Today in 6A & 6B

ENGLISH: Today we start a new vocabulary week, Unit 5. In class we defined each of our 20 words and established some associations with those words. I think this week's word list is my favorite to date.There are some really good words on there and some words that link directly to words we have already learned. Students are already beginning to notice some of the connections and this is highly valuable.

LITERATURE: We started a new story in class today, "The Lady and the Spider." This story is told from different perspectives which helps the reader to identify the difference between facts and opinions. Students identified as many of each from this short story as they could and then wrote a short opinion of their own about spiders, a surprisingly polar issue for our class. In the student sharing we had an excellent conversation about supporting an opinion with facts and how not doing so may serve to present opinions AS facts.

RELIGION: Today's lesson, "Being Faithful to God," students reflected on how making good (or bad) decisions in the many aspects of their lives, affects the different relationships they have with others, including with God.

SOCIAL STUDIES: Today's lesson was centered on applying what we learned about the development of writing as students created their own clay cuneiform tablets. Each student chose a meaningful quote to translate into cuneiform, and then transfer that message on to clay that they themselves had to prepare. We only had about 40 minutes for each class to complete this task, and while many did in fact complete it, some did not. This must be completed for homework as the clay is self-hardening in 24 hours. If students brought their work home, it must be returned tomorrow.

MATH (8:00 class) pg 109-110 1-29  (9:00 class) pg 117 1-49 Chapter 2 Test Tomorrow