A day of learning and involvement in sixth grade

We had our pretest in spelling today.  Remind your sixth grader to prepare for this week's test by going to our online spelling resource, spellingcity.com.

My class went to the computer lab to make up for Friday's missed session. On Friday, they had two "petro pros," petroleum scientists from OERB, speak in class.  The reviews were great.

Other classes started book summary posters today.

Have a great evening.

Petroleum scientist speaks to class

Broadmoore's food drive starts Monday.

The teacher was out of town today, but this was a good day to miss because classes were only working in the computer lab.

My science classes did have a special visitor today, a petroleum scientists provided by the Oklahoma Energy Resources Board to talk about how scientists work with the oil industry to find oil.

We had our weekly test in spelling.

Remember that the food drive starts Monday.

Hope your family has a great weekend.

Students learn to punctuate dialogue

In language today we punctuated a page of dialogue.  Learning to use quotations marks correctly is a great skill.  Once they have learned them, they sometimes get carried away with them. 

In science we read another article and answered questions, as well as labeled items by their type of matter. 

Spelling test tomorrow! 

Canned food drive begins next week!

Students learn about states of matter

In spelling we worked with our words in many different ways.  We also took turns on spellingcity.com on the Smart Board.

In language we did a quick review of using the words to, too, and two.

In science we finished up our derricks.  We also read an article over the three states of matter and answered questions.  We also added a layer to our mural.

Writers work with dialogue

In language we continued working on our dialogue lesson.  The young authors are learning how to write all kinds of dialogue and to punctuate it. We took Friday’s conversation and wrote in play form.  Then we wrote it in dialogue form from that.

In science we finished our oil derricks and tested them.  Some did quite well.  If any group didn’t finish they will be allowed to come in at recess on Wednesday to do so.

Students begin work on oil derrick project

We took our spelling pre-test today.  Remind your child to return his/her corrected pre-test, as it is for a grade.  I had too many students not taking the time to correct their papers.

We also copied a poem called A Special Day by Sandra Liatsos.

In science we started working on the building of our oil derricks.  Each group received 50 straws, 10 paper clips, and 100 cm of masking tape.  They are coming along nicely!

Several have not sent their $3 for the party that we will be having on the 16^th.  Please send that as soon as possible.  Thank you in advance for helping out!

Lots of A's on today's spelling test

We took our spelling test today.  Almost everyone made an A.  We are closer to our goal of everyone getting one!

In language we started a lesson on dialogue.  A student and I had an impromptu conversation.  We then wrote it out on the Smart Board without dialogue, just using words like ”Ms. Jacobs asked…” and “He told her…”.   On Monday we will take that and write it as a play, then into dialogue. 

In science it was computer lab day……yay!