Holiday gifts?

If you celebrate any gift giving holiday, now may be a good time to restock school supplies.

Items for stockings, hannukah gifts, or other..

Pencils-regular and colored

Hilighter

Earbuds to be kept at school: many students do not have these and are not able to access some of the extra options on line. Please put in bag or container and label)

Thanks!!

Have a great season. 

Ms. Tuttle

Parent Conference Times

Greetings all!

Please be sure you get the reminder for conference times sent home this week with your child.

If there is a conflict, email the homeroom teacher to see when it can be scheduled.
(The homeroom teacher will have info from the gr. 6 team and share info from diff subjects)

Thank you! We look forward to sharing some of your child's work with you!
Ms.Tuttle

Mark your calendars

Project Chick-Casey Farms

Mark your calendars now.

We will be going to Casey Farms on a field trip on Wednesday, May 2 for the school day.

There will be two programs:
Project Chick: this is in conjunction with the hatching of chicks in the classroom
At the Bay: studies of the estuarine ecosystem

The cost will be $12 per child.
Permission slip and request for funding will be send in the spring.

Have a great day.

Space weather

Meteor shower and cool auroras!
http://spaceweather.com/

Quiz Review

Greetings all!!

Just a heads up that the quiz in Science was sent home. Please be sure to check in with your child and talk about what we are learning in Science.

Students were given some sample writing and we discussed types of responses that provide evidence for their claims. (Last question on the quiz.)

We are now building on their understanding of air pressure and taking it into space! They will be applying skills on engineering design and revisions (done with the car design) and integrating this into the content of weather and air pressure to design a space suit for their Peeps! (We will be using Halloween Peeps for this. In spite of their desire, we will not be eating these Peeps. :)

Stay tuned for an upcoming rubric to be sent home and posted on classroom for students to consider as they work towards creating and revising ideas for their Peep safety.

Thanks for all of your support!
Ms. Tuttle

Irma Relief

Thank you for all of your donations and kudos to the hard work of all the grade 6 students.

Here are a few in action!

Also, there may be an article and/or image of some in the Jamestown Press tomorrow!

Ms. Tuttle

2 liter bottle donation?

Good morning,

If you have any empty 2 liter soda bottles, we could use a few for some experiments next week.

Thank you!!

Ms.Tuttle

Reminders: Alton Jones and Irma Relief Collections

Good morning!
This is a reminder about 2 items:

1. Alton Jones field trip tomorrow. Please be sure that your child is prepared for the day with weather appropriate attire. Layers are best for changing temps, including a light rain coat, if the forecast calls for it.
-water bottle
-small backpack

We will return to school by 2 in anticipation of the Cross Country meet, so students can depart for their meet.

Due to this, we should have time at the end of the day to begin packing our Irma Relief supplies-our second reminder.

2. Irma Relief Collection-follow up on note sent home on Monday.

We will boxing and shipping our supplies tomorrow at the end of the day.

Please send in any more supplies tomorrow:
-school supplies
-gently used or new toys
-gift cards (CVS, Walgreens, Walmart)
-clothing, diapers

If you could send any financial contributions for shipping costs, that would also assist our efforts.

Thank you!
Have a great day.
Charlene Tuttle

Building Towers

We built towers of fun! We started with a design challenge today. Great job working together, revising your thinking, and exploring multiple solutions and new ideas!

Welcome to Sixth Grade!!!

Greetings,

I look forward to a fabulous year with new adventures.

I hope you have a wonderful first day.

Ms. Tuttle

Vehicles coming out of the water soon!

The ROVs should be coming out of the water soon.
Check it out at:
www.nautiluslive.org

Enjoy!!!

Students in the News!

Good morning!!

Pictures will be on the way, but in the meantime, our student engineers are featured in yesterday's Newport Daily News.

You can read it here:

http://newportdailynews.ri.newsmemory.com/publink.php?shareid=29df66f7e


Enjoy!

