Today students are bring home their progress reports for you to see their current status in class. Please sign and return on Monday.
Reminder that Reading Daily Journal is due Monday.
Have a great weekend!
Nov. 4
Today we had a shortened class time due to an assembly about how students can be safe online that was presented by the Michigan Attorney General’s Office. Students are bringing home an Online Safety Contract to be signed and returned.
In class we discussed two new expectations:
1. Students will need to find 5 new and interesting words a week to add to their vocabulary tracker. These words could come from their reading or from something they hear. If they are struggling to find words we have a classroom resource of SAT/ACT prep words suitable for 6th graders that they may use. We encourage them to use this resource rather then go through the dictionary.
Vocabulary Tracker is due on Fridays.
2. Students will need to complete a reading journal each week based on the expectation that their homework is to read their good- fit book for at least 20 minutes a night outside of class.
Reading Journal is due on Mondays.
Remember tomorrow is Election Day. There is NO SCHOOL.
Vocabulary Trackers will be
Oct. 30th – Nov 1st
To end the week we will continue working on reading and comprehending ” The School Play”, writing the essay on Fall, and Daily 5.
Important Dates
Oct. 30th- Student Led Conferences from 3:30 – 6:30 PM
Nov. 1st- Quiz on ” The School Play”
Nov. 4th – Final Copy essay due ” Fall”
Nov. 5th – No School ( Election Day)
Nov. 8th – Reading Journal Due ( Students are expected to read for 100 minutes a week and complete a weekly journal based on their reading at home. We will be discussing this+ Friday in class.)
Oct. 29
Today we listened to a short story ” The School Play”, created a graphic organizer for an essay about fall, and did DAILY 5.
Homework: None ( as long as you have your graphic organizer for your essay done !
Relax with a good-fit book.
Oct. 28
Today we practiced for student led conferences, went to the book fair, and did DAILY 5.
Homework:Pick up your report card and attend conferences a with your parent tonight from 4-7 or Wednesday from 3:30 -6:30.
October 24, 2013
Today you read and worked on finding a simile, metaphor and allusion while reading. You continued to work on your “Come With Me” poem and began to prepare for student-led conferences.
Homework: Finish poem
Oct. 17th and 18th
Welcome Back
Today and Friday we will be identifying the genre of selected passages and finding evidence to support the identification. We will also be working on using sensory details to create a ” Come with me” Poem.
Homework: Read and if you need to work on the poem.
OCT. 11
Today is the last day of the 1st marking. You had an opportunity to view your grade You had an opportunity in class to view your grade and discuss any issues. The grades showing on MI- Star are the ones for your report cards. In class we worked on finishing up our genre notes, learned how to turn a writing prompt question into a thesis, and turned in the literary devices found in our good-fit books.
Enjoy the fall break! Take the opportunity to read, pay attention to what you like about fall, and for some of you get organized or get your school supplies.
See you back on Thursday, Oct. 17 !!!
October 9, 2013
You finished Part 2 of the MEAP reading test. Then you began a discussion about what makes inventors unique. You were able to put on an inventor’s hat and design and invent anything you desired. Following this you went to the auditorium and went on a virtual field trip to San Francisco. (Link below) The student friendly software is located at:
https://students.autodesk.com/
The Virtual Field Trip
https://new.livestream.com/DEN/events/2410568/videos/31862848
Homework: Read
Oct. 8
Today students took Part 1 of the Language Arts MEAP.
In class, we worked on creating clock buddies and DAILY 5. Your are to focus on finding three examples of authors using literary devices in their writing by Friday.
literary devices side 1 literary devices side 2
HOMEWORK: Review your test taking strategies, get a good night’s sleep and eat a healthy breakfast so that you are prepared for tomorrow’s Language Arts MEAP.