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October 28, 2016

AWARD WINNERS FOR FIRST 6 WEEKS OF SCHOOL! Students are working on the pyramid of action and inference in short stories. We are also […]

Oct. 14, 2016

Congratulations to our First Marking Period Certificate and Awards Winners! Job well done! The second marking period begins on Monday. Let’s start off on the right track!

Today in class students continued practicing Point of View. We went to the media center for new books, and worked on Daily Oral Language and completed Work Work. Assessments on Author’s Purpose and Grammar lessons from Weeks 1 and 2 will be in Student Connect by Friday. Please review! There are MANY no name papers […]

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October 7, 2016

This week students worked on the grammar components of comma usage, underlining vs. using quotation marks, and apostrophe’s during Daily Oral Language. We also discussed Point of View and created a foldable with notes in our interactive notebooks. There will be a short Quick Review (quiz) on this material Tuesday or Wednesday of next week. […]

September 29, 2016

Today we put the finishing touches on our “Book Timeline” and those who aren’t finished either brought them home this evening or will have about 15 minutes in class tomorrow. We also went to the media center and completed a “Book Pass” in order to help the students find just the right book for them […]

September 23, 2016

Today we worked on our “Book Timeline” project by placing the books on the timeline and began to write why the book was important to us. Yesterday we got an official introduction and tour of the media center so, the students should be familiar with the “Destiny Quest” search engine for the Bryant Middle School […]

September 22, 2016

We are just finishing up our NWEA reading and language assessments and the students have received their score. Today we will discuss how their score converts to thier individual Lexile level and how to use the Lexile.com website effectively. We are also continuing to work on our “My Book Timeline” project.

Welcome to 6th Grade

Welcome to Mrs. Griffin’s and Mr. Dicks classroom. We are spending the first week on getting to know you activities and learning the layout of the school and classroom procedures. We are very excited to have you as students in our classroom and look forward to a wonderful year.

June 3, 2016

Vocabulary Cumulative Review on Tuesday, June 7. The words are posted on the previous blog. Students are continuing with the Literature Circle Groups and their group novels. We hope to be wrapping the novels up this week. Have a great weekend!