NIght of the Notables

Dear Sixth Grade Families,

Tomorrow is the big day! Everyone is very excited and ready to show you all that they have learned. Students should bring any outstanding pieces tomorrow morning so we can set up in the afternoon.

Tomorrow night students are expected to be on campus at 6:00 in costume.Students should report to their classroom teacher for set up instructions. At that time parents are welcome to make their way downstairs to the 4th grade Oregon History Wax Museum.

At 6:30 we will open the hallways for friends and family to begin the questioning. Inside the lunch sack, which you will receive on your way in, will be a program. This program will contain the name of all 75 notable figures. Your job is to ask each person 3 questions that can be answered with yes or no. For example, you could ask "Do you work in the sciences?"  Once you have asked your 3 questions, write down the number found on the notable figure next to their name in your program. How many can you guess in 45 minutes? At 7:15, the notable figures will leave their seats and make their way to the gym, library, or cafeteria. There they will stand with their boards, allowing you to learn all about each notable figure. You'll have another 45 minutes to visit each person at their board, collect souvenirs, and admire all the hard work represented. All students are expected to stay until 8:00. At 8:00, students will return their chair to their classroom, help clear the room they presented in, and head for home.

If you'd like to do a little pre studying, here is the list of all the notable figures.

 Alexander Graham Bell
 Alfred Nobel
 Beethoven
 Florence Nightingale
 Gottlieb Daimler
 Maria Wollstonecraft
 Napoleon Bonaparte
 Orville Wright
Albert Einstein
Amelia Aerhart
Anne Frank
Anne Vallayer Coster
Audrey Hepburn
Babe Zaharias
Beckanne Sisk
Bruce Wayne
Clara Barton
Claude Monet
Coco Chanel
Corrie ten Boom
Dwayne Johnson
Edith Cavell
Edwin Hubble
Elizabeth Cody Stanton
Ethel Merman
Florence Griffith Joyner
Gabrielle Douglas
Gordon Ramsey
Grace Kelly
Helen Keller
Henry Ford
Hiram Maxim
Ida B. Wells
Irena Sandler
James Watt
Jane Goodal
Janis Joplin
Jesse Owens
Johnny Depp
Julia Child
Kurt Cobain
Lady Emma Hamilton
Lillian Gish
Louis Armstrong
Louis Pastuer
Lucille Ball
Lyudmila Pavlichenko
Maria Theresa
Marilyn Monroe
Mark Tobey
Mia Hamm
Michael Jordan
Mother Theresa
Neil Armstrong
Nikola Tesla
Olympe de Gouges
Oskar Schindler
Princess Di
Princess Margret
Queen Rania
Queen Victoria
Ricahrd Feynman
Serena William
Shawn Johnson
Shirley Temple
Stephen Hawkings
Tchaikovsky
Thomas Edison
Vincent Van Gogh
WC Handy
Werner Von Braun
Wilbur Wright
Will Smith


Looking forward to seeing you all tomorrow,


Miss King

4/30/14

Today was Working Hard Wednesday.

• We worked hard!  We planted seeds, weeded and beautified the north side of the school.

Tomorrow is Culture Day.  Students are allowed to wear or bring one thing that respresents their culture. 

See you all tomorrow night at Night of the Notables!

4/29/14

Today was "Team Tuesday" and I was surprised more students didn't show up in a team jersey.  This is the first time in the history of our school that we have had a spirit week, students should definitely show their spirit and participate.

• We began our day by cleaning our room, then beginning to map Mexico.
• In math we corrected lesson 110 and reviewed our math test 21A and then took test 21B.  Lesson 111 is homework
• We revamped our Greek and Latin Root learning and are going to stop getting new roots and really focus on learning the roots we have done thus far this year.  Student created notecards with the last 10 roots on them.
• We listened to two presentations for NON before heading to World Language.
• World Language
• Our last reading group read the Amazing Undersea Food Web
• We visited the Book Fair and created a wish list.
• Lunch
• P.E. / Small groups in the classroom
• We went through a powerpoint of the life zones in the ocean, then we got out the paint and tried not to make a mess while painting our own zones in the pelagic region of the ocean. They will dry then we will label and put our dwellers in them tomorrow.  If students printed or drew huge dwellers they are to rescale them to fit their painting and bring them to school tomorrow.
• Most students will finish presentations tomorrow.
• Study GLR roots on cards we made today for our game tomorrow.