Ms. Tuttle

SeaPerch and PARCC testing

Field Trip Forms

Please ensure the SeaPerch permission slip is returned tomorrow, if it has not yet been turned in.

Groups are already organized and are working with their teams to "fly" their ROVs.

If you need another copy, it is posted on Classroom (Science).


Testing:
Here are some practice sites if you want to play for the math PARCC to get used to some of the tools.

Math

http://www.play2pass.com/math.html

https://parcc.pearson.com/practice-tests/math/

http://www.mathplayground.com/

PARCC Tutorials (Used to help students familiarize themselves with the test environment)

https://parcc.pearson.com/tutorial/

Tech Tune Up for Parcc - Reviews Tech Skills needed to take parcc

https://sites.google.com/site/obtechtuneupforparcc/home

School Committee Presentation

Several students shared their work last night at the Jamestown School Committee. This was their project work from egg labels and their meanings.

Check them out in action!

Summer Camp Scholarships

Greetings,

There is an opportunity for students to win a scholarship to Hurricane Island summer camp, a week-long summer science camp in Maine.

Students were offered the application this week. They are due by May 23. More applications are available from Mrs. Goodburn or myself.

More info on hurricaneisland.net.
There are 3 $1400 scholarships available for Jamestown students entering 7, 8, or 9th grade.

Thanks!
Ms. Tuttle

ROV in the classroom

See the Jamestown School official facebook page for videos of the students in action:
https://www.facebook.com/jamestownschool/

Finishing up last steps in the classroom in preparation for soldering the circuit boards on Friday.

Salmon release field trip

Greetings all,

Just confirmed through DEM--we are having a field trip to release our Salmon, which have been growing in our tank in our classroom.This is a program, "Salmonoids in the Classroom," sponsored by DEM to replenish native species in our rivers. The date is Monday, May 8th.


The details are still being refined, but we hope to go in the morning, do some field work and integrated STEAM centers, then have lunch. We are trying to coordinate a tour of a local hatchery and then return in the afternoon.

Please be on the alert for the permission slips next week. A quick turnaround would be great!
Thanks!
Charlene Tuttle

Paul Taylor Dance Group

Dear Families,

I just wanted to share an event with you. First-Works reached out to me to alert me of this upcoming Paul Taylor Dance Company Residency experiences. Shows are from 5/4-5/7 at Brown.

Paul Taylor was one of the stellar performances that we attended this year in conjunction with First-Works.

Please see this link:  http://www.browntaps.org/festival-of-dance/

Ms.Tuttle

Award Winner!

Congratulations to Patrick Burke, our volunteer that assists with SeaPerch.

Read all about it here:

http://newportdailynews.ri.newsmemory.com/publink.php?shareid=0b3e44b2c

Chicken pics for the students

Many of the students wanted access to photos of themselves with the chicks.
I sent an email to all of them via the "2019" list. They can go to email and open the shared drive with "Chicken pics."

There are simply too many to keep posting here.
Have a great weekend!

  

18 Chicks!!!

First chicken has hatched!!!

First chicken hatched today approximately

Chickens Hatching this Wednesday

 Casey Farms came for a visit and delivered 24 eggs for incubation in the classroom.  The hatch date is this Wednesday. It is an day of non-stop fascination!

This week we will also be reading about chickens and their unique body parts. Dissection of eggs (store bought, unfertilized) will take place as well, as we discover how the parts of a fertilized egg can develop into chickens.

Stay tuned for the excitement!

Here's the first day where "our" eggs were put into the incubator.

Sea Perch Updates

Here are a few shots from today's work in the MakerSpace. We are practicing soldering small electronic "insects." This is in preparation for our circuit board on the ROVs.

Culminating Weather Slide Show

Greetings families,

The students are working on a culminating slide show for Weather and Water. The idea is that they are integrating concepts from our unit in order to help analyze their data (which they've been collecting for a couple of months) for their chosen city.

Yesterday, I reviewed a guide I made for them. They had the opportunity to ask questions and clarify their assignment.  This is a slide show in Google Classroom, which they can all access.

