Important Dates:
Wednesday, January 24 – Lunch Bunch Thursday, Jan. 25-5th Grade Photo (will need to wear jeans- each will receive a free 5th grade shirt on this day) Wednesday, January 31- January Book Log Due Friday, Feb. 2-Newspaper Day (moved due to days off) International Day: Please see separate letter at end of weekly updates below. Newspaper Day: On Friday, Feb. 2, the students will have finished their newspapers they are making in class to go along with our text structure unit. On this day, we will celebrate their hard work by reading each others’ newspapers in our PJ’s while enjoying coffee (hot cocoa) and a doughnut (just like we adults like to do at home)! We’ll also be exploring other news related activities on this day in language arts. We’ll send out a sign-up for supplies later this week. I can’t wait to read all of their newspapers! Grammar: We will continue the unit on verbs and verb tense. This unit will cover action verbs (direct objects and singular/plural spellings), linking verbs, helping verbs, verb phrases, subject-verb agreement, participles, and the 6 tenses (past, present, future, past-perfect, present-perfect, and future-perfect). This week we’ll learn about verb phrases, past/present/future tenses, and participles. The 6th graders will also be learning about transitive/intransitive phrases, predicate nominatives, infinitives, and gerunds. There will be a unit test in a few weeks. Spelling-List 6 will be added to your child’s binder tomorrow for homework. If you feel your child needs more practice, all of their lists have been uploaded into the website https://www.spellingcity.com/users/bfhogan5. Our next quiz will be this Friday, January 26. Writing: We will continue our unit on opinion writing. This week, we’ll be learning about counter-arguments, review how to cite evidence, and review how to write evidence as a direct quote or as paraphrase. Reading: We’ll continue our nonfiction unit in reading that includes text structure and comparing/contrasting historical figures and comparison writing. In this unit, students will be analyzing a biography on either Henry Ford, Amelia Earhart, or Thomas Edison. We will use these books, along with graphic novels, newspapers, and nonfiction articles, to study all the types of text structures and compare/contrast these text structures. All students will have a project that they’ll be working on in class where they’ll create a newspaper using different text structures. They have a project sheet in their binders (due date changed to Friday, Feb. 2). We’ll share these toward the end of the month on a special day we have in Language Arts called Newspaper Day. Sixth graders will also be learning how to analyze a text to determine if it is biased or unbiased and write editorials (argumentative) pieces. Don’t forget the January Book Log! Both 5th and 6th graders will need to read TWO 150-page or more book of their choice for this month. International Day Dear Parents-We need your help! International Day is only a few weeks away, Wednesday, February 7. We are still looking for volunteers to help make our International Day a success. We need both general volunteers and people willing to share about their home country. We have the following countries represented, but they all need additional volunteers to help manage their stations. If you are from a country that is not represented, but want to share your history and traditions with our students, we welcome you to set up a station. Countries include: Russia, Brazil, India, Canada, China, Japan, Korea, Nigeria, India, & Mozambique Use the following link to sign up to help. https://tinyurl.com/InternationalDayParentSignUp18 You must be registered as a volunteer to help at this event. Please go to the Dolvin Website to begin your registration process. http://school.fultonschools.org/es/dolvin/Pages/Parents.aspx Pie Wars! This week is Pie Wars! This is a Relay for Life event where we will try to raise as much money as we can for the American Cancer society. For this event, students can bring money and put it in the teachers bin that they want to see get pied in the face! The teacher with the most money at the end of the week will get a big pie in the face :). Teacher bins for donations will be located on the stage in the cafeteria. Any and all donations are appreciated! (No foreign currency or chuck-E-cheese coins as we can not deposit those). This event will go until next Thursday, February 1st. Team Dolvin has participated in Relay for Life for many years. It is a group of dedicated teachers who create events to raise money for the Relay for Life event and American Cancer Society. Many of us are even willing to get pied in the face if it means raising money for cancer research! You can also donate online. If you would like it to go towards a teacher for Pie Wars, please include their name in the comments. You can donate at: www.tinyurl.com/TeamDolvin2018 Flyer: Pie Wars!
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