It’s a new trimester! Y’all are 2/3 of the way to being 7th graders, yippee!

One more week until spring break! Yikes!                                                                               I loved seeing everyone who came to conferences! If you missed and would like to schedule for another time, call or email! 🙂

This week in language arts we are continuing our writing samples from last week by peer editing another student’s paragraph. We will turn our edited paragraphs into final copies on Thursday. In the mean time, we are also continuing our sentence pattern study as well as adding to our personal dictionaries. We have also started a new read aloud called  Boys Without Names about an eleven year old boy in India who moves to the big city of Mumbai.  

In social studies we are continuing our brief study of India for the rest of the week. We will be studying China after spring break!

Coming up:                                                                                                                                                  

•  Spring Break: Mar 25 thru Mar 29
• Reading OAKS testing week of April 8th
• Math OAKS testing week of April 15th

Wow! The end of the trimester really snuck up on me, can’t believe we’re already less than two weeks away from spring break!

This week we are holding drop in conferences from 3:15pm to 7:15pm both Tuesday March 12th & Wednesday March 13th. Hope to see you all there!                  If you can’t make it, send us an email or call if you would like to schedule a conference at a time more convenient for you!

In Language Arts this week we have been experimenting with edmodo and haiku deck (an app that pairs pictures with words) to create brilliant sentences! Have your student show you their work on edmodo! We are also going to be tackling another paragraph writing sample Tuesday and Wednesday using an online graphic organizer as well as some prompts that students will have to argue for or against!

We’ve started our unit on Ancient India in Social Studies this week by completing a map of India and will also be tackling vocabulary review for our school-wide vocabulary program. Tuesday and Wednesday we will be learning more about how the geography of India affected its development and created one of the largest advanced ancient civilizations, Mohenjo Daro!

Enjoy the four day weekend off with your student! Remember, no school Thursday AND Friday! I’ll be missing them, though 🙂

It was a busy exciting week last week! We had a red carpet premiere of our Golden Goblet puppet movies in language arts as well as recreated life in the hierarchy of Egyptian society in social studies with an interact. Students were randomly chosen as pharaohs, nobles, peasants, as well as other positions in life and had to complete a task as those characters. I think everyone decided that it was no fun having a pharaoh ordering them around!

This week is going to be a busy one as well!

In language arts we have started a new unit making our own personal dictionaries with different descriptive words as well as sentence patterns to spice up our writing. Writing is definitely a challenge for our class, but with we’ve made so much progress as writers since the beginning of the year, we can’t stop now!

In social studies we are wrapping up our Egypt Unit and have a unit test on Tuesday that students should be studying for! We will be doing a mini unit on India starting Thursday.

Coming up:

This week we will be having the career fair on Wednesday March 6th, which I am actually participating in as the “teacher”. Students will have the opportunity to travel around to different booths and learn about potential future careers. It’s a great opportunity for kids to start thinking about how the choices they make during middle school will affect what happens only a couple years down the road! Ask your 6th grader about it Wednesday night!

Next week! Conferences are just around the corner! From 3:15-7:15 pm, on Tues March 12th and Wed March 13th, Ms. Thill, Ms. Welsh, and I will all be holding drop in conferences during that time. I hope to see everyone there! If you can’t make it, feel free to schedule a conference by calling or emailing at any time 🙂