First Day of Rotations!

How was your Monday? Enjoy the rain?
Today we had 100 Mile Club and then came in for our spelling pre-test. We had Boot Camp, fluency practice, close reading practice, and vocabulary DEA before we read a selection in our social studies textbook.
In math, we learned about the parts of an expression. We learned about terms and coefficients.
We had a few minutes to start a rough draft comparing and contrasting homo erectus and homo sapien. And then...we rotated! Hope you enjoyed your rotation. You will be there one more day before you rotate to the next class.
Remember you need 3% of your AR goal by next Monday.

Homework:

• read for 30 minutes
• fluency 1 minute
• math reteach 1-6 and reteach 1-7
• spelling: missed words on pre-test 5x each
• writing: write about crossing a bridge

It's the weekend!

Wow, if I thought Thursday was busy, what word can be used to describe Friday?! We shared our writing and then went to an AVID assembly. After that, we had an assessment over our Unit of Study 1, Week 2. We also looked at a power point Mrs. Neuman made to explain One Pagers. We reviewed yesterday's math lesson and then had a lesson on writing expressions with variables. New math vocabulary: coefficient (the number that is multiplied by a variable). In the expression 3m, 3 is the coefficient.
We finished math after lunch and started working in Writer's Workshop. We used our social science books for information to supplement the close reading on Early Humans, and used that information to fill in a Venn Diagram. Finally we went back to the One Pagers.
Samantha brought us cupcakes since tomorrow is her birthday. They were delicious!

You also received your AR goal for the year. I'm so happy that some of you have already started taking quizzes!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Busy busy Thursday

Oh my goodness what a busy day! I loved hearing your writing this morning and I cannot wait for tomorrow's selection. We added another syllable type and cutting pattern to our chart in Boot Camp. We reread our fluency selection and watched a Gooru video that related to "Climb or Die." We read our close reading selection with attention to types of early humans and the time they lived. We did a writing piece on which tool was the most important and why.
In math, the lesson was full of mini-lessons! We learned about adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals, using brackets, and solving expressions. Whew!
In writer's workshop we started a Venn Diagram comparing and contrasting two types of early humans.
Finally, we had a few minutes to start the "Distant Past" section in our social science text.

Tomorrow there is an AVID assembly and a week two assessment in language arts.

Homework:

• read for 30 minutes
• spelling due tomorrow
• fluency 1 minute
• math reteach 1-5
• writing -- write about the sound, the color, and the smell of school

Wednesday!

Wednesdays sure do fly by! We started the day with 100 Mile, then came in the room to share writing. This was our first day of sharing writing -- I'm looking forward to what tomorrow brings! We had a Boot Camp lesson on -cle words, worked on fluency with partners, close read the article on Early Humans, and discussed "Climb or Die" using questions from the Basal Alignment Project (BAP). We also had more vocabulary words from "Climb or Die." In math we reviewed the Distributive Property.

Advanced Band tomorrow!

Homework

• read for 30 minutes
• spelling tic tac toe due Friday
• math practice 1-4
• fluency "A Mummy Mystery" 1 minute
• writing: write about a white shirt

Tuesday After a Three Day Weekend

Happy Tuesday! I have to admit, I was a little shocked by how many of you said your weekend wasn't great. Hopefully you did some fun things and rested.

We hit the ground running today. First, 100 Mile Club. When we came back to the room, we started our Unit of Study Week 2. We had our first spelling pretest, then we learned about schwa in Boot Camp. We did a close reading over "Early Humans." We had Vocabulary DEA for "Climb or Die" and read the selection in our anthology. Remind me to give you a novel recap.

In math we learned about the Distributive Property. Today was the first day we started accountability. I needed to see your finished work, and then you were responsible for checking your answers using my Teacher's Edition.

We went over homework, I checked planners, and we read two chapters in our book. We started Writer's Workshop and then it was time for band. How was it?

Homework:

• read for 30 minutes
• fluency ("A Mummy Mystery") -- 1 minute
• spelling tic tac toe due Friday
• math reteach 1-4
• writing: write about 5 things you forget

Oh! Do you like the new look blog?

See you tomorrow!

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