Welcome to Exit Interview Week! Your student has been assigned an interviewer and will defend their data notebook/ portfolio learning sometime in the next two weeks. At the end of the process, we'll celebrate by having a great day at Hartman Reserve. Speaking of which,
-If you'd like to hang with us at the Reserve on Friday, May 16th, just let me know. We'll find a spot for you! Whether it's fishing, canoeing, hiking, orienteering, grilling, or providing popsicles at Pfieffer park, we can use you!
-Student portfolios will go home with your student to keep at the end of the year. There are great artifacts in there to display at open houses in a few years!
A few reminders- Monday, 6th grade band members are travelling to give concerts to elementary schools and need to be at school early.
-The Variety show will be on the last day of school
Here's This Week in Switzer:
Literature- We are going to take a week to work on Genius Hour- where students decide what they want to learn about and how they can present their learning- along the theme of: Community. I'm excited to see what they'll create! Next week, we'll begin our final novels of the year.
DEAR- We are still working and testing over vocabulary. Encourage your student to read at least 20 minutes every night.
WIN- I posed a problem to the WIN group- how can we design a new Lincoln school to accommodate our growing population? We'll use the free iPad apps 123D Design by Autodesk to design the schools, and Augment by Augmentedev.com to take virtual tours of our designs. This task will take the rest of the year to complete! I am also bringing in Brad Leeper from Invision architects to talk about school design.
Math- We are beginning to look at volume and surface area, then will move into graphs and data analysis.
Social Studies- Chapter 7 test will be on Thursday of this week.
Science- The skeletal system is what the 6th grade is learning about this week!
Writing- Along with Exit Interviews and Data Notebooks/ Portfolios, we'll be revisiting our blogs and looking to expand our writing to classrooms around the world.
Family Living- We covered the growth of a person from infants to adulthood, and how and why puberty works. This included talks about the Endocrine system. We'll continue this conversation this week- be prepared for some heavy questions at home!
Have a great week!
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Matthew Switzer
6th grade teacher
Lincoln Elementary
6th grade teacher
Lincoln Elementary
