Black & Gold Day

Language Arts

Math

6th Grade

**  Students checked out AR (Accelerated Reader) books and need to have the book(s) read and take an AR test by April 30th. It is worth 100 points. 

4/13 (B) Monday:

·        NO SCHOOLJ

4/14 (G) Tuesday:

·        Read aloud: Touching Spirit Bear (w/reading strategies/standards)

·        Make up DSTEP testing

·        Finish projects

·        Core 6 Realistic Fiction review

4/15 (B) Wednesday:

• Read aloud: Touching Spirit Bear (w/reading strategies/standards)
• Group review:   Main Idean – Lessons 1 & 2 (Project Achievement )
• Lessons 3-6: Main Idea, pgs. 34-41
• Read and share

4/16 (G) Thursday:

• Read aloud: Touching Spirit Bear (w/reading strategies/standards)
• Group review: Inferences – Lessons 1 & 2 (Project Achievement )
• Lessons 3-6: Inference, pgs. 56-63

4/17 (B) Friday:

• Read aloud: Touching Spirit Bear (w/reading strategies/standards)

4/6 (B) Monday:

·        Mrs. Allen 11:30 – 12:00 in Mrs. Larson’s classroom

·        Read aloud: Touching Spirit Bear (w/reading strategies/standards)

·        DSTEP Testing

4/7 (G) Tuesday:

·        Read aloud: Touching Spirit Bear (w/reading strategies/standards)

·        DSTEP Testing

4/8 (B) Wednesday:

• Read aloud: Touching Spirit Bear (w/reading strategies/standards)
• DSTEP Testing

4/9 (G) Thursday:

• Read aloud: Touching Spirit Bear (w/reading strategies/standards)
• DSTEP Testing

4/10 (B) Friday:

3/30 (B) Monday:

• Read aloud: Island (w/reading strategies/standards)

·        Fact or opinion

·        Word meaning #1

·        Summarizing

·        Cause and Effect #1

3/31 (G) Tuesday:

• Read aloud: Island (w/reading strategies/standards)

·        Word meaning #2

·        Cause and effect #2

·        Inferences #1

4/1  (B) Wednesday:

• Read aloud: Island (w/reading strategies/standards)

·        Inferences #2

·        Sequencing

• Core 6 Review

4/2  (G) Thursday:

•  Read aloud: Island (w/reading strategies/standards)
• Core 6 Review

4/3  (B) Friday:

• Read aloud: Island (w/reading strategies/standards)

3/23 (G) Monday:

• Mrs. Allen in Mrs. Larson’s classroom = 11:30-12:00 PM
• Read aloud: Island (w/reading strategies/standards)

·        DOL Week 28 – days 1 & 2

·         Leveled readings and questions – individual reads

·         Comprehension questions

3/24 (B) Tuesday:

• Read aloud: Island (w/reading strategies/standards)

·        DOL Week 28 – day 3

·        Idioms review

·        Metaphors review

·         Leveled readings and questions – individual reads

·        Comprehension questions

3/25 (G) Wednesday:

• Read aloud: Island (w/reading strategies/standards)
• DOL Week 28 – day 4

·        Leveled readings and questions

·        Review of climax, purpose, characterization, sensory words, conflict/resolution, imagery

·        Review of chronological order, types of writing, stanzas, rhyming patterns, rising action, flashback

·        Review of onomatopeias, personification, hyperboles, historical facts/fiction, reference sources (atlas, almanac, ency.,

      internet, magazines,

3/26 (B) Thursday:

• Read aloud: Island (w/reading strategies/standards)

·         DOL Week 28 – day 5

·         Read the questions to “Ah, Sleep!” to the entire class

·         Read “Ah, Sleep!” as a whole group

·         Have students highlight and answer comprehension questions

·         Character Traits ws – read the sentence and the choices to students

·         Story and character traits ws

·         Individual reading comprehension (leveled)

·         Read AR books – reminder = AR test must be taken by March 31^st!!!

3/27 (G) Friday:

• Read aloud: Island (w/reading strategies/standards)

·        DOL Week 28 – days 1 & 2

3/16 (B) Monday:

• Read aloud: Island (w/reading strategies/standards)

·        DOL Week 27 – days 1 & 2

·        Read chapters 10 & 11 of The Corn Grows Ripe

·        Complete chapters 10 & 11 vocabulary and questions

·        Discuss Haiku poems

·        Finish braiding ropes for kites/kite patterns

3/17 (G) Tuesday:

• Read aloud: Island (w/reading strategies/standards)

·        DOL Week 27 – day 3

·        Read chapters 12 & 13 of The Corn Grows Ripe

·        Complete chapters 12 & 13 vocabulary and questions

·        Work on haiku poems

3/18 (B) Wednesday:

• Read aloud: Island (w/reading strategies/standards)

·        DOL Week 27 – day 4

·        Read chapters 14 & 15 of The Corn Grows Ripe

• Complete chapters 14 & 15 vocabulary and questions
• Make sure kites are colored and ready
• Edit haiku poems and be ready to type them on Fri.

