THIS WEEK: Revising and Editing; SCR

Student Expectation – 6.10C: Revise drafts for clarity, development, organization, style, word choice, and sentence variety.

6.10D.i: complete complex sentences with subject-verb agreement and avoidance of splices, run-ons, and fragments;

6.10D.ix: correct spelling, including commonly confused terms such as its/it’s, affect/effect, there/their/they’re, and to/two/too.

WOMS will thrive in 2025!

Just a few reminders….

1. Make sure your chrome books are charged and you have your school issued charger with you in your bag.
2. The only beverage allowed in classrooms is water. 
3. Make sure that you bring your supplies to school.
4. You will need to check your Enrichment assignment on FLEX every day. Every student will be assigned to a class for Enrichment every day.  Monday – Wednesday are academic classes for everyone. Thursday will be academic for some students.  Fridays will be Fun Friday Activities for everyone – you will need to sign up for these.  
5. MOST teachers are available at 7:30 every morning for help with any assignments.  I am in my room every morning, unless not at school that day, at 7:30 and will gladly help on any subject or find someone who can help. 

MONDAY: ESTEEM Lesson 13

TUESDAY: ESTEEM Lesson 14

WEDNESDAY: Extended Constructed Response practice using Curipod/6.10/Using a lesson created on Curipod we will be practicing writing an Extended Constructed Response using our R.A.C.E.S. Writing Strategy

THURSDAY: ECR/6.10/We will be discussing how to improve our responses from Wednesday’s assignment

FRIDAY: ECR Test on DMAC/6.10/We will use the same short story and question to answer a ECR on DMAC

***Next week we will be taking our Semester Exam in both Reading and ELA class on DMAC.  That is why we have been doing at least one a quiz/test every two weeks during ELA class. It will be taken in both Mrs. Owens’ reading class and my class.

THERE ARE ONLY 17 SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS, BUT REMEMBER…

MONDAY: ESTEEM TRAINING LESSON 12

TUESDAY: R.A.C.E.S Writing Strategy/6.10/We will find the parts of R.A.C.E.S. in our SCR answers.

WEDNESDAY: UIL Listening and Speaking Events today at White Oak Baptist Church/Since we will have a lot of students out for these events we will spend this day completing, correcting, and making up assignments.

THURSDAY:  District UIL Competition/We are hosting the district UIL competition today.

FRIDAY: Curipod Lessons/6.11/Extended Constructed Response practice.

MONDAY: R.A.C.E.S. Writing Strategy review/6.10/We will review this strategy every other day.

SCR using Curi.live/6.11/We will be writing about Thanksgiving

TUESDAY:  Grammar lessons on Flocabulary/6.10d/parts of speech and capitalization review

WEDNESDAY: Quiz reviewing SCR, revising, editing sentences/6.10 & 6.11/This will be on DMAC

THURSDAY: Christmas activity/We will be creating Christmas ornaments using different languages

FRIDAY: Advanced Classes will be watching “Out of My Mind” the book they read over the summer/All other classes will be working on ECR assignment on Curi.live

ADVANCED CLASSES:  ***All of my Advanced Classes are reading a story from Readworks entitled “Hacked” and the lessons are all on Google Classroom.  The students may choose to enter the writing contest that goes with these lessons, but it is not mandatory.  The lessons online ARE mandatory, but NOT the writing contest. There is a monetary prize of $2000 for the winner of this writing contest.  I will send out more details later this week.

44 SHOPPING DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS!

MONDAY: VETERAN’S DAY – STUDENTS HAVE NO SCHOOL!

TUESDAY & WEDNESDAY: SCR using Curipod/6.10/use Curipod to practice reading a short article; using our writing strategy to write a response.  The students will receive individual feedback for their answers

THURSDAY: ELA JOURNAL/6.11/Using TexQuest we will be researching topics being discussed in science and history classes.  We will be writing a short informative report on one of these topics.

FRIDAY: SCR on DMAC/6.10/Using our writing strategy we will read a short article and write an answer to a SCR question.

MONDAY: Creative Writing/6.11/Editing our creative writing stories together in groups

TUESDAY: Constructed Response/6.10a/”Why Do Things Go Viral?” article from SCOPE

WEDNESDAY: Illustrations for Creative Writing/6.10c/Creating illustrations for our creative stories

THURSDAY: Revising and Editing/6.10c/”Making Friends” short story with Revise and Edit questions review

FRIDAY: Revising and Editing Test/6.10c/on DMAC practice revise and editing

NO SCHOOL ON MONDAY FOR STUDENTS!

MONDAY/TUESDAY: ECR Revising and Editing/6.10/We will be examining ECR answers from Test 1 using the R.A.C.E.S. strategies that we have been discussing in class..

WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY: ELA Classroom Journal 2nd 9 Weeks #2/6.10/Spooky Stories – creative writing

FRIDAY: SCR writing prompts/6.11/We will complete examples of    writing prompts for short stories together in groups.

FYI – Next week we will be observing RED RIBBON WEEK at WOMS.  Each day will be a different “dress up” themed day.

Also, we just completed the ESTEEM Curriculum Workbook A and all the 6th Graders took their book home.  There is a LOT of really good information in that workbook that would be a good starting point for family discussions about setting goals; how do deal with depression and grief; basic First Aid; how to choose good friends and how to be a good friend; how to say no to someone trying get them to experiment with drugs, alcohol, and sex; and today we completed Lesson 9: Alcohol/Vaping/Drug Abuse.  It was a good introduction to Red Ribbon Week.  All of the students were VERY attentive during all 9 lessons of the ESTEEM Curriculum and it was a pleasure to take them through the lessons.  I told all of my students that it was a good reference book with lots of helpful websites and phone numbers that they might need now or in the future.  I also reminded them that Mrs. Jody Velde, our WOMS counselor, is available should they need to talk to anyone about any issues.

I am writing this blog today with a little bit of a heavy heart because a 14 year old student at another small school district not far from here took his life this week.  I did not know him personally, but I know his family – they are a “good” close knit family.  I do not know, don’t really need to know, any details; I just know this breaks my heart for this family.  Hug your kiddos EXTRA tight and if you believe in the power of prayer, just remember this family in your prayers.

Have a blessed weekend!

MONDAY: No School

TUESDAY: ESTEEM Lesson 8

WEDNESDAY: Extended Constructed Response Review/6.10/We will be using the R.A.C.E.S strategy to edit our class’ answers to the ELA test.

THURSDAY: ELA Classroom Journal /6.11/Using the writing prompt provided complete your weekly journal prompt.

FRIDAY: ESTEEM Lesson 9