Welcome back to school for the 2026-27 school year! My name is Valerie Taylor, and I am so excited to be teaching your child sixth grade math and science. Communication is going to be the key to a successful year for everyone involved. We are going to have a great year!
MATH
We will be using the Eureka Math Squared curriculum as well as the Zearn online program focusing on ratios, rates, and percents, operations with fractions and multi-digit whole numbers, rationals numbers, expressions and equations, area, surface area, volume, and statistics. I will be dropping short instructional videos for each lesson in your child's google classroom accounts they may access from home if they need help or review during the year.
SCIENCE
We will be using Amplify Science as our curriculum. Each unit will have quizzes throughout as well as a unit test. At the end of each 9 weeks, a benchmark test will be given by the district that is very similar to the LEAP test students will take in the spring.
GOOGLE CLASSROOM
GOOGLE CLASSROOM will be your best friend! Have your child log in from home so that you can see what we did each day! It will also have important dates as well.
Students will be using Google Classroom daily for assignments in math class. I will be uploading instructional videos, homework assignments, exit tickets, and websites with extra practice if needed.
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Zearn will be used daily to preview/practice skills we have learned in class.
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At least 3 Zearn lessons will assigned every Monday for the week and will be due by Friday at 3 pm.
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Each lesson completed will be worth a 5 point completion grade in my gradebook. To receive the points, students must complete all of the scratch work in their Zearn workbooks I will provide.
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Zearn completion grades will be given for each module each week!
ZEARN REQUIREMENTS:
Zearn can be accessed through the following Clever website:
www.clever.com/in/monroecityschools