• play outdoors
• swim
• go on adventures
• go on vacation
• spend time with family
• spend time with friends
• make memories
• invent a new game
• bake
• create
• relax
• reenergize 
• AND READ!!!!!
• Explore new books, find something that interests you and start reading!!  
• Summer is the time where you can read what YOU want - so find out what that is!!!  Try different books - Go to the Library! 
• Reading takes you away without leaving your home - It is MAGICAL!!
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• Project on Mixed Up Files - Thursday 6/6/19
  
  Grade 6 Poetry Presentations
   
  Students will be expected to recite from memory a poem chosen from a poetry collection book.  Two other poems need to be recited (not from memory) written in the same style as the memorized poem.  These must come from the same poetry collection book.  The students will have the opportunity to choose a book form the Holy Family School Library.  They may bring in a book of their own, or one from another library.
  Memorized poems must meet the following criteria:
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  READING FINAL - THURSDAY 6/6/19
  Quiz on Vocab Wednesday 6/5/19

• Poem must be a minimum of 8 lines
• Be approved by your teacher by May 6

• Title of poems, author of poems
• Style of poems
• Why this poem was chosen by the student
• A handwritten copy of the memorized poem to their teacher

Students will receive a Speaking & Listening grade as well as an ELA grade for their presentation.
 
Poems will be recited beginning the week of May 13.
 


Happy Easter!
HE IS RISEN!  Alleluia

5/7/19
TESTS this week
Thursday 5/9/19 - Spelling Test on the first 5 chapters of The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler.  It's just the first 20 words.
Friday - 5/10/19 Adjective Test
Monday - 5/13/19 Test on the first five chapters of The Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E Frankweiler.  This test will include the vocabulary words.


4/25/19
In ELA we are starting work on:
In Writing -  Poems.
For Grammar we will be moving into Adjectives
For Reading we will be starting a new book - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler.


4/10/19
Reading - Schooled test on Thursday April 11.
Writing - the students are writing the next chapter in Schooled
Speaking - the students will be presenting their biographies this week and next week.
Grammar - we just finished with pronouns - we will review verbs from now until Easter - then move onto Adjectives.  


4/2/19
In ELA 
Reading - WE are finishing up Schooled - the test on the last 10 chapters will be Thursday April 11
Writing - we are finishing up their biography - they are able to do one last good copy then hand it in again.
We will be presenting these biographies for a speaking grade
Grammar - we are finishing up pronouns - the test on Pronouns will be Tuesday April 9.  Next up - adjectives and adverbs
We will also being working on Poetry next - Spring brings out the poet in all of us:) 
The spelling test on Schooled will be this Friday April 5 - it will be on the first twenty words only - 
But all the words are considered vocabulary words and will be on the Schooled test on April 11.


3/26/19 - Terra Nova Week - No tests - No Homework
In reading we will be finishing up with Schooled.
In Writing we are finishing up with their biography with a bibliography.
In grammar we are reviewing parts of speech.


3/11/19
This week we will finish up with comma's - test on Wednesday (because they have a religion and math test on Tuesday) 
Biography rough draft is due Monday March 18 and the final copy is due on Friday March 22.  This week we will be working on Schooled chapters 16-21.


3/4/19
Today we did a listening and speaking project.  The students were put into small groups and had to listen to each other and not interrupt.  To wait their turn to speak and then to add to the answer or agree and go to the next question.  They had to be careful that they were listening to each other and not just repeating the same answer.  They were scored on how well they listened, by not interrupting and how well they answered by not repeating.  They all did a great job with this :) The topic they were discussing was review questions for tomorrow's Schooled Test.  Then for a bonus - for tomorrow's Schooled test - The group had to write down how yesterday's Gospel Reading was shown in the book Schooled.  
Homework study for a Test on Schooled tomorrow - Study chapters 10-15 and the vocab.

Up Next - Comma's, Biography, and Schooled Chapters 16-20


2/25/19
Today we finished our oral presentations on our personal narratives.  The students are good at telling stories and this was a good start for them - but a lot of the students just told a story - not the story they wrote.  So, they need more practice.
We will have a spelling/vocab test on Friday 3/1/19
A Schooled Comprehension test on Monday 3/4/19
And a test on Comma's on Wednesday 3/6/19


2/22/19
Students should read chapters 10 - 15 in Schooled.
And write definitions in their own words for Schooled vocabulary and spelling words.


2/21/19
Students should read Chapters 10-15 in schooled.
Homework - Schooled Discussion questions worksheet #1-8



2/15/19
We had our test on Schooled chapters 5-10
Next up
For Reading - Schooled chapters 10-16
For Grammar - Comma's
For Writing - Bibliography
For Speaking - the students will be giving an oral presentation of their personal narrative next week

Homework - read chapters 10 and 11 in Schooled
Start to look up interesting people that they would like to write a bibliography on.  They need to have three names by Tuesday.
And the students should prepare for their oral presentation.

