Johnston6S

English- Frank

 Students have been learning irregular verbs, subject-verb agreement, and homophones. They are proofreading to locate errors in spelling, capitalization, and grammar.

Frank-English

D.Williams-Science

What’s inside Earth?

Types of Rocks

Rock Cycle

GT–rock product due 12/17

common assessment corrections will come home by Friday.

Johnson-Reading

Long-Math

M.Williams- World Cultures

Dec. 10- About the region….indez cards about Asia and Hinduism/Buddhism

Dec.11-12- About the cultures….. Confucious/Kongfuzi and his teachings: Yin /Yang essay

Dec. 13-14- Events today…..Newspaper articles/Junior Scholastic/textbook assignment

Frank- English

• Students followed the steps of the writing process to write personal narratives. Then they read their narratives to their classmates. The audiences asked the readers questions about their experiences.

• We are now studying verbs—action, linking, and helping verbs. We will delve deeper as we learn to recognize direct objects, predicate nouns, and predicate adjectives.

Johnston- Reading

• Tangerine novel completion – this week.   Novel test Friday 11/30 – Purple Day and Monday 12/03 – Gray Day

• Novel Project issued Friday 11/30 and Monday 12/03.   Project Due dates 12/07 – Purple Day and 12/10 – Gray Day.

Long-Math

M.Williams-History

D.Williams-Science

We are working on energy, energy conversions, energy resources.Common assessment – December 6 & 7

Team 6S  Field Trip forms and 20.00 fee is due no later than Thursday – November 15^th.  Team 6S will be visiting  

1. Christian Church—Presbyterian
2. Hindu Indian Temple in Pearland, Texas
3. Jewish Temple
4. Islamic mosque

 Students will be at each location for about 40 minutes after which we will have lunch at CiCi’s pizza for buffet pizza, drinks and desert.  Please turn in the Field Trip Forms and $20.00 fee to Ms. Johnson in room 237.  Team 6S – Report Card Ice Cream Incentive -  Report Card Copies of all students who have passed all classes and have an E or S on their Report Card are due.  Please turn in the Report Card to Ms. Johnson in room 237.  We will accept report card copies through the end of the day on Monday – Nov. 11^th.

Mrs. Frank- English

• Students realized the importance of writing clear descriptions through their “Monster Description” assignment last week. They are now writing personal narratives that will eventually be shared with the other students in their classes.

Ms.Long- Math

• All House S sixth-grade math students will take the second common assessment next week.  Topics on this test include: adding/subtracting decimals, rounding decimals, comparing/ordering decimals, greatest common factor, and least common multiple.

• Students should bring their Noteables book to class next week starting on Monday.  We will continue to compare and order fractions, and we will learn how to convert decimals to fractions and vice versa.

• Periods 2, 3, 6, and 7 need to bring their completed fraction recipe book to class on Monday if they have not already turned it in.

We are looking forward to another great, productive week in math class!

Mrs.Johnson- Reading

Ms. D.Williams-Science

• Common assessment #2

• Chemical Reactions

• Density

Ms.M. Williams- World Cultures

• We are studying the world of the Middle East (Southwest Asia).  We will be looking into the geography, the history, the region, the people, the culture, and the current events today of this area of the world.  Students will be doing map work, looking into the history of Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, as well as looking at Arab contributions around the world today.  Textbook covers pages 72 to 131. 
• We are going on a cultural field trip on November 20^th of religions around the world including Hinduism (India), Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (all from the Middle East). 
• Field trip forms went home on November 6^th, 7^th and need to be returned by November 15^th

Frank-English

Students were tested on pronouns Friday and Monday. We are now analyzing a poem, looking for figures of speech, point of view, imagery, and rhyme scheme. At the end of the week, students will be introduced to new vocabulary relating to amounts, large and small.

Long-Math

• This week in math, all classes will begin a unit on fractions.  We will start off in chapter four in the textbook with lesson 2 (“Simplifying Fractions”) and move on from there.  All classes will have a quiz on Monday on ordering decimals in contextual situations, and later in the week students will be assessed on simplifying fractions and finding equivalent fractions.

