The Cary Academy 6 Grade

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Team Presents

Are You Smarter Than a 6th

Grader?
 Are You Smarter Than a
6th Grader?

5th Grade Health 6th Grade at Cary Academy

3rd Grade Social Studies 4th Grade Language

1st Grade Math 2nd Grade Science

#1. Parents who are new to Cary
Academy often have questions about
school procedures and policies.
Where should parents look to find
answers for these questions?

Multiple Choice
A. The perfectly organized binder
of their 6th grader
B. The nearest gas station. With
those prices they must have all of the
answers!
C. The yellow pages of the phone book
D. The Cary Academy Web Page

Student Handbook
#2. Sometimes, even after checking
the Cary Academy web page, parents
still have questions. If so, who would
be a good initial contact?

Multiple Choice
A. This guy looks pretty intelligent—
ask him.
B. Ask a former 6th grade student.
C. Ask the Charger mascot.
D. Ask your child’s advisor.
#3. Some 6th grade students have
older brothers or sisters involved in
after school activities. Can these
students hang out at school while
they are waiting to be picked up?

Please give your final answer.

Answer: After 3:30 MS students must
be with a faculty member, a parent, or
in the extended day program.

Students are not allowed to go to the

library without a pass from their
teacher.
#4. On average, how much homework can a 6th
th grader at Cary Academy

expect?

Please consider:
• Long term assignments
• Time management
• Tuesday and Thursday study halls during enrichment

Please give your final answer

Answer: 1 to 2 hours
#5. What is the required dress code
at Cary Academy?

A. Only clothes purchased at Charger

Corner are permitted
B. No Shoes, no shirt, no service
C. Boys are not permitted to wear
spaghetti straps
D. In general:
No hats, sunglasses, or athletic wear
If there are belt loops/must wear belt
Girls skirts no more than 4” above knee
Shorts must be mid thigh or longer
All t-shirts must be tucked in
All boys shirts must be tucked in
Hemmed blouses for girls may be out
(p. 43-44 of student handbook)
#6. 6th graders and their parents are
often concerned about the transition
into middle school. How does Cary
Academy help 6th graders with this
transition?

Multiple Choice
A. Teachers are required to dress as
Superman for the first week of school.
B. Cary Academy believes in the sink or
swim method of transition.
C. Students are expected to bring
bribery in the form of food or gifts
for their teachers.
D. Teachers and advisors supply a
great deal of support to make the
transition as smooth as possible.
Orientation—Advisory—Transition Skills
(organization, time management, tablet training)
#7. The middle school years are filled
with emotional and physical growth.
How does the sixth grade foster the
development of the whole child?

Multiple Choice
A. Heck if we know! 
B. We pull them along.
C. There’s an app for that!
D. The Charger Trails Program
The purpose of this program is to equip middle-
school students with social and emotional life skills
which foster individual well-being and a healthy
community.

Please give your final answer

# 8. In which extra curricular
activities can 6th graders participate?

Multiple Choice
A. Horseback riding on horses from
Charger Stampede
B. Opportunities are provided to clean
the art studios.
C. Teachers offer human Domino Rally
after school.
D. Cary Academy students may not join
a sports team until 7th grade. 6th
graders may be involved in the
following:
• Intramurals
• After school clubs
• The All-School Musical: Parent/student information meeting
on Monday 10/11 at 7:00 PM in the theater
• Art Crew for the theatrical production
#9. What are majors and minors at
Cary Academy?

Multiple Choice
A. Who knows what majors are, but
minors dig for coal during break.
B. How can we have drum majors when
we don’t have a marching band?
C. Art is both a major and a minor. So,
when you go to Moe’s, order an Art
Vandalay.
 D. There are 6 arts majors at Cary
Academy: Vocal, Dance, Visual,
Theater, Band, and Orchestra.
• All students will start the year with their major teacher.

All students will receive their class schedules on the

FIRST day of school and will find out their major at that
time.

•Minors—students rotate through the various arts classes.

#10. What are the drop off and pick up procedures at Cary Academy?

D. Middle school students should be dropped off and picked up in front of the middle school. Please follow the detailed
procedure
procedure found
found on
on page
page 27
27 of
of the
the MS
MS student
student handbook.
handbook.

Always remember:

 Please
Please be patient and practice safe driving procedures to ensure the safety of all.

 Teachers
Teachers will be outside assisting traffic flow. Please follow their
will be outside assisting traffic flow. Please follow their directions.
directions.
 Important items to remember:
6th
th grade Orientation is Tuesday, August 10 th
th.

Coffee and conversations for parents and siblings in the Fine Arts building during
orientation.

Schedules are handed out on the first day of school.

Tablets will not go home until Monday, August 16 th

th.

Parent informational meeting for the overnight trip is Tuesday, August 24 th

th at 3:10 in FA004.