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5th and 6th Grade

This Week in Grade 6, 5/25

This week the sixth graders finally took their test on African kingdoms and cultures. Then they started learning about Greek culture, from its earliest origins in the Cycladic Islands and Crete.

This week in art the students learned about Greek pottery and began their own (paper) vessel.

T…

This Week in Grade 6, 5/19

This week we are studying Nok sculpture, West African griots, and the Bantu migrations and preparing for the chapter 6 test.

In Language Arts, we continued working on our poetry and trying out different styles of writing poems.

This week we have one last Alliance meeting to reflect on our…

This Week in Grade 6, 5/12

This week we are studying the Kingdom of Axum (in ancient Ethiopia), the Nok people (who lived along the Niger River), and the Bar Kokhba Revolt (for Lag Ba’Omer), with a focus on art analysis.

We have been solving one step equations.

This week in art the students finished their 4-color …

This Week in Grade 6, 5/5

We are studying the Kingdom of Kush in Nubia and, at last, holding our Greatest Pharaohs speaker panel.

We are preparing to participate in Middle School Civic Spirit Day (May 11).

We got to start learning Ukuleles this week!

This week in art the students continued working on their 4-color…

This Week in Grade 6, 4/28

This week, we are finishing our study of New Kingdom Egypt and having a “Greatest Pharaohs Speaker Panel.”

This is the second week of a two-week unit reading King and the Dragonflies.

In Civics, we are continuing our local news project.

In art this week the students worked on creating…