End of the First Week!

How was your first week of 6th grade? I am so excited for this year. We are going to accomplish great things!

Today we did some more work with Boot Camp. We had a discipline assembly. In math we learned about Order of Operations.
Remember:

• Parentheses
• Exponents
• Multiply and Divide from left to right
• Add and Subtract from left to right

We read a chapter in our book, and then we finished our geography presentations. We had popsicles to celebrate the end of the first week! Yum. I had coconut and it was DELICIOUS!

Have a wonderful long weekend! See you Tuesday. If you were in band last year, Advanced Band starts Tuesday.

Back to School Night

Don 't forget -- tonight is Back to School Night! Sixth grade is meeting in the cafeteria. There are two sessions. The first is 5:45 and the second is 6:15. REMEMBER -- if a parent/guardian signs in for you, you get a HOMEWORK PASS and $5.

Today we did an activity with close reading and our table groups. I love the way the posters turned out! We also finished reading "A Mummy Mystery" and answered some questions about the story. We did Day 2 of Boot Camp. In math, we learned about Properties of Operations. We also started working on small group presentations with the geography section of our history textbook.

See you tonight!

Homework:

• read for 30 minutes
• math practice 1-2

Early Release Wednesday

How was your Wednesday?
Today we had 100 Mile Club, then reread the journalist article for close reading. We had two more DEA vocabulary words, then read the next segment in "A Mummy Mystery." We started boot camp today by learning about closed syllables.
In math we finished lesson 1 in Topic 1. Tomorrow -- lesson 2!

Don't forget that tomorrow is Back to School Night. We will be meeting in the cafeteria with the other sixth grade classes.

Homework

• reading for 30 minutes
• math practice 1-1

Tuesday

Second day of school in the books! Today we started 100 Mile Club with the other sixth grade classes. We had a district writing assessment, started close reading with the journalist interview, and worked on vocabulary DEA for our new story "A Mummy Mystery." We also started math with a lesson on exponents. We will finish that lesson tomorrow. After lunch we read in our history books and created a one pager about Time, People, Place.

In between that, we checked out our textbooks and started the Accelerated Reader STAR test. Busy day!

Don't forget that Back to School Night is Thursday. 6th grade will be in the cafeteria.

Homework:

• read for 30 minutes
• math reteach 1-1 (problems 3, 4, 6)

First Day of School!

Happy first day of school! Did you have a good day? I did. I really like our class. We are going to do GREAT THINGS this year!
Tomorrow we start the first day of the first Unit of Study in Language Arts. We'll also have our first math lesson. Wow -- busy day. We also need to go to the library and check out textbooks.

Homework:

• read for 30 minutes
• sign/fill out: emergency card, district notification, compact
• have parents sign homework planner

See you tomorrow!