Oct 1-5, 2012

This week, we will be working on our first Vocabulary Workshop.  The students will have an assignment called Wordbusting 1 to complete on Monday.  As we go on in the week, we will continue to work with those 10 words in various ways, like: matching definitions, looking for synonyms, antonyms, finding context clues, looking for prefixes, suffixes and roots, working with online games, making posters, etc. We will take a vocab quiz on these words on Wednesday for the 6th hr class, Thursday for 1st, 4th, and 8th hr classes.

6th grade field trip to the State Capitol Building will be on Friday, Oct. 5th.  Students need a sack lunch.

Sept 24-28, 2012

It's Homecoming week this week at LSH!  Dress up days are:
Monday - PJ Day
 Tuesday - Crazy Sports Fan Day
 Wednesday - Wacky Day
 Thursday - Fake an Injury Day
 Friday - Spirit Day

Students will also be planning and creating a small wagon sized float to show off at the pep-fest on Friday. 

In Reading class this week, we will be taking our Fall NWEA test. We will also continue working on The Stone, ending with a quiz over the plot and vocab words for the story.

Sept 17- 21, 2012

This week, the sixth grade classes are going to start working in their textbooks, going through some introductions to Collection 1with a focus on plot structure.  The first story we read will be "Dragon, Dragon", and we'll be answering the questions along the side of the story as they appear in our textbook.  If the student doesn't finish their questions in class, they will need to take these home to complete for our next class session.  The second story we will be reading is a fable called, "The Stone".  When we finish reading that story, students will be writing their own true and false questions, as well as matching questions referring to our vocabulary words with that story. 

Sept 10-14, 2012

I've really enjoyed getting to know these new sixth graders!  It's been a full week, and they are doing great.  Students are figuring out their schedules and where they need to be each hour.  In class we will be finishing handing out textbooks, writing academic goals for the quarter, visiting the library media center for a tour and book check out, and taking a diagnostic test.   The information I gather from the test will be used to create individualized work folders that should meet the needs of each student's abilities.  We will be working in these folders in class through-out the year.  Whenever I say we have "folders", those are what we will be using.