Happy Monday April 29!

Hope everyone had a safe weekend with the wild snow storm that arose!

Reminders:
Basic Facts Quiz this week!
Wednesday is mental health day- Please wear a hat!
LA PAT NEXT WEDNESDAY MAY 8
Perimeter and Area sheet (First page) due tomorrow!

Today we began our day with a huge review of the news articles the students wrote on Friday.
I marked all of the articles over the weekend and gave each one personalized feedback and tips for improving their articles. Each student was given their peers work to review and fill out a large peer assessment sheet. They had to analyze their peers work for well written headlines, facts, lead paragraphs, quotes and literary terms. After having their article reviewed, each student read through all the feedback from the teacher and peers. Each student then had to select one area of their article to rewrite with the new feedback. Students did an excellent job working to improve their own work and others!

After LA we moved into Math, We have begun to explore the concept of Area=Length x Width.
This concept is a review of grade 5 but with some grade 6 numbers.
I sent home a sheet today that I expect the students to finish the first page of by tomorrow. These questions are a review of grade 5 and we will be moving on with concepts and the rest of the sheet tomorrow!

Below are some links to help with learning area and perimeter:

Math antics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCdxURXMdFY

Math is fun: https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/area.html

In grade 6 we work primarily with rectangular polygons.

After lunch we moved into social!

Today we learned about the courts of Ancient Athens.
We learned about the roles of magistrates, jury's, defendants and plaintiffs!

We finished off our day with reading some articles about the roles of Athenian men, women, children and slaves. We will finish the workbook that is paired with the article in the next few days!

Have a great evening everyone.