DECEMBER 10

HOMEROOM: Music today and then a birthday celebration. Sixth grade also celebrated positive and productive behavior today. Students who turned in homework and were respect of property and others had an afternoon of board games, games, a movie and recess. We have so many students who do the right thing each day! You are awesome!

HOMEWORK: Reading: For the character sketch - write a rough draft of two paragraphs: 1. An introduction of your chosen character (be sure to mention the novel) and the first character trait with its evidence; 2. The second paragraph is for the second character trait and its evidence.

Remember Monday is the second to the last day of our food drive for our Mead community. Ah, kids, . . . really . . .  do you want to bow down to the other classroom?

Have a fun weekend! See you Monday!

DECEMBER 8

HOMEROOM: No specialists today . . . instead we had an all-school science assembly.

Thanks to several students who brought food items for the food drive! Most generous and evident of your efforts! We hope to see more donations tomorrow.

READING: A rough draft of characterization of one of the story characters. Criteria: At least 5 different character traits with 2 pieces of evidence supporting the traits selected.

SPELLING: Test Thursday over suffixes and the spelling words given this week. Don't remember the words? Read an earlier post from this week. You'll see the words are listed.

DECEMBER 7

HOMEROOM: No specialists today. We discussed our food drive, which will last for one week. Mr. Pfiffner's class challenged our class, which we accepted. So kids . . . stay focused for this one week challenge. The results for all of this venture will bring goodness to others. Thanks, in advance, for all your energy and care.

Today, no homework in reading.

DECEMBER 6

HOMEROOM: P.E. ; Corrected Spelling; Read from Christmas Novel
Some of you have asked for the list of spelling words to be on the blog. So here they are for this week. Quiz on Thursday.

king      family     object     school     general    radio    bought    sit   method   rules    simple

necessary    whole    classroom    thought   lead   probably    except    perhaps    chance    whose   results

figure    their   ahead   who's

READING: MANIAC MAGEE: Complete vocabulary words. (accurate, blundering, clamoring, legend, emanation, hoist, infamous) Remember to include: parts of speech, synonyms, and an original sentence using context clues so that a reader may understand the meaning of the word.

Tangerine: Complete literary circle jobs up to page 125.

Number the Stars: Complete literary circle jobs up to page 100.

DECEMBER 1

HOMEROOM: Students had Library this morning and I read from the Christmas novel.

SPELLING: We practiced suffix endings. What students didn't complete in class is homework.

READING: Maniac Magee: Write a summary of chapters 1-5. Quiz over pages 30-42 tomorrow.

Tangerine: Write a web for a summary from 1-90. Continue to record relationship observations in the novel.

Number the Stars: Pre-writng web for a summary up to page 60. Answer questions from chapters 3 or 4. Your choice.

Romeo and Juliet: Draw a picture of the described dream. Summary of Act 1 Scene 1.

NOVEMBER 30

HOMEROOM: We did spelling; had a class meeting; read from our Christmas novel.

READING: Maniac Magee: Classwork: Personification. Homework: Figurative Language focus: Look for examples of similes, metaphors, and personifications from pages 14-30.

Tangerine: Continue to gather information on the relationship you chose in your reading groups today. Remember to include the emotional response to those involved. Also, include two new vocabulary words.

Number the Stars: Friendship recipe mini-project. The gathering of ideas are due Wednesday. Be thinking how you would like to pull the ideas together . . . in a paragraph, poem or poster.

NOVEMBER 29

HOMEROOM: PE class. Also, I started to read a short Christmas Novel to the students.

READING: Maniac Magee: Look for examples of similes, metaphors and personifications and record these on your paper. Look on pages 1-13.

Tangerine: Read up to the agreed amount we stated in class. Rotation 1 - page 100; Rotation 2 - page 60.   With post-its begin to color code and mark four focuses as you read: 1. What realities mom does not see; 2. Relationships between whom and descriptions; 3. Fears the boys have; 4. What rules or defiant behaviors does Eric enact.

Also, complete the vocabulary sheet, handed out during our meeting.

Number the Stars: Complete the work we started in our meeting. Excellent job today!