Thanks to all who have sent in cans and donated to the class store.  We will be accepting donations to both until next Thursday.  Below are today's assignments:

Social Studies:  Ch. 7 Test Tomorrow

Reading: Guided Reading & 20 Minutes of RAH

Spelling: Morphology Quick Check Week 4 Friday

English/Language Arts:

Comments: Bring in Cans!!

6th Grade Math:  Math Boxes 5-7 & SL 5-7 if not finished in class

Good Afternoon Parents,

Tomorrow is the last day to order books from the Scholastic book orders I sent home last week.  I will place orders on Wednesday morning.  If anyone was wanting you use the books for a holiday gift, I am happy to hold them for you and you can come pick them up at your leisure. Just let me know!  Below are today's assignments:

Monday 12/05/16

Social Studies:  Ch. 7 Test Wednesday

Reading: Guided Reading & 20 Minutes of RAH

Spelling: Morphology Quick Check Week 4 Friday

6th Grade Math:  Multiplying Decimals WS all math boxes thru 5-6

Good Evening All! Since I have been e-mailing, I haven't been posting, but I am back at it!  After a restful Thanksgiving break, Room 17 is back and hard at work! We are finishing up Unit 3 in Reading this week.  I think students have really enjoyed this unit.  We have learned so much about the Oceans and their inhabitants through our non-fiction reading these last couple of weeks.  We are continuing our research unit in writing and learning about the settlers and their hardships in the New World in Social Studies.  The class is doing well with Morphology. They are noting all of the prefixes and suffixes in their reading and using them to help with meaning.  I love it!! I appreciate all the donations that are coming in for the food drive, our gingerbread house building with our Kinder Buddies, and the class store.  Thank you so much!!

Today all students printed their final copies of their speeches and are to start memorizing them.  I gave them an informational paper and we talked about ways to do this in class today. We will work on this in class a little, but they will have to practice at home and over the weekend to be completely prepared! They will need to come to school on Wednesday, November 16 with their explorer costume and speech memorized. We will have a dress rehearsal on this day and they will give their speech to the class in costume.  This is when they will be graded. If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me!

Today's HW:

Social Studies: Vocab due Thursday /Speeches Memorized and Costumes Due 11/16

Reading: RAH Sheet due Friday

Spelling: Week 3 Morphology Test Friday-STUDY Flashcards!

6th Grade Math:  P. 160 in math journal due Thursday/Unit 4 Test Friday

Today's HW:

Reading: RAH Sheet due Friday

Spelling:Flashcards due tomorrow!/ Week 3 Morphology Test Friday-STUDY Flashcards!

6th Grade Math:  Math Journal p. 160  Show all work/Unit 4 test Friday

Today's HW:

Social Studies: Ch. 5 SS Test Tuesday

Reading: Quick Check Tuesday-Study  vocab

Have a great weekend!!

Next Week:

Social Studies: Ch. 5 SS Test Tuesday

Reading: Quick Check Tuesday-Study  vocab

Spelling:

English/Language Arts:

Comments: Symphony Permissions Slips are past due!!

Tomorrow is a blue and gold day!  Wear your blue and gold so Room 17 can win the CE Spirit Trophy!!

Today's HW:

Social Studies: Ch. 5 SS Test Tuesday

Reading: Guided Reading Assignments & 6 Stop & Jots by Friday/RAH sheet

Word Study: Morphology Quick Check Friday

English/Language Arts

Comments: Symphony Permissions Slips Due Friday!

6th Grade Math:  SL 4-8 & MB 4-6

Several flyers about upcoming events came home today!  

Today's HW:

Social Studies: Ch. 5 SS Test Tuesday

Reading: Guided Reading Assignments & 6 Stop & Jots by Friday/RAH sheet

Word Study: Flash cards for all  prefixes due Thurs./Morphology Quick Check Friday

English/Language Arts

Comments: Symphony Permission Slips Due Friday!

6th Grade Math:  Study Link 4-7 All math boxes 4-1 thru 4-5 should be complete!

Today' HW:

Social Studies: Explorer Speech due by Wed.

Reading: Day 1 Guided Reading & 2 Stop & Jots due WED ./RAH sheet

Word Study: Morphology Quick Check Friday

6th Grade Math:  SL 4-6 & Finish MB 4-5

Happy Halloween!  Nothing is due tomorrow!  Have a GREAT night!

We are moving along with our Explorer Projects.  Many have submitted their speeches for approval.  Next week we will talk about costumes.  Most everything can come from your closets.  I will direct students on this and send home info in an e-mail with ideas! 

We spent a little time this afternoon cleaning out desks and organizing folders.  We will be off to a fresh start on Monday! Have a great weekend!

HW:

Social Studies: Explorer Speech due by Wed.

Reading:  New RAH sheet

Today's HW:  

Social Studies: Explorer Speech due by Wed.

