December 2nd ~ 6th

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving and were able to spend time with family and friends. Now we only have three weeks until the Christmas break!

Upcoming Events ~
December 10th - 6th grade field trip to the Moss Mansion, Western Heritage Center, Lunch at Wendy's, and a side trip to Brockel's Chocolates. Details in the Wednesday Watch.
December 11th - Midterm grade reports go home
December 12th - Intermediate General Music Christmas Program - 8:30-9:30 and 10:00-11:00
December 17th - Band Concert - 10:10-11:10
December 18th - Butter braid Delivery beginning at 1:00 in the gym
December 19th - Orchestra Concert - 10:20-11:00
December 20th - Christmas break begins at 3:00 p.m. See you on January 2nd!

Spelling - Unit 11 Pretest on Monday. We will work with our word lists and vocabulary throughout the week and take a final test on Friday.
5th: Final Schwa + /r/ sounds
6th: Endings and Suffixes
Language - The kids will work on the MobyMax site for daily practice, as well as complete the written work listed below.
5th: Prepositional phrases and conjunctions
6th: Comparative and superlative adjectives
Reading - We are beginning book clubs this week with four different novels. 5th graders will be reading Hatchet and Brian's Winter, and 6th graders have chosen The Limit and Turtle in Paradise. The kids will have daily reading assignments and we will wrap these up before the Christmas break.
Writing - The students will begin an expository opinion piece this week. They will choose a topic and then make their case to persuade the reader in essay form.
Math -
5th: We will be dividing decimals this week, utilizing a combination of online learning, online practice, games, and manual computation.
6th: The kids will continue hands-on work with positive and negative integers and rational numbers. We will begin working with adding and subtracting negative and positive integers.
Social Studies - 6th graders will continue learning about the monuments and social classes of ancient Egypt. Before the break, the students will choose an Egyptian god or goddess, conduct research, and prepare a report/project and short class presentation.
Science - We are learning about how matter changes and we will perform two hands-on activities on Tuesday. The students will use the computer lab on Friday to complete a virtual lab about physical and chemical changes.

Have a fantastic first week of December . . . and stay warm!!