Week of October 5-9

Uganda - Here I come!  I am so blessed to have received an opportunity to travel to Uganda and work with our partners at CCLS-U.  I will be leaving next Tuesday, October 13th.
Since the quarter ends and report cards are done while I am gone, I will be using this week to touch base with any students with missing or make-up work.
If your student has a question in one of my classes, please have them see me during Seminar this week.


5th Grade Language Arts:  Spelling  pages this week are 37-40 with the pre-test on Monday.  Spelling pages are due on Thursday.  Youy may want to touch base with your child on Wednesday to make sure those pages are done.
Grammar this week is a continuation of nouns.  We will work through pages 39-40 on Tuesday.  On Thursdays we work through the proofreading page and the students re-type this.  You may want to check the grades on these pages and encourage your student to take his/her time.
Literature finds us reading our novels.  We continue to work on vocabulary words in class so that we all agree on the definitions.  We completed our first round of journals last week.  Some need to be redone or completed for late points.  Monday will be a quiz on the first 3 reading selections.  Later this week we will work on  Acrostic poems to match our Lit books.  Each student has a calendar of chapters that are due and each due date. Chapters are due every 2 days.  The students should be bringing home the books to read!

5th Grade social studies: Hopefully you saw the email about this week's Great Native American Dig.  WE will prepare for the dig Monday-Wednesday and dig on Thursday.  The follow up recovery analysis and presentations will take place Friday and the following Monday.

6th Grade Literature: We have 4 wonderful novels we are reading. Each class period another set of chapters are due.  Students should be reading the chapters outside of class.  In class we find and add 2 vocabulary words and definitions each time, go through a daily discussion question, and then write journals or discuss them.  This week Monday and Tuesday will be a quiz on the first 3 sets of chapters read.
We are targeted to finish reading the novels sometime next week.  In order to make sure your student is reading their chapters, have them tell you all about the book!