Mrs. Kluxdal gets her students moving during the morning meeting.

Sheridan's sixth grade team is Jeff Ceder and Donna Yu. Donna Yu will be teaching a 5th/6th grade combined classroom this year. Balancing social and academic concerns and ORGANIZATION are important focuses during the 6th grade year.

Expectations:

By the end of sixth grade, your child will be able to:

- Identify different points of view on the same topic:
- Summarize what is read to help her/him and remember the information:
- Judge the accuracy of the information.
- Read 25 books from multiple genres for information and education
- Use outlines and graphic organizers to organize text
- Compare and contrast information from different sources
- Decide how to record and organize information within a group
- Summarize information he/she has gathered from observations or interview, in an organized way.
- Write a report (using at least four sources) that include an introduction and a conclusion.
- Write in a variety of forms, including creating stories from his/her own experiences, to make a point, persuade, give directions, or demonstrate a process
- Find more than one way to solve a problem, communicate the mathematical thinking process through oral, written, pictorial, and graphical means.
- Use a calculator  to solve problems.
- Know the precise mathematical names and properties of two-dimensional shapes.
- Recognize and describe shape, size and position of two-dimensional objects.
- Connect geometric concepts including properties of polygons and symmetry to test conjectures and solve problems.

- Measure perimeter and area of quadrilaterals; understand pi and the circumference of circles; use a protractor to measure an angle; use measurements to help solve problems
- Demonstrate an understanding of number concepts including place value, exponents, prime and composite numbers, and use the order of operations to help solve equations.
- Add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions; decimals, and percents; be able to place them in a number line.
- Find the range, mean, mode, and median for a set of information.
- Understand probability; Format a question and design an appropriate data investigation.
- Formulate a question and design an appropriate data investigation; organize data and display it in more than one way; analyze data appropriately; critique various representations of data; make decisions based on data.
- Understand the basics of probability and its usefulness in making predictions.

Responsive Classroom:

What is Responsive Classroom?

Responsive Classroom is an approach to teaching and learning that fosters safe, challenging, and joyful elementary classrooms and schools.

The Guiding Principles:

The social curriculum is as important as the academic curriculum.

How children learn is as important as what they learn

The greatest cognitive growth occurs through social interaction

To be successful academically, children need a  set of social skills; cooperation, assertion, responsibility, empathy, and self control.

Knowing the children and their families is essential too children’s education.

Teaching Practices:

Morning Meeting: a daily routine that builds community.

Rules and logical consequences: A clear approach to discipline that fosters responsibility and self control.

Guided Discovery: A format for introducing materials that encourages inquiry, heightens interest, and teaches care of the school environment

Academic Choice: An approach to giving children choices in their learning that helps them become self motivated learners

Classroom Organization: Strategies for arranging materials, furniture, and displays to encourage independence, promote caring, and maximize learning.

Working with Families: Ideas for involving families as true partners  in their children’s education.