Sixth Graders - Work on PB page 114 - Also, write a music review on a separate sheet of paper.  Use six of your vocabulary words and please underline each one you use.  Go for earning 16 out of 16 points.

Read your fun AR book.  Select non-fiction for DECEMBER.

*PB page 94 - write narrative about a ruler/leader.  Use six words from vocab list, underline in the story. 
* Make Bingo board.  Write a definition or 6+ word sentence in each box.  Paper should be folded in 8 parts.

Practice Vocabulary on page 84 of your Practice Book.  Use six words to write a weather report.  Please use a separate sheet of paper for this.  Underline each word you are able to use in your weather report.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.       -Benjamin Franklin

Read "A Week in the 1800's."  Parent should sign agenda.  This is worth 5 points on the selection test.

Read "The Universe"

Parents sign agenda for 5 test points

3rd read "Crowbar" - parent signature worth 5 points on Friday's selection test

Happy Reading of "When Crowbar Came" - (2nd Read)

Sixth Grade Readers, here's your homework:

Do the work on Practice Book page 44, and on a separate sheet of paper write a description of a flock of birds.  Correctly use six of your vocabulary words.  Please underline each one that you use.  Happy Learning!

Rainforest Debate is Friday!!  Prepare by reading pages 177 to 187 in your geography book!!  Which interest group will claim the most rainforest land?

Sixth Grade Reading Students - How does the biodiversity of rain forests compare with that of other ecosystems?

Using six bulleted statements respond to this prompt in your Reading notebook.  Compare the rainforest with Warren County, Kentucky.  Use video notes, leveled reader, and text "Saving the Rainforest."

Read "Viva New Jersey," pages 70 to 83.  Selection test is Friday.

Do Practice Book page 24.  Using six of your vocabulary words, write a newspaper article about a lost dog who had found his way home after several months of travel.  Underline each word that you use.

Read "Mother Fletcher's Gift."  Study notes.  Exit slip tomorrow on "CHARACTER."  (Mrs. Fletcher and/or Officer O'Brien)

"Mother Fletcher's Gift"  Practice Book pages 17 & 18  Work on "character."

Hello All You Deaton Reading Students -
     For Homework:
Do Practice Book page 14 AND on a separate sheet of paper write a play using 6 vocabulary words.
Please underline each vocabulary word that you use.
Be proactive - you're in charge!

PB pages 267 - 268.  Study notes.  Learn about Ancient Greece!

No homework for Blocks 1 & 2.  Block 3 brings their exit slips to class on Wednesday.  (Write a main idea and 2 supporting details from your silent reading book.)

You did it - you took the "Don Quixote" test.  Yiiipppeee!

Sixth graders,

     Study your notes and story for the selection test Monday on "Don Quixote.

     The original "Don Quixote" was published first in Spain in 1605 by Miguel de Cervantes.  It is considered a classic of Western literature and has influenced many writers through the ages.

     Enjoy the weekend!

Read "Don Quixote and the Windmills."  (pages 657 to 667).  Learn about the Middle Ages, knights, damsels, squires, and quests, and much, much more.  Do any of the PB pages for extra credit on the test.  It is Monday, April 23.  Happy Reading!!

Enjoy your weekend, read a good book.  :)

HOMEWORK
   1ST BLOCK - PB PAGES 243 & 244; BINGO BOARD WITH 12 SPACES, VOCAB OR SEN-
TENCE IN EACH SPACE

    2ND BLOCK & 3RD BLOCK - PB PAGES 243 & 244, 246 & 247

Study notes.  Do PB pages 233 & 234.  Do not do the writing on page 234.  Really.
Happiest of weekends.

Did you know the United States ended its use of the gold standard in 1971, and gold no longer plays a major role in world monetary systems?

Read "Gold" - pages 604 to 613.

Read the Hunger Games if you like fantasy or horror.  Read a good book!

Read a good book.  Read, take a break, and read again.

1st block - List of author's words and what an object in nature is called.  (river - sleepy)
                 Vocabulary Design with definitions.

2nd block - Vocabulary Design with definitions.

3rd block - see 1st block

Selection test on "Harvesting Hope" is tomorrow.  Study your notes, and review your story.  Also, we'll write a short answer question.  Study for a good grade.  You can do this.

Thursday Homework:

     1st Block - Write a one page biography about one of your classmates.

     2nd Block - Purple Group - TChart
                         Blue Group - Write a newspaper article and use 6 vocabulary words.

     3rd Block - Write 12 bits of information about you.

Find a quiet place to work.  Use your good imagination.  Proof read when finished.  Have fun.

Homework:
     1st block    Read "Harvesting Hope", PB pages 214 & 215 - use 6 vocab. words in a letter
     2nd block   Read "Harvesting Hope"
     3rd block    Read "Harvesting Hope", PB page 214 - use 6 vocab. words in a letter

Be kind to your family!
 

I'm so pleased with many of your plot foldables.  Tuesday we'll write an extended response identifying and explaining elements of a story.  Practice reading - read a good book or magazine!

Hello Sixth Grade Reading Students,

     Your Wed. homework is Practice Book pages 203 & 204.  Write a letter to a grandparent using all 5 vocabulary words and one of them to be used twice.  (six words).  Have a wonderful evening.

Learn about Thomas Alva Edison, especially one of his favorite quotes, "Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."  We'll do 17 multiple choice questions on cause and effect, compare and contrast, making inferences, and author's purpose.  Also, we'll do a short answer question. Enjoy reading!

Study notes.  We'll take a selection test on "Inventing the Future" on Friday.

"Genius is 99% perspiration and 1% inspiration."  Let's enjoy learning about Thomas Edison and praise him for his accomplishments.  Read "Inventing the Future."

Good Evening,

     *Practice Book page 184, write story using 6 vocab. words on a separate sheet of paper.
     *Finish the cover design for "The Emperor's New Clothes."  Color, please.
     *Finish ER (extended response) for Part B - Choose three characters and give an example for each      character from the selection to support your theme.

Good luck on your Tuesday homework.  Reading is wonderful.

Find joy in your weekend.  It's there!

Best effort needed for tomorrow's "Black Frontiers."

Exit slip on author's purpose is Monday.  Did you follow "The Chimpanzees I Love"  well enough to decide if the author's purpose was to inform, to persuade, to entertain, to express an opinion, or a combination of these?

Enjoy the weekend - see you Monday.

   Homework
lst block - 3 column chart on animal research
2nd & 3rd blocks - PB page 164; write a newspaper article, 6 words, separate sheet
   SOAR!

Hello all you 6th grade friends,

Study your "Into the Ice" notes."  Do 3rd read.  You'll be North Pole experts.  :)

3rd block Reading should do PB page 154.  Write your description on a separate sheet of paper.

Writing class will write a group persuasive piece.  You'll have an opportunity to research in class.
Go Reading!  Go Writing!  Go Literacy!

Read "Into the Ice." Agenda should be signed.  :)

Read EB.  Read 20 minutes in AR book of choice.  Exit slip on drawing conclusions is Friday.

*Read "Elizabeth Blackwell"
*Do PB pages 143 & 144.  Do not write scene from play.
*Read 20 minutes of AR.

"Good readers visualize.  :) "