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Parents- PLEASE make sure you are signing your child’s agenda daily. Homework along with teacher notes are here daily. Thank you for your support! Important Dates: Nov. 5-14 Canned Food Drive Nov. 5-14 Kids Care is collecting travel size toiletries (shampoo, soap, mouthwash toothpaste, toothbrushes, etc), wash cloths, gum & mints November 13 – Jekyll parent meeting from 6:00-6:30 in Cafeteria November 14– Lunch Bunch November 14– Chick-fIl-A Spirit Night November 15–Chick-fil-A Spirit Night November 16-- Thankful for Reading Day (Students may dress up as their favorite story book character!) November 17-25 – Thanksgiving Break November 30—Kids’ Night Out, Relay for Life Fundraiser (Stay tuned for more details!) What: Chick-fil-A Spirit Night Where: Chick-fil-A at Alpharetta Commons Date: Wednesday, November 14th and Thursday, November 15th Time: All day!! Students/parents may visit all day. Families must say they are from Dolvin for the school to get credit. Why: To support Dolvin and “Eat more Chikin!” The class with the most participation will wins a chicken biscuit party, so don’t forget to tell them who your teacher is! **Dolvin will have special guest readers each night starting at 5:00 pm. Thankful for Reading Day: It is time to “gobble up” some good books! On Friday, November 16th, Dolvin will have Thankful for Reading Day. On this day, your child may come to school in a book character costume or their PJ’s. They may also bring an appropriate book/magazine of their choice to read for fun. We’ll be visiting special guest readers and be a guest readers ourselves to a buddy class. It is a fun day to enhance our love of reading/stories! Grammar: Last Friday we finished our unit on Conjunctions and Interjections. This week we will begin a unit on Prepositional Phrases. For this unit, your child will be learning how to identify and use prepositions within prepositional phrases (start with a preposition and end with an object). They will also need to be able to identify what questions prepositional phrases answer, as well as expand sentences by adding prepositional phrases. Students will have notes in their grammar notebooks and they will be posted to the class website. Spelling: List 5 was passed out yesterday. The quiz will be on next Thursday, Nov. 15. Their lists should stay in their binders through the school year. On this quiz, we will begin including 5 review words from past lists. Students will have 15 words from the current pattern, and 5 review words from a previous pattern. 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 will continue our informational genre. We will practice how to support our thesis with strong details/reasons from the given articles. We will also practice how to cite the source in which we found our evidence to support a thesis, how to explain evidence, and how to develop a conclusion. Students read two similar articles on the same topic, determining the important details, and we will work together to complete a modeled writing based on the articles. 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 and compare/contrast these text structures. Students have already started their newspaper project. This project will be done in class and is not be worked on at home. Students will be using information from the books read to write articles using specific text structures. Once completed, we will have Newspaper Day, Dec. 6. More will come home on Newspaper Day later. 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. Please monitor your child’s monthly Book Log. Students are required to read two, 150 page books in November. Students may use the Lunch Bunch book if they would like and/or the biography from class if they didn’t use it for their October book review. The Book Log should be signed by a parent, and it, along with the completed book review, are due Friday, November 30. 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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