Welcome!!!!!! to Mrs. Dueсas’s class 6th Grade

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Welcome!!!!!!toMrs. Dueñass class6th Grade

• Foulks Ranch Elementary

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Mrs. Dueñas

• Starting 26th year of teaching!
• Masters in Special Education
• Over 10 years in regular 6th grade
• Swim Coach for over 10 years
• 0 kids, but have 1 dog, Besso, and 1 cat, Mee-Ha
• Married
• Love to swim and work with kids!

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Goals For My Students

• To be the best prepared student and citizen
  through
• Organization
• Planning
• Listening
• Working together
• Doing your best
• Setting personal goals
• Knowing when to have fun and
• To have a good sense of humor!

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Purpose

• To be the best prepared student for Junior High
  School/Middle School and beyond
• To have the best study habits

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Materials

• Packet of Information (in a narrative format)
• Also on wikispace www.mrsduenas.wikispaces.com
• See supply list attached to handout

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Required Curriculum

• Reading/Language Arts- Open Court
• Math- Scott Foresman
• Science- Holt
• Social Studies-Holt
• PE SPARK

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Reading/Language Arts

• Curriculum Open Court (6th grade)
• Study Guides Story Study, Vocabulary Study,
  Spelling Practice, Grammar Study
• Use of Literature Circles to enhance learning of
  OCR stories
• Themes
• 1) Perseverance
• 3) Taking a Stand
• 2) Ancient Civilizations
• 4) Music
• 5) Ecology and 6) Question of Values
• Tests Fridays
• Usually 1 story/week

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Math

• Scott Foresman (6th grade text)
• Student made Study Guides
• Teacher-made Lesson Worksheets with How-to-Solve
  Steps, Examples, Guided Practice and More
  Practice. Kept in a Math INB
• Using multiple methods to solve math problems
• Tests/Quizzes
• 7th Grade Supplementary text
• will use this text to enhance their learning
• Accelerated Math Program
• to enhance their learning
• Daily Math Challenge Workbook
• To keep up with the 6th grade Standards

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Math Concepts

• Number Sense NS1 and NS 2
• Add, Subtract, Multiply, Divide positive and
  negative--whole numbers, fractions, and decimals
  Use of percents
• Statistics SDP
• Mean, Median, Mode, Range, Understanding
  Questioning and Graphs Probability
• Algebra AF
• Solve 1-step and Multiple-Step Equations,
  Ratios/Proportions
• Geometry MG
• Circumference/Perimeter Area and Volume of
  Circles, Triangles and Quadrilaterals
• Math Reasoning MR
• Applications to Real-Life situations using the
  above concepts.

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Science

• Holt (6th grade Middle School)
• SS-INB binder for all Work and Projects
• Labs/Experiments, Tests/Quizzes
• Concepts
• Semester 1 Life Sciences
• Food Chains, Biomes, MSOE
• Semester 2 Physical Sciences
• Heat and Energy, Oceans
• Semester 3 Earth Sciences
• Plate Tectonics, Volcanoes/Earthquakes

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Social Studies

• Holt (6th grade Middle School)
• SS-INB binder for all Work and Projects
• Tests and Quizzes
• Concepts
• Geography and Archaeology Studies
• Early Humans
• Mesopotamia
• Egypt
• India
• China
• Hebrews
• Greece
• Rome

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www.mrsduenas.wikispaces.com

• This is my Wikispace page where you can find
• Study Guides in
• Reading and Math
• Assignments Sheets
• in Social Studies
• Math Notes
• Teacher-made S-F
• Math Quizzes
• Teacher-made OCR
• Reading Quizzes

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Homework and Assignments

• Parents e-mailed the daily the HW assignments,
  projects, events, and announcements
• Wikispace lost Assignment Sheets and Quizzes in
  SS, Worksheets and Quizzes in Math, Study Guides
  and Quizzes in Reading
• www.mrsduenas.wikispaces.com
• HW Daily
• 1.20 hours each night
• Weekly Packet LP to practice spelling,
  Vocab300, CST grammar, reading, and math review
• Weekend HW might be necessary to finish
  unfinished work
• Please contact me with any problems, we can talk ?

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Grading Policy

• To show competency or achievement of standards
• Letter grades (A, B, C, D, or F)
• Number grades (5, 4, 3, 2, or 1)
• A5 high achieving, excellent
• B, C 4 or 3 well done(B) or passing(C)
• D 2 approaching grade level, almost passing
• F 1 not passing, failing.
• Grades are e-mailed
• every 4-5 weeks.
• I will communicate if the student is not
  achieving their goals or if they are missing work
  

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Schedule

• Our day includes
• Computers ( 2 days/week)
• PE (3 days/week, with Mile Friday)
• Reading (every day)
• Writing/Spelling (every day)
• Math (every day)
• Social Studies (4-5 days/week)
• Science ( 3 days/week)

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Student Field Trips and Academic/Behavioral
Requirements

• Please refer to contract received on the 1st day
  of school
• Any Field Trip Form is due 10 days before we
  attend.
• There are no phone calls home about missing forms

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MSOE!

• MSOE
• October 15-19
• please indicate whether your child is going or
  not going on the sign in paper in the back
• Chaperones!!!
• please indicate whether you like to chaperone on
  the sign-in paper in the back
• We are limited to the number of chaperones
  needed.
• Forms
• will be coming home later

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Parent Contributions

• Chaperones
• Volunteering in class
• Copying
• Helpers, as needed
• Mask making
• Decorating masks
• Promotion in June
• Etc.

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Fingerprinting

• Volunteers must be fingerprinted through the
  District in order to volunteer for on or off
  campus activities.
• Contact Tara to see if you are fingerprinted

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Goal Setting

• Students set goals for the year and semester
• Grades
• Principals (straight As all year).
• All 3 semesters Principals Lamp of Knowledge
  Medal at Promotion
• Honor Roll(3.0-3.9).
• All 3 semesters Ribbon at Promotion
• National Elementary Honor Society-(NEHS)
• AR Goals by Semester
• Student Leadership
• Tutoring, Teacher Assisting in other classrooms,
  Library Assistants, Green Team, etc.
• Earn levels of Achievement, depending on hours
  recorded Foulks Ranch, Governors, Bronze,
  Silver, Gold

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Communication

• How to get a hold of me
• Phone- 684-8177
• E-mail dduenas_at_egusd.net
• Conferences (by appointment, in advance)
• Wikispace for assignments and quizzes
• www.mrsduenas.wikispaces.com

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Anything else?AndThank you for coming!