Its Conference Week! We are doing "Student Lead Conferences" this year, so at least one parent or guardian needs to be present, along with your Scholar. All students are reporting to their 3rd period Advisory Teachers.
ELA: Study Sync Lessons with Island of the Blue Dolphins
Skill Lessons: "Context Clues", "Cite Evidence", "Point of View", "Comprehension", "Blasts"
Soc. Studies: Pre-History, Maroo, Cave Paintings in South France, Making Artifacts
Thanks for Looking
Email me any Time: mfraney@ttusd.org
Monday, October 23, 2017
Monday, October 16, 2017
Week of Oct 16th
Big News!!! Chrome books go home today-Woot Woot!
Reminders: Make sure you set up a charging station in your home. Chrome books should come to school every day fully charged. Make sure your scholar shows you how to check Aeries and ConnectED assignments along with Google Classroom. These are the best bookmarks for you to look at in order to stay up to date with your child's assignments and progress.
This Week:
ELA: ConnectED (study sync) portal
Hatchet First Read - Annotate Vocabulary (skill -Context Clues)
Second Read - Filter 3rd Person omniscient or limited omniscient
Think Questions
Connections to Maroo
Soc. St: Hunter/ Gatherer Societies
Connections to California History and Today
Connections to Maroo
Read Maroo Ch 9-10
Reminders: Make sure you set up a charging station in your home. Chrome books should come to school every day fully charged. Make sure your scholar shows you how to check Aeries and ConnectED assignments along with Google Classroom. These are the best bookmarks for you to look at in order to stay up to date with your child's assignments and progress.
This Week:
ELA: ConnectED (study sync) portal
Hatchet First Read - Annotate Vocabulary (skill -Context Clues)
Second Read - Filter 3rd Person omniscient or limited omniscient
Think Questions
Connections to Maroo
Soc. St: Hunter/ Gatherer Societies
Connections to California History and Today
Connections to Maroo
Read Maroo Ch 9-10
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
Week of Oct 8th
We are back from Shady Creek! Thanks for all the support in order to make this trip a success.
ELA: This week we started with a Shady Creek Jots assignment in Google Classroom.
We are also reading Maroo Ch. 7 and maybe 8
Lastly, we are starting the first Unit in our new Study Sync Online Textbook Program
Unit 1 Turning Points
Essential Question: What happens when life changes direction?
Soc. Studies: Research Hunter-Gatherer Societies and make connections to Maroo and ourselves
ELA: This week we started with a Shady Creek Jots assignment in Google Classroom.
We are also reading Maroo Ch. 7 and maybe 8
Lastly, we are starting the first Unit in our new Study Sync Online Textbook Program
Unit 1 Turning Points
Essential Question: What happens when life changes direction?
Soc. Studies: Research Hunter-Gatherer Societies and make connections to Maroo and ourselves
Monday, September 25, 2017
Week of September 25th
Reminders and Notes
1. This is the last week of school before Shady Creek- We leave Tue Oct 3rd
2. Weekly folders: Update- I've decided to keep all of your students work here at school until conference week. That way your scholar will have plenty of work samples to go over with you at the student lead conference. After conference week, I will start sending home a weekly folders every Friday.
ELA- Class Novel Maroo Ch 5,6,7 Focus on comprehension and Elements of Plot
Soc. St - We will start using the text book this week Ch 1 and 2 dealing with Prehistory. We will be weaving Prehistory in with Maroo. It ties in really well.
1. This is the last week of school before Shady Creek- We leave Tue Oct 3rd
2. Weekly folders: Update- I've decided to keep all of your students work here at school until conference week. That way your scholar will have plenty of work samples to go over with you at the student lead conference. After conference week, I will start sending home a weekly folders every Friday.
ELA- Class Novel Maroo Ch 5,6,7 Focus on comprehension and Elements of Plot
Soc. St - We will start using the text book this week Ch 1 and 2 dealing with Prehistory. We will be weaving Prehistory in with Maroo. It ties in really well.
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Welcome Back August/September
Welcome back and/or Hello new 6th grade parents!
Ok so the district had a block on me but now its opened up again....glitches.
Anyway, by next week I should have a "google classroom calendar link" here as well as a quick summery of the work we will be doing for the the week in both ELA and Social Studies.
ELA: We are reading Maroo of the Winter Caves Ch 3,4,5 Our Skill Lessons will deal with Setting and Vocabulary (along with comprehension) For Example in Chapter 4 the focus question will be:
How does the setting affect the characters and events in the story?
Social Studies: We are studying Archaeology and Early Humans in the prehistory era. We are doing lessons on classifying, analyzing and making inferences using artifacts. The students are really enjoying this and are having great conversations using artifacts as evidence.
Ok so the district had a block on me but now its opened up again....glitches.
Anyway, by next week I should have a "google classroom calendar link" here as well as a quick summery of the work we will be doing for the the week in both ELA and Social Studies.
ELA: We are reading Maroo of the Winter Caves Ch 3,4,5 Our Skill Lessons will deal with Setting and Vocabulary (along with comprehension) For Example in Chapter 4 the focus question will be:
How does the setting affect the characters and events in the story?
Social Studies: We are studying Archaeology and Early Humans in the prehistory era. We are doing lessons on classifying, analyzing and making inferences using artifacts. The students are really enjoying this and are having great conversations using artifacts as evidence.
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Weeks of May 29th and June 5th
State Testing is over and regular curriculum is back in full swing!
Big Middle School Fundraiser Dance is this Friday! Call the office if you would like to help...
Parent Survey: Please take it if you have not
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ELA: Novel, The Giver is being read as a class and we are doing lots of fun lessons connected to the daily/weekly readings
Soc. Studies: China Philosophy (Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism)
Big Middle School Fundraiser Dance is this Friday! Call the office if you would like to help...
Parent Survey: Please take it if you have not
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r
https://es.surveymonkey.com/r/
ELA: Novel, The Giver is being read as a class and we are doing lots of fun lessons connected to the daily/weekly readings
Soc. Studies: China Philosophy (Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism)
Tuesday, May 23, 2017
May 15th to 26th (State Testing Weeks)
Testing:
ELA Week of the 15th
Math Week of the 26th
Next week we will be studying Figurative Language and Poetry in ELA - Also, week are reading a class novel together -The Giver
In Social Studies we are still studying China
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