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WELCOME TO 6th GRADE!
Please take a seat at your child’s desk.
NANCY MAGUIRE
30th YEAR TEACHING (2ND-HIGH SCHOOL)
UCI TEACHING CREDENTIAL
MASTERS IN EDUCATION
IUSD DISTRICT TEACHER OF THE YEAR 1992
PRESIDENTIAL AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN
TEACHING MATH 1994 and 1995
NOMINATED FOR THE DISNEY AMERICAN
TEACHER AWARD 2002
DISTRICT MATH MENTOR, TEACHER TRAINER,
AND CURRICULUM WRITER
WESTPARK SCHOOL’S TEACHER OF THE YEAR
2008
CLASSROOM ORGANIZATION
SCHEDULES
ATTENDANCE
WEB PAGE
CONDUITS
NO LATE WORK
BLUE MOONS
ABSENT WORK
TABLE POINTS, PIZZA PARTIES
HOMEWORK POLICY
90 minutes per night
15 minutes looking for assignment
11 minutes calling a friend for the assignment
13 minutes explaining why the teacher is mean
8 minutes in the bathroom
10 minutes getting a snack
7 minutes checking the TV Guide
16 minutes telling parents that the teacher never
explained the assignment
10 minutes at the kitchen table waiting for a family
member to do the assignment
Long Term Assignments are always given the night
before they are due
6TH GRADE MOTTOS
PERSONAL
BEST: “Never settle for
less than your
best!”
HOME COURT IS IN SESSION: Where people feel
encouraged and supported to risk and do their best, just as
they do if competing on their home court.
MAKE AN EFFORT, NOT AN EXCUSE: Encouraging
Responsibility
AIR: Accountability, Integrity, Respect
HOW YOU CAN HELP YOUR
CHILD:
Encourage
organization and responsibility
Avoid rescuing/helping too much
Be the coach on the side
Model thinking
Value learning
Expectations
FOCUS CHANGE IN MATH
IUSD is moving towards more blended
assessments in math because this is the
direction the state is moving. Our
students have become expert multiple
choice test takers and they need to
become more in-depth thinkers who can
handle open-ended, complex,
application problems.
COMMON CORE STANDARDS
The
Common Core State Standards seek to
better prepare students across the nation for
college and careers, raising both
expectations and achievement.
National Standards (46 states have adopted)
2014-2015 Smarter Balanced Assessments
Blue
MATHEMATICS
book/Green book
Hands-on activities
Teaching for understanding
Problems of the Week
Brain Book
Thinking
Transitional Year
6th Grade CCSS Math
Ratios and Proportional Relationships
The Number System
Expressions and Equations
Geometry
Statistics and Probability
STANDARDS FOR MATHEMATICAL PRACTICE
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Make sense of problems and persevere in
solving them.
Reason abstractly and quantitatively.
Construct viable arguments and critique the
reasoning of others.
Model with mathematics.
Use appropriate tools strategically.
Attend to precision.
Look for and make use of structure.
Look for and express regularity in repeated
reasoning.
Currently:
• 6th Grade Math
• Pre-Algebra
• Algebra 1
Common Core Math:
• 6th Grade Common Core
• 7th Grade Common Core
• 8th Grade Common Core
• Algebra 1
Current
California Algebra 1
25 Standards
7th Grade Common
Core
2
8th Grade Common
Core
7
Algebra 1
Geometry
None
10
1
5
ACCELERATION IN
MIDDLE SCHOOL
Common Core Standards for Gr. 6-8 are
comprehensive, rigorous, and non-redundant.
Acceleration will require compaction and not the
former strategy of deletion.
The previous models for acceleration will no
longer be viable, so that critical concepts are not
omitted and that the continuity of the mathematics
learning progression is not disrupted.
WRITER’S WORKSHOP
“Read
like a Writer.
Write like a Reader.”
WRITING PROCESS
PLEASE DO NOT HELP
WRITING KEEPSAKE:
HARDBOUND
ANTHOLOGY
CCSS: Argument,
Research, Narrative
LITERATURE
CLASS NOVELS
JR. GREAT BOOKS:
Collection of Short Stories
LITERATURE CIRCLES
TRIMESTER BOOK PROJECTS
Historical Fiction; Biography; Informational Text
CCSS:
Foundational Skills,
Reading Literature,
Reading Informational Text
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Vocabulary:
Classical Roots
Grammar: Easy Grammar
SOCIAL STUDIES
ANCIENT
CIVILIZATIONS
HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES AND
PROJECTS
RESEARCH SKILLS
CIVILIZATIONS PROJECT:
Big Book
Vicky
SCIENCE
Anthony
[email protected]
Science Website
HANDS-ON EXPERIMENTS
PARTICIPATION
REQUIRED SCIENCE
FAIR PROJECT: see samples
in the science room tonight
TEXTBOOK/Tests
OUTDOOR SCIENCE SCHOOL
November
20-22th (Wednesday-Friday)
Pali Institute near Lake Arrowhead
Parent Information Meeting:
Tuesday, August 27th at 6:00 pm
in MPR
Popsicle sales help pay
for the busses.
COMING ATTRACTIONS
D.A.R.E. (Officer D’Alena)
Leadership Opportunities:
• Valets
• Green Team
• Student Council
IRVINE JR. GAMES
MATH FIELD DAY
SPECIAL 6TH GRADE
END OF THE YEAR ACTIVITIES
(Parent meeting in May)
Volunteers Needed:
Conduits: Thursday
In Class Help: Clerical
cutting, etc)
At home jobs: Scholastic Book Orders,
project preparation
Special activities and fundraising
WISH LIST CONTRIBUTIONS
FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTIONS
(copying, stapling,
correcting papers,
Nancy Maguire
E-mail:
[email protected]
Phone: (949) 936-6428
No Perfume Please!
DON’T FORGET ...
Goal
Setting
CONFERENCE:
August 26-30
Note to Child
PTA support
Shoe Drive Fundraiser