Please click on speaker icons to learn more about what your
child will be learning in 6 th Grade.
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These are books you may be seeing come home periodically.
Please make sure they are returned to school. The interactive
binder stays in my classroom at all times except for days when we
have a test coming up and it is needed for studying. Castles Fun
field trip in November CNN Student News - CNN.com
www.cnn.com/student news/
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Math Krista Thornley For information on the 6 th grade TEKs,
please see: http://www.tea.state.tx.us/http://www.tea.state.tx.us/
or the Allen ISD website
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This year in Science we learn a variety of Physical Science,
Earth Science, & Life Science! It is so much fun so the kids
get a taste of many different science topics. Students will use
their science journals to take notes and to keep up with handouts.
We have a new Science Textbook this year that is a consumable! It
is also completely online as well for at home use! Please see my
website for more info. How Can You Help Your Child At Home? *Ask
them to bring their Science journal home & go through it with
them! *Discuss & review the vocabulary words in their journals
with them. *Log on to the Online Textbook and read with them!
*Bring Science topics into your dinner conversation & have them
help you measure when cooking! Every little bit helps!
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~ Students use SpringBoard, written by the College Board ~This
year students will explore the theme of Change through their
reading and their writing. ~Writing skills are taught and developed
using mentor texts and other multimodal sources. Students will
experience creating written products using the writing process as
well as quick writes and other writing tasks to address various
writing needs. ~Integrated through the textbook are lessons of
language study, including academic vocabulary, literacy terms, and
word connections using context clues from Latin and other roots, as
well as lessons in grammar, and conventions use in writing. Reading
widely and regularly is one of the most important things your child
can do at home to develop their writing ability! Kathy Keim
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Percentile RankMinutes of Text Reading per Day Estimated Number
of Words Read per Year 9890.74,733,000 9040.42,357,000
7021.71,168,000 5012.9601,000 203.1134,000 101.651,000 Reading Teri
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