Enrichment Assignments for Sept. 22-26

Monday:
W. U.
Reading Strategies WS pgs 268-269 on Sequencing.

Tuesday:
W.U.
Reading Strategies WS pgs. 270-271.

Wednesday:
W.U.
Reading Strategies WS pgs.

Thursday:
W.U.
Reading Straegies WS pgs.

Block Assignments: Sept 22-26

Monday:
LA: RG reflection

SS: BofR WS pgs. 31-33, WS pgs. 34 and 36. Civil Right Amendments.

Tuesday:
LA: Vocab/spelling test.
New words for the next week: pg. 58 vocab for the story.
Preview of the Serling story, Quickwrite, literary terms.

SS: The government framework--checks and balances, three branches of gov't.
WS pgs. 33/34.

Wednesday:
LA: Start "Monsters on Maple Street". After Act I, HW: pg. 68, #1-5.

SS: Citizen Rights and Responsibilities. WS pgs 68, 70, 72, 76, 77.

Thursday:
LA: Finish "Monsters".
HW: pg. 78, # 1-5

SS: Wrapping up the Constitution. Choose one amendment in BofR and explain its value to your life today. Then, choose one Civil Right amendment and explain its value to your life today.

Friday:
Book orders due.
TBA

Block Assignments: Sept. 15-19

Monday:
LA: Register Guard (RG) reflection. Due tomorrow.
Finish "Duffy's Jacket". Turn in plot diagram WS for the story.

SS: Bill of Rights: pkt pgs 12-26,
HW: WS pgs 38/39

Tuesday:
LA: Vocab/spelling test.
RG due.
Rikki-Tivi-Tavi preview.
New vocab on pg. 14 in Lit. bk, plus the second column from pg 1039.
Assigned Book Choice Project due October 21st.

SS: Small group work. Each group is assigned one of the Bill of Rights to be presented tomorrow.

Wednesday:
LA: Class reading (everybody reads aloud!) of Kipling's Rikki-Tivi-Tavi.

SS: Presentations of the small group reseach on their Bill of Right's amendments.
Questions to be addressed:
Why did the Founding Fathers write this amendment? (Purpose)
Who did it benefit?
What does the amenment really say?

Thursday:
LA: Finish R-T-T.
HW: pg 30, #2-5 and fill in the plot diagram WS.

SS: Bill of Rights WS pgs 10/11

Friday:
You Tube version of R-T-T! It's great.

SS: Bill of Rights WS pg. 27 with the use of the BofR pkt.

Math Assignments for Sept. 22-26

Monday:
MDS, pgs. 9-12.
HW: Practice Divsibility Rules (yellow 1/2 sheet) with #1-10 on pg. 706. Plus, yellow WS from pg. 12 in MDS.

Tuesday:
1.4 beige WS

Wednesday:
1.5 Equations and Mental Math
lesson and notes
HW: pg. 30, #1-14, 16-28e, 29, 30-36

Thursday:
1.5 orange WS

Friday:
Friday Quiz on lessons covering divisibility rules, 1.4, 1.5.

Math Assignments for Sept. 15-19

Monday:
MDS (Math Doesn't Suck) pages 1-8, HW: pg. 8

Tuesday:
1.3 Variables and Equations.
notes, lesson,
HW: pg 17, #1-10, 12-36 evens

Wednesday:
1.3 pink WS

Thursday:
1.4 Powers and Exponents
notes, lesson
HW: pg 22, #1-11, 12-42 evens

Friday:
Friday Quiz

Block Assignments for week of 9-8-08

Monday:

Literature and Social Studies books were assigned and covered in paper covers.

In small groups, we made posters to help the 6th graders learn the behavior expectations for different areas in our building.

Tuesday:

The Register Guard will bed delivered every Monday for our class to use.  Today I assigned the standing Monday RG reflection that will be due every Tuesday.  

We brainstormed on writing lists that will be kept in our writing portfolios.  This is to insure that we never run out of things to write about in later assignments.

Using pictures taken on my laptop, we matched up Manga bodies to illustrate our personalities.  These will be posted in the classroom along with our name poems and name tags.  Come see them at Open House.

Wednesday:

Plot:  Duffy's Jacket in the literature book, pgs 2-4.  Retelling exercise in class, pg 12.

Finished Mangas.

Introductory lesson in spelling/vocab is from pg. 1039, the first column, and Riki Tiki Tavi in our literature books.  The words go in the LA spiral.  A spelling/vocab test will be every Tuesday.

Started a comparitive governments unit using a handout, The Constitution. 

HW: The rules in your home

Thursday:

Plot: Read Duffy's Jacket in class.  Practice retelling with the blue WS.

Preamble WS (p. 38).  Write Preamble in our own words.

Friday:

Look over the Book Orders from Scholastic.  Orders will be due to the classroom on Friday,9-19-08.  The blue Retelling WS is due.

Creating a Bill of Rights for Classroom Rules.

Have a great weekend!

.Math Assignments for week of 9-8-08

Monday:

Book check out and paper covers on the books.  Book numbers are written on the inside cover of the planners. Fun with word searches--it's great exercise for the eyes!

Tuesday:

Locater testing.  I want to determine how much students remember from last year.

Wednesday:

1.2, page 10:  

Notes in spiral, 

lesson, 

HW - pg. 12, #1-20, 22-30 evens

Thursday:

Review and HW:1.2 Yellow WS, Practice A 

Friday:

Friday Quiz on Order of Ops