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BLUE ON Monday! It's Peace Day ...
It was suppose to be a PINK day for us, but the kinders begged us to switch so they could be the pink pigs , , ,!
Parent Help Needed
This year for our class's contribution to the school auction we will be painting a ceramic dinnerware set! This dinnerware is for service for eight (eight dinner plates, eight salad plates, eight bowls, and eight mugs) and includes a centerpiece vase. We will be painting all pieces in class next Thursday the 24th. The dinnerware will be painted with fall leaves in beautiful autumn color. Just imagine the beautiful table setting this will be! Once painted, the pieces will be glazed and then fired in San Jose at Clay Planet. I will need parent helpers to help manage the underglaze, brushes, and general set-up and clean-up. If you can help, please click below onto volunteer spot and sign up. Thank you!
Intel Field Trip Update . . . Tuesday, Sept 29th:
Thank you to the following parents/chaperones:
DEPARTING AT 8:15:
Laisure Ashrafzadeh Lang Pullen Mudrak Swanbeck/Kelly Martin/Jordahl |
DEPARTING AT 10:30:
Persing Frisby Anderson McClellan Rautela Ruffner Rubio Fujita Alger Bolton Kearney |
***Please make sure all paperwork is on file with Miss Nancy. This paperwork must be updated EVERY year! Thank you for your help. This is a new field trip for 6th grade! I hope it is awesome!
Reminder: Thursday, Oct. 1 is Our Outdoor Education Parent Meeting
Please make sure your calendars are marked! We will be passing out necessary paperwork, talking about Camp Campbell and answering questions. The meeting will be at 7:00 in Room 106 (Ms. Williams' classroom).
DRESS CODE!
Please help! We do not like sending students to the office to get big shirts! Please make sure that if your child is wearing any kind of leggings that their bottom is covered by a shirt. Pulling their shirt down when we talk to them or telling us they have other clothes in their backpack, does not work!
Please help us!
Please help us!
Classroom Updates
Spanish
We are having a great time learning about our friends and using our descriptive words in Spanish. We just finished drawing a "muñeca" or doll and wrote 5-7 sentences in Spanish. Ask you child to tell you about what they drew and some of the descriptive words they used. We also started our -ar verb conjugation. The students will learn the rules for conjugating a set of -ar verbs and know how to use them in a sentence. In the next weeks to come, we will write stories and sentences with these words. I have give the students a list of -ar verbs to look over. They should go over these for about 5-10 min a day. With frequent review, they will memorize them easier. Next week we will celebrate 16 de septiembre. The students will learn about this important date in Mexico and how it's celebrated. We will also be eating a staple Mexican dish of beans and rice. It looks like a fun week ahead!
Math/Science
We have completed 5th grade benchmark tests. Students have been assigned a personal list of assignments, based on their performance, to help build gaps/holes in math understandings. Students should be working through these assignments when they are not given regular math homework.
Each week they are assigned an assignment. This assignment needs to be completed before Friday at midnight. To get full credit, students must complete the activity, any any amplifier and do over with a 70%, They must also turn in their Learning Log, documenting their thinking. They can do this on the Monday following the Friday due date.
We are starting an investigation working with positive and negative numbers. Students were introduced to the math text book this work. We will continue to work on this concept next week..
Students completed their sustainability posters. Students were graded on working as a team, following directions and writing a meaningful paragraph about the sustainable practice of their choice!
We are having a great time learning about our friends and using our descriptive words in Spanish. We just finished drawing a "muñeca" or doll and wrote 5-7 sentences in Spanish. Ask you child to tell you about what they drew and some of the descriptive words they used. We also started our -ar verb conjugation. The students will learn the rules for conjugating a set of -ar verbs and know how to use them in a sentence. In the next weeks to come, we will write stories and sentences with these words. I have give the students a list of -ar verbs to look over. They should go over these for about 5-10 min a day. With frequent review, they will memorize them easier. Next week we will celebrate 16 de septiembre. The students will learn about this important date in Mexico and how it's celebrated. We will also be eating a staple Mexican dish of beans and rice. It looks like a fun week ahead!
Math/Science
We have completed 5th grade benchmark tests. Students have been assigned a personal list of assignments, based on their performance, to help build gaps/holes in math understandings. Students should be working through these assignments when they are not given regular math homework.
