Today in 6A!
A big thank you to all parents who came to last night's Back To School Night. Mr. Gray and Mr. VanRuyven feel like it was a great success and that we (teachers, students and parents) are all on the best footing to have a great year!
ENGLISH: Students signed up for the Google Classroom account that is open for our 6th grade. All students in 6th grade will have access to this site and it will be a one stop shop for all subjects' assignment issuance and submission. Please still check this blog for daily assigned homework. Assignments will be listed here as well.
RELIGION: Continuing our examination of the construction of the Bible, students explored the details of how this "library" is constructed. They cracked open a few Bibles and hunted for details and then created illuminated texts from a scripture verse of their choosing.
Dr. O'Bannion came to class today to discuss the finer points of our discipline policy and procedures. Your children were engaged, attentive and asked great questions.
AR READING/MATH: Students acquired new books, completed some homework and made progress toward their STAR goals for this year. Some students are concerned that their summer reading hasn't been counted in their totals as of yet. I promise to get to the bottom of this as soon as possible.
Friday, September 7, 2018
Thursday, September 6, 2018
Today in 6A & 6B
ENGLISH: After yesterday's mix-up, Mr. VanRuyven has re-tooled our vocabulary structure that will focus more strongly on word association as a front-loaded activity. Students engaged in the iWords section of Unit 1 learning multiple definitions for their key words as well as making associations to examples in their own lives. We reinforced this with some of the in-app games that are available.
PE
LITERATURE: We continued our reading of "Crash" through chapters 6-12 (pages 21-40), exploring the themes of new friends, soulmates, like-minded individuals and how other people's opinions can shape our own actions.
RELIGION: Continuing with our look at St Jerome, the structure of the Bible, inspiration from the Holy Spirit and how interpretations/translations of the Bible get approved through the Magisterium.
SOCIAL STUDIES: Chapter 1, Session 2 (p.12-15) - Early Man evolves, becomes nomadic and develops tools and harnesses fire. Students were assigned questions 1-5 on page 15 for homework.
MATH (8:00 class) pg 13 1-17 all (9:00 class) Worksheet 1-2 & 1-3
SCIENCE read pgs 13-17 Questions 1-4 worked on in class if they did not finish than it is homework
ENGLISH: After yesterday's mix-up, Mr. VanRuyven has re-tooled our vocabulary structure that will focus more strongly on word association as a front-loaded activity. Students engaged in the iWords section of Unit 1 learning multiple definitions for their key words as well as making associations to examples in their own lives. We reinforced this with some of the in-app games that are available.
PE
LITERATURE: We continued our reading of "Crash" through chapters 6-12 (pages 21-40), exploring the themes of new friends, soulmates, like-minded individuals and how other people's opinions can shape our own actions.
RELIGION: Continuing with our look at St Jerome, the structure of the Bible, inspiration from the Holy Spirit and how interpretations/translations of the Bible get approved through the Magisterium.
SOCIAL STUDIES: Chapter 1, Session 2 (p.12-15) - Early Man evolves, becomes nomadic and develops tools and harnesses fire. Students were assigned questions 1-5 on page 15 for homework.
MATH (8:00 class) pg 13 1-17 all (9:00 class) Worksheet 1-2 & 1-3
SCIENCE read pgs 13-17 Questions 1-4 worked on in class if they did not finish than it is homework
Wednesday, September 5, 2018
Today in 6A & 6B
ENGLISH: Continuing with our lessons on Sadlier, we came across an issue with the assigned time zones for our region. This has now been resolved and shouldn't pose any additional issues moving forward. However, this hiccup has inspired me to change how this class will be assessed in the future. While all materials will be sourced from this site, our structured biweekly planned strategy for Vocabulary is greatly improved.
MUSIC and SPANISH: our itinerant teachers came to visit for this and all future classes.
RELIGION: We were introduced to St Jerome, the patron saint of librarians, and learned how the Bible is actually a library in itself. Additionally, students learned how the many books were chosen and interpreted through divine inspiration.
SOCIAL STUDIES: Applying what we learned yesterday about archaeologists and archaeology, we performed a rudimentary analysis of some modern artifacts (read: trash). From this evidence students inferred possible identities for who left it behind. They also explored what information this evidence does NOT provide.
MATH (8:00 class) Homework is page 7 14-25 maybe some accelerated math
(9:00 class) Homework pg 15 1-28 all
***6B finish your All about Me triangle and ADD a picture
ENGLISH: Continuing with our lessons on Sadlier, we came across an issue with the assigned time zones for our region. This has now been resolved and shouldn't pose any additional issues moving forward. However, this hiccup has inspired me to change how this class will be assessed in the future. While all materials will be sourced from this site, our structured biweekly planned strategy for Vocabulary is greatly improved.
MUSIC and SPANISH: our itinerant teachers came to visit for this and all future classes.
RELIGION: We were introduced to St Jerome, the patron saint of librarians, and learned how the Bible is actually a library in itself. Additionally, students learned how the many books were chosen and interpreted through divine inspiration.
SOCIAL STUDIES: Applying what we learned yesterday about archaeologists and archaeology, we performed a rudimentary analysis of some modern artifacts (read: trash). From this evidence students inferred possible identities for who left it behind. They also explored what information this evidence does NOT provide.
MATH (8:00 class) Homework is page 7 14-25 maybe some accelerated math
(9:00 class) Homework pg 15 1-28 all
***6B finish your All about Me triangle and ADD a picture
Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Today in 6A!
ENGLISH: Set up students with their Sadlier accounts. Good news parents! Vocabulary texts are now fully online. Please ask you children to show you te new website and all the cool tools we have at our disposal for vocabulary development. We will be exploring them all week.
LITERATURE: Today we began our first book of the year, "Crash." Students read the first 20 pages (5 chapters) and made some predictions about where they think this story is going. They also analyzed the nature of certain characters which helped them understand their actions.
STAR Testing: Students performed their first STAR reading tests today.
SOCIAL STUDIES: We began our journey into prehistory today helping to understand the work that archaeologists do to interpret evidence to create the historical narrative. Students read pages 2-11 and were assigned questions 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 for homework. Students work will be checked for completion on Wednesday.
ENGLISH: Set up students with their Sadlier accounts. Good news parents! Vocabulary texts are now fully online. Please ask you children to show you te new website and all the cool tools we have at our disposal for vocabulary development. We will be exploring them all week.
LITERATURE: Today we began our first book of the year, "Crash." Students read the first 20 pages (5 chapters) and made some predictions about where they think this story is going. They also analyzed the nature of certain characters which helped them understand their actions.
STAR Testing: Students performed their first STAR reading tests today.
SOCIAL STUDIES: We began our journey into prehistory today helping to understand the work that archaeologists do to interpret evidence to create the historical narrative. Students read pages 2-11 and were assigned questions 1, 2, 4, 5, 6 for homework. Students work will be checked for completion on Wednesday.
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