Today in 6A & 6B

I'd like to begin by thanking all families, current and prospective, for attending yesterday's open house event. I believe we did this school, and particularly the 6th grade, a service by showing all that we have been up to. Thank you!

ENGLISH: Having written a test on Friday for Unit 9 words, today started our Unit 10 Vocabulary. WE spent our time defining our 20 new words and crafting associations that will help us to understand that word's meaning.

LITERATURE: In reading the next 25 pages of "Where the Red Fern Grows" we finally see Billy save up his money and purchase the two coon hounds that he had wished, prayed and dreamed of.

RELIGION: This week's chapter examines the creations story. As a primer I asked students what the most beautiful thing they have ever seen is. God created the earth and all creation as an expression of love and so that he could also be loved (through free will).

SOCIAL STUDIES: Our China Unit/Chapter starts today. This will be a much longer section of information for a test that needs to be written in the same amount of time. This means that students will need to adjust their study methods and patterns to account for the sheer magnitude of the information presented to them. It will be a few weeks before we have our next test but students should be taking strong notes and answering the homework questions in thorough depth so that they can have the best information available to them come test time.

MATH (8:00 class) Ws 4-5 and re learning 4-6 (9:00 class) pg 261 1-37

SCIENCE pg 159 1-4