Have a great night,

Sixth grade

4/28/14 Monday

Monday:

• It is Spirit Week and today is Military Monday.  Students and teachers could have worn a yellow ribbon or yellow adornment to honor or military.  Pictures went up in the hallway of our Cascade community military members.  Come and have a look.  We also went out and did a ceremonial flag raising brought to us by the Girl Scouts of our school.  Then fourth grade sang the National Anthem.  Tomorrow is Team Tuesday, and students can wear a team jersey over their polo.
• In math we corrected 109 & 110, then worked on Investigation 11 in class.  Homework is to finish Investigation 11 and do Practice Test 21A
• We used some class time to make sure we had our scoring rubrics in for our Night of the Notables and turned in our papers.  Two students presented in the morning and we are hoping for a least one more this afternoon.  Presentations will take place all week.
• World Language.  Many Spanish students didn't do their homework and ended up staying in for working lunch.
• Independent reading time and last check-ins about N.O.N..
• Lunch
• Music/P.E.
• Core Knowledge, we were given a squid diagram to see if we could remember the external and internal anatomy from our dissection on Friday.  We then watch a TED talk on "The Deep Ocean" from a Marine Bio website.  We are learning about the zones of the ocean.  So far we realized there is more than one way to categorize the ocean zones, but that there are two broad zones; pelagic and benthic.  Ask your child what these mean. Tonight students are to draw or print off some ocean dwellers to put into zones for tomorrow.

Lastly, the book fair is happening and is open after school until 4:30 tomorrow and Wednesday then all evening on the day of NON.

Have a great rest of your day,

Miss King

Thursday, April 24

Yippee, it's Thursday....but we are also here tomorrow for a super field trip!

Today we began our day in the gym for our All School Assembly.  Peter Hungerford received the award for "Self-sufficiency" and many students in the class received the National Physical Fitness Award.  Great job guys!

In math we were efficient with our time and will have Lesson 109 & 110, covering "Corresponding Parts, Similar Figures and Symmetry", for homework over the weekend. 

For our Language Arts time we worked in class on Night of the Notables.  Everything is due Monday!   Students were given rubrics and checklists again if they didn't have them.  These should be filled out when they return on Monday.  They need to attach a bibliography and be ready to present to the class some time next week.

Students have homework in World Language that should be written in their planner.

We did some more reading about oceans during reading group time.

We will not have Riggs over the weekend, due to N.O.N. and time restraints today.   Throughout today students have been called to the lab to finish their MAP testing and should be all done with this today, unless they are absent.

In Core Knowledge we have started our ocean unit and will model and label with play dough the ocean floor.

Tomorrow please remember to bring an ocean snack to share if possible and that there is no hot lunch so everyone needs to bring their own lunch.  It is a regular uniform day.

Thank you,

Miss King

4/23/14

Wednesday,

• This morning we answers questions about our Canada map for morning work.  We learned that Canada has 10 provinces and 3 territories among other things.
• Math we finished corrected our quiz from yesterday as a class, then went over lesson 108 and our drawings.  Lesson 108 is our homework tonight.
• We had a condensed version of CPR before we headed to MAP testing for science.  Many students finished and most students are all done MAP testing.
• World Language
• Reading we read about ocean trenches and the salinity of the ocean and answered questions about our informative text.
• We took a Riggs test
• Lunch
• P.E./ Music
• We came back to class and got our new Riggs words: topography, continental, plain, plane, subsurface, phytoplankton
• We took an ocean pre-test
• Then took notes on ocean, covering surface and subsurface features.  Students took notes from our Smartboard notebook pages and were asked to go home and look up "Coral atoll" as their ticket into the door tomorrow.
• We read Chapter 6 of the Giver
• N.O.N. work tonight is working on final draft and work on boards. 
• Clean-up and home

Have a great evening.

