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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: Dec. 6th First Payment for Jekyll field trip due Dec. 7th Newspaper Day! (Students will get to wear their PJ’s and share their newspapers) Dec. 20th Class Holiday Party Grammar: Due to the ELA conference I attended last week and TAG days, I postponed the preposition test to this Wednesday. Students have learned about prepositional phrases and objects of a preposition, identifying what questions prepositional phrases answer, as well as expand sentences by adding prepositional phrases. Additionally, in this unit, 6th graders will learn the difference between an adverb and preposition and about adverbial/adjective phrases. Students have notes in their grammar notebooks and they will be posted to the class website. Our next unit will be on synonyms/antonyms/homophones/homographs, and we will begin this on Thursday. Writing: This week we will finish the informational genre and moving on to comparison writing. During our reading unit, students read about two inventors. We will be learning how to write a comparison essay using the two inventors they chose. Students will have to explain how either the inventors or inventions are alike and different. Reading: We continue to work on nonfiction unit in reading that will include text structure. This week we will focus on comparing and contrasting two different passages based on their 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. Newspaper Day is this Friday, Dec. 7. Sixth graders have learned how to analyze a text to determine if it is biased or unbiased. The text structure test is tentatively scheduled for next Wednesday, Dec. 12. 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 one, 150 page book in December. The Book Log, along with the completed book review, are due Tuesday, December 18. 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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