Important Dates:
Wednesday, January 10 – School Spelling Bee Friday, January 12 – Twenties Day (see below)….5th Grade Only Monday, January 15 – MLK Day-Student/Teacher Holiday Twenties Day: This will be Friday of this week. The students may dress in 20’s attire if they wish. (Babe Ruth, flapper’s costumes, etc.) Just make sure the outfit follows school dress code! The students will rotate from teacher to teacher, and will learn about various aspects of the Roaring Twenties. They will do activities involving Aviation (Lindbergh and Amelia Earhart), Silent Movies (Charlie Chaplin), The Assembly Line (Henry Ford), the Jazz era, The Harlem Renaissance, and Sports (Babe Ruth). We will send out a separate email asking for some food supplies for this day, so be sure to look for that later on today. 😊 We will need the following items for a rotation: 2 large bags of Starburst, 2 large bags of Life Savers, 3 boxes of graham crackers, 3 containers of vanilla icing, all peanut free. IF you can donate any of the items, please send me an email. These items will need to be sent in by Thursday. Dear Parents, 1.) First, a note from Mrs. Zoll: Want to help the Georgia Department of Education see what a fantastic school we have at Dolvin? We need your help! Dolvin has scored 5 out of 5 stars on our climate the last two years. This is a very important part of our CCRPI score that went from to 89 to 97.9!! Please use a computer, tablet, or phone to complete this survey: http://gshs.gadoe.org/parents Let's show the state and Fulton County Schools what a great staff, great students, and learning opportunities we have! Grammar: We have started a large 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). 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 spellingcity.com under Hogan. Writing: We have started our next unit on opinion writing. This week, we’ll start working through the structure from beginning to end and will add an example to their Writer’s Notebooks as well as add the opinion rubric to their binders. Reading: Before break, we started a new 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 different 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 today. 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. We have passed out 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. There will be a text structure test next week, tentatively Wednesday or Thursday. I will email you closer to the end of the week with a definite date. There are notes on the website and in your child’s reading journal. Girls on the Run is a transformational physical activity-based positive youth development program for girls and teaches life skills through dynamic interactive lessons and running games. The program culminates with girls being physically and emotionally prepared to complete a celebratory 5k running event. The goal of the program is to unleash confidence through accomplishment while establishing a lifetime appreciation of health and fitness. Lottery registration for Girls on the Run will be December 15 through January 17 at 11:59 pm at https://www.girlsontherunatlanta.org/Program-Registration. For teams that do not fill during the lottery period, registration will re-open January 18 and continue through February 14. GOTR meets twice a week, Monday and Wednesday from 2:30 to 4:00 beginning February 5 and ending the week of April 30 at Dolvin. The program is for 3rd -5th-grade girls. The fee is $170 ($180 for Fulton County schools) for the 12-week season. Partial scholarships are available during online registration on a sliding scale starting at $25. More information and to register, visit https://www.girlsontherunatlanta.org/Program-Registration
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