It’s midterms this week! Grades will be updated for midterms Friday afternoon.

This week in language arts we are exploring the theme of adventures and disasters through “The Springhill Disaster”, a song by Peggy Seeger about a mine collapse in Springhill Nova Scotia. We’ve watched a youtube video, listened to the song, and analyzed the song lyrics. We are going to perform a reading of the poem for ourselves over the next two days with Ms. Turrell accompanying on the violin! It’s always an adventure (and never a disaster) in language arts! 🙂

In Social Studies we just completed our final assessment on Ancient China. I have a hunch students did outstanding based on their effort and concentration today! We are starting Greece tomorrow and dividing the class into City-States for the remainder of our year. Yikes! Less than 30 days of 6th grade left!

Coming Up:

• OAKS reading Retesting. If students did not meet they will be retesting in reading this week. If they did meet and you would like to have them retest, I have a letter they can pick up from me that a parent/guardian needs to sign. If your student exceeded, they are done with OAKS for the year!
• I will be gone Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday next week for a funeral in Idaho. Students will be in good hands with Mrs. Vaughan, and if you or your student needs to get ahold of me I will be checking in through email and edmodo!