KEY TIPS FOR 6TH GRADE SUCCESS

At Home in the Morning

Help your child:

Establish routines for:

Parents should consider:

Returning Home from School

Using the link below, you can log into Infinite Campus to check your grades. If you have not logged in before, note the following about usernames and passwords.

Username = Student ID  (no padded zeros  Ex 1000003560 or 900011111)

Password = First Initial, Last Initial and 6 digit birthday  (XXMMDDYY  ex.  jk122998 or rb041199)

*When students set up their account they will need to set their security preferences and set up a valid email so the system can respond to lost passwords.

Log in to the Infinite Campus Portal to check grades.

Check your grades here!

Grades should be checked weekly to ensure students and parents are fully aware of the student's current grade status.

If a dramatic grade change is noted in a short time, please check to see if the student performed poorly on a quiz or assessment.  If not, please send me an email to ensure an error was not made by me when entering grades.

Are you having trouble logging in to your documents to complete your homework at home?
Are you starting from the BVMS Website?
Are you clicking on CLEVER at the bottom in Quick Links?
Are you logging in with your BVMS username and password?
If not, this may be why.
Try it again using your school Gmail and see if that works.

See District Directions

1)  Log-in to the BVMS Website and click on CLEVER in the Quick Links at the bottom

2)  Enter your school information BELLA VISTA MIDDLE SCHOOL

Then:

Username:  10digitID#+@tvusd.k12.ca.us

Password:  MM/DD/YYYY of birth unless you changed it in another classroom

This should only be necessary once.  It should recognize this computer from then on

Infinite Campus Student and Parent Portal

 Check your grades here!

 Grades should be checked weekly to ensure students and parents are fully aware of the student's current grade status.

If a dramatic grade change is noted in a short time, please check to see if the student performed poorly on a quiz or assessment.  If not, please send me an email to ensure an error was not made by me when entering grades.

Test Corrections:

Want to improve your grade on a quiz or test?   Here is how!

 Test Corrections: 

Test Correction Form

Beginning of the Year up to Parent Conferences (FALL)

1) Students performing below 70% may complete test / quiz corrections up to Parent Conferences in October for 1/2 point per correct answer.  

2) The student's grade on the test / quiz is below a C-.

3) Students must take the test / quiz home to show their parent / guardian and get a FULL SIGNATURE in ink from the parent / guardian on the test they plan to correct and return the test / quiz within a week after the test / quiz was taken

4) Forms turned in late or without a parent signature will receive no points earned.  

Parent Conferences to the End of the Year 

No test corrections will be allowed.

ConnectED is our website to log-in to the Temecula Unified School District's digital material for English Language Arts. We refer to this as Studysync with our students. If you have questions regarding the Studysync materials and units, the link below will provide the information you seek. Please contact me if you have additional questions.

6th Grade Studysync Overview

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Educators can provide instant feedback and track a student’s progress to improve performance. Classroom also helps free up educator time so they can focus on what they do best: teaching.

Visit Google Classroom

We already teach students in the classroom how to use Google Classroom, but if you want videos to get you started using it from home, click here.

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How to sign-in to Quizlet

1) Username:  First name + last 5 of ID# (no spaces)

2) Password:  MM/DD of birth + YYYY (2007 or 2008)

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THREE TYPES OF FORMAL ESSAYS

EXPOSITORY / EXPLANATORY - Central Idea

• Central Idea Sentence (color-coded orange)

• Quote to support the central idea identified (color-coded light blue)

  • Citation (Author #) (color-coded very light blue)

• Elaboration - What does evidence show or mean and how does it support the central idea? (color-coded pink)

• Quote to support the central idea identified (color-coded light blue)

  • Citation (Author #) (color-coded very light blue)

• Elaboration - What does evidence show or mean and how does it support the central idea? (color-coded pink)

• Quote to support the central idea identified (color-coded light blue)

  • Citation (Author #) (color-coded very light blue)

• Elaboration - What does evidence show or mean and how does it support the central idea? (color-coded pink)

• Conclusion

NARRATIVE

• Story Elements

  • Characters

  • Setting

  • Plot

    • Rising Action Events

    • Falling Actions Events

  • Conflict

    • Character / Character, Character / Self, Character / Setting / Nature

  • Theme

  • Climax

  • Resolution

• Dialogue

• figurative Language

• Sensory Description

• Inner Thoughts

EXPOSITORY - Argument

• Claim Sentence

• Reason 1 (color-coded orange)

  • Evidence 1 (color-coded light blue)

  • Citation (Author #) (color-coded very light blue)

  • Elaboration 1 (color-coded pink)

• Reason 2 (color-coded orange)

  • Evidence 2 (color-coded light blue)

  • Citation (color-coded very light blue)

  • Elaboration 2 (color-coded pink)

• Reason 3 (color-coded orange)

  • Evidence 3 (color-coded light blue)

  • Citation (color-coded very light blue)

  • Elaboration 3 (color-coded pink)

• Conclusion

• Transitions (throughout color-coded green)