Reading excellence!!

Here are a list of 6th graders who earned 100% on their last reading comprehension/vocabulary quiz about the story, The Bracelet.

Alycia
Gino
Anna
Drew
Pran
Pann
Keshu
Jason
Daniel

Spectacular work!!

New Vocabulary and December Book Report Info!!

Here is the scoop on the December Book Report, due Monday, December 13th!

Follow this link to see the handout passed out to students this week:

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0B1JRhibhFv5iZDc5ZTI4ZDItZTJhZi00YTI3LThlNDItYmQyZGZmNmMyZWVi&hl=en


This week's vocabulary does not correlate with our reading story, but it does have to do with what we're talking about in Language Arts -- character development in stories!

Voc. nov. 23

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The Latest! Vocab slides and behavior points!

Students and families, here are the slides about this week's story, The Bracelet. These slides include the story's historical context, and the four vocabulary words students should know and understand.

The bracelet vocab and context

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Also, here are the 6th graders who kept ALL their behavior/participation points last rotation!!

Iron Kids
Bill
Dhvani
John
Keshu
Mann
Mil
Nina
Paula

Tsunamis
Andrew
Jana
Jimmy
Yohan

Cobras
Bekah
Bright
Daniel
Inhye
Jason
Jean
Lila
Mew
Michelle
Poom
Sarah
Pun Pun

And as you can probably tell from the lists, congratulations to the Cobras, who earned 20 bonus points with the highest behavior/participation point average!

What are you saying?!

Here are the slides to help you remember the rules and ways of dialogue in our writing!! Enjoy!

Using dialogue!

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The scoop on reading logs...

Hi students and families, just wanted to announce that there will not be any more reading logs for 2nd quarter! Students should still be reading at home, and I plan to assign students a book report in the next week.

More info to come soon!

New vocabulary, Fantastic Behavior, and Superstar Students!!

Here is this week's vocabulary from our Elements of Literature story, The Bridegroom.

The bridegroom vocabulary

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And now, to honor some spectacular 6th graders! The following students earned all of their behavior/participation points from last rotation:

6T Tsunamis
Andrew
Gino
Jana
Jimmy
Min
Molly
Pack
Sarah C.
View
Yohan

6H Cobras
Bekah
Jean
Lila
Peter

6M Iron Kids
Bill
Charlie
Dhvani
Fay
Gud
Ji Woo
John
Keshu
Mann
Mil
Nina
Pann
Paula
Su Jin
Trevor
Chan

As is probably clear by the lists, congratulations to The Iron Kids who received 20 bonus points for the top behavior/participation points this week!

Last of all, I want to recognize students who received the highest scores on our recent quizzes. Congratulations Mil in 6M for getting 100% on the recent grammar quiz (plural nouns) and Paula from 6M for earning 100% on the recent reading/vocabulary quiz! Great work, ladies!

New vocabulary and other news...

Here is the vocabulary for the week, from our short story, All Summer in a Day.

All summer in a day vocab.

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Also, we have a couple book reviews up on the "Language Artists" page...our first samples of excellent 6th grade writing. Go check it out! Thanks to Jana and Keshu for letting me publish their work!

Plural nouns!!

We will probably have a plural nouns quiz in the next week or so. Here are the notes from class if you need to see them again:

Plural nouns power point

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And here are some great links to online explanations and games:

http://grammar.ccc.commnet.edu/grammar/plurals.htm

http://www.funbrain.com/plurals/index.html

http://www.english-zone.com/spelling/nouns1.html

http://www.mcwdn.org/grammar/singpluralhome.html