WELCOME TO 6 BLUE!

Core Values

Respect, Responsibility, Honesty and Perseverance

•CPR•Read Aloud•Team Meetings

Communication

• Emails• Phone calls• Parent Teacher Conference: November 1• Wikipage: Newsletters posted• kcamerato@shrewsbury.k12.ma.us• lryan@shrewsbury.k12.ma.us

6 BLUE SUPPORT STAFF

• Shannan Rowell, Special Education• Chris Wilkinson, Special Education Aide• Denise Barre, Aide• Liz McGandy, ELL• Mindy Miller, ELL• Melissa McCann, Math Coach

• 60-90 minutes• Monday- Friday• Planners

*PLEASE send us a note or sign an assignment if HWExceeds 90 minutes.

6 BLUE HOMEWORK POLICY1st missing homework assignment: • Each student is allowed one missing homework assignment per subject,

per trimester. 2nd missing assignment• Lunch pm served the day (or next day for afternoon class) the assignment

is missing.

3rd missing assignment:• Referred to administration for “Homework Academy”

*For any missing assignment, students fill out a “Missing Homework Form” to be signed by a guardian.

Language Arts

• Trimester 1 Goals: • Fiction: Importance of setting• Non-fiction: Main idea• Writing: expository pillar, open response, broad-yet

distinct main ideas, overlapping• Learning experiences: Fiction reading (Maroo or

other fiction texts), non-fiction reading resources, empowering writers lessons.

• Summary writing, text features, finding the main idea

Language Arts Tools and Texts

• Shrewsbury Writing Project: Empowering Writers

• Expository, Narrative, Persuasive Writing• Fiction Texts: Maroo, Roll of Thunder, Hear my

Cry, Golden Goblet

History and Social Sciences

• Units for History and Social Sciences will be a combination of textbooks lessons, hands-on simulation experiences, study of primary sources, and visual support

• Archaeology and Early Humans• Mesopotamia• Egypt• Ancient Israel• Ancient and Classical Greece• Ancient Rome

MATH

• Everyday Math Program• Unit Assessments– Study guides– Test corrections

• Math Games (contact me for materials if interested)• Small group work

SCIENCE

*GOOD SCIENTISTS ARE CURIOUS AND OBSERVANT

• Earth and Space Science– Earth’s Changing Surface– Inside Earth– Astronomy

• Science Notebooks