Welcome to 6th Grade

 This website will be very helpful to you and your parents/guardians throughout the school year. You will find much information here on a weekly basis!

Achieve your goals in 2012

Write your goals: It has been said that goals that are not written down are just wishes. Written goals will give you clarity of vision and a sense of purpose. Be specific when you write your goals. Prioritize your goals and include dates and sub-goals to measure achievement over time.

Review and revise your goals: Make it a habit to review your goals on a regular basis. Regular exposure to your written goals will give you a long-term perspective and the motivation to achieve. Additionally, it will afford you the opportunity to revise your goals should your circumstances change.

February Independent Book Project

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1st part- Your'e cooking up a storm

This month you child has choosen a story that takes place in a different culture than ours.

They are traveling aroung the world, maybe in Burma, Cuba, El Salvador, or Afghanistan.

If their story takes place in France, you should be looking at a French recipe. We will celebrate February's Independent read by sampling foods from all the cultures you have been reading about. Due Feb 21st

Here is a sample from last years feast.

Your child will be creating a passport for their character (protagonist) in their story.

All Information regarding this project is the File Cabinet below.

What we are reading in class

So Far From the Bamboo Grove

Yoko Kawashima Watkins’s autobiographical novel is a testament to love of family and to the endurance of the human spirit. It provides readers with an inside look at the fears and hopes and dreams of a family caught in the web of war.
So Far from the Bamboo Grove begins in northern Korea in July 1945, near the end of World War II, and ends in April 1946 in Japan. By 1945 Japan, Germany, Italy, and the other Axis countries were losing the war against Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and the other Allied countries.

We are now Scrapbooking!!

You child will be bringing home their groups scrapbook to add to it. Take a look and ask questions!!!

Who is their character? What was their role in the book?

Your child will be writing about their passion in a "How To Book".

1st they have to find which of these categories they fit into

If a teacher told me to revise, I thought that meant my writing was a broken-down car that needed to go to the repair shop. I felt insulted. I didnt realize the teacher was saying, "Make it shine. Its worth it. "Now I see revision as a beautiful word of hope. It's a new vision of something. It means you don't have to be perfect the first time. What a relief!

                                                               Naomi Shihab Nye

If your child is having any problems with the nightly homework,  please do not hesitate to have your child call either me or a fellow classmate. You could also use one of the many useful organizational strategies that we have been going over this year.

• Use assignment notebook
• Call a friend
• Use the web page
• Stay organized, clean out your backpack and your locker.
• Don't RUSH!!
• Slow down
  

We are very busy this month.

Take a "gander" at some

important dates!