Week of February 8-12

Last week was a very full week.  We wrapped up several different units and moved on the next.

All literature classes have started reading a class novel.  5th grade is reading The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis.
6th grade is reading Number the Stars by Lois Lowry.
Both are excellent award winning books and these units will be full of great activities.
Students should be reading the chapters outside of class.  They must keep up with all assigned work in order to participate in class activities.


5th Grade Language Arts:  Spelling pretest Monday, pages 130-135 due Thursday and final test on Thursday.
Grammar - We will begin skill pages on Wednesday and squeeze them into 3 days.  Proofreading assignment on Thursday, due Friday and quiz on Friday.

Literature:  I am assigning on average 1 chapter a night to read in Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe.  With each chapter, students are completing a 3-4 sentence summary and a 3-4 sentence reaction.  They are working on a document on Google Classroom.  Check this document for assignments.
**We took a quiz on Friday that is due Monday.  They were assigned to read only chapter 6.  We will do the summary together on Monday.

*Again, students must keep up with the chapters and summaries.  Falling behind will cause them to miss class activities, and trouble on quizzes and other assignments.

5th grade social studies:  We are in a very exciting part of American history.  We have begun chapter 10, all about the beginnings of the colonies rebelling against Great Britain.  We are working on workbook pages together in class, will act out some of the events, and watch a series of videos on those events.  Chapter 10 test will most likely be next week.
Coming up probably the week after President's day will be our Patriot vs. Loyalist debate.  More on that shortly.
You can check out our latest project by asking your student to show you their link to the Fakebook page we did.

6th grade literature:  We took the unit test last week on historical fiction.  Grades are posted on Cornerstone.  We have discussed as a class, the recent decline of well thought out and well written answers on Lit papers.  As 6th graders they know what is expected and a bit of laziness has set in.  Hopefully that will change with the upcoming novel assignments.
*We are reading Number the Stars.  Chapters will be read outside of class, most work completed in class.
Check Cornerstone for late or missing work!
On part to this unit will be a large group research project.  We will use project-based research techniques.  I will be outlining the project in class this week.
We will also enter a nation-wide Holocaust writing and art competition.
And we hope to make contact once again this year with a local Jewish school.

**6th grade  Book reports are due next week February 17 or 18.  Students should be working on them now!!  The written essay can be done on Google classroom.  They must be ready to give or have sent the recorded news cast to me by those dates.
Do not wait until a couple days before the due date to begin!! 

Once again - all directions are on this blog under the 6Literature tab.