Today in 6A & 6B

ENGLISH: After reviewing our flash cards, students examined some additional capitalization rules. The unifying factor in all of our capitalization rules is the specificity of a certain word. Are we talking about mountain ranges or the Rocky Mountains? We then looked at some rather confusing spelling rules. For each of these rules there are some exceptions, which means they're terrible rules. I stress to all students that this effort in improving spelling is centered more around memorization than rules. For this reason, spelling with regards to our vocabulary terms will have more of a focus moving forward. Additionally, students performed Exercise 1 from section 12.4. This will be tested on this Friday and will have significant weight (ie: 3 points per question). This is an opportunity for students to prove their understanding of how to spell, but also, how to use words correctly.

STAR TESTING: Students performed their STAR reading test today and next Tuesday they will write their STAR math. (6b will take this test Friday)

RELIGION: In today's lesson we explored the many ways we have gotten to know some of our best friends. From there we explore the reciprocal relationship we have with our God. How to do we communicate in a two-way manner with our Lord?

SOCIAL STUDIES: After taking up the previous day's homework, we launched a new section where we dive a bit deeper into the beliefs of the Hindu religion. Here we learn that while there are many different beliefs of the many Hindu believers, there are 4 main core beliefs that all Hindus abide by. Of those 4, Moksha, or the desire to escape the cycle of reincarnation, sits paramount above all others and serves as a guiding light for all Hindus. There are 3 pathways to achieving Moksha and a Hindu may strive to pursue 1, 2 or all 3 of them simultaneously. Homework for this section is on page 201 #1-5.

MATH (8:00 class) pg 194 1-24  (9:00 class) pg 232 1-43 skip #'s 14 & 15