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.