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Important Dates: Oct. 12-18 – No lunch visitors in preparation for 3rd grade musical Oct. 15-31 – Socktober (Bring in a pair of new socks to give to those less fortunate) Oct. 17 – Fall picture retakes Oct. 17 – Walk/Bike to School Day Oct. 18 – Sign and Return Papers Oct. 19 – Relay for Life PINK OUT! Wear pink and bring $1 to support the American Cancer Society and Team Dolvin Oct. 22-26 – IOWA testing grades 3 & 5 Oct. 31 – Book log due Oct. 31 – 1920’s day for 5th Grade (more information coming soon…kids can wear 1920’s costumes) November 13th Jekyll parent meeting from 6-6:30 in the cafeteria. Grammar: We began our unit on Conjunctions and Interjections prior to the break. During this unit, students will learn 3 types of conjunctions (coordinating, correlative, and subordinating), review the types of sentences (simple, compound, and complex), and apply the different conjunction to the appropriate uses within those sentences. This week we will be covering subordinating conjunctions, the types of sentences, and interjections. I have posted a list of each type of conjunction on the class website. Students will have notes in their binders as well as their grammar notebooks. Spelling: List 4 came home last week with your children. The quiz for list 4 will be in two weeks due to IOWA testing next week. Their lists should stay in their binders through the school year. Remember to study both the spelling and the definitions. If you would like for your child to have extra practice with their spelling words, they may use Spelling City website. https://www.spellingcity.com/users/bfhogan5 Writing: This week we are starting our informational genre by exploring what it is, where/how we use it in the real world, and its structure and elements. Students will be reading two similar articles on the same topic, determining the important details, and then we will work together to start a modeled writing all together in class. This will be kept in their binder as an example exceeding inform writing along with their rubric. Reading: We have started a new nonfiction unit in reading that will include text structure. Students will take notes on the various types of text structures, these notes will be posted to the class website. We will practice reading passages and determining the text structure used by looking for key words. In this unit, students will also be analyzing a biography on either Henry Ford, Amelia Earhart, Marie Curie, Candy Bombers, or Thomas Edison. We will use these books, along with graphic novels, newspapers, and nonfiction articles, to study all the different types of text structures (will have list by tomorrow in binder) and compare/contrast these text structures. Sixth graders will also be learning how to analyze a text to determine if it is biased or unbiased. If you would like extra practice for your child at home, on the Launchpad website https://launchpad.classlink.com/fcs there is a link for i-Ready, your child may use this link for i-Ready for additional reading at home.
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