Each week they are assigned an assignment. This assignment needs to be completed before Friday at midnight. To get full credit, students must complete the activity, any any amplifier and do over with a 70%, They must also turn in their Learning Log, documenting their thinking. They can do this on the Monday following the Friday due date.
We are starting an investigation working with positive and negative numbers. Students were introduced to the math text book this work. We will continue to work on this concept next week..
Students completed their sustainability posters. Students were graded on working as a team, following directions and writing a meaningful paragraph about the sustainable practice of their choice!
Social Studies
Continuing our studies of early humans and the rise of civilization, this week we looked at five groups of hominids. With each group we looked at skull fragments, rebuilt the skulls, and studied artifacts so that we could determine which capabilities helped each group survive. As archeologist we studied the evidence.
Continuing our studies of early humans and the rise of civilization, this week we looked at five groups of hominids. With each group we looked at skull fragments, rebuilt the skulls, and studied artifacts so that we could determine which capabilities helped each group survive. As archeologist we studied the evidence.
Most all of the students were successful in signing onto our online social studies program and completed the Chapter 2 reading challenge. If you child was not able to complete this, please see that it is completed this weekend. The instructions again are as follows:
Visit: http://www.learntci.com/student/sign_in
Click: Student Sign-in (Top right corner)
Enter my email: [email protected]
Username is: firstnamelastinitial2018 (all lower case) Example: Lucy Russell is lucyr2018
Password is: Iheartsocialstudies (Capital I and the rest lower case)
In the table of contents click on the reading challenge (green star) for chapter two and complete.
Next week we will start chapter three, From Hunters and Gatherers to Farmers.
Visit: http://www.learntci.com/student/sign_in
Click: Student Sign-in (Top right corner)
Enter my email: [email protected]
Username is: firstnamelastinitial2018 (all lower case) Example: Lucy Russell is lucyr2018
Password is: Iheartsocialstudies (Capital I and the rest lower case)
In the table of contents click on the reading challenge (green star) for chapter two and complete.
Next week we will start chapter three, From Hunters and Gatherers to Farmers.
Language Arts
We have continued with Boy of the Painted Cave by Justin Denzel. We have read through chapter ten (Egyptians are through chapter 8) and continue adding work to our reading logs. This work is to help us practice a variety of reading strategies and is completed in class. Any student that is unable to complete their work in class is able to take the work home to complete. Each week the week's Reading Log work is to be turned in by Friday; I review and score the papers over the weekend. Any missing work is marked M in Jupiter Grades. I give a one week grace period for this work to be turned in. Meaning that the classwork due by today, Friday, September, 18, will still be accepted until next Friday, September 25. This gives parents a chance to help students follow up. However, please note this is classwork and very rarely should work need to be finished at home. If your child is routinely not completing work in class then a conversation together would be helpful.
The students completed a grammar quiz on nouns and verbs. While most students did well with this, there are students that need continued review. Please visit the Language Arts tab above and on the drop down menu you will find a Grammar tab. There are a number of online games that the students can play to help them with this review. There is also a YouTube video for the preposition song that we have been singing in class. Our next grammar quiz will include nouns, verbs, prepositions, and prepositional phrases.
We have continued with Boy of the Painted Cave by Justin Denzel. We have read through chapter ten (Egyptians are through chapter 8) and continue adding work to our reading logs. This work is to help us practice a variety of reading strategies and is completed in class. Any student that is unable to complete their work in class is able to take the work home to complete. Each week the week's Reading Log work is to be turned in by Friday; I review and score the papers over the weekend. Any missing work is marked M in Jupiter Grades. I give a one week grace period for this work to be turned in. Meaning that the classwork due by today, Friday, September, 18, will still be accepted until next Friday, September 25. This gives parents a chance to help students follow up. However, please note this is classwork and very rarely should work need to be finished at home. If your child is routinely not completing work in class then a conversation together would be helpful.
The students completed a grammar quiz on nouns and verbs. While most students did well with this, there are students that need continued review. Please visit the Language Arts tab above and on the drop down menu you will find a Grammar tab. There are a number of online games that the students can play to help them with this review. There is also a YouTube video for the preposition song that we have been singing in class. Our next grammar quiz will include nouns, verbs, prepositions, and prepositional phrases.