April 22, 2014

Field Trip News

This is a reminder that there is a field trip this Friday, April 25th.  Below you will find our itinerary.

8:00-11:00 We will be in science lab and classroom

11:30 board bus for OMSI

12:00 See Oceans Wild

1:15 Head to Portland Aquarium

3:15 Head back to campus

3:30 Carline

Students have voted and think it would be a good idea to bring an ocean snack to share.  Thank you for your help on this.  After dissecting squids, some might loose their appetites!

 

Today:

 

• We started by finishing our Canada map and some students went to the lab and finished MAP testing in math.
• For math we got our corrected test 20B back and went over some problem areas on white boards. We then did another quiz.  Our homework is to correct our test and get it signed as well as draw two examples of each of the new concepts in lesson 108: translations, reflections and rotations.
• We finished our French Revolution presentations.
• Exercise 18 & 19 in Warriner's Grammar book
• World Language
• We read about the zones in the ocean and the terrain for reading time
• We got Riggs words:  sunlit, twilight, abyss, trench, sediment, landmass
• Lunch
• P.E.
• N.O.N. we worked on our four questions with surprising facts for our board.  Students were encouraged to put information from their interview. Students were reminded that they need to cite at least one source, a quote in their paper.  If  they got anything back from their business letter being written, this is great for show off on their board. Remember that borders on boards are to be homemade and not store bought and when thinking about the costume you cannot go above $15 for the whole NON project.
• MAP testing was a bit of a technological pain, but many students are down to just doing science.

Homework:
Riggs
Math L108 drawings and sign and correct test 20B
N.O.N. Finish 4 questions for board

Thank you,

 

 

Miss King

April 21, 2014

Inside the classroom,

• We began with our quiz on mapping the United States.  It was evident that many students did not study and will have an opportunity tomorrow to re-do their test before the grade goes in the grade book.
• In math we did Power Up M, corrected lesson 106, corrected our practice test 20A and worked problems on our whiteboards.  Students then took test 20B and for homework they have L107 practice set, and #'s: 2,5,6,7,9,10,11,12,17,22,23,24,&28 as well as the reteach sheet 107.
• We then did our Greek and Latin root quiz
• Went over where we are in our N.O.N. project.  Students realize it is crunch time as the Night of the Notables is only 6 school days away....next Thursday, May 1st.  They should have their boards going, their costume going and tonight they will finish the last paragraph of their rough draft, the conclusion. Some students did not ask parents to edit this weekend and should have, so if you have not gone over their paper, please do so.
• World Language
• French Revolution Menu presentations are still going and should be done by tomorrow, so we can move into our Ocean unit.
• Silent reading and read the Giver out-loud.
• Lunch
• Music/P.E.
• Went over a few introductory paragraphs with the class, taught the concept of the conclusion, checking in with students on their project component sheets for N.O.N.
• Pack up and home after two more presentations happened.

Thank you,

Miss King

April 17th, 2014

Dear Sixth Grade Families,

I hope putting up a more detailed description of our day is helpful to families.  It could also help spark conversation at the dinner table! 

A few things besides our day:

Students are forgetting to bring their water bottle and/or get their planner signed.  Please remember it is getting warmer, water helps children's brains.  Getting a signature in their planner is part of their homework and a way to show responsibility, it is REQUIRED!

Field Trip Friday is coming up next week! 
April 25th--We will be in the science lab dissecting squid, possibly doing fish prints, decorating our room.  Next we will go to OMSI for a "Wild Ocean" movie, and from there we will travel to the Portland Aquarium to end our day.  At this point, I have one volunteer for this fun filled day.   This is a day in which you only have to come for parts of the field trip if you wish, just email me.

Night of the Notables--May 1st.  Students arrive at 6pm and doors close with students leaving with their boards at 8:05pm. 

Bonus Field Trip--May 6th at 9:45am at the Winningstad Theater.  We will be seeing "The Giver" as a play.  Please email me if you wish to be a chaperone.

