Thursday and more

Thursday was a bit crazy and full, but that just sums up sixth grade!

In Language Arts we are working on reading and understanding the language of the Prince and the Pauper.  Playing our district rounds to learn our Greek and Latin roots seems to be working well and we are gearing up for a final in roots (not just memorizing them, but knowing them before seventh grade). We will wrap up Warriner's Grammar with some knowledge of punctuation and students will be bringing home a full grammar notebook in June!

We wrapped up Immigration this week and began our Astronomy unit, although it took a back seat because of OAKS testing.  Now that testing is officially over we will dive back in next week.

Student should have their latest Orthography score written in their planner for you to see when you sign it.  If they were missing their Prince and Pauper questions that will be written in their planner as well.  Some students were missing their papers and more were copied and put on the front table.  I know some students will try to say "Miss King never gave me the paper", that is because I announced twice that it was on the front table :)!  I tried!

So this weekends homework is not a huge, but does require writing.  We are working on our last IEW unit of persuasion.  Students were given a Persuasion Map (on pink paper) and instruction, as well as an example written by me off of my persuasion map about how to go about their introductory paragraph and the body paragraphs.  We spent two different days in class working on this.  They did have class time and some students even finished their writing in class or got almost done. They should come on Monday with four paragraphs written.  It would be most helpful if their paper was edited by an adult before coming on Tuesday.

They are also to read Prince and Pauper up to Chapter 15 for Tuesday.

Some students forgot to bring a box from recycling, like a cracker box or something small and similar on Thursday and should bring one on Tuesday.

Enjoy the long weekend,

Miss King