Suggested order of steps:

1. Made graph from personal data.
2. Save in "Science," "Grade 6" folder
3. Start the slideshow with title and location.
4. Follow the first slides to show location of their city and latitude.
5. Insert personal graph and discuss how latitude impacts their location's climate. (Seasons? Daylight hours? etc.)


THEN,
move on to other climate modifiers that are variables in their city.
They may even say what is NOT a factor. (ie, lake effects, ocean currents)

They should be working on this each evening and we will be spending time in class.
We will do a gallery walk next Thursday so that students can observe each other's work.

Thanks for your support.
Ms. Tuttle

ROV building is under way!

All classes have been going to the Maker Space, building their ROVs. (Remotely Operated Vehicle)

Donations needed

Happy snow day!

Enjoy the time together. I suggested taking some data over the course of the day to track snowfall.
Bring this tomorrow and we can see how our amounts compare.

Currently, heavy winds and snow here in Warwick. Small branches falling and all surfaces covered in snow.

Class supplies are running low.

If you care to donate tissues and/or glue sticks, they are appreciated.

It's also a good time to restock student supplies--glue sticks, pens, pencils, paper, hilighter and erasers.  This could be done for home and school stock.

Have a great day!
Ms. Tuttle

Weather unit and check in

Greetings families!

We are in the midst of our unit on Weather. Hopefully, your child has been discussing weather and checking in each evening and recording the data for their chosen city.

We just finished an intro on air. The focus was on the idea of testing . Two characteristics of air that we discovered were that air takes up space and has mass.

A quiz was given last week and sent home today.
Their homework tonight is to share this with you.

We are now moving into air pressure and testing it. We have built barometers and are reading about them and changes in air pressure. This leads to isobars and wind.

We will check for understanding later this week on these concepts.

Thanks for your support at home!
Please take the time to call your children in if the TV is on and the weather forecast is on.

Have a great afternoon.
Ms.Tuttle

Robotics--please share

Many of our students are involved in Robotics and are competing this week.

Good luck to all!!

One group is asking that we share their video. Part of their rubric entails sharing, so they are tracking views.

Please share far and wide.

This particular project has to do with using non-toxic formulas to deter flies from livestock.
They even got a provisional patent!!

Enjoy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nLphhT-rqg


Here is a quote from the Robowolves:

This year is Animal Allies, and our project is to help cows, bees, and humans with our product, MOO-ve Fly.  Please view this video about our project, and share it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nLphhT-rqg

Thank you for your support, and I hope that you agree with telling flies to moo-ve.

                                                                               Thank you,

                                                                   Jamestown Robowolves

.

Snow depth measurements

Warwick:
Snow started around 10:15 am. First flakes light.
By noon, pretty steady but still small and fluffy.

2:15PM was 2",
3:15PM is 2.5"

How is Jamestown doing? Or wherever you may be!!
Have fun.
Ms. Tuttle

Today's fun.

SNOW!

More Snow Expected Tomorrow!

1. Accumulations

Be sure to take measurements and record to share on Monday.

Post on the blog if you are able. If not, please email me!

2. Research:

When you’re not out playing in the snow (or shoveling), check out these sites for snow facts and fun.

From the Snow and Ice Data Center:

http://nsidc.org/cryosphere/snow/science

You can also click on the home icon and see what else this site has to offer!!!

Snowflake Bentley:

The first photos of snow.

http://www.snowflakebentley.com/WBsnowflakes.htm

Don’t forget to explore the National Weather Service website for map types, forecasts, and comparisons across the country.

www.weather.gov

Games for Donation?

Greetings families!!

We are now accepting donations of games to be used for indoor recess days. These should be short and easy to implement. (cards, Jenga, Connect 4, etc.)

If you have any to donate, please send with your child to give to Mrs. Rosa, or drop off for Mrs.Rosa at the office.

Thank you!!
Happy New Year!

Charlene Tuttle