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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. 30th Book Review Due & Preposition Test Dec. 6th First Payment for Jekyll field trip due Dec. 7th Newspaper Day! More will come about this towards the end of the week Grammar: This week we will review the unit on Prepositional Phrases. Prior to Thanksgiving break, we reviewed prepositions from 4th grade, and we 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. The test will be this Friday, Nov. 30th! Students will have notes in their grammar notebooks and they will be posted to the class website. Writing: This week we will continue our informational genre. This week we’ll continue working on the Jekyll Island Field Trip writing. They will finish this prior to Wednesday by reviewing prior skills: adding transitions, adding voice, how to write a citation/evidence, and how to write a well-developed informational conclusion. Students will be conferencing with me to review these as well. 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. Once completed, we will have Newspaper Day, Dec. 7. Sixth graders have learned 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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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!) 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 week we started a unit on Prepositional Phrases. Last week we reviewed prepositions from 4th grade, and we learned about prepositional phrases and objects of a preposition. They will also need to be able to identify 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. The test will be the week after Thanksgiving. Students will have notes in their grammar notebooks and they will be posted to the class website. Spelling: List 5 was passed out last week. The quiz will be on 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. This week we’ll start a practice writing (practicing the skills as we learn them) on the Jekyll Island Field Trip. Each day we’ll focus on a new skill including adding transitions, adding voice, how to write a citation/evidence, and how to write a well-developed informational conclusion. Reading: We continue to work on 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. https://msbhogan.weebly.com/
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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