2/11/19
We had our test on Adverbs today - and we started our review on Chapters 5-10 in Schooled.  My plan is to have one more day of review then a test on Schooled.  So Tuesday review, Wednesday test - or if there is a snow day on Tuesday then - Wednesday review and Thursday test.
The test will be on the vocabulary words and comprehension of Schooled chapters 5-10
Homework - finish the review sheet.

2/6/19
Spelling test tomorrow
And we are working on Adverbs - I think they are ready for a test on Friday - but I may push it to Monday - depending on if we get to review tomorrow.  
And Schooled test will be Tuesday - on chapters 5-10
They finished their personal narratives!  I hope to grade them this weekend and then have the students present them to the class next week.

Busy Week for ELA
Spelling test on Thursday 2/7/19 - we reviewed the words today
Grammar test on Friday 2/8/9 - on Adverbs
Schooled comprehension test on Tuesday 2/12/19  This will be on the spelling/vocab words and chapters 5 - 10

Happy Catholic Schools Week
1/30/19 - We are working on Schooled - students must pick a side - for Garland Farm or for C-Average middle school and write three reasons why they chose that for a debate tomorrow
1/29/19 - Grandparents day - so we had limited classes and class time - No Homework
1/28/19 Student Appreciation day - No Homework!

1/24/19 – Study vocab and Schooled study sheets for test tomorrow


1/23/19
In ELA this week we are working on
Grammar – Adverbs
Writing – Personal Narrative
Reading – the first five chapters of Schooled
Coming Up – Test on Schooled – on comprehension and vocab for the first five chapters on Friday 1/25/19
The students have a big packet of vocab words to study and of comprehension questions to study.
We reviewed them today.


Parents Please send in a family picture for our Catholic School's Week Family Board.
Thanks

Happy New Year!

12/18/18 - We took our test on Hatchet - the next story we will do will be an actual book!  No more short stories!  Yay!
We are still working on Verbs - the test on Verbs will be in the new year
And our next writing assignment will be a personal narrative.  

12/11/18 -The students are working on the story Hatchet.  And on Advent activities!  We are so blessed to be a Catholic school!  And to be able to celebrate the Birth of Jesus!
The Comprehension test for Hatchet will be Tuesday Dec. 18
In Grammar we are working on verbs.  - we will probably test on verbs after the Holiday.



12/4/18 - write definitions for the spelling words - from Hatchet - in the students own words.  

12/3/18
This week we will be working on ~ 
For Reading - on Monday we will have a test on comprehension on Good Bye Moon,
Next we will start with Hatchet
In Grammar we are starting with Verbs
And in Writing we will be working on our personnel narrative. 

11/25/18
This week we will be working on

• The story Good Bye Moon
• compare and contrast.
• And Subject Verb Agreement
• And writing a fantasy story with a setting, charactors, a climax and a conclusion.

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Dear Parents - I apologize for my absence from my homework site - My daughter in Penn State was sick and I was getting ready to go to Penn State at a moments notice to take her to the ER - But thankfully she finally saw the campus doctor and she is fine.

This week we are starting the story Good Bye to the Moon.  The spelling test will be on Friday 11/16/18 - the comprehension test will be after Thanksgiving.
We are also working on fantasy writing and Subject and noun agreement.


Thursday - Study for test on The Emperor's Silent Army, comprehension and vocabulary.
The students should study the pamphlet and their vocabulary words.  We reviewed for the test today in class.  

Wednesday 11/7/18
Today we had our spelling test - tomorrow we will review for our comprehension test on The Emperor's Silent Army.  
We are also working on a group project - groups of 2 or 3 are writing a halloween story.  I can't wait to read them! The students seem to be enjoying this project - I hope the finished work is as good as they are excited!

Tuesday 11/6/18 VOTE
Spelling test tomorrow 
And finish voting packet - we did them in class - most students are done.  

Monday 11/5/18 - Study for Grammar test - workbook pages 65, 76, 83, 100,  and 102

Friday 11/2/18 - No Homework over the weekend - but next week we will be having three tests -

Tuesday 11/6/18 will be grammar on independent and dependent clauses, compound and complex sentences
Study workbook pages 65, 76, 83, 100, and102

Wednesday 11/7/18 will be a spelling test 

Friday 11/9/18 will be a reading comprehension test on The Emperor's Silent Army.


Friday - Have a nice Weekend - I hope they read for fun over the weekend!