Reading:  Guided Reading/RAH sheet due Fri.

Spelling: Spelling Test Fri.

6th grade math:  SL 4-4, Finish MB 4-2 & 4-3

A BIG thank you to parents that have students staying after for either News Crew, Choir, or any other after school activity for changing this on the widget!  This REALLY makes our dismissal time go much more smoothly!

 Today I talked with students individually about their explorer research.  I encouraged them to take some time and look up a timeline on their explorer to add or verify specific important dates. Example:   I just googled "Marco Polo Timeline".  When results popped up I chose the one from softschool.com .  This gave a concise organized overview of the explorer's life and accomplishments. Students can then begin writing their speeches.

Today's HW:

Reading: Vocab due Tomorrow./ Guided Reading/RAH sheet due Fri.

Spelling: Contract due Tomorrow./Test Fri.

6th Grade Math:  Study Link 4-3 (Show work and all answers should be in simplest form)

Today's HW:

Social Studies: SS. Ch. 5 Vocab/Explorer Research Complete by Wed.

Reading:  Guided Reading/ Vocab due Thurs./RAH sheet due Fri.

Spelling: Contract due Thurs./Test Fri.

6th grade Math:  SL 4-2, finish MB 4-1

I hope everyone is having a great Monday!  Please take a minute tonight and ask you student how their explorer research is coming.  They should be wrapping up their research in the next couple of days.  Some may need to spend some time researching at home.

Today's HW:

Social Studies: Explorer Research Complete by Wed.

Reading:  NG Explorer Questions/RAH sheet due Fri.

Spelling: Contract due Thurs./Test Fri.

6th Grade Math:  Study Link 4-1

Today we started our Explorer Research Projects.  Research should be complete by next Wednesday, October 26th. Students will have time in computer lab and media to work on this.  I will also give some class time to research as well.


Today's HW:

Social Studies:  Ch. 4 Test Thursday

Reading:  NG Explorer Questions/Practice lines  for Reader's Theater.

Spelling: No Spelling this week

6th Grade Math:  Unit 3 Study Guide Due tomorrow/Unit 3 Test Friday

Happy Fall Break!  I hope everyone enjoys a nice long weekend! There is no homework over the break.  However, we will have a Chapter 4 SS Test next Wednesday.

Wear pink and or black tomorrow!  Today is the last day to place book orders online or through me here at school.  Our class code is:  QJ3K2   

Today's HW:

Reading:  *Guided Reading Organizer due & Quick Check including vocab

Spelling: *Z to A Spelling HW &  Spelling Test

6th grade Math:  SL 3-7 Finish MB 3-6

Good evening to all!  We had a great day in class today!  This week we are finishing up our 2nd week on our guided reading books.  Mrs. Lewis paid us a visit and taught us how to "Stop and Jot".  We will be practicing this skill with our read aloud this week and continue with our "just right" books after break.  In Social Studies we prepared for our Archaeological Scuba Diving Adventure tomorrow.  Divers have been trained and will begin their dives during class tomorrow.  I'm excited to see what they will find!  

A reminder that book orders must be submitted either to me or online by the end of the day tomorrow! 

Today's HW:

Social Studies: *Vocab Due tomorrow

Reading:  *Guided Reading

Spelling: *Write words 3 times each

English/Language Arts*Finish Leadership word paragraphs

6th Grade Math:  SL 3-6 & Finish MB 3-5

Today is the first day of the new grading period!  I  am encouraging students to start out on the right foot and stay on top of things! : ) We will be having spelling this week.  Our test will be Thursday.  We will not have a spelling contract, instead we will have a spelling assignment each day which will be due the following day.  We will not have RAH this week. However, most students do have a heavy reading load this week for guided reading. You should see those books coming home.  

Today's HW:

Social Studies:  Ch. 4 Vocab Due Wednesday

Reading:  *Guided Reading Due Thursday

Spelling: *Create Word Search (Do not solve)/Test Thurs.

6th Grade Math:  Finish "What's my Rule? " WS.

Good afternoon! Tomorrow we will end the first grading period! I encouraged the kids to finish strong!  Today's homework:

Reading:  *CAT & RAH due Tomorrow/ *Vocab due Friday

Spelling: *Test Friday

6th Grade Math HW:  Study Link 3-5 & Finish Math Boxes 3-4 

This is the last week of the grading period!  All missing work must be turned in by Thursday morning.  Today's hw:

Social Studies:  Ch. 3 Test Thursday

Reading:  *Guided Reading due Thurs./RAH due Fri

Spelling: *Contract due Thursday/Test Friday

I hope everyone is having a great evening.  This week students have been working very hard on projects for the North American Cultural Regions and the Native American groups that live there. Tomorrow we will finish up our research and posters and begin practicing  our presentations.  Each group will be presenting their cultural region to the class on either Thursday or Friday.  Students have done a great job on this so far.  I can't wait to see their presentations!  