Editing help--A few parents stepped it up and helped in the editing process for the body paragraphs for the Night of the Notables paper.  However, your help is still needed.  Before your child begins the final draft, please take one more look at the contents.  They should have at least seven sentences in each paragraph and really highlight the life of their character.  Paragraphs are as follows:

Family/Childhood
Education
Career
Notable recognition
Modern influence

We began our intro paragraph in class today.

MAP testing--we will have another session on Tuesday for Language Usage and Reading, then Wednesday and Thursday we will cover science.  Please make sure your child is well rested and has plenty of snack next week.  Results to come home soon.


Today in our classroom:

• We began with mapping Canada
• We took a Riggs test
• We presented our French Revolution Menu item (not everyone got to this and not everyone was ready :( )
• World Language
• Learned about introduction paragraph, what to do and what not to do and wrote it down for clarification purposes
• Lunch
• P.E./Art
• In art students did their sketches and most need to finish them at home to attach to their boards.  Students should try to begin boards this weekend if possible if not by Monday of next week.
• Assembly where we watched the K-4 music concert that will be taking place this evening
• We came back to our classrooms and most of us didn't clean out our desk or work on our Notable paragraph. 
• We were suppose to clean up and pack-up and get our planners signed.

The next time students leave the classroom this messy, I will be forced to have 6th grade parents pull over and wait until the room is clean.  Thankfully a parent came to the rescue to clean today.  Not okay, a bit of chaos. 

Students were also given a print out of the grade book for Language Arts and History and Geography.  Please sign them and have your child bring them back on Monday and I will check them off and they can take them home.

Thank you,

Miss King

April 16, 2014

Good afternoon,

• We started our day with beginning a Canadian Map and getting our U.S. checked for completeness.  A quiz on our U.S. map will happen on Monday.  Watch for a study guide and the map to come home today.
• In math most students should have finished their homework in class as we did our Power Up, taught the lesson and had over 1/2 hour to do our lesson.  A small group gathered to go over positives and negative numbers based on their quiz scores from the previous day.
• We finished the French Revolution movie from the History Channel and did a free write about what we learned.
• World Lanuage
• Reading and read the Giver to them
• We added two new Greek and Latin root words to our Grammar books, there will be a quiz on Monday.
• We got our Riggs words.
• Lunch
• P.E./Music
• MAP testing in the area of Language Usage
• Clean up/ Planners/ Read the Giver

The French Revolution Menu item is due tomorrow.

Thank you,

Miss King

Riggs words
foliage
portfolio
exfoliate
humiliate
humus
humility

April 15, 2014

Today:

• We began class with a Riggs test.
• We took a quiz on adding and subtracting negative numbers in Math, then went over last night's lesson and went to MAP testing.  About 1/3 of the students finished MAP testing.  THERE IS NO MATH HOMEWORK TONIGHT!!
• We worked on our N.O.N., getting our re-do of our timeline checked (some students were given until Thursday to re-do again as the intervals are wrong), our souvenirs checked and finishing up our 5th paragraph for the body of our paper.  Students were suppose to turn in their paragraphs today to be edited.  We will start the process of the intro and conclusion paragraphs tomorrow.
• World Language
• Silent reading and more one-on-one help and checking in about Night of the Notables.
• Lunch
• P.E and small group work in the classroom. 
• Students were given a menu with nine choices for the French Revolution review.  They then drew a chapter out of bowl at random.   Students are meant to do a fun project to summarize their chapter and bring it back to class to enlighten us by Thursday.  This was started in class and are due on Thursday!
•  MAP testing in reading.  We will continue to do small chunks of reading time until we finish. The computers froze today, so we did not have time to come back and watch the video about the French Revolution.

Homework tonight:

Work on Menu choice due Thursday
N.O.N. should be done with all five body paragraphs, souvenirs, and timeline

Have a wonderful night,

Miss King

4/14/14

Good afternoon,

Today was a full day that went by fairly quickly.

