Message from Mrs. Reitz about coupon books (6th graders)
Hello Parents!
The deadline for our Preferred Coupon Booklets is next Monday, September 26th. Please make sure your child has sold at least 7-8 of them, OR if they are not selling, you are planning to make a donation of $70 to cover the expenses for your child. Once again, this money is being used to purchase a yearbook for each child, along with expenses for our field trip to the Lewis & Clark Caverns and for our 6th grade party at Rose Park. If your child has not sold any booklets yet, the neighborhoods that "feed" into Arrowhead School might be interested (Arrowhead does not sell these booklets and they are popular!). They really do sell quite easily, especially if you are selling in a neighborhood that hasn't bought them yet this year. Thanks for all of your help and support!
I apologize for having to change my address. The old address wasn’t letting me in. L I have lost my “techy-ness” and had to start again.
PINK SLIPS: I am still handing out a LOT OF THESE. Please ask for the assignment notebook every night.
Mrs. Beatty and Mrs. Reitz are so pleased with the behavior and interactions of the 6th graders coming to their Social Studies. I am proud of them, and I wanted to pass the message along to you. J
THANK YOU to Sherry Ross, who volunteered to be our class’s person for the Yearbook. I also have 2 people who have said they will go to Moss Mansion with the 6th graders in December. I will get those dates to you ASAP.
There are 2 parents who have volunteered (from other classrooms) to be involved with Student Council. As soon as I hear how that all will work, I will post it here.
SUBJECT UPDATES:
READING: Both classes are reading required books.
LANGUAGE: Continuing with diagramming adjectives and writing (both creative and expository)
SOCIAL STUDIES:
SCIENCE: Continuing with our study of acid from last year.
MATH:
SPELLING: U 3 test on Friday
Latin Word Root: clud, herbi
Prefix
con- with, together
ex- out, away, from
se- apart
Root
clud/clus close
herbi grass
vor eat
Suffix
-cide kill
-ion state, quality, act
-ous having the quality of
5th grade
Unit 3 Long i and o
BASIC:
sign, reply, strike, mighty, height, excite, apply, slight, define, spider, silent, brighten, groan, thrown, stroll, compose, dough, odor, control, approach
CHALLENGE
require, reproach, defy, plight, opponent
REAL WORD VOCABULARY
Life Skills: Cooking
sift, whole grain, ginger, spatula, utensil, pastry, liquid, preheat
Unit 4 Vowel Sounds /oo/, /yoo/
BASIC: glue, flute, youth, bruise, stew, choose, loose, lose, cruise, jewel, dilute, route, cartoon, avenue, include, assume, souvenir, accuse, view, confuse
CHALLENGE:
conclude, pursuit, intrude, subdue, presume
REAL WORLD VOCABULARY
Math: Probability
impossible, probable, outcomes, ratio, percentage, option, likelihood, algebra
6th grade
Unit 3 Vowel Sounds /ou/, /oo/, /o/, /oi/ (but not always spelled with os in them)
BASIC: mound counter, devour, crouch, scoundrel, boundary, gloomy, maroon, droop, bamboo, vault, dawdle, haughty, thoughtful, flawless, exhausted, annoy, rejoice, hoist, oyster
CHALLENGE: bountiful, aloof, adjoin, taut, turquoise
REAL WORD VOCABULARY
Science: Classification
zoologist, vertebrate, amphibian, genus, invertebrate mollusk, aquatic, terrestrial
Unit 4 Vowel + r sound
BASIC: flirt, hurdle, earnest, urban, smirk, rehearse, surface, yearn, source, scorn, afford, mourn, formula, parka, radar, discard, parcel, starch, frontier, fierce
CHALLENGE: horizontal, circuit, reimburse, formidable, monarchy
REAL WORLD VOCABUALRY
Science: Radar
transmitter, antenna, electromagnetic, encounter, forecasting, surveillance, physicist, innovation
OPEN HOUSE HANDOUTS
Sign in
Bullying contract—ALL IN. THANK YOU!
6th grade Social Studies
· Mrs. Beatty: Gracyn, Ana, Drayden, Henry, Ezra, Malcolm
· Mrs. Reitz: Bailey, Ananya, Hannah, Micah, Collin, Travis
Geography Bee (Dec); Spelling Bee (Jan) for BOTH grades
Math
· Common Core: We (District #2) will have to come into line by 2015
· Grouping by NWEA scores—can challenge & move up
· Mondays—algebra; Wednesdays—Math Counts (7:30 & noon—same lesson)
Class, Class (Call and Response)
· focusing all
Money System
· Payment for each day ($5)
· Loosing things –pay to get them back/get a copy
o directions?
· Pay $1 for talk-outs
· accountants/bankers—deposit the $$ each week.
· auctions: 1/month. May bring items from home. Make sure all are rated G.
AR
· HERE, but not up and running yet.
Internet/keyboarding
· HERE and will start the week of September 19th.
Blog
For students who have Mrs. Beatty for Social Studies:
www.beattyblogger.blogspot.com
6th grade only Items in red need parent volunteers. Underlined items are funded by the sale of the coupon books.
Field Trip on May 30st (Wed) to Lewis and Clark Caverns ($3600)
· Will need parents to go along ( 1 or 2 at the most)
· Coupon books pay for items underlined; we keep ½ of the profit
· If you do not want to sell coupon books, you can send $70 or whatever you can afford to send. No one will come knocking on your door for the balance.
· There is an incentive for selling the most coupon books
o 1st $30.00
o 2nd $20.00
o 3rd $10.00
Student Council @ Poly Drive--have volunteers now. THANKS!
· Run by parents during lunch
· typically meet 1/month
· need 1, 2, or 3 parents for this (between all 3 classes)
Moss Mansion Field Trip—Dec have volunteers now. THANKS!
Talent Show in Feb-typically not run by parents
· Traditionally, 6th graders have had their own “number” in the Talent Show
Night of the Notables—end of March?—not run by parents
· Dress up as character; give a speech
Last Th of the School Year—not sure about parents at this one
· Walk to Rose Park 12:30-3:00
Yearbook-have volunteers now. THANKS!
· Need parent volunteers
End of the Year Slideshow
· Parents come in and take pics
· Put slideshow together for the last day (set to music)
SATURDAY LIVE
Saturday, September 24
Registration for the FunWalk/Run and the 100 yd dash is in the stapled packet.
Rainbow Words (Spelling)--explanation
Students write the words they missed on the Spelling Pretest 3 times using a different color each time.
iKeepBookmarks.com
I will be putting frequently used bookmarks on this web site so you or your children can access them from home. Right now I have one called Calculation Nation there. It is a FANTASTIC site for math practice (at their level) and logical thinking. [My current favorite is neXtu. J] I will be introducing the games in class. However, students may access them at any time and read the directions for playing them.
Students need a login name and password. I have created 4 currently. They all center around the name of Zeb and a #, and the password is my last name with a #. You will need the underscore in the user name.
Accounts:
User name: Zeb_1 Password: porisch1
User name: Zeb_2 Password: porisch2
User name: Zeb_3 Password: porisch3
User name: Zeb_4 Password: porisch4
I have made these accounts for Calculation Nation so that the students can challenge each other. They will know that if a “Zeb” is online, that it is someone from the class. Each account has to have a separate email address associated with it, so at the current time, I only have 4 set up.
I will be updating this page as we get nearer to the first day of school so check back before then.
