PJ day provided our classroom with creative writing, the Geography Bee, and lots of complaining that fleece is TOO HOT!!!! Have a safe and peaceful break.

We did the spelling bee and started the Geography bee today in class. PJ day tomorrow!!!!

In Language Arts, we worked on thinking about the protagonist in Raymond's Run in a different way: what motivates her actions and words. This weekend for homework, reread the short story you chose and write about 2 pages using the thought prompts above and asking yourself what motivates this character.

Latin stem quiz is on Monday as well.

In the next couple of weeks in Language Arts, we are focusing on Literary Essays. The writing above is an example of how writers can think about characters in their short story while asking themselves, "Why did the author include this detail?" We will have writing homework over the weekend, but none tonight.

Language Arts homework: Day 1: Due: 11/20/14- Tonight finish the flash draft of your literary essay and edit it- I want to see evidence of editing (rewording, circle misspellings, underline words to rethink, etc…) Then write a new fabulous draft of that essay. 
Social Studies- check out some of our clay tablets as seen above. Today, we started to talk about the characteristics of a civilization. 
Reading- Latin Stem quiz on Monday

Happy Monday. Hope everyone had a peaceful weekend. These longer Mondays are hard for me to get used to, and I think the students feel similarly. We continued to talk about why Mesopotamia is a difficult environment to live in, during Social Studies today. We had a chance for some creative writing in Language Arts and took our Latin Stem quiz in Reading. We start on our next writing genre this week; literary essays. Prepare for consistent writing homework to start coming home again in the near future.

Today, we were Scribes and created our own Cuneiform (wedge-shaped writing). Tomorrow beginning at 2:45, Parent Teacher Conferences start. On Monday, a reminder sheet with your scheduled time went home. Let me know if you did not see that sheet- we have some forgetful 6th graders :) Please remember that we only have 15 minutes per conference, bring questions written down to help these stay on our time frame. The Unifies Arts Schedules you see above are the same, I was not sure which would show up better once you clicked on it. Thanks for having grace with me!