6th Grade Newsletter

May/June 2021

By 6th Grade Team

May 03, 2021

Heads Up!

On June 11 all school issued laptops will need to be turned into Dogwood for the summer.
If your child is attending summer school they will be given another laptop before their summer classes begin.
If your 6th grader has an instrument, please return it to Dogwood as well.

Students are using the school library databases to explore their research topic and question.
Students will create a final product to display their new understanding and learning about how their topic connects to our world.

Students are learning how to represent proportional relationships between two quantities.
Students are also using verbal descriptions, ratio tables, and graphs to determine if there is a proportional relationship between two quantities.

How is the unit rate of a proportional relationship used to find a missing value in a ratio table?
What connections are there between ratios and proportions?
How do you know if there is a proportional relationship?

We are learning about how the conflicts between the North and the South impacted people in those regions.
One of our learning targets is to explore the impact of key leaders and major battles/events of the Civil War.

6th Grade Updates/Promotion

Tuesday, June 8th will be virtual for all teachers and students. PLease have your 6th grader join their class through their meeting link.
June 11th will be our 6th grade promotion- 9:45-10:30 for in-person students, the assembly will be live streamed for parents and virtual students.
- Virtual students will have a drive by time to collect their end of year items and say goodbye to their teachers!
June 11th- Last day of school- 2 hour early release and laptop turn in

Every Monday students will log in at 9:00am to complete asynchronous work independently. Students are responsible for also submitting their own attendance using their attendance google form.

At the end of the school year ALL school-issued laptops will have to be returned to Dogwood. Laptops will not be kept over the summer. More details on drop off and collection procedures are coming soon.
Dogwood’s Tech Help Desk is open on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 9 AM to 11 AM if your child is having problems with their technology.

Ms. Crew	I can’t believe we’re in our last month of school! Our class has grown so much since September and I have loved watching them adapt through this tough year. The students did so well reviewing for their SOL’s. They faced them as brave risk takers, working together and communicating their techniques to help their peers be successful. Our class is already looking and sounding like middle schoolers!
Ms. Good	Students both in-person and virtual are doing amazing with participating in our lessons. Students have continued to thrive at being caring, and risking taking individuals. As we prepared for SOLS, our students were eager to share different test taking strategies with their peers. Students were put their reflection and open-mindedness skills to the test.
Mrs. Jones & Mrs. Miccio	Congratulations on making it to the end of 4th quarter, sixth graders! We are so proud of our class and the flexibility they’ve shown this year. Thank you for sharing your students with us. Good luck in middle school!
Mr. Whaley	Students are being reminded to complete missed work. Those students who have been face to face this past week seem to have adjusted quickly.