Today in 6A & 6B

ENGLISH: For this week's writing composition, students have a hard copy of their writing composition from last week. Today they identified the structure of their writing, which forces them to examine how they wrote this piece. I consistently stress a robust pre-writing phase to help students road map their writing prior to drafting. This exercise helps to identify why that is a strong process. Similarly, it forces students to examine their writing for what is missing or not sully develop[ed, thus training their eye on how to better examine theirs and others' work.

RELIGION: In our lesson we spoke about the ways in which we can and do prepare for the coming of Jesus' resurrection. How is it that we can open the doors and windows of our soul to let the sun and fresh air in, rejuvenating our spirits. This leads us to our topic of reconciliation. I would love to take our class over to the church to take part in this sacrament but understand that this might not be received by all students and families in the same spirit that it is offered, so Fr. Daniel has agreed to come to our class on Friday and speak to the 6th grade about reconciliation and why it is a beautiful and essential part of our faith and spiritual health.

SOCIAL STUDIES: Building on yesterday's lesson about the Ancient Hebrews, their movement from Mesopotamia into Egypt and then their exile from Egypt, we examined chapters 7-11 in Exodus and the role that the 10 plagues played in this event, their symbolic nature, and the connections to what we learned about in our Ancient Egypt unit. I showed clips of the 1956 Bible epic The Ten Commandments that the scripture details, to give students a visual representation of this action.

MATH (8:00 class) pg 298 1-10  (9:00 class) pg 338 1-31

SCIENCE  Pg 203 1-5