4.3.2020
1) Study your vocab and notes on Schooled Ch 21-31 for a test on Tuesday 4/7/2020
2) Complete the Story Map for Schooled and send it in - take a picture of it and email it to me
3) Send in the writing assignment on the back of the Schooled Ch 21-31 questions paper ---What happened when Cap went back to C Average 8th Grade - With Zack - With Hugh - With Naomi - With Darryl - With Sophie
Please take a picture of  your answer and send it in to me for a writing grade
This is you using your imagination and making up a story as to what happened to Cap and his friends when he got back to school, after Rain bought a house - like for the rest of Cap's 8th grade at a real school. 


3.31.2020

• Study for spelling Test
• Take spelling test on spelling city on 4.1.2020
• Study for adjective test
• Take adjective test - voyager textbook page 76-77 - the evens
• Complete the Schooled essay questions – you can do that with a friend – BUT please make sure you are doing each question together and talking about it – not splitting the questions up and just doing half the work

3/27/20
1) Log onto Spellingcity.com and complete the two assignments I posted - you got an email with the login info a few days ago
2) Read the rest of Schooled
3) Complete the Cross word puzzle
4) Do Exercise 2 on page 73 of your Voyager Textbook - in your ELA copybook
5) Complete Exercise 2 on page 75 of  your Voyager Textbook - in your ELA copybook
6) Start researching your person for your Biography - create five or six index cards with the info on one side and the website on the other side.
7) Complete the first page of the Biography packet - Proposed Person and reason I chose this person  . .


3/24/20
1 ) Complete the vocab for Schooled Ch 22-31 - For each word have a definition in your own words AND either a sentence, or a drawing, or a synonym or an antonym. For each word

2) Read Chapters 25, 26 and 27.

3) Maintenance - Diagram the rest of the sentences on the page titled Subject and Predicate on Loose Leaf (Lot's of prepositional phrases in that sentence!)

4) Read Voyager Textbook page 70. Do Voyager Textbook page 71, in your ELA copybooks.

5) Read your Biography packet - Do a little research to find someone you would like to do your Biography on and check with me for approval

Please remember - you can always email me with any concerns or questions - and I can set up a one on one meeting with any student that needs extra help - just email me what you need and I will set it up.  Thanks everyone!  

3/19/20 - Maintenance - In the packet you picked up from me on Monday - there was a worksheet with the title Subject and Predicate.  On loose leaf - for a maintenance grade - diagram the first five sentences.  
Remember - keep all your work somewhere safe because I will be collecting it when we get back!
Read Voyager textbook page 68
Do Voyager textbook page 69 exercise #2, 3, 4 and 5 in your ELA copybook.

3/19/20 - Please read Schooled Chapters 21-25 by Tuesday 10:00 am - so we can discuss it when we meet up on Google Meet :)  
Also Please write definitions of the first 15 vocab words by Tuesday 

3/17/20 - Please make sure your vocab is complete and your short essay questions on Schooled Chapters 16-21 are complete.
Please have them with your tomorrow at 2:00 and be on your I pads.  We will be reviewing tomorrow, St. Patrick's Day, 3/17/2020 the vocab and the short essays.
You will be taking the take home test on Wednesday 3/18/20.  More on that tomorrow.


Tonight's Homework and Monday's work
Tonight's homework is to finish a worksheet on Schooled Chapter 16-21.  We have had two days in school to finish this with our groups - so hopefully most students have this almost complete.
Monday's work - 

• Voyager workbook page 41 # 9-14
• voyager workbook page 42 # 1-10
• Voyager workbook page 45 #1-15
• Complete the activity in Scholastic Scope with worksheet
• This means going online to Scholastic Scope - clicking on student use the password Seiverd.  Click on the right magazine. Watch the video.  Read the article 'Mountain of Doom'  Answer the questions.

3/11/20 - ELA 
The students took a spelling test today -
They should have read Schooled Chapters 16-21  If not they should finish reading chapters 16-21 for homework. Test will be on Tuesday March 17.  
Grammar - we are working on Adjectives - there will be test on Adjectives next week
Writing - we will start our next writing assignment next week.  They will be writing a Biography. 

