The Power of the Force Is In Sixth Grade

Monday, March 20 - Friday, March 24

Every School Day is important! Excellence takes practice!
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SCHOOL CALENDAR
03/22- Club Day
03/24 UAB Theater 1:00
03/27-31 SPRING BREAK
04/07 Kona Ice (subject to change due to testing)
04/21 End of Progress Report Grading
04/25 Progress Reports Go Home

ANNOUNCEMENTS
There will be no mentoring for the month of April. Students will have a regular day EVERY Wednesday.
Class begins 7:45. Students must be checked in by a parent after 7:55.
St. Clair county has a new email system. Teachers email addresses are the same; however, there is a new
filter. If you email a teacher and dont get a reply within 2 school days, please call the office and leave a
message. The best way to reach teachers by email is to go through the school website at mms.sccboe.org.
With state testing approaching, please encourage your child to look over his/her math journal nightly-
Especially the vocabulary and examples.
Spring Can Food Drive- please send in canned foods
Drama Club practices are this week. If your student is in drama club, they brought home a letter last week
about the D.A.R.E. Performance.

READING
Ms. Gail Holt gail.holt@sccboe.org Mr. Terry McNutt t erry.mcnutt@sccboe.org
Students are reviewing reading standards through various novel study activities and assessments.

LANGUAGE ARTS
Mrs. Sara Wendt sara.wendt@sccboe.org Mr. Terry McNutt t erry.mcnutt@sccboe.org
Daily grammar practice, informational text: The Civil Rights Movement Keynote presentations & quiz

MATH
Mrs. Emily Byars emily.byars@sccboe.org Mrs. Lori Britt lori.britt@sccboe.org
Mrs. Jennifer Stribling jennifer.stribling@sccboe.org
Students are learning about area, surface area, and volume. We will have a quiz on Thursday, 3/23. Please see Mrs.
Britts website for a link that has extra math practice for all of the material covered so far this year.

SCIENCE
Ms. Ginger Allen ginger.allen@sccboe.org Mrs. Lori Britt lori.britt@sccboe.org
We are studying planets and space.

SOCIAL STUDIES
Mrs. April Smith april.smith@sccboe.org Mr. Terry McNutt t erry.mcnutt@sccboe.org
Students will continue with our World War I Live Action Role Play this week. Students will go to War in Live Action
Role Play this week. Remember to study for the test!. All students were given a study guide. They may also use the
study page on the website. Please see the Planner Page Calendar at www.aprilsmith.org to get any work you
missed. The LARP vocabulary words test is Thursday, March 23.