Homework

Monday
Weekly Essentials (pages 1-2)

There will not be a vocabulary test this week!

Tuesday
Finish Weekly Essentials
Write summary for chapter 10 in reader's notebook

Wednesday
Study for Boy in the Striped Pajamas test 1-10
Finish Weekly Essentials

Next Week

I will have tutoring during the school day next week. Students who are missing work or need help studying will stay in during recess. I will try to send home a new progress report with updated grades Tuesday. Please review your child progress report, sign, and return to class. Thank you!
Crystal King


Remind your child they must create flash cards and sentences each week as a grade and to help them study for the Vocabulary Test on Friday.

homework

Monday
Weekly Essentials
Flash Cards for new vocabulary
guarantee, gale, gaiety, gallows,grimace, gusto

Tuesday
Vocabulary Sentences

Wednesday and Thursday
Study for test and read

Homework

Monday
Flash cards for vocabulary words
Weekly Essentials 8
Vocabulary words (humane, haughty, hoard,heirloom, hideous, homage, haphazard, hindrance)

Tuesday
Sentences using vocabulary

Wednesday
Study words

Thursday
Study for test and finish Weekly Essentials

Vocabulary Words WE 7

Fascinate
Feeble
Fiancee
Fictitious
Fallacy
Fraudulent
Frivolous
Futile

Homework

Monday
Weekly Essentials 7 (this is a packet)
study Vocabulary
Write 8 sentences using the vocabulary words correctly.

Tuesday
Weekly Essentials
Study words

Wednesday
Weekly Essentials
Study Vocabulary
Prepare Book talks if you have not presented yet!
Thursday
Study for Test!

Homework

Monday, Tuesday & Wednesday
Weekly Essentials and study vocabulary

Monday

Students are able to retake the Vocabulary Test on Monday! Please encourage them to study.

This Week

I am trying to "catch up" on the work that students did when I was out because my daughter was in ICU. We need to go over Chapters 1 & 2 of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Weekly Essentials 4. I really appreciate your understanding and patience.

Students were supposed to present Book Talks today but we are moving them to Thursday and Friday.

Students will also have a test Friday on Vocabulary. (Disposition, Defiance, Disregard, Distort, Disintegrate, Discretion, Deplete, Disperse)

Homework

Test on Vocabulary Words!!

This Week

Students will finish presenting Book Talks. They will also turn in research for the Holocaust and their autobiographical narrative. We will be sending home a progress report on Friday with a letter about parent/teacher conferences. I will also send home this week a letter about CFA(benchmark)scores and how many novels read so far. Please review and sign.
Thanks,
Mrs. King

READER'S NOTEBOOK CHECK TOMORROW

This Week

We are finishing our research on the Holocaust and starting the Boy in the Stripped Pajamas.

I will send home a reminder letter about the procedures in my class and a Testing Record/Reading letter to show students' CFA scores and how many novels they are reading in class. Please sign and send back.
Thanks,
Mrs. King

Monday

All Essays are Due! They were due Friday but I am extending the deadline until Monday.


We will finish our research on the Holocaust and present the information to the class.

Then, We will begin reading The Boy in the Stripped Pajamas on Monday.

If we have time, students will finish presenting their book talks.


Enjoy your weekend!
Mrs. King

Homework

Students need to finish reading "Letters from a Concentration Camp" and "Letter to Scottie." Both stories are in the literature book and they need to answer the questions.

We will begin our research on the Holocaust tomorrow!

Holocaust

Dear Parents,
We will start our first class novel, Boy in the Striped Pajamas, next week. The novel deals with the Holocaust and teaches a great theme, tolerance. Before we begin the novel, it is important that students have background information on the Holocaust. They will begin researching the Holocaust in a couple of days using a website from the social studies textbook and from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Please review the websites listed below. These are informative websites which allow students to read and listen to videos about the Holocaust. We will do a basic research project of who, what, when, where and why. This can be a wonderful opportunity for students to discuss what they are doing at school with their family. I encourage you to talk with your child about questions that they may have as we study the Holocaust. Most students are very excited and interested in learning about the Holocaust. While the events of this tragedy are horrific and shocking, the rich educational opportunities that it encompasses can not be denied. It is my hope that each student will gain a new perspective not only on the world, but their fellow students as well. Teaching Tolerance is a constant theme in 6th grade literature and it is very important for students to understand and learn. Boy in the Striped Pajamas is an excellent novel and I hope they enjoy reading it.
Thanks,
Mrs. King
Resources that we will use include:
~Various websites
~http://www.glencoe.com/sec/socialstudies/btt/holocaust/
~http://www.ushmm.org/
~Nonfiction books and videos in our library based on the Holocaust
~Number the Stars or The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
~ “The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” (film) Please send a note if you would prefer your child not see the film.
~Guest Speaker
*you can go to my website, www.mycsclass.blogspot.com, and you can go to the links on the Holocaust.