Sixth Grade
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SIXTH GRADE, SCIENCE, ACADEMIC DECATHLON
10 December 2019
SIXTH GRADE has a full week as we prepare for fun & academic events. We are learning to sing the wonderful hymn Silent Night in Spanish. Our girls harmonize the English version beautifully. This will be our presentation for St. Adelaide Academy's December 18th Christmas program.
We are attending Aquinas High School's production of Little Women this week. This introduction to the drama department should have many students wishfully thing ahead. Right now, the students are reading aloud The Best Christmas Pageant Ever," which has a wonderfully spiritual ending.
Friday is our class fundraiser. The students will be handling most of the preparation and sales. This is a wonderful experience in mental math and product presentation. Today we had a Christmas gift exercise with our preschool partners. Each student decorated a wrist band then exchanged their creations with each other. We are filled with Christmas joy and are celebrating the Advent season with the classroom's Advent wreath and our Jesse tree. God is good, all the time.
Blessings to all.
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15 November 2019
SIXTH GRADE
We enjoyed Bishop Barnes's visit. His homily was inspiring. He was due to visit the classrooms after our Liturgy, so we practiced greeting him in Spanish and prepared wonderful current event analyses to share. Alas, he was not able to visit us, but we enjoyed all the prep anyway.
We are looking forward to our trip to Aquinas High School to view the drama "Little Women." The following day is our Christmas class sale.
Students enjoyed comparing Ray Bradbury's short story "All Summer in a Day" with the film version. Their essays show considerable evaluations of the two, with individual thoughts and team discussions.
We are analyzing chemical versus physical change. The students particularly enjoyed the acetic acid and sodium hydrogen carbonate lab. Ask them about this. They were impressed.
Yes, we are enjoying sixth grade. Bless you, Saint Adelaide Academy!
1 November 2019SIXTH GRADE
Our website is back - yay! Sixth graders are wonderful students, always willing to learn new things. We've just finished reading the book War Horse. Students learned many things about WWI and also about life in the equine service. I enjoyed sharing my dad's pre-WWII cavalry experience with them. They got to handle my dad's crop. Ask them about it. The students did well on the Accelerated Reader test. The essay analyses showed me how much and how well they learned from this book. Caution: the movie with the same name is rightly rated PG 13. I would not show it here, but if you wish to borrow it, I have a copy.
Students are learning in-depth context clue scrutiny. They are also working with higher level figurative language. They call out examples of metonomy or hyperbole when we find in in our oral readings. Of course, everyone has fun with onomatopoeia, except for its spelling.
We've explored matter in science, including the fourth state, plasma, which is found in space and in a cool toy we have. Today they investigated the properties of Hydrogen in various household cleaning products. They will remember that the p is lower case and the H is upper case. Ask them. Monday we'll create the data charts together.
STEM FAIR
Most students have turned in project proposals. Now they are finishing their background research and sketching an outline of how they want to write their background report. This is due 6 Nov. Next, due 13 Nov., is the Investigation Plan. We will discuss Religious Values. Students will again use the bible concordances to find values for their projects.
Why so much trouble, you may ask? This is so your student also has a chance to win at school, county, state, then the Broadcom Masters, as our Seann T. did this 2019. He just finished a wonderful Washington DC experience, sharing his project with the other 29 national winners. We are so proud of him.
ACADEMIC DECATHLON
Subjects have been assigned, books and study packets are being distributed, and students are already learning the finer art of Logic. Yes, we have a team of dedicated, fun-loving academic students who will work their hardest to do their very best. Go Mustangs!
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St. Adelaide School Supplies for 6th Grade 2019-2020
- 1 – (12ct) #2 pencils
- 1 – (12 ct) blue pens
- 1 – (12 ct) black pens
- 1 – highlighter
- 1 – (12”) flexible ruler
- 1 – (8ct) long colored pencils
- 1 – (8ct) broad washable classic markers
- 1 – (200 pg) college lined filler paper (buy extra & keep at home)
- 6 – folders pocket only, one folder with 3-prong
- 1 – (7”) pair of scissors
- 1 – (80 pg) 4×4 graph paper
- 2 – boxes Kleenex (large boxes)
- 2 – large containers of Lysol type disinfecting wipes & 8oz hand sanitizer
- 8 – (70 pg) 1 subject spiral notebooks (wide) (buy extra & keep at home)
- 1 – white board pen
- 1 – white board eraser
- 2 – composition books
- 1 – pocket dictionary
- Simple calculator
- Binder with dividers
- Flash drive, low capacity
- Pencil box, small
- Backpack – wheeled ones are handy
Please ensure that your child replenishes his/her supplies throughout the school year.
Please be sure your child’s name is on all of the supplies.
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