Ms. Lessel

Welcome back from Memorial Day break!  We hope that it was a great one for all.  This week we will be continuing with the adventure novel The Cay by Theodore Taylor.  We will be looking at the introduction to the book and discussing the pyramid of action.   We will also continue to work on Lesson 6 in our vocabulary unit.

 

****Progress reports will be coming home for those students with a 70% or below.  Please sign and have your child return to us by Friday, May 30.*********

 

Homework:

Mobymax.com  – 40 minutes this week

Reading and Log

6th Marking Period Reading Log4

 

Important Dates:

Thursday, May 29 – Vocabulary Cards Due

Friday, May 30- Lesson 7 Vocab. Test

 

     

 

 

This week we will begin reading ” The Cay” , working on the elements of writing and Vocabulary Lesson 7.

 

Important Dates:

 

May 20th Vocab. Lesson 6 Test

May 23- May 26 No School Memorial Day Weekend

May 27  Reading Log 3 Due

May 3o- Vocab Lesson 7 Test

June 2 Reading Log 4 Due and All Library and Ms. Lessel’s  Classroom Books Due

 

Useful links:

 

 

This week we will be looking at how different view points can change a story, writing journal entries and working on Vocabulary Lesson 6.  On Friday students will take their final SRI test to see how they have grown as readers.  SRI will also generate a list of recommend books based on students interests and lexile score. Students are encouraged to bring a flash drive to save this report to use for potential summer reading.

 

Important Dates:

Thursday, May 15th Vocab. Lesson 6 Test REDO  3-3:30  &

Thursday, May 15th  Math and Literacy Night 6:30-7:30.

Friday, May 16th SRI TEST

Monday, May 19th Reading Log Due Readinglog2    &  readinglog2.2

Tuesday, May 21st Vocabulary Lesson 6 Test ( quizlet link coming soon)

Welcome to the final marking period of 6th grade. It sure has flown by. This week we will be wrapping up the research paper on bullying and completing the reading of The Call of the Wild and Lesson 5 Vocabulary. A change has been made to the reading log format. Students are expected to continue reading at home 5 times a week for a total of 100 minutes a week.  Of the 5 times 3 should be reading their good-fit book and two should be on Moby Max. There is a form for students to fill out and a one question weekly response to be completed at home. Your child will need you to sign the form daily. See the link  below for the new form.

 

Important Dates

Monday, May 5 – Reading Log Due

Thursday, May 8- Research Essay on Bullying Due

Friday, May 9- Lesson 5 Vocabulary Test

Monday, May 12th- New Reading Log Due

 

Vocab. Links: Thanks to Mr. Renko’s Leadership class for making the quizlet and providing the link!

https://quizlet.com/41784666/lessel-lesson-5-flash-cards/      15 word set

 

May 5th- Reading Log Due

May 7th- Final Copy Research Essay on Bullying

Welcome Back to the last week of the 5th marking period! This week we will be continuing to read Call of the Wild and revising and editing the research essay on bullying.  We will begin Lesson 5 of Vocabulary.

Important Dates: Marking period ends on Friday, May 2

 

Opportunity for extra credit.

LECTURE / YOUTH EVENT (CHILDREN & TEENS) – C. Alexander London, Author of the Dog Tags Series

Date and Time:Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 6:30pm – 8:00pm

Location: Henry Ford Centennial Library, Auditorium, 16301 Michigan Ave., Dearborn, MI 48126

C. Alexander London, author of the Dog Tags series, will talk about getting in touch with your wild side and writing through an animal’s perspective. All ages welcome.

 

This week we will continue to work on our cause and effect essay.  We will begin working on our introductions and will start looking at how to insert research into the essay and document correctly. We will also continue with reading The Call of the Wild and work in Literature Circles in order to gain a deeper understanding of the story.

In lieu of a reading log, the students will be expected to log on and complete an assignment from the following two websites. I have inserted a screen shot of each website so you can make sure you have made it to the correct website.  The links are not active so you have to edit, copy and paste the address on your own.

 

This website Quizlet is for vocabulary lesson 4:

https://quizlet.com/subject/bryantleadership/

 

This website is used to practice reading and comprehension:

https://www.mobymax.com/signin

 

 

 

 

 

We will be continuing reading  Call of the Wild, working on research and doing Vocabulary Lesson 4.

Homework: Students should be reading for 20 minutes a night and completing a reading log for each night that they read. Over the weekend they are to write a summary of what they read and turn it all in on Monday.

 

Extra Credit: Students may chose to join the community events that go with Call of the Wild and share their experience with the class. All are at Henry Ford  Library this week.

 

Monday- Movie Balto from 7-8:30

Tuesday- Storytime Call of The Wild 6:30- 7:30

 

Saturday- Coyote of the Wild  1- 3

Students are bringing home their progress report for the 5th marking. Any work that is more than 1 week old may not be made up.  Please sign and return by Monday, April 7th.

This week we will continue reading Call of the Wild ( title should be underlined) and using strategies good readers use to comprehend text. In Vocabulary we will be working on Lesson3 with the test on Friday. In Writing we will be conducting research on the effects of bullying.

Homework: Read and Log