GRADE 6 ENGLISH AND SOCIAL STUDIES

Mr Tim Benford

Ms. Kristen Feren

Ms. Rena O’Regan

Ms. Meg Parry

A BIT ABOUT ME…

WHO IS IN THE ENGLISH SOCIAL STUDIES CLASSROOM?

Rena O’Regan Myra Lepp

Ms Kat

GRADE LEVEL CONCEPTS

Quarter 1Structures• Social Studies: Society,

Government Systems, Mapping

• English: Book Clubs, Writing; 6 traits, paragraph, sentence structures

Quarter 2Relationships• Social Studies:

Sustainable Economic Development

• English: Research, Expository Writing

Quarter 3Cause and Effect• Social Studies:

Development of Cities• English: Research, Novel

study

Quarter 4Discovery• Social Studies: Human

Evolution and Development

• English: Short Stories, Narrative writing

HOMEWORK

•Reading•Work completion/ preparation for class activity (approx 80 minutes per week)•Current Events (1 presentation each semester)•Talk with your child, open questions, deep discussions (model thinking)

GRADES

Grades are calculated according to TOTAL POINTS earned Homework for completion only will earn between 1 and 5

points Tests, quizzes and other medium sized assessments in

which a student must demonstrate understanding will earn approximately 15 to 30 points

Performance Tasks will earn approximately 50 to 60 points To calculate: divide number of points earned by the

number of possible points Grades are calculated at the end of semester

SUPPORTING YOUR CHILD

Blogs: http://oreganr.ism-online.org/ http://grade6.ism-online.org/

Go through the planner with your child frequently PowerSchool Email:

oreganr@ismanila.org

Conferences through MS Office

Smile and laugh every day!

THANK YOU!

I look forward to getting to know all of you this year.

I feel very lucky to teach your wonderful children!