Navigators News

Lowes Grove Navigators Team 10/1/2017

Starting the Year Strong

We are officially more than 5 weeks into school and the Navigators
team has started out stronger than ever! Classes are well underway
Shout Outs

and teaching exciting new content. Students are experts at middle
school procedures. In our humble opinion, the Navigators hall is the From: Ms. Silvia
To: Her Core 1 Class
place to be this 2017-2018 school year. Keep an eye out for special
Great job, Core 1, on not
shout outs from your teachers in this newsletter, as well as updates
letting anyone fail the test on
about what to expect from all of your core classes.
9/22/17! Good job holding each
September in Rev iew other accountable!
Our Navigators students are well aware of what happens to cell
From: Ms. Silvia
phones that are seen or heard on our hallway! After some rude
To: Fiorela
awakenings, Navigators have become the best about not having cell Good job always going above
phones out during the school day. In all my years teaching at Lowes and beyond it especially
Grove, Ive never seen a group of students keep such good care of
shows on your quiz scores!
their cell phones. For any students who are still struggling
remember, Ms. Godin cant take your cell phone if it is safely in your From: Ms. Wright
locker!! To: Jaaziel
Youre doing amazing work.
Weve seen an exciting new Lunch procedure happen during the Keep it up!
month of September. Students are going to lunch straight from their
electives, and we are seeing a lot more Intramural/Enrichment time as From: Ms. Godin
To: Shyaziah
a result. Were also doing a good job of leaving the cafeteria in a clean
Youre a natural leader! Keep
and orderly fashion Ms. Silvias 4 th core especially has been
showing the rest of 6 th grade
complimented by the custodial staff here at Lowes Grove on the clean
how its done.
state of their table as they leave the cafeteria.
From: Ms. Vollmuth
Your ELA and Math classes have all finished taking their i-Ready
To: Taylor
benchmarks. We just finished the reading test in the last week of
You rock!
September. You should be getting those scores soon. Remember
whether you scored On Level, Above Level, or Below Level, we
can all focus on growing and improving ourselves.

Navigators are taking 6 th Grade by storm!

English/Language Arts
In October we will move into the second half of Unit
1: The Power of the Narrative. Students have been
studying all the elements of good stories for the past
4-5 weeks, and now they will begin applying what
theyve learned to their own narratives.
Students have already learned all about plot,
characters, conflict, and setting. During October,
they will learn more about how stories have
themes, or lessons that they communicate through
their storytelling. Students will analyze how all the
other elements of a story serve to back up the theme,
and how themes can apply to everybody on Earth,
not just people inside of a story.
After students finish learning all about theme, they
will be fully equipped to start planning and writing
their own narratives. They will have the unique
opportunity to write their own narratives. They will
be tasked with using their storytelling skills to
convey their own theme into the world.
Math
In Math, weve been reviewing skills such as
multiplication, greatest common factor (GCF), least
common multiple (LCM), and prime numbers.
In October, we will move into working with ratios,
rates, and percents. Students will have to understand
measurements, how parts relate to a whole, and how
to compare two sets of things numerically.
Announcements:
PICTURE DAY IS ON OCTOBER 11 th!!!
Cell phones that are being held prisoner in the front office may be retrieved by parents and guardians.
Make sure to keep them in your locker next time, kids!
Keep an eye out from your homeroom teach er
Social Studies
The students are settling in quite nicely. In October
we will conclude Unit 1, in which students will be
learning about the beginning of human societies.
Students will study the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras
and examine the techniques, technology, and
development of society that fit with this way of life.
Students will also learn about ancient civilizations
through web-quests and projects.
We have Sgt. Hinton from the Durham Sheriff
Department visiting the Social Studies classes on
Mondays and Tuesdays; he is teaching students
about making positive choices each day.
Students did a great job in creating a dodecahedron
ball about themselves. They proudly hang from the
ceiling of our classroom.
Science
In the month of October, we will be continuing our
space exploration unit. We will be discussing how
the Earth, Sun, and Moon interact with each other.
We will also be discussing the Space Race. Our
experiments and investigations will guide us as we
gain an understanding of the unknown. We will
gain an understanding of our content vocabulary
and practice taking excellent notes and develop our
study habits.
After our Space Exploration, we will transition to our
Light and Sounds unit, where we will study different
ways that energy moves.