Week of 9/16/13

The students are starting two new stories this week.  They are "Why Monkeys Live in Trees" and "The Case of the Monkeys That Fell From the Trees."   Our focus comprehension skills are fiction and nonfiction.  The test will either be on Friday, September 20th or Monday, September 23rd.  I will keep you posted.

Progress reports will go home on Friday, September 20th.  We have a pep rall on Friday also. 

Week of 9/9/13

The students will be starting a new story called "The Drive-In Movies."  The focus comprehension skills are making predictions, narrator and point of view.  They will have the comprehension test on Friday, September 13th.  The story map from "Stray" is due on Tuesday.

The Book Fair will be held from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm on Monday.  The students may buy books during library class this week. (Our homeroom will be on Tuesday.)  Have a great week!!!

Week of 9/3/13

Welcome back to school!  The new sixth grade class is great!!!   I am looking forward to teaching them this year.  Our first story is called "Stray."  The focus comprehension skills are making predictions and plot (Exposition, conflict, rising and falling action, climax and resolution.)  The students will have a comprehension test on Thursday, September 5th.  On Wednesday, they will receive a paper to do a story map of "Stray."  This will be due on Tuesday, September  10th.

No school on Monday - Labor Day.  Pictures are on Friday, September 6th.  Have a great week!

Week of 5/6/13

We are reviewing comprehension skills on Monday.  On Tuesday, they will have a test on those comprehension skills.  On Wednesday, the students will be reading the play "Phantom Tollbooth."  We will be going to see the concert on Friday morning at the high school.  They have to do a story map for any story they would like to do.  It is due on Tuesday, May 14th and it counts as a grade.   Have a great week!

Week of 4/22/13

We will be working on Folk Literature (Unit 6) this week.  Our focus comprehension skills are cause/effect, folk tales and fables.  The stories we will be concentrateing on are "The Tiger Who Would Be King," "The Ant and the Dove,"  "The Lion and the Bulls" and "A Crippled Boy."  The test will be on Friday, April 26th.  Progress Reports will be handed out on Friday.  Have a great week! 

Week of 4/15/13

The last day of PSSA's is on Monday, April 15th.  The students were very hard workers.  I am so proud of them!  We will be starting Unit 4 - Poetry on Tuesday, April 16th.  We will be reading a lot of poetry.  Our focus comprehension skills are:  rhythm, rhyme, tone and free verse.  The students will have a test on "Oranges" and Ode to Family Photographs" on Friday, April 19th.  Have a great week!

4/8/13 to 4/15/13

The students will be taking the PSSA tests from Monday, April 8th through Monday, April 15th.  Please make sure that your child has plenty of sleep and a good breakfast.  Please encourage your child to do their very best!  Have a great week!