Language Arts
Math
Science and Engineering
Social Studies
Potpourri
100
Character Development, Social Issues, Historical Fiction, Non-Fiction, and Poetry.
What are the Reading units of study?
100
The best math resource each student has.
What is their math notebook?
100
Practices, Scientific Knowledge, and Cross-Cutting Concepts
What are the three aspects of science?
100
Latitude lines begin at the Equator and go North and South, whereas longitude lines begin here and go West and East.
What is the Prime Meridian?
100
Mr. Stern's favorite hobbies.
What are playing piano and guitar, gardening, and doing crossword puzzles?
200
Two hours per week.
What is the independent reading requirement for sixth graders?
200
The place in which each student can access enrichment activities.
What is the online textbook (www.my.hrw.com)?
200
Brainstorm, Design, Build, Test and Evaluate, Redesign, Rebuild
What is one possible sequence for the engineering process?
200
Of all the resolution strategies we will explore, this one has proven to be the most successful in resolving conflicts?
What is negotiate?
200
On Fridays, Miss Shean likes to do this.
What is Dance Friday?
300
Contrasts and Contradictions, Aha Moment, Tough Questions, Words of the Wiser, Again and Again, and Memory Moments.
What are the Notice and Note Signposts?
300
Ratios and Proportional Relationships, Number System, Expressions and Equations, Geometry, Statistics and Probability.
What are the major learning goals of Math 6?
300
Asking Questions, Investigating, Doing Math, Engineering
What are the practices of science and engineering?
300
Latin America includes Mexico & Central America, South America, and this region?
What is the Caribbean?
300
51 years.
What is the collective number of years teachers on Team J have been teaching?
400
Personal Narrative, Commentary, Historical Fiction, Folklore, and Poetry.
What are the Writing units of study?
400
Our "work habit" learning target for this year.
What is perseverance.
400
Self-designed investigations and engineering funded by grants for innovation
What are the major changes to the sixth grade science curriculum driven by the Next Generation Standards?
400
The newest country in the world, this African nation split away from its namesake in 2011.
What is South Sudan?
400
On rainy Fridays Mr. Forgione will often share a few of these.
What are scary stories?
500
"We like to cook our students and our fellow teachers." This sentence is just WRONG because it needs...
What are commas?
500
A strategy your child can use throughout the school year that allows them to visualize problems (especially helpful with fractions).
What is bar modeling?
500
The Practices of Science and Engineering, What Causes Weather, Sun and Earth, Simple Machines, Global Science Issues
What are the major sixth grade science units?
500
He was Ross Perot's Vice Presidential running-mate in the 1992 Presidential Election.
Who is Admiral Stockdale?
500
Peppermint Patties.
What are Mrs. McMahon's favorite candies?