Today in 6A & 6B

RELIGION: Continuing our work from yesterday, students thoughtfully crafted pictograms from a selected Psalm. Later in the day, we practiced some of our hymns for mass with the bishop tomorrow. All parents are invited to attend mass with Bishop Vann tomorrow at 8:15 AM.

ENGLISH: Today was our review session for our English chapter/Unit test tomorrow for Grammar and Vocabulary. Students have known since the start of last week that this test would be tomorrow and have been encouraged to study a bit each night. Students are encouraged to complete sections A, B, and C of the Chapter Review in their text, as well as the exercises we completed as a class for 2.1-2.5.

LITERATURE: We started our newest read today; "Where the Red Fern Grows." In addition to this new book starting today, students were introduced to the assessment method for this class read. Each student will write an essay that focuses on one of four themes that the book explores. After the book is finished, students will have 1 week to craft their essays, so preparation for this along the way is a must. Students are encouraged to use sticky notes to mark significant pages for quotes and ideas. This alters our previous reading strategies by turning their passive reading into more of a fact-finding mission. This strategy is helpful for all students as they can focus their energy and improve understanding of a new, or raw, text.

SOCIAL STUDIES: In our review session students spent time quizzing each other and revisiting information from the past week for tomorrow's test. Yes, that's 2 tests on the same day, a Friday. I am confident that all students who have prepared for this test will do well. The areas I have directed students to focus on are in the Chapter Review section (p.238-9) C&CT #1-3, AAS #1-5, TY #1-6. Vocabulary is listed on p.217 with definitions for those terms (in BLUE) written throughout the text. Finally, I invite students to review their homework, mostly #1-3 on p.222, p.227, and p.235.

MATH (8:00 class) pg 215 1-11  (9:00 class) Accelerated Math