We've concluded our Earth History Unit in science.  The students wrapped up the unit with research and presentations on an era in geologic time.  The students worked in small groups to conduct research and create a poster to display the facts and events that occurred during their geologic time period.  Our next science unit will focus on explorations and investigations in heat and energy.

In math, we've completed our unit on decimal place value and operations, and we will continue to use these concepts throughout the year.  Our next unit will focus on divisibility rules, prime factorization of numbers, finding the greatest common factor (gcf) and least common multiple (lcm)  for a pair of numbers.

African Animals Project

Team Coral Sea has been very busy completing an informational essay on an African Animal.  These 6th graders not only researched their animal, but they created a diorama, and gave a presentation to their classmates.  Each student used their creativity to produce a fantastic project.  Come and view these dioramas in our lobby until Friday evening!

November 20, 2012

Today we had the great pleasure of welcoming Mr. Pojeta to Team Coral Sea.  He is a paleontologist for the Smithsonian Institution, and also Carter's grandfather.  We enjoyed learning about the Geological Time Table and seeing all the fossils and specimens.  A big thank-you to Mr. Pojeta!

Currently in math, we are adding, subtracting, multiplying and soon to be dividing decimals.  We will focus on practicing and applying these concepts for the next couple of weeks.

In Science, we wrapped up our unit on weathering and erosion.  Ask your child to sing you the song they learned about the processes of weathering and erosion.  Our next unit in science will be an introduction to geologic time.

November 5th

Team Coral Sea is reading the novel Bud, Not Buddy. The setting is 1936 in Flint, Michigan. Bud, a motherless boy, sets out to find the father he never knew. As he travels, he takes with him his greatest possessions in an old suitcase. Our students brought in their most valuable possessions. Even though these things do not cost a lot of money, they mean a lot to us.

Today we had a special presenter come to Coral Sea. Mr. Easton is a local children's author who spoke to us to create our own stories. He is a W & J professor who also writes children's novels. Through his novel, he showed us how to use our lives, or our cultural ID, to shape a story. His wife, Mrs. Patricia Harrison Easton, also spoke to the other 6th grade teams. A special thank-you to them both for coming and enlightening us on the joys of writing.

We're wrapping up our first chapter in math and our Chapter Test is scheduled for Wednesday.  We played Jeopardy as a review for all of the chapter 1 concepts today and the students also have a Chapter 1 Study Guide as a review.

In science, the students created colorful and informative displays of earthquake and volcano locations.  Our next Earth History topic will be investigations and explorations focusing on weathering and erosion and how these forces shape the land.

A special "Good-bye" party was given today for our student teacher Miss Yuhas. She has been a wonderful addition to our team! She will greatly be missed!

Nonfiction- October 9, 2012

 The above video is for the Scope story that we will be reading tomorrow. Go behind the scenes of our narrative-nonfiction feature with the author. Think about how this is different then writing fictional stories.

Angry Verbs!

Miss Yuhas took over teaching in Mrs. Haddox's reading class. She taught how to recognize an action verb. The students loved the game and integration of Angry Birds. Great job, Miss Yuhas!

Spelling List for this week: Teammates #2