Today's HW:

Reading: *Unit 2-1 Quick Check (Study Vocab) *Guided Reading/*New RAH sheet

(Quick Check was moved back a day as I was out of the builiding this morning for a meeting.)

Spelling: *Yellow Contract Due Thursday/*Test Friday

Today's HW:

Reading: *Unit 2-1 Quick Check (Study Vocab) *Guided Reading/*New RAH sheet

Spelling: *Yellow Contract Due Thursday/*Test Friday

Good afternoon!  Great day today, lots of hard workers!  Reminder picture day is this Thursday.  Below is today's HW:

Reading:  *Reach Vocab due Thursday/*Guided               Reading/*RAH

Spelling: *Contract Due Thursday/*Test Friday

English/Language Arts-Subject Verb WS

Today's HW:

Social Studies:  *Ch 2 Test Tomorrow

Reading: *CAT & RAH due Tomorrow 

Have a great night!

Have a great evening!

Today's HW:

Social Studies:  *Finish Study Questions/Ch 2 Test Friday

Reading: *Guided Reading & Organizer due Thursday        

        *CAT & RAH due Friday

Spelling: Contract due Tomorrow/Test Fri.

Good luck to our Pup Runners!

Today's HW:

Social Studies: *Continents and Oceans Quick Check Wed.

        *Ch 2 Test Friday (start preparing)

Reading: *NG Explorer & 321 Due Wednesday

        *Guided Reading          

        *RAH due Friday

Spelling: Contract due Thurs/Test Fri.

English/Language Arts:  Finish your draft if not done!

We have a busy week in room 17 this week!

Social Studies: *Continents and Oceans Quick Check Wed.

        *Ch 2 Test Friday (start preparing)

Reading:  *Quick Check Tuesday (study vocab!)

          *Guided Reading/NG Explorer

          *RAH due Friday

Spelling: Contract due Thurs/Test Fri.

Happy Friday to everyone!   I forgot to pass out the new RAH sheets today.  Students can still begin reading and record their minutes on Monday. I hope everyone has  a great weekend!

Social Studies: Ch 2 Test next Friday (start preparing)

Reading:  *Quick Check Tuesday (study vocab!)

I hope everyone had a nice long weekend!  We are back at it here in room 17 with a very busy day!  Below are today's assigments.

Social Studies:  CH. 2 Vocab due Thurs.

Reading:  *Vocab p. 29-32 (Blue Booklet) due tomorrow

                *Guided Reading, Organizer, & CAT due Fri

                *RAH due Fri

Spelling: None this week!

English/Language Arts:  Session 5 Homework

I hope everyone enjoys a nice long weekend! No homework over the weekend!

: )

Good afternoon!  I'm sure that you will hear exciting news from your student today after school.  Today we had a new student join our class.  His name is Ralph and he moved here from Kuwait just 10 days ago.  I am so proud of how EVERYONE welcomed him to room 17.  Ask your child how all of this ties into what we have been reading about in our literacy block!

Thursday's Homework:

Social Studies:  No HW

Reading:  Guided Reading, Organizer, CAT Sheet, RAH due Tomorrow.

Spelling: Test Tomorrow

Today's HW:

Social Studies:  Ch. 1 Test Tomorrow

Reading:  Guided Reading, Add to Organizer, RAH due Fri.

Spelling: Contract Due Tomorrow/Test Fri

Today's HW:

Social Studies:  Ch. 1 Test Thurs. (Use StudyGuide to review)

Reading:  Guided Reading, Begin 

Organizer, RAH due Fri.

Spelling: Contract Due Thurs./Test Fri

I hope everyone had a great weekend.  We have a very busy week planned in room 17.  Today we kicked off our Writing Workshop with guest teacher, Mrs. Lewis! I am amazed at what great things these kids already know about writing!  I'm so proud of every one of my students for their hard work today!  I can't wait to see how they grow as writers!  We will start guided reading tomorrow!  

Today's Homework:

Social Studies:  Ch. 1 Test Thurs. (Use StudyGuide to review)

Reading:  RAH due Fri.

Writing: P. 11 in Writer's Notebook.  Use handout to help you!

Spelling: New List/Contract Due Thurs./Test Fri

I hope everyone has a great weekend!!  

Friday, 8/26

Social Studies:  Ch. 1 Test Wed. (Use StudyGuide)

Reading:  New RAH sheets

Spelling: No HW

Comments: Spirit Wear $ due Mon.

Have a great evening!

Today's Homework:

Social Studies:  Ch. 1 Test Wed. (Study Vocab & topics listed on study guide)

Reading:  RAH Due Tomorrow

Spelling:  1-2 Test Tomorrow

Comments: Spirit Wear $ due Mon.