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READING
Mrs. Robbins
Sixth grade is off to a fantastic start. All students seem to have adjusted
well to their new schedule. We are working on our first book projects; movie
posters, characters shoes and diaries. We are also doing MEAP review,
getting ready for the MEAP October 13th through the 29th. Next we will be
learning about Reading Strategies for fiction reading: predicting,
visualizing, connecting, questioning, clarifying and evaluating. In our
first unit we will be reading stories about characters that learn about tests
of courage, both the courage to be themselves and courage in action. A
famous American writer, Eudora Welty once said “All serious daring starts
from within.”
COMPUTERS
Mrs. Robbins
Students are learning their way around a computer, how to create folders,
save and retrieve files and about the history of computers. Next we will be
beginning their Microsoft Word tutorials and Basic Computes Skills books.
Students will be learning how to evaluate websites, type their English
papers in computer class, as well as several integrated projects in Math,
Social Studies, Science, Reading and Language Arts. A great site for sixth
graders is: www.mathcats.com/explore/tessellations/ tesspeople.html
WORDS OF THE YEAR...to know, learn and with which to live!
Integrity
Respect
Responsibilty
Compassion
COMMUNICATION IS THE KEY
Parents and teachers need to make the time to communicate with and
support each other, if not the children are the ones who will lose.
Not the parents, not the teachers - the children. I'll take a leap
and say that on behalf of those of you who choose to have children
and those of us who choose to educate them, that's the last thing
anyone wants.