• ***Today, students in periods 2, 3, 4, 6, and 7 each received “Noteables”, an interactive study notebook that corresponds with the textbook.  Students will be issued only one copy of this book for the year, so it is important that they take proper care of it.  The students should bring the Noteables workbook to class every day, as we will often use it to take notes on a new concept.  Students should also be encouraged to bring Noteables home to guide them as they complete their homework on the corresponding topics.

• ***Period 8 did not receive Noteables workbooks, as we will need to order a new set in order for all students to receive one.  This class will receive copies of pages needed to serve the purpose until new books arrive.

 M.Williams- World Cultures

October 2007World Cultures Update…..1. Grades close October 19th…uh oh…get that make-up work completed and turned in!

World Cultures- M.Williams

•  Grades close October 19th…uh oh…get that make-up work completed and turned in!
• Shelter projects for periods 2, 4, 6, 7, 8 are due October 11th and 12th….AIP (afterschool detention) will be assigned for students with no projects! 
• *Period 3–History Fair–students should be going to library, doing research, reading, taking notes, getting primary and secondary sources.    
•   ISN will be collected October 11, 12th…looking at pages 25 to 35. 
  
•  We are working on UNIT 2—government, economic systems,patterns of movement,physical geography, environment, and analyzing the news
  
• TEST over Unit 2–common assessment will be Oct. 25, 26th. ISN will be due October 25, 26th for Unit 2.
  
• Unit 3 on Southwest Asia to begin October 29th.

English-Frank

• We will be finishing our study of pronouns and have a pronoun test at the end of the week. We will also be analyzing the poem “The Witch” by Jack Prelutsky. There will be an emphasis on the imagery and figures of speech in the poem

Math-Long

• Ms.Long’s sixth and seventh periods have a problem-solving test on Monday and a fun decimal activity on Wednesday. 
• Fourth period and eighth period have a problem-solving test on Tuesday and Wednesday, respectively. 
•  Second period and third period will enjoy the fun decimal activity on Tuesday.

Science-D.Williams

• We are finishing processing skills and starting matter & energy.

• GT classes will finish their in-class project – Due 10/17

Reading- Johnson

Science-Ms. D.Williams

• Common assessment-Wed/Thurs
• Variables

• Hypotheses

World Cultures-Ms. M.Williams

• Test over Unit 1—students were given review sheet for study guide.  Students are to review pages 7 through 25 in ISN, textbook pages RA 2-3 world map, pages 10-13 charts and graphs, pages 14-15 geographical terms.Students in class periods 2, 4, 6, 7, and 8 will be doing a shelter project.  Handout was given in class on Friday and Monday (10/1); project is due October 11 or 12^th during class time.  Any student needing help with project may stay after school on October 4 or 5 of this coming week in room 234.We will begin Unit 2 on Thursday and Friday of this week—being a geographer, human systems with government, economics, movement patterns, physical geography, environmental society, and analyzing the news….. 

Math-Mrs. Long

• Next Thursday and Friday in math, the students will be taking the first common assessment test.  It will include questions about divisibility rules, vocabulary (prime and composite numbers), prime factorization with exponents, order of operations, and range word problems

English -Mrs. Frank

• Students are studying pronouns this week. They are continuing to write journal entries and responses. Completed biographical sketches are due now.

Reading-Mrs.Johnson

• All amnesia projects should be turned in. Due date was Sept. 24-25th.

• Literary elements-students have notes on all terms

1.  Plot Mapping

2. Symbolism

3. Conflict

4. Exposition

•  Quiz at the end of the week over Tangerine

• Wordly Wise Lesson# 3

House S is the best from the North, South, East, and West!

Welcome to 6S

• English-Mrs.  Frank
• Science-Ms. D. Williams
• World Cultures-Ms. M. Williams
• Math-Mrs. Long
• Reading-Mrs. Johnson