Class Assignments:
September Assignments | October Assignments
Week of November 26, 2001:
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Math: | Skills: Skills classes with 6th grade teachers. |
| Reading: | Read novels in novel groups. Group assignments. When finished write a "Bing, Bang, Bongo" essay on the novel. Essay must include introduction, paragraphs on setting, main characters, and plot, and conclusion. Also take BookAdventure test on novel. Students who have finished novel will be reading news articles this week and summarizing. Be ready for oral presentation on news article or novel on Friday. Be sure you are reading your outside reading book at home. Continue WWW.BOOKADVENTURE.ORG reading! Students and parents: if you have access to the internet, you can begin collecting points on the BookAdventure.org site at home. Find your user name and password on this week's Agenda page. Have fun reading! |
| Language Arts: | Begin unit on nouns. |
| Spelling: | Spelling Lesson 9. Test on Friday. |
| Social Studies: | Continue Lesson 3 on Ancient Sumeria. Make a flip book on Sumeria.
Online resource for extra credit: Understanding Primary Sources:
Hammurabi's Code of Laws
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| Science: | Last week of biomes unit with Mrs. Olson. Final test on this unit Tuesday. For online resources, see the parent's page. |
| Health: | Chapter 2 Lesson 3. |
| Handwriting: | Copy poems and other literature. Focus: spacing. |
Homework: |
Monday - Study Science. Keep track of daily reading for Petersen's book drawing! Tuesday - English worksheet. Wednesday - Social Studies worksheet. Thursday - Share Agenda with parents and have it signed. Also study for Spelling test and have spelling study guide signed by parents. |
Week of November 19, 2001:
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Math: | Skills: Skills classes with 6th grade teachers. |
| Reading: | Read novels in novel groups. Group assignments. When finished write a "Bing, Bang, Bongo" essay on the novel. Essay must include introduction, paragraphs on setting, main characters, and plot, and conclusion. Also take BookAdventure test on novel. |
| Language Arts: | Do a creative writing project for writing work sample. Review sentence structure. Test on sentence structure on Wednesday. |
| Spelling: | No spelling this week. |
| Social Studies: | Continue Lesson 2 on Ancient Sumeria.
Online resource for extra credit: Understanding Primary Sources:
Hammurabi's Code of Laws
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| Science: | Biomes Unit with Mrs. Olson. Final test on this unit will be next week. For online resources, see the parent's page. |
| Health: | Chapter 2 Lesson 3. |
| Handwriting: | Complete recipe book. |
Homework: |
Monday - Social Studies worksheet. Keep track of daily reading for Petersen's book drawing! Tuesday - English review worksheet. Study for English test. Share Agenda with parents and have it signed. Wednesday - Have a great Thanksgiving. Read daily! Thursday - No school. |
Week of November 12, 2001:
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Math: | Skills: Skills classes with 6th grade teachers. |
| Reading: | Read novels in novel groups. Group assignments. |
| Language Arts: | Grammar unit: Compound predicates. Memorize list of 15 being and linking verbs. |
| Spelling: | Spelling Lesson 7 Test on Friday. |
| Social Studies: | Complete Lesson 1 Ancient Sumeria. Begin Lesson 2. Also begin memorizing locations of countries on world map.
Online resource for extra credit: Understanding Primary Sources:
Hammurabi's Code of Laws
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| Science: | Biomes Unit with Mrs. Olson. For online resources, see the parent's page. |
| Health: | Chapter 2 Lesson 2. |
| Handwriting: | Workbook p. 15 and text page 54. Copy recipe for class recipe book. |
Homework: |
Monday - No School. Tuesday - Social Studies worksheet. Keep track of daily reading for Petersen's book drawing! Wednesday - English worksheet. Read daily! Thursday - Health Chapter 2 Lesson 2 worksheet. Study for Spelling test and have spelling list signed. Share Agenda with parents and have it signed. |
Week of November 5, 2001:
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Math: | Skills: Skills classes with 6th grade teachers. |
| Reading: | Read novels in novel groups. Group assignments. |
| Language Arts: | Grammar unit: Compound predicates. Memorize list of 15 being and linking verbs. |
| Spelling: | No Spelling this week. |
| Social Studies: | Begin Unit on Ancient Sumeria. Begin memorizing locations of countries on world map.
Online resource for extra credit: Understanding Primary Sources:
Hammurabi's Code of Laws
|
| Science: | Biomes Unit with Mrs. Olson. For online resources, see the parent's page. |
| Health: | Chapter 2 Lesson 1. |
| Handwriting: | Workbook and text pages. |
Homework: |
Monday - Review averaging for math worksample test.Keep track of daily reading for Petersen's book drawing! Tuesday - Health Chapter 2 Lesson 1 worksheet. Share Agenda with parents and have it signed. Wednesday - No school Thursday or Friday. Read daily! |