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!

Last day of school

Happy last day of school! I miss you already...
Have a wonderful summer! I know 7th grade will be fantastic for each one of you -- please come by and let me know how you are.
Thank you for a wonderful year!

Skills Day Tomorrow!

Very excited for Skills Day tomorrow! You have all been put into squads. Mrs. Paredes and I are in charge of the softball throw for accuracy. Can't wait! Wear comfy clothes that allow you to participate in events. Also bring water! It's been warm outside.

Thursday is Movie Day. That was fun in December and I'm looking forward to it again.

Kickball game vs teachers Friday.

Busy week!

Three Day Weekend!

...and a SWIM PARTY on Tuesday! We are going to have such a great time! Did you see all the goodies the PTA left in our room? Chips, popcorn, and water. Plus they paid for the pizza lunch. Thank you PTA!

Even though we are starting our fun end of year activities, we still have content to cover and district tests to take. The math benchmark and 7th grade placement tests are coming up in a week. I know we will be ready!

Don't forget to bring:

• a towel
• sunscreen
• water
• a hat

Can't wait!

Thursday Fun!

Anybody still reading?! There will be a treat tomorrow for comments on THIS blog post!

Today we started reading the last selection in the anthology. Out There. This is one of my favorites because it's a mystery. Love mysteries!
We talked about punctuating dialogue and sorted our spelling words.
In math, we worked on Benchmark Review. We need to keep our focus until the Benchmark!
We had Ancient Rome rotations today.
Heard there was some promotion song practice at lunch -- YAY!

Swim party Tuesday!