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Fall Conferences: November 18th - 22nd

Fall conferences are coming up soon! In 6th grade, conferences are student-led. That means your child needs to join us! Please use this link to sign up for a time during conference week. It’s first come first serve!

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Packing List

Here is the packing list. We highly recommend these items (they are listed as optional on the list, but always used):

Small backpack for hiking
Water bottle
Flashlight
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Leaving For Sly Park - Monday, October 21, 8:30 am

Please arrive on Monday, October 21st at 8:30 AM (both A and B schedule) at the back of building 6552 (preschool side) with all luggage labeled with your child’s name and teacher’s name.
Students will drop off all luggage into designated areas and head up to the classrooms. You will need to say your goodbyes before your child heads up to the classroom.
All students will be riding to Sly Park in buses, regardless of whether or not their parents are chaperones. Chaperones will also be riding in the buses with students. </aside>

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Returning From Sly Park - Friday, October 25, 1:30pm(ish)

Students will arrive back on the Rocklin Academy Gateway Campus between 1-2pm. The school will send out an email blast once we know the exact arrival time of the buses.
When arriving, parents will line up at the back of 6550 (between main building and the fields, the 1st-4th pickup area) and check out students individually from the cafeteria. </aside>

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Phones & Communication

Phones are not allowed at Sly Park for any reason.
Please do not send your phone with your child as a camera, it will be taken away. If you would like your child to have a camera, a single-use or reusable disposable film camera, or a small point-andshoot digital camera is appropriate.
Students are not allowed to call home throughout the week. You may send letters throughout the week, or write letters for each day and give them to your classroom teacher to pass out at breakfast time each day.
- We pass out letter on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday morning (4 times total)
- Address of Sly Park:
  
  Sly Park Environmental Education Center
  
  5600 Sly Park Road
  
  Pollock Pines, CA 95726

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Behavior at Sly Park

Our expectation of student behavior at Sly Park is the same as in the classroom. Students need to show respect for their peers at all times and are expected to not hinder the experience of others. </aside>

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Pay for Sly Park

Pay for Sly Park on the Rocklin Academy Gateway website. </aside>

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Curriculum Updates

Math

This week in math, we began working with integers and absolute value on a number line. We learned how to add/subtract positive and negative numbers, as well as write expressions with integers. When we return from Sly Park, we will be finishing Chapter 3 and getting ready for the chapter 3 assessment.

ELA

In ELA this week we created small posters on innovators that we studied over the past few weeks. We had a joint-class symposium, presenting to multiple peers in Ms. Kuharciks room, then had fishbowl conversations the following day where we discussed how all of the different innovators used habits of character throughout their effort to solve problems using the engineering design process.

Science

In Science, we continued the second unit of our science curriculum which focuses on Systems in Organisms and on Earth. This week our focus has been on cells and cell theory. We’ve looked at the difference between cell types such as prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and used microscopes to compare the structures of fake vs real leaves.

History

This week in history we completed the Pharaoh projects. Everyone studied one of 7 different Pharaohs from Ancient Egypt, created a small informational booklet, then we made sarcophagi for our Pharaohs using air0-dry modeling clay!

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