January 4-8

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 -6th grade Relgion

Monday--faith journal:  What qualities make a good friend?  List at least 5

text:  p. 63-67

Tuesday-faith journal:  Is it better to give or to receive?  Explain.

Text: p. 85-89

Wednesday-handwriting

Bible trivia

Thursday-Bible search

Friday-

Mass

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English-6th grade

Monday-flashcards unit 8

Tuesday-begin practicing speeches for speech festival participants...class will learn to evaluate for characteristics of a good speech

concentration grammar game

Wednesday- writing:  response to poetry (Shel Silverstein) due Friday

Thursday-vocab. cts unit 8, grammar:  p. 86, 86

Friday-grammar p. 88,89, 90

hand motions for vocab. words

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Reading-6th grade

Monday-silent reading, finish Time For Kids money worksheet

Tuesday-book test

Wednesday-library

silent reading

short story in literature book

Thursday-silent reading
read to kinders

Friday-vocab. bingo

The next 6th grade book test will be on Tuesday, January 5.
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English-8th

Monday- flashcards unit 8, grammar:  p. 305-307

Tuesday-library

cts unit 8

practice speeches for speech festival participants (class will evaluate and learn about good characteristics of quality speeches)

Wednesday-writing:  8th grade songs due Monday

syn/ant. unit 8

Thursday-currently January rough draft

Spelling/vocab tests unit 8

Friday- currently January final draft
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Reading--8th grade

Monday-silent reading
To Kill a Mockingbird chapter 9

Tuesday-silent reading

To Kill a Mockingbird chapter 10

Wednesday-silent reading

To Kill a Mockingbird chapter 11

Thursday-silent reading
To Kill a Mockingbird chapter 12

Friday-no class--due to minimum day schedule

December 14-18

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Christmas program:  The 6th grade will be singing in the Christmas program.  It will .be on Wednesday, December 16 at 6:30PM at St.Patrick's Church.  The sixth graders will need to wear nice church clothes; please no jeans.

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Thank you so much to those who brought in items to help with our Advent service projects!

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 -6th grade

Monday--no class due to electives schedule

Tuesday-Christmas program for the school

Wednesday-Christmas program practice at St. Patrick's Church.  Please get dropped off there.  Thank you to the parents who have volunteered to drive us back to school

Thursday-Bible search

Friday-

Christmas assembly

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English-6th grade

Monday-practice Tuesday's morning prayer, vocab. choosing the right word unit 7, program practice

Tuesday-writing:  If God were...

Wednesday- concentration game (after returning from St. Patrick's)

Thursday-concentration game, illustrate God writing

Friday-Christmas movie

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Reading-6th grade

Monday-silent reading, short story

Tuesday-silent reading

questions about short story

Wednesday-library

silent reading

Time for Kids

Thursday-silent reading
read to kinders

Friday-Christmas party

The next 6th grade book test will be on Tuesday, January 5.
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8th grade schedule is subject to change due to Christmas program practice
English-8th

Monday- final drafts of Christmas writing

Tuesday-library

choosing the right word unit 7, grammar

Wednesday-point of view writing (write from the point of view of your character in the Christmas play)

Thursday-To Kill a Mockingbird chapter 9

Friday- no class due to Christmas parties
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Reading--8th grade

Monday-silent reading
To Kill a Mockingbird chapter 6

Tuesday-silent reading

To Kill a Mockingbird chapter 7

Wednesday-silent reading

To Kill a Mockingbird chapter 8

Thursday-silent reading
vocab. bingo

Friday-no class--Christmas parties

December 7-11

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Christmas program:  The 6th grade will be singing in the Christmas program.  It will .be on Wednesday, December 16 at 6:30PM at St.Patrick's Church.  The sixth graders will need to wear nice church clothes; please no jeans.

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One more week to help with our Christmas service projects....please consider getting involved!  We need everyone's help!

Service projects:  Each class is asked to participate in service projects throughout the year, in addition to the schoolwide service projects.  During the holiday season, there is even a greater need for service.  We will be doing the following projects.  Please help however you can!

--Stockings--The 6th and 7th graders will be providing filled Christmas stockings for the children of a needy family in our community.  The family has 4 children.  The 6th grade will "adopt" the 2 younger children, and the 7th will "adopt" the 2 older children.  We are asking each 6th grader to please bring in items to fill the stockings for a 5 year old boy and an 11 year old girl.  The boys in our class should bring in an item for the boy's stocking.  That should give us 16 items.  The girls in our class should each bring in 2 items for the girl's stocking.  We are asking for 2 items from the girls since we only have 9 girls.  Please keep in mind that all items should be small so that they can fit in the stockings.  Please have these items at school by Friday, December 11.  

Isaiah project:  This project was establish in memory of Mrs. Romero's grandson.  Mrs. Romero works in our preschool, so we would like to support her and this project.  Each week the project provides dinner and activities for underprivileged youth.  They are in need of art supplies for ages 11-14 (junior high age).  This is optional, but anything you can provide would be greatly appreciated.  Please send these items in by Friday, December 11.  At this time of giving, we hope you will consider helping in this way.  There is such a need right in our own community.  God loves a cheerful giver!

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Year of Mercy---Because this church year has been declared by Pope Francis as the Year of Mercy, we will celebrate Mass at Our Lady of Mercy Church on the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on December 8. Students will be dropped off there in the morning (instead of at school).  Thank you to those parents who signed up to drive for this.  We need everyone who has signed up to help transport students back to school.  Also, the 6th grade had previously planned to go to Cherish on that day.  However, we will not be going now.  It simply would be too much arranging transportation for both events on the same day.  If you had signed up to drive for Cherish, we thank you for volunteering, but you will not be needed at that time as we will not be going.  Consider helping to drive back from Mass.  Thank  you for your understanding.
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 -6th grade

Monday--speeches

Tuesday-Mass at OLM Church

Wednesday-handwriting:  Gloria

textbook:  Advent

Thursday-Bible search

Friday-

Song practice

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English-6th grade

Monday-no class due to schedule for electives

Tuesday-speeches

Wednesday- speeches

Thursday-vocab. choosing the right word unit 7

concentration game with nouns

Friday-flashcards unit 8

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Reading-6th grade

Monday-no class due to schedule for electives

Tuesday-silent reading

speeches

Wednesday-library

silent reading

Time for Kids worksheet

Thursday-silent reading
read to kinders

Friday-silent reading

Time for Kids

The next 6th grade book test will be on Tuesday, January 5.
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8th grade schedule is subject to change due to Christmas program practice
English-8th

Monday- synonyms/antonyms unit 7

Tuesday-library

speeches

Wednesday-speeches

Thursday-Christmas writing project

Friday- Currently December final draft
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Reading--8th grade

Monday-silent reading
To Kill a Mockingbird chapter 4

Tuesday-silent reading

speeches

Wednesday-silent reading

To Kill a Mockingbird chapter 5

Thursday-silent reading
speeches

Friday-silent reading

To Kill a Mockingbird chapter 6

After we read Anne Frank, we will move on to our reading of To Kill a Mockingbird.  We will be starting this after Thanksgiving Break.  Please bring your books to school before break, so that you don't forget them on the Monday we return to school.  Because we annotate as we read, it is much easier if students have their own copies of the book.  It should be an unmarked copy (not previously annotated by another student).  The book can be purchased at Barnes and Noble or Target. You can also purchase the book online.  You may also be able to purchase a used unmarked copy on amazon.com.  If students are not able to purchase their own copy, they will be allowed to check out a copy from the library; however , they will then have to do all annotating on post-it notes.  It is much easier and effective when they can write and highlight in their own books.