A note from the teacher

I was out sick with a stomach bug today, but I think I'll be back in the classroom tomorrow.  Tell your child that the teacher spent most of the day sleeping!

Student authors share some of their writing in class

We were able to share some of our stories today.  Since we have been working on the how to include problem/conflict in stories to increase reader interest, we worked a little bit with that, before going through how to build a character for our story. 

In science we did a summarization activity with pages 21-24.  We will be taking our nine weeks test next Monday.

Don’t forget that class pictures are this Friday.

Students work on handwriting, spelling, science notebooks

Today we took our spelling pre-test, and our handwriting assignment was a birthday poem I found.

 My First Birthday Gift

By Sandra Liatos

They didn’t give me

a doll, or book,

a stuffed giraffe

or game.

On the day I was born

my present

was my name!

  

In science we looked at our bottles, and compared them to what they looked (and smelled) like on Thursday and today.  We then took them to the dumpster after putting our findings in our notebook.  We also worked with cornstarch and water.  

Parents, please urge your sixth grader to spend time on spelling website

Today we took our weekly spelling test. Some are not studying as well as they should. These words are on spellingcity.com and this is a free website. Please remind your child to practice his/her words.

We are still honing our stories in writers’ workshop.

For science, it was our day to go to computer lab.

Writers continue working on compositions

In writing today we worked on our stories.  We also did a review on sentence endings.

In science we took our quiz.  We also started our “It’s a Gas” lesson.  We used tuna, sand, lettuce, and pond water.  Ask your child about this activity.

Oops! I forgot to send home the accountability pages for your child.  I apologize and will send them tomorrow!

Sixth graders work on spelling, play spelling game

In spelling we used our words in sentences and found those spelled correctly in one section and incorrectly in another.  We also used two of them in a sentence.  If your child got home and forgot the two words -- they were exaggerate and daughter.  We also played a game on spellingcity.com as a class.

We continued working on our new stories.

In science we went over yesterday’s notes and checked them.  We also discussed why answers were wrong or right.  We will have a quiz over sections 1 and 2 tomorrow.

A good day of learning in sixth grade

Today was a good day in sixth grade.  In writing we worked more with problem.  We brainstormed characters and possible problems and the kids were excited about writing their stories.

In science we had a review over sections one and two.  We will take a science quiz over these sections Thursday.