Grade 6th
Room 109
e-mail address:jmbright@cps.edu

Incoming Students Fall of 2008-2009

Supplies

• Five pencils
  
• Glue
  
• Colored pencils
  
• Three ring binder for math
  
• Five pens
  
• Pencil sharpener
  
• Scissors
  
• Three highlighters (1 yellow and any 2 other colors)
  
• Four book covers
• Loose leaf paper
  
• Yellow folder and spiral notebook for Math
  
• Blue folder and spiral notebook for Writing
  
• Purple folder and spiral notebook for Social Studies
  
• Red folder and spiral notebook for Reading
• Green folder and spiral notebook for Science
  
• One black three ring binder for Spanish

 

Skills to practice

Reading
Build reading fluency and comprehension skills. Read at least five novels over summer break.
Note taking skills
Main idea and plot
Author’s purpose
Genres

Math

Landmarks-mean, median, and mode etc.
Graphs
Rounding, place value with decimals
Exponents
Algebra-solving for x
Computation-decimals/fractions, multiplication, and division