Welcome to Curriculum Night

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Welcome to Curriculum Night!

• Heather Greninger
• 6th Grade Humanities
• 6th Grade Technology

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Are YOU ready???

• I was BORN ready!

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Welcometo 6th Grade Humanities
Go Bulldogs!

• Beaver Lake Middle School
• 2008-2009
• Heather Greninger
• http//www.blms.issaquah.wednet.edu/Teachers/greni
  ngerh/default.htm

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Sixth grade is a pivotal year because

• Transitioning from elementary school to middle
  school
• Learning organizational skills
• Social adjustments
• Homework load increases

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How you can help

• ORGANIZATION
• Set-up binder (Tabs SS, LA, Grammar)
• Planner
• Either a tab for reading or a folder
• Follow up with random checks
• Responsibility (choose, decide, pick)
• Homework
• Set aside time
• Quiet place to work
• Assistance if needed
• Skyward

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Classroom Expectations

• Every success is built on the ability to do
  better than good enough.
• Only your best
• Respect for self and others
• Prepared for class
• Homework, materials, mind
• Participation
• Learning is FUN!

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Routine

• Warm-Up
• Vocabulary every two weeks
• Test every two weeks
• Projects
• Book talks and summaries in different forms
• SS each unit
• Reading log
• Library

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Homework

• Planner
• Frequency
• Late work
• No Name papers

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Absences

• Calendar up front with papers under it
• Allowed one day to make up missed work for each
  day absent (Long Term Assignments)
• Students can email or call with questions while
  absent
• Students can set up appointments to go over
  missed/confusing assignments
• Extended absences go through the office

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Curriculum

• Social Studies
• Geography
• Five themes, map skills, landforms
• Culture
• Ancient civilizations
• Mesopotamia
• Egypt
• Greece
• Rome
• China

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Curriculum

• Language Arts
• Vocabulary
• Vocab book
• Caught Ya
• Embedded within texts
• Reading
• Independent reading, reading logs, book projects,
  book talks, reading strategies
• Novels The Giver, Lost in the Labyrinth, and The
  Thieves of Ostia
• Writing
• Introduction and use of Jane Schaeffer format,
  summaries, poetry, descriptive, expository
• Grammar
• Prepositions, direct objects, pronouns, verbs

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Materials Needed

• Three-ring binder (writing paper,
  folders/dividers)
• Folder
• BLMS student planner
• Independent reading book
• Vocabulary book (8.50)
• Pencils/pens
• Red pen
• Text books
• Project materials (when needed poster board,
  markers, colored pencils, etc.)

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Extra Info!

• http//classzone.com/
• SS book on the web
• Artifacts Extra Credit

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Contact Info

• Phone/Voice Mail
• 425-837-6374
• Email address
• greningerh_at_issaquah.wednet.edu
• Website
• http//www.blms.issaquah.wednet.edu/Teachers/greni
  ngerh/default.htm