• We started with mapping the major rviers of the U.S..
• In math we did some review from reteach sheets, instead of a Power Up.  We turned in Test 19B signed and corrected (many didn't).  Tomorrow students can retake test 19.  Lesson 104 was assigned for homework.
• We learned about conjunctions in Warriner's Grammar.
• Worked on paragraph five (Modern Influence) for N.O.N.. Students should have all four body paragraphs done in rough draft by now, so we can start the Intro and Conclusion paragraphs this week. Souvenir check in is tomorrow.
• World Language
• Reading of the Giver
• Riggs and Greek and Latin Roots
• Lunch
• P.E./Music
• MAP testing in reading (more to come tomorrow)
• Watched more on the French Revolution
• Clean-up/planner/home

palindrome
dromedary
mountainous
insurmountable
paramount
promontary

Thanks,

Miss King

4/10/14

Today.....

• We silent read and mapped capitals of the U.S.A..
• In math we got our test back, corrected L.102, assigned L 103 and to correct our 19B test and get it signed.  We also started MAP testing.
• We charted diagramming sentences in our Grammar Notebook.
• Greek and Latin root game
• World Language
• Started a movie on the French Revolution.
• Lunch
• Art
• P.E.
• French Revolution movie
• N.O.N. we talked about our timeline and got them checked.  All timelines need to fix their time intervals. This weekend students are suppose to get to their 4th paragraph rough draft, fix their timeline and know  that their souvenirs are due on Tues.  They also got a rubric for their timeline and drew their board elements.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Miss King

4/9/14

Today,

• Riggs test
• Math lesson 101 corrected, taught and assigned 102
• Grammar Warriner'Exercise 16
• Mapping exercise of the U.S.A.
• World Lanuage
• The Giver read-aloud
• Greek and Latin roots
• Lunch
• P.E./ Music
• Night of the Notables working in class time.  Should be on rough draft paragraph three.  Final draft of timeline is due to be checked at school tomorrow.  Print a black a white sketch or bring one in, in from a book for art tomorrow.  If students are behind and you have not contacted me, they will stay in for lunch.

Have a great day!

April 8th, 2014

4/8/14

Our day today:

• Riggs test and mapping exercise (identifying refresher)
•  Math we took test 19B. assigned lesson 101 as homework
• Corrected our quiz from last week on parts of speech and redid the part on types of nouns
• World Language
• Read Chapter Nine in our history book
• Students were given 45 minutes of in class writing time for Night of the Notables.  This means students should be done with their Key Word Outline, first paragraph and second paragraph rough draft finished. 
• Students were also given an otption of taking home card stock strips for their timeline.  Their final draft has to be done at home based on their rough draft that was handed back last week. 
• We went over the unit assessment packets students finished as homework last night.
• We took a history quiz using pictures or a slide show depicting different times and happenings in the Industrial Revolution.  There were nine slides in all.
• We talked about our suvenirs and looked at examples.  We alsogot our NON paper scoring rubric and board scoring rubric.  Please watch for the elements of the board tomorrow.

Riggs:

importance
therefore
expense
association
foreigners

Have a good night,

Miss King

N.O.N. Actual Night Schedule for May 1st

NON Schedule

Night of the Notables and the 4th Grade Oregon History Wax Museum are coming up quickly. This very special night is one of the highlights of middle school and is a chance for your friends and family to see the amazing work done. Please mark your calendar and clear your schedules! The night is not optional for students, as it is the presentation portion of their project and students are excited to share their hard work with you.

Schedule

5:30 - 4th graders arrive in costume and set up for the Oregon History Wax Museum

 5:45 - Wax Museum opens - All visitors are encouraged to visit the Wax Museum

 6:00 - Students must arrive at 6:00 p.m. The doors will open for guests at 6:30 p.m. You may be thinking, "What am I going to do for 30 minutes while my student is getting ready?" Well, I have a great opportunity for you! Ms. Cantin's fourth graders will be entertaining you downstairs. They have been studying Oregon history and will have their wax museum set up. While you're waiting, visit each of the wax figures and push their button to hear their recordings.

 6:30 - Wax Museum closes. 4th graders are encouraged to attend the Night of the Notables portion of the evening.

