6th Grade Team 6D

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6th Grade Team 6D
Dynamic Academy
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Olivia StevensonMath 6/Math 7/SS

• Graduated from Cal Poly (Pomona, Ca)
• Taught
• California - 2nd , 4th, 5th
• Colorado 8th Grade IB 9th Honors English
• Texas 3rd 4th (Silvercrest Silverlake)
• This is my 16th year teaching and my 2nd year at
  Rogers, and my 2nd year teaching 6th. My first
  year teaching 6th 7th Grade Math.

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Welcome To the Dynamic Academy

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General Information

• Contact Us
• Contact Card w/QR Code
• Student Progress Assignments
• Skyward
• Teacher Web Pages
• Email
• Progress Reports
• Report Cards

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Web Page General Info

• Daily Operations
• Classroom Rules
• Expectations
• Discipline Plan
• Schedule/Lunch Times
• Contact Information
• Curriculum
• Homework
• Important Dates
• Tutorials
• TEKS

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Skyward

• Logging On
• Track Student Progress
• Missing Assignments
• Grades
• Attendance

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Progress Reports

• Moved to a 9 week grading period
• 4 Terms
• Progress Report every 3/weeks
• Report Card at the end of the term
• Paperless Reports
• Request in writing
• Failing Grades

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Advanced/Students

• Parent Support
• Partner
• Clear Expectations
• Quiet Uninterrupted Space for Homework
• Readily available reading material
• Ask about what they learned each day
• Help them cope with the change in rigor

• The Advanced Learner
• Awesome opportunity
• Independent Learners
• Motivated
• Time Managers
• Organized
• Positive Attitude
• Strong Work Ethic

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Homework

• Math is a subject in which homework is essential
  for knowledge retention. Expect your child to
  have homework every night.
• Most homework assignments will be workbook pages.
  If a student loses the workbook page, the
  student will be responsible for going to the
  textbook webpage (www.glencoe.com) or the link
  from my website (http//www.pearlandisd.org/webpag
  es/ambrol/) and printing out the appropriate
  workbook page. I will NOT have extra copies.

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Mini-Quizzes

• Mini-quizzes will be given over homework
  assignments. We will check/go over the homework
  in class the day it is due, then take a
  mini-quiz. Students may use the homework to take
  the mini-quiz and it will be turned in together.
  The homework will count as 20 of the mini-quiz
  grade. A full 20 will be given if the homework
  is completed (right or wrong) with ALL work
  shown.

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Advanced/Honors Math

• Students in Honors Math are learning 7th grade
  material and will be taking the 7th grade STAAR
  test this year.

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Tutoring

• Tutoring is available Tuesday through Friday
  mornings at 800 a.m. There is a Math teacher
  assigned for each day of the week.
• Tuesday Ambro
• Wednesday Bischof
• Thursday Flowers
• Friday Stevenson/Jordan
• I will see students for extra help at
  student/parent request.
• (I will email a pass when the request is made.)
• Tuesdays

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Website Access
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6th Grade Social Studies

• In 6th grade Social Studies, we study the
• geography and cultures of the world.

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Term 1

• Term ONE (August 26th October 18th )
• Geography
• Culture
• Government Economics (Including Constitution
  Day Sept 17th and Celebrate Freedom Week)
• Middle East (geography and religion of Southwest
  Asia and Northern Africa)
• Benchmark 1 October 15 18th
• Includes general geography concepts, and Middle
  East Religions and Geography

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Term 2

• Term TWO (October 21st December 20th)
• Middle East
• Western Europe
• Benchmark 2 December 16th 20th
• Includes Geography, culture, history and
  government of the Middle East and Western Europe.

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Term 3

• Term THREE (January 7th March 21st)
• Eastern Europe Russia
• Latin America
• Sub-Sahara Africa (Part I)
• Benchmark 3 Feb 18th 21st
• Includes Geography, culture, history and
  government of Eastern Europe and Russia
  geography map reading skills using Latin American
  Maps. 

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Term 4

• Term FOUR (March 24th June 5th)
• Sub-Sahara Africa (Part II)
• Asia (India, China, and Japan)
• Australia Antarctica

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Projects

• We will do projects approximately every 9 weeks.
• The Projects will be mostly done at home.
• Occasionally the students will go to the computer
  lab to do research.
• Some projects will be done with a partner others
  will be done alone.