Welcome to 6th grade!!!
August 13-17

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me at spedrozo@olmlancers.com.

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We will have Mass on Monday, August 13 for the first day, and Wednesday, August 15 for the Assumption (holy day of obligation).  No uniform shorts are allowed on these days.

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There will be a sports meeting on Thursday at 6PM in the auditorium.  All students who plan on playing sports this year need to attend with a parent.  Please contact Mrs. Blackburn if you are unable to attend.  There will be a separate meeting at a later date for those interested in track.
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As I mentioned at "Meet the Teacher Night,"  to help ease the transition to junior high, and to assist students in being as successful as possible, I will be sending home weekly progress reports on Mondays.  These need to be signed and returned on Tuesdays.  These should be very helpful so that there are no surprises on the official school progress reports and the report cards.  By working together, I know we will make this a great year!
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There will be a junior high dance this Friday after school.  More details will be given in class.  
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Religion 6th grade

Monday-Mass day
Tuesday-faith journal:  How often do you pray?  Why?  When?  Where? 
Begin discussing saints for students' names

Wednesday-Mass

Thursday: handwriting practice, saints for names, text p. 8-12

Friday-song practice

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English 6th grade-

Monday-no changing classes today---explanation of rules and procedures

Tuesday-discuss magazine project, brainstorm ideas
writing:  write letter to the editor with answer

Wednesday-begin vocab. books, flashcards unit 1

Thursday-completing the sentence unit 1--begin together,
brainstorming--descriptive writing
Friday-paragraph self-edits, rewrites
vocab. bingo if time allows
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Reading 6th grade

Monday-rules and procedures

Tuesday-independent reading requirements, SSR book by Friday
Begin Wizard of Oz movie.  Although this movie may seem "child-like" for junior high, we will be using it to begin our discussion and writing about character traits.  This analysis and understanding will help when we study for challenging literature.

Wednesday-Wizard of Oz

Thursday-continue descriptive writing, Wizard of Oz

Friday-silent reading, Wizard of Oz writing--character traits
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English 8th grade

Monday-8th grade will stay in their homeroom today

Tuesday-explain newspaper project--due 9/7--extra credit due date 9/4 for 25 pts.
group work on newspapers

Wednesday-vocabulary for Flowers for Algernon, group work on newspapers

Thursday-grammar game--parts of speech, group work on newspapers

Friday-vocab. bingo


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Reading 8th grade

Monday-8th grade will stay in their homeroom today

Tuesday-independent reading requirements, SSR book by Friday,
begin reading Flowers for Algernon

Wednesday-Flowers for Algernon

Thursday-Flowers for Algernon

Friday-silent reading, watch movie Charly