3/2/2020 -
Reading - Homework all week will be to read one chapter each night from Schooled - tonight read Schooled Chapter 16.
Spelling words and vocab words for Schooled Ch 16-21 will be given tomorrow - Spelling test will be Monday March 9.
Writing - Personal Narrative is Due Wednesday March 4. 
Oral Presentations will be given this week - Thursday 3/5 and Friday 3/6.
Grammar - next up finish Adjectives then Verbs
 

2/26/2020 - Upcoming Events

• Thursday Feb 27 - Grammar Test on Diagramming
• Friday Feb 28 - Spelling Test on Schooled Chapter 10-15.  This test is an editing test.  The students will need to find the misspelled words from a paragraph
• Monday March 2 - Schooled Test - test on vocab and comprehension of Chapters 10-15 

• Grammar - we will be finishing Adjectives - then moving onto verbs
• Schooled - Chapter 16-21
• Personal Narratives
•  

Hello Hello Hello 

Today we finished with pronouns and had a test on them.  Next up for grammar is Adjectives.
Tomorrow and the rest of the week we will concentrate on reading Schooled - the first five chapters, and have a test on it on Wednesday 1/22/20.
The students should study the vocab, their notes and the worksheets for the test.
A test on the spelling words from Schooled will be on Tuesday 1/21/20.
We have one more lesson on writing, then we will begin writing our Personal Narrative.
Homework tonight - Schooled Worksheets

We started reading Schooled today 
Homework - read first three chapters and do the first 12 vocab words.
Grammar - still on pronouns - we are almost done - there will be a test soon.
Writing - we are working on our personal narrative - just learning about how to write it - the major writing of it will begin next week - and it will be done in school.


Happy New Year!!!  2020!  What will I see :)  

This week/month we will be working on
Grammar - Pronouns
Writing - Personal Narrative
Reading - we will start with novels next week  -  We will be reading Schooled by Gordon Korman - I will be giving the books out next week.

Third Week of Advent 
ELA - Reading is done for the Year :)  
Starting in the new year - we will be working on novels

Grammar and Writing - if time allows - we will be working on how to do research.  

Merry Christmas

12/9/19 - We are reading Hatchet in our school reader.  Today we worked on comprehension and vocab.  There will be a test on Hatchet on Friday 12/13/19


12/4/19 - Pronoun Test tomorrow - Students should study Voyager Textbook sections 2-1 to 2-5, and worksheets.

Spelling test on Friday 12/6/19 on Spelling words for Hatchet

12/2/19 - Finish the first ten spelling words - either a picture of the spelling word or a definition and a sentence.

The last week before Thanksgiving Break - 

I'd like to close out the story and start fresh after the break - SO . . .
There will be two tests this week
Spelling and Reading tests - 
I planned to give one on Thursday and one on Friday - But Thursday is a prayer service
And I don't want to push the tests until Monday - because I have Thanksgiving fun activities planned for Monday
SO . . .

Both Tests will be on Friday 11/22/19 

The Reading test will be on Good-Bye Moon 
Compare and Contrast
And the Vocab words
Please have your child study the Close Read on Good-Bye Moon, their notes on Compare and contrast, Their notes from the questions at the end of the chapter, and their vocabulary words
There is also some pages we did in their Writers workbook that they could study - pages 142, 144, 146, 148, and 151.



11/12/19 - Start spelling words for Good-Bye Moon - Do the first 10 spelling words - either sentence or definition in your own words

Week of 11/4/19 - 

Grammar - we are finally finishing Nouns - there will be a test on nouns on Wednesday 11/6/19.  The students should study the Voyager Workbook pages 5 - 19.  

Reading - we will be finishing up The Emperor's Silent Army this week.  There will be test on the Emperor's Silent Army and vocab on Friday 11/8/19.  The test will also be on finding the main idea

Writing - We are writing our Argumentative Essay.  This week we will be working on the body of the Essay and the Conclusion.  This is an in school assignment.





Week of 10/14/19
Grammar - we are working on nouns still - learning Direct Object, Indirect Object, Object of the Preposition, Possessive nouns and Appositives
Grammar test on Nouns chapter 1 will be next week

Reading - we are reading Saving the Rain Forest and working on Fact vs Opinion.  READING TEST ON FRIDAY OCTOBER 18.  Students should study the vocab words and the story.  

Writing - we are working on our Argumentative Essay - this week we are forming our Thesis statement and starting our research.  They have picked some very interesting topics!  I am looking forward to reading them!

