Calendar Counts!

Please mark these dates! October 2011

Moral Focus
OCTOBER

Dont forget to sign up to volunteer for lunch duty! October 3rd Book It! Starts

October 4th 6th Grade teacher run Opening Ceremony

October 5th Count Day (College shirt/jean day for $1.00) October 7th Spirit Day/Jean Day for $1.00
Throughout the first month of school students have worked to create Social Contracts in each of their core classrooms. These contracts contain information on how the students want to be treated by each other as well as from their different teachers. Each contract contains the word RESPECT. This month, students will dive into the meaning of respect and how it relates to us in our daily lives.

Attention Band Students and Families

Extra-Curricular Opportunities n Monday, October 10th at 6:30 PM

Soccer Games 10/4 4:30 Home Vs. METRO Volleyball Games 10/5 4:30 at Metro 10/6 4:30 Home Vs. East Arbor Drama Club October 3rd First Meeting of the year. AdvisorMrs. Lee 92.rmonsour@heritageacadimes.com Journalism Club See Mrs. Nati for more information Advisor: Mrs. Nati rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th graders For 3

Ms. Loock will be having a Band Information Night here at SCS. This is an opportunity for parents will have the opportunity to learn about the Band program AND secure instruments for their students. It is very important that they attend this event! **All parents of Band students should plan on attending this meeting. **Please contact Ms. Loock for more information and details regarding the meeting. 92.hloock@heritageacademies.com

South Canton Scholars Charter Academy

6th Grade
Weekly Newsletter for September 30, 2011
And the winner is. . . 6th Grade Students of the Month
Mrs. Lee Rubin Williams Ms. Kovacs David Filip Ms. Textor Mindy Zheng

English Language Arts (ELA) Students in sixth grade are continuing their journey through fiction with a study of the main elements of fiction. They are working on several short stories from their textbook that include Eleven, President Cleveland, Where Are You?, and Scouts Honor. Expect to see comprehension sheets that reinforce our words for this unit: connect, question, predict, visualize, evaluate, and clarify. Students are starting to explore the writing process this week. They will be focusing on the topic of Wisdom in their daily lives and working to complete a five paragraph expository essay. Science with Mrs. Lee
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Math with Ms. Kovacs 92.ekovacs@heritageacademies.com

Students will be finishing work on Unit 1 Whole Numbers and Patterns. Students will have a quiz on material covered in lesson 1-4 through 1-7 and end the unit with a chapter test. The next unit will be an introduction to algebra. Students will be learning about variables and substituting numbers in for variables. Our upcoming I-

I CAN. . .
I can... use number properties to solve mentally in my head. I can...substitute numeric values in for variables.

92.ktextor@heritageacademies.com Students will be wrapping up their tour of geography this week with a test on the five themes. They will then begin Unit 2, the History of Europe which will include visits to Ancient Rome and Greece. The Five Themes and Geography Location Place Human-Environment Interaction Movement Region I can explain the five different themes of Geography.

Social Studies with Ms. Textor

Our classroom scientists have completed their journey through the Scientific Method and Lab Safety as they finished their observations of meal worms this week. Students have learned how to work with live materials which will permit them to complete the next portion of their first observational lab. I CAN. . . *I can define scientific inquiry. *I can establish between a hypothesis and a question.

See Friday Folder for details on reading and earning your personal pan pizza.