November 11th ~ 15th

Parent-teacher conferences are a wonderful time to visit about your child's progress in class and I want to thank all of you for carving time out of your schedules to meet. As I've mentioned before, this is a remarkable group of young people and I am privileged to spend each day with these kids.

Don't forget to honor a veteran on Monday. We will spend a few minutes on Monday morning to learn a bit about the history of Veteran's Day and to contemplate the sacrifices made for our great nation. Some basic information about this day is located at http://www1.va.gov/opa/vetsday/vetdayhistory.asp and the kids will complete a short scavenger hunt of information from this site.

Events for the week:
P.T.A. Meeting ~ Tuesday at 3:15 in the library
Picture Retakes ~ Thursday

Spelling: Unit 9 - we will take a pretest on Monday, work with our words and vocabulary throughout the week, and take a final test on Friday.
5th ~ Homophones
6th ~ final en, el, er
Language:
5th ~ Interjections and online work at MobyMax.com
6th ~ Irregular verbs and adjectives, as well as online work at MobyMax.com
Reading:
5th ~ We will continue working with various comprehension strategies in our Daybooks.
6th ~ The kids should have completed the novel, The Great Gilly Hopkins. We will discuss the events in the book, the theme, and author's purpose. This kids will take a final comprehension quiz on Wednesday.
Math:
5th ~ We will be reviewing division and practicing with real-world examples.
6th ~ We will continue with exponents and then progress to the order of operations, properties of operations, and work with expressions/equations.
Social Studies: 6th graders will continue to work on their Mesopotamia research and group projects. Final projects/presentations are due next Monday.
Science: 6th graders will continue to learn about mixtures and compounds. We will do some hands-on work on Tuesday and Friday, as well as adding notes and definitions to our science notebooks.
Buddies:
We will be helping our kindergarten buddies create a turkey craft using traced hands.

That about covers it  :)  Have a fantastic fall week!