Today in 6A & 6B

ENGLISH: The final section of our grammar week covers Conjunctions and Interjections. It would have been a trip down memory lane for most of the parents and even for some of our students as we watched the classic School House Rocky clips for "Conjunction Junction" and "Interjections!" These videos really helped drive home these very simple concepts. With a little more drilling, students were easily applying the skills in writing their own sentences.

RELIGION: Today's lesson is centered around the home the Israelites made for God in Solomon's temple. Students imagined what their own "happy place" would be like and some of the common characteristics were around serenity, quiet, and in nature. Interestingly enough, this is where we often find God.

SOCIAL STUDIES: Our review session was filled with questions regarding the format of the test and what areas students should focus their studying on. As mentioned to the students, this is what I might call a test-taker's test. It is engineered to allow for students to communicate their understanding of specific content in their own words. This means writing. There is a "short answer" section where students will respond to a prompt and are encouraged to write as much as they can about the topic. The question is only worth 5 points, but the more a student writes, the more room I have to make sense of their understanding of the material. Likewise for vocabulary, I ask students to explain in their own words the definition of a term. If they give me the book definition they will be correct, but if they can communicate their own definition that aligns with the book's definition, they would also be right. I have every belief that these students will be successful tomorrow.

MATH (8:00 class) pg 119 1-23 odds only (9:00 class) WS 3-1, 3-2, 3-3  Everyone needs to be doing Accelerated Math (unless you are already 100% to Goal)