms Smythe and Mrs. Rekow will all be there and we're looking forward to seeing all of your smiles and hearing how you're doing! 

  Math (Loeb/Smythe)- Go to the Teams link for math under resources or go right to Teams through your email and select the Math channel on the left side bar.  Watch the two whiteboard review lessons for Lesson 6-3, then go to pearsonrealize.com and complete Lesson 6-3 Math XL for School- additional practice assignment- note on the upper right corner of the screen there is a button for Question Help, which has options for support if you need it- you can watch a "Virtual Nerd" video or watch them do an example problem if you get stuck.  email Mrs. Loeb or Ms Smythe if you have any questions about any of the review material completed this week so we can follow up with you before we move onto new material!

  ELA (Rekow) - #1) complete the 4th page in the multi-meaning words packet.  Email Mrs. Rekow a picture.  If you did not email the 3rd page yesterday, email that also!!

  #2) Spend 20 minutes on Read 180/System 44

  #3) Answer the question in the One Note Notebook March Classwork Folder for March19th 

  Math (Rekow) - #1) Spend 20-30 minutes on the iReady Math diagnostic that you started last week.  Work independently.

                                   #2) Complete 10 more one-step equations.  

                                  Email Mrs. Rekow a picture.  If you did not email a picture of yesterday’s 10 equations, email it today!!  

  Science- I have assigned you your next Scavenger hunt- looking for slow changes to Earth's surface today- in Teams and have attached a video link and vocabulary preview- you can upload your pics onto the powerpoint link I attached in Teams this time!  It was so awesome seeing all of your wonderful observations of Earth's systems on Wednesday!! :)

  SS: Notesheet has been added to Team assignments- reminder Due MONDAY- see Wednesdays assignment for details

  ELA (Grossman/Smythe)- See Wednesday for assignment- due Monday

  6th Grade Team Perspective

• Wednesday, March 18, 2020

  Hi Team Perspective!  We hope you are all doing well!  We will post your assignments here every day. 

  For each subject we will give you directions and links to access your materials. 

  We are going to be available for you for Team chat time between the hours of 9-11 AM every day.  To access this sign into your Outlook account and select the Teams icon from the waffle.  Go to our Team perspective page and click chat on the left sidebar.  Click the JOIN button on the upper right side of the screen. Feel free to check in, and ask any questions you have about your assignments. 

  On another note- see Mr. Swiatowicz's email regarding gathering materials from school- if you were out on Thursday when we brought our math books home it may be helpful to check that schedule for getting materials from school so you can go in to pick it up. Since we will be out for the next week at least, we plan to move forward with our Math lessons.  It would be beneficial to have your Envisions books at home. 

  Math (Loeb/Smythe)- Click on the first link under Math resources  which will take you to the Math channel on Teams.  Select the video link for 6.2 Decimals/Fractions/Percents.  Select the video then do the pearsonrealize.com assignment Lesson 6.2 Math XL Additional practice- feel free to refer back to the video 

  ELA (Grossman/Smythe)-  Read for a half hour in your IR book every day- if you're reading a fiction book see link for Responding to your IRB under ELA resources and complete 2 different thorough responses using the link to the ELA channel in Teams found under ELA resources- don't forget to save it using your name/response # 1 or #2. If you're reading a non-fiction book, take notes in your sketch pad as you are reaeding and submit that as your response using directions above- due Monday

  ELA (Rekow) - Complete the third page of the Multi-meaning words packet.  Email Mrs. Rekow a picture. 

  Spend 20-25 minutes on System 44 at:  https://h100000958.education.scholastic.com/ScholasticCentral  

  Math (Rekow)- Complete 10 more one-step equations on your sheet.  Email picture. 

  Spend 20-25 minutes working on the iReady diagnostic you started last Thursday (use scrap paper and work independently. Your green post-it note has log in information).

  SS- Due by Monday: Read Greece section 1 and complete notes on all of section 1 using Mr. Grossman's notesheet found under SS resources or create your own- take a picture of your work and upload it to the SS channel on our Teams page- linked under SS Resources. Here is an optional video link you can watch as well: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLFp3dswToU

  Science- Click on the link for Science Team page under Science Resources and under Files open the folder for Earth's Spheres.  Review the powerpoint on Earth's spheres, then go outside  for an Earth's spheres scavenger hunt using the attached list. Use your phone or device to take pictures of your findings - you can either download your pictures into your science notebook in Teams or  feel free to email your pics!  If you can't take pictures write me a description of the items.  Have fun & enjoy the beautiful weather while we have it!!  

  6th Grade Team Perspective