Wednesday - We are almost finished with our persuasive essays!  This has been a long road!  We learned about persuasive essays, about fact and opinion, about thesis statements and how to organize paragraphs, and how to write an intro and a conclusion.  We did some peer editing, and I read almost everyone's first draft.  We are now onto writing our good copy!
In reading we are starting The Emporer's Silent Army - we did the spelling words today.
In Grammar - we had a test today on subject and predicate  We will move onto common and proper nouns next.

Monday 10/22/18 - Test on Saving the Rain Forest - the students should study their workbook pages on the Saving the Rain Forest and the story.

Wednesday 10/24/18 - Test on Grammar for saving the Rain Forest - again the students should study their workbook pages and their worksheets.

Week of 10/15/18 

We are working on our Persuasive essay, learning to identify fact vs. opinion, subjects and predicates, different sentences and our story is Saving the Rain Forest.  
Comprehension test will be Monday Oct. 22 and the Grammar test will be on Tuesday Oct. 23


Monday 10/15/18

Homework study for tomorrow's spelling test 

Finish worksheet on Sentences

Thursday 10/11/18
The students had their pre-spelling test on Tuesday - and we tried something new - after the pretest - I let them grade their own papers - I instructed the students to look at spelling and letter formation.  I put all the words on the board in cursive so they could compare their letters and see how the letters should look and also check the spelling.  I instructed the students to correct their papers for spelling and letter formation in cursive.  Then I collected the papers to check their work.  Tonight for homework the students need to write each word that they still had wrong five times each on loose leaf and stable it to the pretest.
The students also need to complete grammar class work - pages 314 and 315 in their voyages textbook.  Some students completed this by the end of class.   

Wednesday 10/10/18
Get test folders signed
Finish sentences for spelling words

SPELLING TEST ON TUESDAY OCTOBER 16
On the Spelling test - the words must be in cursive.

Tuesday 10/9/18

Finish sentences for their spelling words
Spelling test Tuesday 10/16/18

Friday 10/5/18

No weekend homework - Have a great weekend!

Test on Old Yeller tomorrow - Friday Oct. 5, 2018

This test has been posted on the test calendar in the 5th and 6th grade hallway since last week - I apologize - I forgot to post it here.  

Today we reviewed two study sheets - and the students took the study sheets home to use to study with tonight


Wednesday Oct. 3, 2018
We are working on our persuasive essay in class - they just need to complete their persuasive essay map - if they didn't finish it in class.

Thursday 9/27/18

We are slowing developing skills to write a Persuasive Essay.  Tonights homework is to write a persuasive paragraph on anything - using the formate on page 101 in their grammar books. This paragraph should be on loose leaf and will count as a homework grade
BUT - some students mentioned that they had a lot going on tonight - so the persuasive paragraph can be handed in on Monday.

SPELLING TEST TOMORROW


Wednesday 9/26/18

We are working on learning how to write a Persuasive Essay and we ARE writing a Persuasive Essay - today we talked about fact vs opinion, introduction paragraphs and thesis statements
For homework they were to write their thesis statement.  

Tuesday 9/25/18
No Homework tonight :)


Monday 9/24/18
We got our new spelling words and vocabulary words today and did some prep for reading - talking about what will need to think about and look for while reading.
We did not get the sentences or the definitions done in class for the spelling or vocabulary words - so the students need to finish that for homework
The vocabulary definitions should be looked up in a dictionary or dictionary site 
The definitions for the spelling words should be the students own words - just brief descriptions - one or two words. 
The spelling words repeat - so one definition and one sentence for each pair of words.

Thursday 9/20/18
We are finished with their summer reading book Ungifted 
    Homework - finish all morning work


Wednesday 9/19/18
Study for vocabulary test on Ungifted


Tuesday 9/18/18

Students must have Ungifted book with them for the test!
Study for Ungifted Comp Test tomorrow
Study Vocabulary list from Ungifted for Vocab test on Thursday

Monday 9/17/18
Decide on a topic for your Persuasive Essay

Study vocab words from today's sheet
Study for comprehension test on Ungifted - study notes from today and Friday

Ungifted comprehension test Wednesday
Ungifted vocab test Thursday

Thursday 9/13/18
Complete compare and contrast of two characters from Ungifted in your ELA copybook

Study for Spelling Test - the test is tomorrow


Wednesday 9/12/18
Study for spelling test on Friday
Start to study Ungifted study guide that was handed out today and reviewed today - just the study questions for now.

Tuesday 9/11/18
complete class assignment in grammar workbook page 32 exercise 2 - do work in ELA copybook

Study for Spelling test on Friday
Get Books Covered





Monday 9/10/18

Ungifted Worksheet
Study Spelling words
Cover books


9/7/18

9/6/18

Please have students bring in a water bottle for themselves, due to the heat

Please have students bring in their summer reading book UNGIFTED

All forms from back to school night are due on Friday 9/7/18

All books must be covered

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