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Agenda: Week of October 1st!
Posted on September 28th, 2007 at 11:35 am by garciaa and

Upcoming Events:
Kick off for Rock-A-Thon to raise money to air condition the gym
(Monday during the school day)

Fall Break: October 8th and 9th!!! NO SCHOOL!!!!!!

Quote of the week: Whether you think you can or think you can’t, you are right!

Language Arts:
Enriched Language:
*Article due Monday/Bring in all completed work for reading skills dictionary
*Reading Skills Dictionary presentations begin Tuesday
Monday: Read “The Bracelet” pg. 149
*Indefinite and Reflexive Pronouns
Tuesday: Review Pronouns/antecedents, personal, demonstrative, reflexive, and indefinite pronouns.
*Pronoun activity (from Friday) due
Wednesday: Test on pronouns/present pronoun activity
Thursday: Making Generalizations/Bracelet review
Friday: Reading test on “The Bracelet”

Social Studies:
Monday: Spanish/Begin creating you own Code of Hammurabi
Tuesday: Present Code of Hammurabi
Wednesday: Chapter 2 lesson 3
Thursday: Vocabulary test on Chapter 2
Review Chapter 2
Friday: Test over Chapter 2

Agenda Week of September 24th
Posted on September 21st, 2007 at 2:08 pm by garciaa and

Upcoming Events:
Monday, September 24th-Eat at Chili’s to benefit St. Jude (100% of profit goes to St. Jude)
Friday, September 28th-Schilling Farms 6th Grade Mixer (dance) 3:00-5:00 PM

Quote of the Week: “Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside of them was superior to circumstance.”
Bruce Barton

Language Arts:
Monday: Read-“What do Fish have to do with Anything?” page 556. Reading skill: Intro to Inferences/symbolism
Tuesday: Pronouns and antecedents
Wednesday: Personal Pronouns
Thursday: Demonstrative pronouns
Friday: Test on reading story “What do Fish..” Pronoun activity

Social Studies:
Monday: Spanish/Study guide for Chapter 1
Tuesday: Test on Chapter 1
Wednesday: Chapter 2 vocabulary
Thursday: Chapter 2 lesson 1-check what you know
Friday: Cuneiform overhead, Chapter 2 lesson 2, Code of Hammurabi

Agenda Week of September 17th
Posted on September 14th, 2007 at 2:45 pm by garciaa and

Upcoming Events: Open House, Club Fair, Book Fair-Thursday, September 20th

Happy Birthday: Kaitlin E.,  Cayce C., Martavius J. (9-20)

Quote of the week:
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
*Eleanor Roosevelt

Language Arts:
Monday: Read “The Stone” page 29 Literary Focus: Moral Lessons/Main sequence of events
Tuesday: Vocabulary cartoon Quiz/Nouns and compound nouns
Wednesday: Common and Proper nouns
Thursday: Review nouns
Friday: Take test on “The Stone” Play review game

Social Studies:
Monday: Spanish…Review Chapter 1 vocab.
Tuesday: Chapter 1 lesson 2
Wednesday: Quiz on chapter 1 lessons 1 and 2
Thursday: Vocab. test over Chap. 1/Read Skara Brae page 62
Friday: Chapter 1 study guide/Making Generalizations

Agenda Week of September 10th
Posted on September 7th, 2007 at 9:53 am by garciaa and

Upcoming Events:
*Room parent meeting is Wednesday, September 12th in room 105. This meeting is for head room parents or co-room parents.
*Interims go home Tuesday, September 11th

Happy Birthday: Jackson Floyd (9-10) and Erin Lester (9-13)

Quote of the week: “Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.  Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can be great.”
-Mark Twain

Language Arts:
*All book reports are due Thursday, September 13th.
Monday: LaBamba/ Review Prepositions
Tuesday: Play Review Game-If your review is not finished, you will not get to play.
Wednesday: Test on prepositions. Study prepositions, prepositions as adverbs, prepositional phrases, and object of the prep. Use your notes and book to study. Prepositions are on page 352. Prepositional phrases are on page 416.
Thursday: Book Reports are due! Test over La Bamba/Story map
Friday: Think Link Learning

Social Studies:
Monday: Spanish
Tuesday: Finish Geography of me in class. If you do not finish in class, you must finish at home.
Wednesday: Present Geography of Me!
Thursday: Chapter 1 vocabulary
Friday: Chapter 1 lesson 1


Posted on September 5th, 2007 at 2:37 pm by garciaa and

Social Studies:
Tuesday- Spanish
Wednesday-Begin geography of me project *Bring coloring supplies
Thursday work on geog. Of me
Friday-geog. Of me/short open book quiz on 5 themes of geog.

Agenda Week of Sept. 4
Posted on September 5th, 2007 at 2:34 pm by garciaa and

Language Arts:
Tuesday- “All American Slurp” p. 31 Skills:Context Clues/vocabulary development.
Wednesday- Vocab. Cartoon quiz 2/ Prepositions as adverbs
Thursday: Create Prepo Bingo Cards
Friday: Test on All American Slurp/Prepo Bingo
*The book report has been assigned for both Lang. Arts classes. Enriched will be doing Character in a Can. Regular Lang. will be doing the What a Character report. Book reports and 1 AR test will be due Thursday, September 13 (for ALL classes).
Enriched: Reading Skills Dictionary project in class