Welcome to Grade 6!
Weekly Spelling Words
100 First Words
Reading Link Harcourt website
Math Link www.classzone.com - (directions to access web site for math)
RESEARCH: Here are some links to sites for research: Reminder that clicking on these you will
leave the OakView website.
http://www.worldbookonline.com/kids/Home
http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/home
http://www.historychannel.com/
http://www.hyperhistory.com/online_n2/History_n2/a.html
http://www.infoplease.com/history.html
http://www.time.com/time/specials/2007/time100
http://www.biography.com/
http://citationmachine.net/
Science Units:
Models & Designs
Electricity
Voyage of the Mimi
Food and Nutrition
Light, Sight, and Color
Each month the reading skills teachers
will require students to read a minimal number of pages from the following
genre:
September
Realistic Fiction
October
Mystery
November
Historical Fiction
December
Fantasy/Science Fiction
January
Biography/Autobiography
February
Ethnic
March
Poetry
April
Nonfiction
May Classic/Newbery Winner, Coretta Scott King
Monthly Book Logs
100 PAGES = 80%
150
PAGES = 85%
200
PAGES = 90%
250
PAGES = 95%
300
PAGES = 100%
* YOUR AR GOAL FOR EACH TRIMESTER IS Determined by your leveled reading teacher.
PRESIDENTIAL AWARD
FOR ACADEMIC EXCELLENCE
2008-2009
During and all-school recognition program at the end of the school year, sixth grade teachers will recognize students who have achieved the criteria for the Presidential Award for Academic Excellence. These students will receive certificate and a pin.
CRITERIA
Criteria 1: Students must score in the 85th percentile or higher for the areas of Math and Reading on a nationally standardized test (NWEA test).
Classroom teachers will review NWEA test scores to determine which students have met this criteria.
Criteria 2: Students must receive a cumulative average of 90%, or a cumulative average grade of A on their fourth, fifth, and sixth grade (trimesters 1 and 2) report cards.
For meeting criteria #2, the sixth grade teachers have opted to use a cumulative average letter grade of A on fourth, fifth, and sixth grade (trimesters 1 and 2) report cards, and not the cumulative average of 90 %.
We decided to strictly use the letter grades given by the teachers on the report cards, and not try to "guess" as to the percentages which were used to achieve those letter grades. We leave percentages out of the picture, and used only letter grades, knowing that the Presidential Awards guidelines required an A average over 4 th , 5 th and 6th grades.
We examine the report cards for fourth, fifth, sixth grade (trimester 1 and 2). Each letter grade is given a number value between 1-13. An A+ value is 13. The "A" value is 12. Students must average a value of 12 (A) over 4 th , 5 th , and 6 th grades. An average score of 11.50 would be rounded off to a 12. An average of 11.49 would be rounded off to an 11. Following these guidelines, an "A" average must be achieved, therefore requiring an average score of 12 (or 11.50) to meet this part of the criteria.
This procedure eliminates the practice of guessing at undocumented percentages which were used to calculate specific letter grades for a report card, and then, attempting to calculate those percentages into a meaningful average to determine whether criteria #2 was, or was not met.
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