Enjoy your family and friends!  Wishing you a very, very Merry Christmas!

"Hey! Unto you a child is born!"  "Best Christmas Pageant Ever" exit slip is Friday.  (characters, setting, conflict and resolution)

Best Christmas Pageant Ever next week.  Bring your own copy.  Happy Weekend!

Tell a folktale to your class on Friday.  (just for fun :) )

Exit slip Thursday on "Juan."

1st read & study part 1 notes, "Juan Verdades."  Enjoy!

How do you like "Juan Verdades: The Man Who Couldn't Tell a Lie?"  Did you predict what would happen?

Find some time to create your quilt square about your family.  May your Thanksgiving be blessed with lots of love, joy, and peace.

Tomorrow is Patricia Polacco's "The Keeping Quilt."  It has a "coming to America and beginning a new life" theme.  Draw some pictures or symbols that tell about your family.  Bring them to class.

Congratulations on passing the exit slip on "Marian Anderson."  Good reading, good notes, and good work made the difference.  Enjoy your family time.  :)

Study notes, generalization sheet, and story for an exit slip tomorrow.  Earn 70% to 100%.
Google Marian Anderson and hear her famous concert on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in
Washington, D.C.

2nd read "When Marian Sang"  :)

Monday Night Homework -
     1st read "When Marian Sang"
     PB pages 113 & 114.  Do not do the review.
SOAR!

You are lovely, you are special, you are learning.  I like it!

Spend 15 minutes going over your notes for the post test.  Using another 15 minutes to read "Hatchet" is also a good idea.  I'm so pleased with so many high pre test scores.  You are working well.

Read "Hatchet" and study your notes.  We will take the pre-test tomorrow.  Do your best to learn about Gary Paulsen's realistic fiction, especially sequence and cause/effect.

Homework's in PB.  Do not write the news report, but practice vocabulary.  Also, practice word origins.  First read, "Hatchet."   Enjoy.

"Egypt" - pretest - Thursday.  See you then.  Don't forget to enjoy!

Let's read "Egypt" and work on PB page 94.  Write a narrative using 6 vocabulary words.  Write about an ancient ruler.  Writing and reading go together like salt and pepper.  Enjoy!

Happy Weekend.  Hope you get to read a good book.  Hope you get to have fun with your friends and family.

I'm glad to see some improvement in pre-test scores.  Hang in there, you'll get it.

Pre-test Thursday.  Did you study your notes on our featured Science Fiction - "Good-bye to the Moon?"
Score 70% or above.

Pre-test on "Goodbye to the Moon"Wednesday.  Read this science fiction - it's a hoot!

Homework time - *Read "Goodbye to the Moon"  pages 224 to 237  *Do PB pages 84 & 85.  *Do the weather report in 3/4 page and use 6 vocab words.  SOAR on homework!

We'll move on to a spoof on living on the moon.  Way to increase your selection test score - your post test shows that you studied and learned.  Happy, happy weekend.

Hello all of you students of Reading.  Post test tomorrow, bring your best book to class.

Homework:
*Read a "Week in the 1800's."
*2nd & 3rd blocks - Bingo board with definitions or sentences:
     counselors, identity, physical, soprano, surplus, technology, tenements
*lst block - Make a list of six nouns and six verbs that the author of "1800's" uses to name objects and actions that are no longer used today.

Read "Dinosaur Ghosts: the Mystery of Coelophysis."  Buddy read with someone in your family.  Pretest is tomorrow.  Enjoy your evening!

No homework in Reading tonight.

Enjoyed learning about the history you revealed in your speeches.  You are wonderful students.  May Fall Break be glorious!!

Practice your speech.  Is it 3 to 5 minutes long?  Enjoy!

Good Evening Reading Team!
     Write your rough draft for the speech.  Write in "because____________________(person and/or event) lived in America, then _____________________________________________. (this is a result of the work of this person)     CAUSE/EFFECT
     Looking forward to hearing your speeches on Friday!

Work on your Space and Time project from Unit 2.  Choose an event from history.  Learn about this and present your speech on Friday.  See me if you need to do online research.  Go Sixth Grade!

Here's your Unit 2 Space and Time project:  Choose an event from history and tell what effect it has had on us today.  Use print or online resources.  We'll present in class on Friday.  

Happy Reading to all of you!

Read "When Crowbar Came" with your parent - you read a page, he reads a page.  Ask one question about what you've read.  Have your agenda signed.  :)

Homework Monday -

     *1st read of "When Crowbar Came." Mom or dad should sign agenda.
     *Practice Book page 44 - write a description using six vocabulary words.
     *Find a place and time for your homework.  After school could work, also after supper.  Do what works for you and your family.  Do your best.

Your Reading Coach

Sixth graders are smooth readers!  Happy weekend!

Plants grow everywhere in a rain forest - including on other plants.  Some epiphytes (mosses, lichens, ferns, orchids, cacti, and bromeliads exist in abundance in cloud forests.  Rain water gets trapped in some epiphytes and forms pools of water high in the trees, which the poison arrow frogs use to raise their tadpoles.

To the rain forest and beyond! :)

Poets use this figurative language:
alliteration, idioms, metaphors, onomatoepeia, similes

Can you identify in poetry?

Read a poem or two for fun.

In class this week, we'll be reading poetry and learning about different types of poems.  Tuesday's poem features free verse and "I, Too, Sing America" by Langston Hughes.

Hello Students in Sixth Grade,
     Enjoy a book, a friend, a sunset, your pets, a craft, drawing a picture, or making a card for someone special.  You are wonderful.  See you Tuesday

You'll have these chances for extra points for our "Viva New Jersey" test:

     *Venn Diagram - 6 ideas which describe only America, 6 ideas which describe both America and Cuba, and 6 ideas which describe only Cuba - Use your best compare/contrast skills.................5 points

     *3/4 to 1 page newspaper account about a missing dog returned - use 6 vocab. words...........5 points

     *An accrostic poem with the letters COMING TO AMERICA..............................................5 points

     *Two silent reads/parent signatures "Viva New Jersey"........................................................5 points each

Good luck on your selection test on Friday.  

Finish your Venn Diagram.  (Just America, Both America and Cuba, Just Cuba)
Have 6 of each.
Read a fun book.  Enjoy!

     The author of "Viva New Jersey", Gloria Gonzales, lived for many years in West New York, New York, where her story takes place.  While growing up, she spoke Spanish at home because her dad came from Spain.  Ms. Gonzales has also written "The Boy with Yellow Eyes" about two boys who capture a Nazi spy.  

Hello my students.  Practice vocabulary using Practice Book page 24.  Write a newspaper article using six vocabulary words.  Read "Viva New Jersey".  Have your parents sign your agenda for five points.  I like to see you bring good homework to Reading class.  Let's SOAR in sixth grade!

Hello!! I'm glad all of you are my students.  I hope this blog will help everyone SOAR in 6th grade.