Good Afternoon,

Today my classes did a really AWESOME and NEAT community service by sending E-Valentines to patients at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. They used their school gmail accounts and I told them to check them over the next few weeks in case they get a returned response from one of the patients.  I have done this in the past with my classes and some of them have gotten responses.  A few of them have even continued to correspond with these young people over the years.

I have attached the link below in case you wanted to send one.  It is a very simple process that is greatly appreciated by these families.

https://www.stjude.org/get-involved/send-virtual-cards-online-to-childrens-hospital-patients/valentines-day.html?authuser=0

                 HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!!!!!

All the students were given a new vocabulary list on Monday.  They were given a paper copy and it is also in Google Classroom.

We are having a Quiz over the first 10 words (argumentative text – evidence) on Monday, February 12th.

These need to be studied a few minutes each night.  We are going over them each day in class, but I have told

all the 6th graders that this is a homework assignment.

Thanks

MONDAY – Vocabulary List 3/6.10/ Introduce these new words; finish “Creative Writing Assignment”

TUESDAY – Read “Stay or Go” endings/6.10/Read or “Stay or Go” story endings to our classes.

WEDNESDAY – Grammar review/6.10/Introduce all 8 parts of speech and identify them in sentences.  Group activity.

THURSDAY –Text Evidence/6.11/”Rise of Fandom” & “Is Fandom Good For You” – writing answers using text evidence from two paired texts. Step by step process of how to create well written sentences that use text evidence.

FRIDAY – Kahoot Vocabulary Review/6.10/We will play Kahoots to review the vocabulary words.

Quiz over the first 10 words will be on Monday, Feb. 12th!

Today is the end of the 1st Three Week Grading period of the 3rd Nine Weeks. 

I have updated all of my grades and told all of my students to check Student Portal.

Any assignment with a grade of a zero needs to be completed and turned in ASAP.

Many of these assignments are on Google Classroom and can be completed anywhere that

wi-fi is available.  I am in my room every morning at 7:30, if anyone needs help.

 

FYI – If you look on Student/Parent Portal and see a grade of a “O” that means the assignment has NOT been turned in to me. I give students that have been absent at least one day for each day absent to make up missing assignments.  I have noticed over the last few “icy” and “rainy” days that many of my students are in the “I don’t want to do anything at home” mode.  In my 36 years of education, I have noticed that “Spring Fever” comes earlier and earlier every year.  ANY assignment for me can be made up or corrected and turned in to me to be graded.  I am in my room at 7:30 every morning, if any student needs help.  I will GLADLY stay after school on Monday or Thursday and help any student that needs help.

Monday – Community Outreach/6.8/Writing Heart Haiku poems

Tuesday – Growth Mindset/Mrs. Velde is going to teach my classes

Wednesday – EARLY RELEASE DAY – Stay or Go?/6.10/Reading and editing with a peer partner our conclusions

Thursday – Stay or Go?/6.10/Reading and editing with a peer partner our conclusions

Friday – Stay or Go/6.11/Reading our conclusions to the “Stay or Go?” that we wrote and edited.

 

 

 

Monday – Grammar Review/6.9/Review subject/verb agreement & fact/opinion

Tuesday – Stay or Go/6.11/Writing an ending to a story from SCOPE using a graphic organizer to plan the answer

Wednesday -Stay or Go/6.11/Writing an ending to a story from SCOPE using a graphic organizer to plan the answer

Thursday -Stay or Go/6.11/Writing an ending to a story from SCOPE using a graphic organizer to plan the answer

Friday -Stay or Go/6.11/Share the endings to the stories that we have written

***Our emphasis for the next few months will be on organization of written responses, both short and long, to help with the writing portion of the STAAR test in April.

We are trying to get our DUCKS IN A ROW since it is duck weather all week!!!!

Monday:  No School – Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Tuesday:  Inference Writing/6.10b/We will be using an article on SCOPE magazine to practice using inference.

Wednesday: Vocabulary/6.11/Introduce new vocabulary and use it in our writing

Thursday:  Fables/6.11C/Read some well known fables and rewrite them to make them modern.  Draw one illustration that goes with your fable.

Friday: Fables/6.11C/Read some well known fables and rewrite them to make them modern.  Draw one illustration that goes with your fable.

                    

Monday – Wednesday:  Reviewing/Correcting Benchmark Tests

I put the schedule for this week below, in case you have not seen it or needed a reminder.

WOMS FALL 2023 Early Release Schedule

MONDAY, DECEMBER 18… 1- 4, Lunch, 7th (Sci exam), 5th, 6th

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19…….. 1,3,5

WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 20…………  2,4,6

Monday	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY
1st…7:55 – 8:40	1st… 7:55 – 9:15	2nd… 7:55 – 9:15
2nd… 8:44 – 9:29	3rd… 9:20 – 9:25	3rd… 9:20 – 9:25
3rd…9:33 – 10:18	3rd… 9:30 – 10:50	4th… 9:30 – 10:50
4th… 10:22 – 11:12	5th… 10:55 – 12:15	6th… 10:55 – 12:15
Lunch
7th… 11:50 – 1:05 (exam)
5th… 1:10 – 1:55
6th… 2:00 – 2:45
UIL Celebration… 2:45-3:45

Attendance Period for Exams… 9:20 – 9:25

Science and Social Studies will be the only 2 semester exams.  Reading and Math Benchmarks will count as semester exams.

8th grade students who attend high school for classes will stay here Monday and report to the high school on Tuesday or Wednesday.

Reading, English, and Math classes will spend the extra class time reviewing the benchmark.

          JESUS IS THE REAL REASON

                  FOR THE SEASON!

 

EVERY night before they go to bed, your son or daughter

needs to PLUG in their chrome book.  They also need to bring

their charger to school with them EVERY day in case they need

to charge it at school.

On Wednesday and Thursday they will be taking benchmark

tests all morning and will need them charged.  Earbuds or

headphones will be needed on most days, also.

THANKS

MONDAY: Reviewing the R.A.C.E Writing Strategy/6.11/Using a short passage, discussing the best practices to constructing both short and extended responses.

TUESDAY: Thesis Statements/6.12/discussing, creating, and practicing creating thesis statements.

WEDNESDAY: ELA Benchmark – Reading and Writing

THURSDAY : Math Benchmark

FRIDAY: Creative Writing Stories/6.11/The students that want to read their short stories to their classmates will get the opportunity to do so.