3/19 (G) Thursday:

•  Read aloud: Island (w/reading strategies/standards)
• DOL Week 27 – day 5
• Computer lab – type non-fiction rainforest animal reports

3/20 (B) Friday:

• Read aloud: Island (w/reading strategies/standards)
• DOL Week 27 – Quiz
• Individualized spelling tests
• Computer Lab – finish rainforest animal non-fiction reports

3/9 (B) Monday:

·        Mrs. Allen 11:30 – 12:00 in Mrs. Larson’s classroom

·        DOL Week 26 – Days 3 & 4

·        Research Rainforest Animal (COMPUTERS)

3/10 (G) Tuesday:

·        Read Aloud: Island (w/reading strategies)

·        DOL Week 26 – day 5

·        Read chapters 6 & 7 from Corn Grows Ripe

·        Complete comprehension questions and vocabulary

·        Work on farm design

·        Cut out kite patterns for Haiku

3/11 (B) Wednesday:

·        Read Aloud: Island (w/reading strategies)

• DOL Week 26 – Quiz

·        Read chapters 8 & 9  from Corn Grows Ripe

• Complete comprehension questions and vocabulary
• Can start braids for kites

3/12 (G) Thursday:

• NO SCHOOL J

3/13 (B) Friday:

3/2 (B) Monday:

• Read aloud: Diamond of Darkhold (w/reading strategies/standards)

·        DOL #4 – sentences 7 & 8

·        Hand out The Corn Grows Ripe books

·        Hand out The Corn Grows Ripe dictionaries

·        Choose 10 spelling words for individual lists – make two copies

3/3 (G) Tuesday:

• Read aloud: Share article summaries from last Friday’s newspaper articles

·        DOL #4 – sentences 9 & 10

·        Read The Foreword and chapter 1

·        Complete foreword & chapter 1 vocabulary and questions

·        Group activity posters (wood, corn, mud)

3/4 (B) Wednesday:

• Read aloud: Diamond of Darkhold (w/reading strategies/standards)

·        DOL #4 – Quiz

• Read chapters 2 & 3
• Complete chapters 2 & 3 vocabulary and questions
• Work on group poster from Tuesday

3/5 (G) Thursday:

•  Read aloud: Island (w/reading strategies/standards)
• DOL Week 26 - days 1 & 2
• Read chapters 4 & 5
• Complete chapters 4 & 5 vocabulary and questions
• Brainstorm rainforest animal – need your topic for next Monday

3/6 (B) Friday:

• Read aloud: Island (w/reading strategies/standards)
• DOL Week 26 - days 1 & 2
• Individualized spelling tests

6th Grade

4/13 (G) Monday:

·         NO SCHOOLJ

4/14 (B) Tuesday:  

·        Review tessellations

·        Look at examples

·        Create template

·        Fraction word problems

4/15 (G) Wednesday:

• Work on tessellation project
• Classifying angles
• Angle relationships

4/16 (B)Thursday:

·        Classifying polygons

·        Work on tessellation projects

4/17 (G) Friday:

• Computer review

4/6 (B) Monday:

·        Coordinate Plane and Transformations

·        Probability and combinations

·        Fraction word problems

·        Mean, median, mode, and range

4/7 (G) Tuesday:  

·        Angles and their measurement

·        Measurement and time measurement

4/8 (B) Wednesday:

• Ratios and proportions
• Integers

4/9 (G)Thursday:

·        Computations with whole numbers, fractions, and decimals

4/10 (B) Friday:

3/30 (B) Monday:

·        Continue transformations

• Review percentages, fractions, and decimals and converting between the three

·        Review comparing and ordering decimals

·        Review packet

3/31 (G) Tuesday:  

• Fraction word problems (w/calculator)
• Mean, median, mode, range

·        Math concept review #1 (prime factorization, evaluating expressions, solving for variables, GCF, LCM)

·        Review pakcet

4/1  (B) Wednesday:

• Mixed problem solving (back of book)
• Coordinate plane review packet
• Mixed review – probability and tree diagrams

