Important Dates:
Tuesday, October 31- October Book Log Due Friday, November 3- BINGO Night Wed.-Fri, November 8-10-Jekyll Field Trip Wednesday, November 15– Lunch Bunch Grammar: We are starting prepositions this week. Students will be learning to identify prepositions as well as using them in sentences to expand and modify sentences. They have glued a list of common prepositions in their journals for them to study. Sixth graders will need to be able to classify the phrases as adverbial or adjective phrases. Please see notes in Grammar Notebook. There will be a unit test after the Jekyll trip. Spelling: List 4 will be added to your child’s binder this week. The quiz for List 4 will be after Jekyll. If you feel your child needs more practice, all of their lists have been uploaded into the website spellingcity.com under Hogan. Writing: We are continuing our unit on informative writing. This week we are working on creating engaging titles and leads, using transitions in the body, and writing a good conclusion for an informational piece of writing. Students will be applying these to write an informational paper on their favorite restaurant. Reading: This week we’ll continue reading our Civil War novel either Shades of Gray, Charlie Skeedadle, or Little Women depending on their reading level. For this book, they will keep their notes in their novel folder. This week we will review point of view (1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person limited, and 3rd person omniscient) and types of conflict. We will continue to focus on identifying the main idea in passages. We have passed out the October Book Log. Their class novel can count as one of their two October books if you choose. The Book Log should be signed by a parent, and it, along with the completed book review, are due Tuesday, October 31. It will only be accepted if signed by parent so we can make sure the book was read and finished at home.
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