Sixth Graders had a super start to middle school today. They participated in Limmud Torah, Advisory, Technology Training, Rules and Expectations, Locker and Binder Organization, and Schedules!
To give you a sense of how we inducted the students into our middle school culture, below is a summary of what Ms. Chanales (6th grade team leader and 6th grade science teacher) did with the students during that session:
Advisory
This session will be an introduction to advisory and to some of the language and goals that we will be using in sixth grade this year.
- Brief class discussion on how you can “train your brain” to think in certain ways.
- Each group will get a phrase that we are going to encourage sixth graders to say this year. They are: I don’t know that yet…, Ooooh! A Challenge!......, I’ll give it a try…., Let’s figure this out together….., Of course I’ll help……., Thank you
- Each group will talk about why somebody would say those things; Brief share. List values on board.
- Each group will make a speech bubble poster with their phrase. They will make a 30 second skit, set it in a given location (classroom, lockers, gym, lunch) which ends in one or character saying the phrase.
During the Technology orientation Mrs. Kurtz (6th grade English teacher) oriented students to our Google Apps. Below is a presentation that you or your children can continue to refer to. It was created by Mrs. Kurtz:
We can not wait to start "official" class with your children. We look forward to a fantastic year!