 6:30 - At 6:30 the doors will open and you will be invited to start questioning the notable characters. Each character will be wearing a number and your job is to match that number to the list of characters provided. Remember, you only get three questions per character and you can only ask yes/no questions. If you'd like to do some research ahead of time, the list of characters is below! At 7:15 the notable characters will move to their display boards and you'll have the chance to match your answers to the real answers. How many do you think you can identify correctly? Students will be ready to leave WITH their display boards at 8:05.

If you have any questions, please let us know!

Night of the Notables is May 1st.

Happenings (this was also emailled)

Dear Sixth Grade Families,

A few happenings ....

MAP Testing:

We will be doing our last round of MAP (Measuring Academic Progress) testing beginning this week.  Make sure your child has plenty of rest, and a nutritious snack, as well as lunch.

Night of the Notables Workshop: 

As part of the Night of the Notables, students will be making souvenirs to hand out the night of the event.  This Thursday, April 10th is the souvenir workshop for Night of the Notables. This is a chance for students to work together in a relaxed atmosphere with snacks, music, and friends. Teachers will be on hand to provide technical assistance and oversight.  Students should bring all of the supplies they need to work and a great attitude. We will begin right after carline and be ready for pick-up at 5:00pm.

Field Trip Friday:

 

April 25th, we will be heading to OMSI, the Portland Aquarium and dissecting squid in the science lab.  If you are interested in coming and being a part of this day, please email me. 

We have a bonus field trip on May 6th at 9:45am, just a head's up!

Thank you for your support and please check the blog for details about homework and happenings in class.

Miss King

4/7/14

Today....

We took an Orthography test.  We corrected lesson 100 and went over test 19.  Most students retook test 18B.  Homework in math is to correct test 19A and make a study guide for the test tomorrow.  Then kickball happened.  For Night of the Notables we worked on our rough drafts as well as finishing up our Key Word Outlines.  Don't forget topic/clinchers for each paragraph.  Silent reading happened as well as music and P.E.. For history we worked on our history practice test.  Answers are found in the book and are multiple choice. The packet must be finished tonight for homework, most are close to done.

In NON:   timeline final draft is due Thursday and to be done at home from the rough draft that was handed back already.

Thanks,

Miss King

Riggs words

conscience
conscientious
discern
hypotenuse
rendezvous

N.O.N. Project Timeline

Sixth Grade Families,

I couldn't copy this correctly, but here it is from Mrs. Adam's blog.  We went over our timelines one on one, on Wednesday and should be down to Key Word Outline and Rough Drafting in class.

8th Grade ~ Cascade Heights Public Charter School: Night of the Notables Project Time Line:

Miss King

Today plus some

Today we did our Riggs test, we then went to math, where we got our test back.  We had fun with our history skits, where Luddites were quite scary.  World Language was normal today.  When we came back from World Language we came back and read Ch. 8 in our history books.  We will answer questions and debate about this tomorrow.  We got two Latin roots today, that our Riggs words will come from.  Then it was lunch...outside. P.E. was soccer and music was Ode to Joy.  Percussion is doing extremely well. We came back to class and had a working session.  We worked on our notecards, Key Word Outline our body paragraphs and should have our first paragraph (body) in rough draft form.  We also have a check list to help remind us of dress-ups.  Then we are about to clean after getting these Riggs words:

cordial
encourage
discord
cutis
cuticle
courageous

Maybe we will get to our kickball game that we earned before spring break, maybe not. 

There will be a sub tomorrow, as I have to go out of town.

In Night of the Notables,  we checked off where we were in our Project Component Timeline.  Students should be on track and be able to tell you where they are off, if they are.   All of their note cards should be done for each body paragraph, these are key facts from both their book and internet source.  Their rough draft of their timeline should be done.  It will be 24 inches long, horizontal, contain 12 facts and 5 pictures in final draft form.  We will continue to work on the rough draft paragraphs in class. 

Miss King

Hello 6th grade familes,
Today we were learning about socialism.
 tonight's homework 

1. Riggs
2. Math lesson 98
3. night of the notables note cards ( if needed)

enjoy the rest of your day
-hunter