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Program Updates: Art and Music – January 2025
MUSIC All students have been preparing for our upcoming Winter Arts Nights. Call time for students is 6:30 on their performance date: January 21 (6th grade); January 22 (7th grade); January 23 (8th grade). 6th grade Sixth graders have continued working on reading notes in their assigned clef and various rhythms in different time signatures.…
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SOCIAL STUDIES Grade 6 (Daniela) Since our last sixth grade social studies update, students learned about the history of the first Thanksgiving between the Wampanoag people and the Pilgrims in 1621. They also explored the topic of gratitude. A main concept in this mini-unit was the importance of gratitude for both the person expressing gratitude…
Read MoreProgram Updates: Latin and Language Arts – December 2024
LATIN Grade 6 (Maripat) The 6th grade is tackling noun cases, arguably the toughest hurdle for beginning Latin students who speak English, as except for “I know Latin; Latin doesn’t know me” and other pronouns. We’ve been doing Quizizz games to cement their knowledge of endings. There are also Blooket games in the offing, but…
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