6th Grade

Teacher: Ms. Drougas

Ms. Drougas also teaches 5th through 8th grade English.

January Highlights

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.” —Albert Einstein

6^th English: The students will be reviewing their prepositions. Also, they will be learning poetry concerning oceans the last week of January into February and constructing concrete poems on the oceans.

6^th Math: The students will be finishing up working with factorization, fractions, and decimals.  Then it’s time to dive into the ocean and explore scales, areas, perimeters, conversions, reading maps, rates, ratios, proportions, and percents. 

6^th Science: The students will start to explore space and the Earth’s position in it for their next unit. All the science fair projects are complete and the students will begin peer review and presentations shortly before the actual Science Fair.

6^th Social Studies: The students will begin lessons on South America.

6^th Reading:  The students will begin reading radio stories and create one based on ocean life.

6^th Religion: The students will focus on the The Ten Commandments and the story of Moses.