Mrs. Barth

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             6th Grade Language Arts and Social Studies Block

Welcome 6th Grade Thunderbirds!

Scheduling notes: In order to use our classroom time more efficiently, we will be studying our subjects using the entire block time.

  •  Mondays and Wednesdays will be devoted to Language Arts.

  • Tuesdays and Thursdays will be devoted to Social Studies.

  • Fridays will be testing and Current Events. I will only give tests on Fridays. Make-up tests must be taken the following Friday.

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Language Arts

Parents - Please Provide Pens!

The 4-in-1 Pens are available at the Family Grocer in Duvall.

VOCABULARY LISTS for UNIT 5: Movement:

Week 1 list: UNIT 5 PART1.pdf

Week 3 list: UNIT 5 PART2.pdf

Week 4 list: UNIT 5 PART3.pdf

Analogy List: UNIT 5 PART4.pdf

Final test for this unit will be Friday, Oct. 17.

INDEPENDENT READING LOGS and Parent Signatures

Language Arts students will be recording their Agendas at the bottom of each day's column. Independent Reading Logs are worth 10 points per week for 60 minutes of reading.

They will be required to read anything as long as their reading adds up to one hour per week. That is roughly 12 hours for 5 nights or about 10 minutes each night for 7.

Students may read anything they choose, but they must record it in the log for points. They will need to enter the title, the pages and the minutes. (More on content later!)

This is worth 10 points per week. That adds up to about 120 points per quarter and could mean the difference between whole letter grades.

AGENDA GRADING BEGINS THIS WEEK!

Each Monday now for the remainder of the year we will check Agendas for Parent Signatures. Your student only needs ONE parent signature on ANY DAY of the previous week. This is to help establish the habit of conversations about school events, homework, assignments and concerns. Please sign the bottom of your student's agenda once per week. This is worth 5 points per week (60 points per quarter) that will help boost grades and good organizational habits.

This year we will be using Composition Notebooks for journals and NOT spiral notebooks.

StaplesŪ Composition Notebook, Blue CoverStaplesŪ Composition Notebook, Wide Ruled

These notebooks are much smaller, less expensive and easier to store and use in the classroom.

Loose-leaf notebook paper will be required for student use for all regular assignments in both Language Arts and Social Studies.

Social Studies 

HOMEWORK ALERT!

Geography Notebook pages 13-21 are due Monday 10-20-08

Students have their notebooks and their Geography Alive books at home in order to complete this assignment.

 

COMING UP THIS WEEK:

  •   Wednesday, Healthy Youth Survey

  •   Thematic Maps

  •   Writing Assessment Scores

  •   Sentence Structure - The Subject

  •   Friday, Vocabulary TEST/ Current Events

 

Current Events

 

Every Friday is Current Events. We take an article from the Seattle P-I and fill out the Newspaper Article Response Sheet. If you are absent, please click on the links below to download the response sheet and find an article from the Seattle P-I.

 

NEWSPAPER ARTICLE RESPONSE SHEET

 

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

*Students are to use their GEOGRAPHY ALIVE! HOME BOOK. This book stays at home for students to use throughout the year. It is checked out to the student and will not be returned until the last week of school. This is to help cut down on backpack weight for homework assignments.

The 5 Themes of Geography

  •   Location - Absolute and Relative
  •   Place - Physical and Human Differences
  •   Interaction - Human and Environmental
  •   Regions - Function or Physical Characteristics
  •   Movement - people, products and ideas

Five Themes Definitions

 

 

Click on the link below for a fun geography quiz.

Fun Geography Quiz

 

 

 

Please make sure your student brings the necessary tools for success this year:

  1. Notebook paper everyday! (Non-spiral bound, please)
  2. Black or Blue Pens for writing everyday
  3. Red Pens for correcting
  4. Composition Notebook for Journaling
  5. Jane Schaffer pen packs (black, blue, red and green pens) are supplied for this writing program by the school.

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This site is a great way to boost vocabulary and feed the world.

This website consists of a vocabulary building game. Each time a vocabulary word is correctly paired with a synonym, sponsors donate 20 grains of rice through the UN World Food Program.

 

Links and Resources

Seattle Post-Intelligencer

Holt Handbook Word Watch

Geography Alive!  

HRW World Atlas  

Tolt Middle School Links

Tolt LRC

Honors Language Arts

 

 

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