Entering Sixth Grade

Math

This year IHM will be using the on-line site

Brain Pop

for our summer math practice.

Entering Sixth Grade students should work on the following skills:

Numbers & Operations

Decimals

Order of Operations

Prime Numbers

Rounding

Adding/Subtracting Fractions

Mixed Numbers

Factoring

Geometry

Angles

Probability

Basic Probability

Mean, Median, Mode & Range

Take all 10 quizzes, one for each topic listed above. Print them out, and bring them to school when we return in August  

or

save them as a pdf. file and up-load them in the Homework Drop Box found in the side menu bar.

Language Arts

Students entering Sixth Grade for the fall of 2011 will use

Accelerated Reader

to complete their summer reading enrichment.  The goal is to provide our students with the opportunity to practice and improve their core reading skills using the most innovative tools available.

CLICK HERE

for instructions on logging into Accelerated Reader, or select from the side menu under Site Instructions.

After each book is read, students will need to come to the IHM Computer Lab to take the online quiz.  This will take about 10 to 20 minutes.

Computer Lab
Hours of Operation
are available below

Students will earn points based on their summer reading quiz results.

 Students entering Sixth Grade should

earn 15 points

In addition to the books read for Accelerated Reader points, all students entering Sixth Grade will need to read:

HOOT

By

Carl Hiaasen

A test will be given on this book in the beginning of the 1st trimester.  The test date will be assigned the first week of school