Wear red for relay!
Wednesday, February 14, 2018 Please help support Dolvin’s Relay for Life Team and the American Cancer Society, by bringing in a $1 donation and wearing red! The class with the most participation & donations wins a treat! Important Dates Tuesday, February 13- Autry Mill Parent Night 6:00 Monday, February 19- President’s Day, No School Thursday, February 22- field trip On Valentine's Day we will be exchanging Valentine cards. Please be sure to include enough valentines for each student. There are 25 kids in the class and I emailed a list of all the names last week. Additionally, if you want to bring in a decorated bag or box to collect them in that is fine! You can also just send in a plastic bag for all of them whatever is easiest. Grammar: We will be reviewing this week 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 subject/verb agreement, principal parts, and participles. The 6th graders will also be learning about transitive/intransitive phrases, and predicate nominatives/adjectives. There will be a unit test next Thursday, 2/15. Writing: We have finished our unit on opinion writing. We will be spending approximately two to three weeks on each genre, starting with narrative. Students will review components of a narrative writing and practicing the writing process in the genre. Reading: We began our unit on Folklore (fables, folktales, myths, and legends). Students will be reviewing what makes a folktale a folktale, attributes of all folklore, as well as the structure of dramatic literature. We will also be reviewing all of the story elements, theme, setting, characterization, conflict resolution, and in addition tone. The February book review has been passed out. Students will have this in their binder. Students will need to read TWO 150-page books on their level and this will be due on Wednesday, February 28th with parent signature. Six grade students will need to choose one of the two books from an assortment of 6th grade leveled novels in my classroom. Spelling: The new spelling list will be passed out last Wednesday. It should be in your child’s binder. The quiz will be later in the week. If you feel your child needs more practice, all of their lists have been uploaded into the website https://www.spellingcity.com/users/bfhogan5
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