Welcome to 6th grade! 

August 25-29

We are off to a great start!  A special welcome to our 6 new students and their families.  We are so glad to have them join the OLM family!

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Free dress: There will be free dress for $1 on Friday, August 29.  Please refer to the handbook for appropriate free dress guidelines.  The money will go to the SPCA.  A note was sent home with more details regarding the raffle to win a lunch with Mercy.

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Planners:  Parents, please, please do not sign blank planners.  This defeats the purpose of the planners.  The process with the planners is really three-fold. First, it is the student's responsibility to fill out the planner with the daily homework.  Secondly, the parent should check that this has been done.  After the child has completed the homework, the parent should sign the planner.  Third, the teacher checks the planner the following day to see that the student wrote down the homework and that the parent signed the planner.  If there is no homework (perhaps on a Friday), the student should still write "no homework," and the parent should sign confirming this.  If all parts of this process are in place, the planners are a highly effective tool to teach the students organization, time management, and responsibility. 

If your child brings you a blank planner to sign, please have them fill it out, then go over it with them to see that all homework is completed.  Then sign the planner.  My policy is that if a planner is not signed, or if it is signed with nothing written down, the student receives a red card.  If they get 5 red cards in a 2 week period, a detention will be issued.  I stress to them that getting one red card is not "the end of the world," but simply a reminder to do it next time.  I know we all forget from time to time, and it is a learning process.  That is why the detention comes after 5 occurrences.  Please help me to guide your children to success, by helping with this process. 

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

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6th grade Religion

You will see some things repeated on this week's blog from last week.  We didn't get to some of the items last week.
Monday-faith journal:  p. 35 parts B and C, p. 36 part D

textbook:  p. 39-42
Tuesday-handwriting practice
Bible triviaWednesday-Why is it important to do service? How can you do service?

watch:  Oprah ambassadors about service
Thursday-Please bring your Bibles
Bible search
Friday-song practice


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6th Grade English
Monday-flashcards unit 2

grammar:  p. 18-19 aloud

Tuesday-writing-feature story for magazine, hand motions for vocab.
Wednesday-grammar p. 43 #1-14

writing:  interview for magazine

Thursday-synonyms/antonyms unit 2, grammar: p. 20-21  
Friday-p. 44 #1-14, vocab. bingo

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Reading 6th grade

Monday-silent reading

story:  Flicka,
practice essay question

Tuesday-silent reading
Flicka questions

Wednesday-silent reading
library, completing the sentence unit 2, Flicka movie

Thursday-silent reading
read to kinders

Friday-silent reading, continue Flicka movie
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8th Grade English
Monday-p. 22-23 #1-28, vocab. "diagnostic" test in book

Tuesday-library

lifestyle article for newspapers

grammar:  p. 46 #1-16

Wednesday-grammar:  p. 24-25 #1-14, watch clip from Miracle Worker

Thursday-spelling/vocab. tests

flashcards unit 1-due Tuesday

Friday-p. 47 #1-15, vocab. bingo

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8th Grade Reading

Monday-silent reading
Miracle Worker intro and handout

Tuesday-silent reading

Miracle Worker

Wednesday-silent reading
 Miracle Worker

Thursday-silent reading
Miracle Worker or writing

Friday-silent reading

Miracle Worker