MONDAY – Finish illustrations for Creative Writing/Paired Text reading and questions

TUESDAY – WEDNESDAY:  Aesop’s Fables/6.10/Protagonist – Characters – Conflict – Lesson taught

THURSDAY – FRIDAY: Watch “The Boy That Harnessed the Water” on Netflix/True story about a boy from Malawi that saved his village from starvation with his “invention.” Next week we will do a research writing project based on the true story.

MONDAY: Sentence Structure/6.10/Best practices for good sentence structure

TUESDAY: Vocabulary Review/6.9/Review ELA vocabulary words uses this year

WEDNESDAY: STAAR ELA test for all grades

THURSDAY: Create a cartoon/6.11/Create a cartoon strip

FRIDAY: Create a cartoon/6.11/Create a cartoon strip

MONDAY: No School

TUESDAY: Grammar Review/6.10.1/Less vs. Fewer and complete Creative Writing assignment

WEDNESDAY:  STAAR Review for Short Constructed Response questions/6.10.a-d/Meet Walt Disney reading – reviewing the
R.A.C.E.S. writing strategy

THURSDAY:  STAAR Review for Extended Constructed Response questions/10.1/practice writing the steps out of a blank piece of paper

FRIDAY: Creative Writing Assignments/6.9/Working on sentence structure, grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

****READING STAAR TEST IS WEDNESDAY, APRIL 10TH FOR ALL GRADES!

1. MAKE SURE CHROMEBOOKS ARE CHARGED FOR THE TEST.

2. ONLY WATER AND A FEW SNACKS – THAT ARE NOT MESSY.

3. MUST BE IN DRESS CODE AND NO BLANKETS/PILLOWS.

MONDAY/TUESDAY: 9 Week Reading/Language Arts Test…We have been reviewing for this in my ELA Writing classes for the last few weeks.  This will be an online test that the students will take in both their reading and their writing classes.  WE DO NOT WANT THEM TO RUSH – that is why we are giving them 2 days to complete this test.

WEDNESDAY/THURSDAY/FRIDAY:  Research/6.12/create a slideshow about a topic of your choice; using correct grammar, punctuation, sentence structure  

MONDAY – Grammar Growth/6.11/Grammar, spelling, word order problems

TUESDAY – Editing/Revising papers/6.11/Peer editing and revising ECR’s about Exploring Fandom

WEDNESDAY – Editing/Revising papers/6.11/Peer editing and revising ECR’s about Exploring Fandom

                                ***EARLY RELEASE DAY!!!

THURSDAY – Short Constructed Response/6.11/group work to create SCR answers to various writing prompts

FRIDAY – Vocabulary Review/6.2/ELA specific vocabulary; quiz will be on March 5th.

MONDAY – President’s Day (No School)

TUESDAY – Extended Constructed Response(AKA: Essays)/6.11/Editing and finishing ECR for STAAR best practices

WEDNESDAY – Reading Benchmark (Afternoon classes will edit and correct our ECR essays.

THURSDAY – Math Benchmark (Afternoon classes will edit and correct our ECR essays.)

FRIDAY – New Vocabulary/6.9/Introduce and practice new Vocabulary Unit 3(back of the page #11 – 20)

CAN’T WAIT TO SEE SOME OF YOU AT THE BALLPARK!!!

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.