Sixth Grade
Mrs. Koltzan
Mr. Purkis
Mrs. Alessi
Welcome to our Sixth Grade Homepage. This is a very important year in your child's life for many reasons. Together as a team, we can make this a very positive and constructive year. With all the pressures of tests and assignments they will be asked to complete this year, we encourage your help and guidance at home.
Academics have always been the number one most important aspect in your child's life, and it is our goal to continue preparing your child for their future. Soon, you will be finding yourself thinking about what college your child will be attending. It is our intention to prepare your child for the skills necessary to attain those goals. The academics your child will be asked to perform will be the ones in route to the next level of Junior High and beyond.
If you haven't experienced it already, you are about to enter into the era of the pre-teen and teenage stage. Between the ages of 11 and 12, our children go through the stage of inner uncertainty. As they begin their profound and formidable transformation to adulthood, the mind of a sixth grader is growing and evolving to embrace broader subjects and thinking is less tied to concrete reality, becoming more flexible and open to abstract ideas.
As sixth grade teachers, we are here to help make this transition to adulthood a positive one! We hold close to our hearts their humor and fresh enthusiasm for life while fostering their individual needs. We understand the pressures of the outside world and how it affects them, yet we try to nurture and guide them to become young gentlemen and ladies. With the "team" approach, we are confident that your child will leave our great school ready for Westhampton.
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Sixth Grade News
April Happenings in Sixth Grade
In Science, the sixth graders are still learning about the periodic table of elements. As soon as the unit wraps up, they will be researching an element and working on creating their very own element superheroes/villains.
Date Added: 4/9/2025
March Happenings in Sixth Grade
The sixth grade visited Westhampton Beach Middle School for seventh grade orientation and returned to East Quogue excited to be seventh graders.In math, the students are finishing up an algebra unit and will be starting a unit using Integers where they will represent quantities in real-world contexts using positive and negative numbers. In science, they just finished a unit on electricity and magnetism. The students will now begin learning about elements and the periodic table, Mrs. Alessi’s favorite.There are a lot of fun projects during this unit that the students enjoy. Anita from the Group for the East End visited for an in-house lesson on the moon and the tides.Our lesson ended with a fun “moon munch” activity. In ELA the students just finished writing a five-paragraph, informative essay on change. The students had to reflect on changes within themselves, changes in a character in the book “Walk Two Moons,” and changes in our society.
Date Added: 3/13/2025
December School Happenings in Sixth Grade
In math, the sixth grade students are learning how percents are used in the world and how to convert between fractions, decimals and percents. In science, they are learning about the different types of energy and applying this knowledge to their very own Rube Goldberg machines.The sixth grade students have also been busy planning holiday activities and are excited to share their ideas with the other students for Holiday Helpers on Thursday, December 19th.
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Date Added: 12/10/2024
November Happenings in Sixth Grade
The sixth graders are learning about rates, ratios and proportions in math.They now know how to compare prices. Take them shopping with you, and they’ll know how to find the best deals! In science, the students are finishing their second unit on solids, liquids and gases. They also had a guest educator from Cornell Cooperative who talked about the Back to the Bays Program.The guest educator shared a lot of the programs that are available and shared the information with families via Parent Square. In ELA, the sixth graders just finished writing personal narratives. To celebrate all their hard work, they had a Popcorn Publishing Party! The students shared their writing, wrote compliments for each other and ate Popcorners.
October School Happenings in Sixth Grade
The sixth graders are off to a great start! They love switching classes, being safeties and reading their first novel,“The Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus.”In science, the students have already completed two labs and just finished their first chapter “Introduction to Matter.” In ELA, they are reading narratives and learning how an author develops the point of view of characters. In Math, students are reviewing operations of fractions and decimals.