10/8/19
In ELA we are reading Saving the Rainforest.  And we are learning about the Rainforest.  
Spelling test on the spelling and challenge words on Thursday Oct 10
We are working on nouns in grammar
and in Writing we are working on our Argumentative Essay
Homework Voyager Workbook page 10

10/3/19 - Reading test on Old Yeller tomorrow - study your notes, re-read the story, and study your vocab

9/26/19 -SPELLING TEST on FRIDAY 9/27/19
We are working on Old Yeller
Nouns
Sentences
and we are starting our first writing assignment - an argumentative essay.  
We are having a lot of fun with this - today we argued about school uniforms.
I can't wait to see the topics they chose!
Homework - finish worksheet on argumentative essays.

9/17/19 - We are getting ready to complete Number the Stars - Test on Thursday 9/19/19
Today we did a plot diagram and worked in teams on comprehension questions.  
We also started our writing project - by having them pick a side and defend it.  This should be interesting!
Lastly we worked a little bit more on nouns
Homework workbook page 5 and complete any classwork that you need to complete

9/16/19 - TEST on Number the Stars on Thursday 9/19/19
The test will be on vocab and comprehension.  

9/12/19

We are still working on Number the Stars - we did close reads this week.  A close read is when you just take a few passages and pull out words that do something - such as create a feeling of peace, or create a feeling of danger.

With this in mind and with the anniversary of 9/11, we are creating posters with recipes for peace - and they are doing a fantastic job!
I am very proud of them!

Spelling test tomorrow 
Number the Stars test next week


9/11/19 - Homework
Study for spelling test on Friday - the test will be on the vocabulary words from Number the Stars.  The test will just be on spelling the words

Next week there will be a test on vocab and comprehension of Number the Stars.  

9.10.19 Homework
Finish paper on Number the Stars

Homework 9.9.19
Study for spelling test
Finish Nouns page 2 of voyager

9/6/19  And we're Off and running - Spelling test on the vocabulary words for Number the Stars will be on Friday September 13.  The test will be spelling only.


9/5/19 - This week we have been working on the summer reading Number the Stars.  If your child got the book from the library - please see if you can borrow it again.  It would be a lot easier for your student if they have the book.  So far we have started working on vocabulary and summarizing different parts of the story.  We will have a test on Number the Stars - probably by the end of next week.  But I will let you and your students know for sure next week.  For homework they only needed to finish their classwork - which was drawing a picture of their favorite scene from the book and then summarizing it.  Most of the students finished this in school.  They can also be studying their vocabulary words.
Thanks

Grammar Test - Thursday Feb 27 on diagramming
Spelling Test - Friday Feb. 28 on Schooled Ch 10-15 - This test is an editing test - the students will need to find the misspelled words from a paragraph.  




Hello, Hello, Hello!  I can't wait to be back with the students on Wednesday Feb 19!  
Here is the tentative schedule for ELA 
Reading we are working on Schooled - Chapters 10-15
Grammar we will be finishing up Diagramming - Voyagers Ch. 8
Writing we will be finishing up our personal narratives.  They are due Friday Feb 28.  
Oral presentations of the personal narrative will being Monday March 2
Spelling test on Spelling words from Schooled Chapters 10-15 on Friday Feb 21
Monday Feb 24 test on Vocab and Comprehension of Schooled Chapters 10-15
Friday Feb 28 - test on Diagraming Voyager Ch 8 and collect Personal Narratives - an in school project.
The students may take a copy of their personal narrative home on Friday to start preparing for their oral presentation of their personal narrative. 
Monday 3/2/20 - students will begin their oral presentation on their personal narrative.
Tuesday 3/3/20 - spelling test on Schooled Chapter 16-20


Happy Catholic Schools' Week 
Homework for 6th grade - Wear your School Uniform to Mass on Sunday.

Also read Chapter 6, 7 and 8 from Schooled for a class discussion on Tuesday.  The class discussion will be graded - for a Speaking and Listening Skill. 

Coming Up

Spelling Test on Schooled Vocab Chapter 6-10 on Monday Feb 3
Comprehension Test on Schooled Chapters 6 - 10 on Wednesday Feb 5

WELCOME TO 6TH GRADE!!

We will be jumping right into the summer reading book Number the Stars
So please remember to bring your book!

I can't wait to see everyone!!  

I'll see my students on Tuesday and the Parents on Wednesday :) 
 

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