• Template for tessellation project
• Review packet

4/2  (G)Thursday:

• Mixed problem solving (back of book)
• Review formulas and find area of rectangles, parallelograms, triangles, and circles
• % of a number
• Units of measure – converting
• Elapsed time

• Angles of measure – measures in a triangle
• Review packet

4/3  (B) Friday:

• Mixed problem solving (back of book)

3/23 (G) Monday: 

• 5 Minute Check 14-5
• Enter foldable information from study guide & intervention ws 14-6
• Lesson 14-5: Volume of Rectangular Prisms

·        Do ws 14-5

3/24 (B) Tuesday:  

• 5 Minute Check 14-6
• Enter foldable information from study guide & intervention ws 14-6
• Lesson 14-6: Surface Area for Rectangular Prisms, pgs. 575-578

·        Do ws 14-6 (odds only)

3/25 (G) Wednesday:

• Chapter 14 Review/Study Guide

• Work on review packets

3/26 (B) Thursday:

• Brief review for Chapter 14 Test
• Take Chapter 14 Test
• Review order of Operations
• Review part to whole = fractions
• Review =,-,x, and / of fractions
• Converting fractions into mixed numbers and back to improper fractions

• Review place value

3/27 (G) Friday:

• Library 8:20 – 8:50 AM
• Review coordinate plane

3/16 (B) Monday:

·        Review chapter 13

·        Complete Chapter 13 study guide

·        Mind Joggers (COMPUTERS)

3/17 (G) Tuesday:  

• Brief review

·        Take chapter 13 test

·        Create chapter 14 foldable  

• Go over chapter 13 test
• 5 Minute Check 14-1
• Enter foldable information from study guide & intervention ws 14-1
• Lesson 14-1: Area of Parallelograms, pgs. 546-549

• Do ws 14-1

3/18 (B) Wednesday:

• 5 Minutes check 14-2
• Enter foldable information from study guide & intervention ws 14-2
• Lesson 14-2: Area of Triangles, pgs. 551-554

• Do ws 14-2

3/19 (G)Thursday:

• 5 Minutes check 14-3
• Enter foldable information from study guide & intervention ws 14-3
• Lesson 14-3: Area of Circles, pgs. 556-559

• Do ws 14-3

3/20 (B) Friday:

• Mid-Chapter Practice, pg. 562
• 5 Minutes check 14-4
• Enter foldable information from study guide & intervention ws 14-4
• Lesson 14-4: Three-Dimensional Figures, pgs. 564-566

       * Do ws 14-4
       * Library – 9:05-9:35 AM

3/9 (B) Monday:

• 5 Minute Check 13-4
• Lesson 13-4: Two-dimensional figures, pgs. 522-525

·        Study guide and intervention 13-4: cut out and enter important information into the foldable and complete the practice problems

·        Complete ws 13-4

3/10 (G) Tuesday:  

• 5 Minute Check 13-5
• Lesson 13-5: Lines of symmetry, pgs. 528-531

·        Study guide and intervention 13-5: cut out and enter important information into the foldable and complete the practice problems

·        Complete ws 13-5

3/11 (B) Wednesday:

• 5 Minute Check 13-6
• Lesson 13-6: Similar and congruent figures, pgs. 534-536

·        Study guide and intervention 13-6: cut out and enter important information into the foldable and complete the practice problems

• Complete ws 13-6

3/12  (G)Thursday:

·        NO SCHOOL J

3/13 (B) Friday:

3/2 (B) Monday:

·        Take chapter 11 & 12 test

3/3 (G) Tuesday:  

• 5 Minute Check 13-1
• Create chapter 13 foldable
• Lesson 13-1: Angles, pgs. 506-509

·        Study guide and intervention 13-1: cut out and enter important information into the foldable and complete the practice problems

·        Complete 13-1

3/4 (B) Wednesday:

• Lesson 13-2: Using Angle Measures, pgs. 510-512

·        Study guide and intervention 13-2: cut out and enter important information into the foldable and complete the practice problems

• Complete ws 13-2

3/5 (G)Thursday:

• 5 Minute Check 13-3
• Lesson 13-3: Bisectors, pgs. 515-517

·        Study guide and intervention 13-3: cut out and enter important information into the foldable and complete the practice problems

• Complete ws 13-3

3/6 (B) Friday:

• Mid-chapter practice test, pg. 518 (together on the overhead)

6th Grade SRB

"SRB" stands for Student Responsibility Block.  During this time, students are expected to come to class with necessary materials needed to complete their assignments. They are encouraged to utilize the time by completing work and seeking assistance.