Let It Snow

I hope everyone enjoyed the snow yesterday. Wednesday night, we have a 6th grade music performance in honor of Martin Luther King and our SEED curriculum. The performance starts at 6:30pm. I hope to see you all there!

Here are the vocabulary words for this weeks test on Friday. We are reading the story titled "The People On The Beach"

1. anthropologist
2. chambers
3. pumice
4. cremated
5. sulphur
6. balustrade
7. trowel
8. acrylic
9. dank
10. galley

2008- Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a great winter break! We are starting a new unit today-Uncovering the Past. Our story that we are going to read on Tuesday and Wednesday is Digging Up The Past. Our vocabulary words this week are:

1. crayfish
2. curious
3. fluted
4. subdivision
5. excavate
6. trowel
7. documents

Here is a video of something that I tried over the winter break. I really like it!

Winter Break

From Ms. Berghuis and I, have a great winter break!

Your homework for the break will be to read at least 20 minutes a day and look up research for our Seed curriculum.

Enjoy family, friends, and time away from school, and then come back ready to work hard.

Classroom video

Here's some students working in small groups.

Sweeping Pittsburgh Clean

We are reading the story Sweeping Pittsburgh Clean this week. It's the story about Nellie Bly and how she took a stand during the women's rights movement.

I hope all of you got a chance to look over your report card with your parents. We have two weeks left until winter break so push hard and try your best so you can go into the break feeling good about your work.

My family and I are very talented. Our agent gave us a call over the weekend to perform this dance routine for MTV. This is the Iverson (Von Trapp) family.

Vocabulary words for this week are:

1. feminist
2. spheres
3. Chignon
4. controversy
5. dulcet
6. reformer
7. tenement
8. chaperon
9. circulation

Gandhi

Our story this week is on Gandhi. In what ways did he take a stand? What kind of things did he do?

Grades come out this week (Dec. 4th). Please go over them with your parents and discuss how you are doing. Please look at your strengths, as well as, areas that you can improve. We have a tendency to just look at how we can improve or our weaknesses. Ask yourself how can I be the best student that I can be? What do I need to do differently? What can I be most proud of?

Here are our vocabulary words this week. We have 19 so you need to make sure to study them and know them by Friday for our spelling and vocabulary test.'

1. relics
2. restrained
3. resistance
4. uncommitted
5. profound
6. humiliations
7. timidity
8. concept
9. civil disobedience
10. petition
11. nationalist
12. deported
13. boycotted
14. fasted
15. rural
16. contested
17. quell
18. fanatics
19. oppressor

A Long Way To Go

This is the title of our story this week. It's a longer story but very good. Please make sure to reread it at home so you can remember the details about it for the comprehension test on Friday.

Parents- students will be bringing home progress reports on Friday. I am starting a new trimester after these go out so be aware of new scores.

We have a guest author coming to our school on Thursday. Her name is Nancy Carlson and we made I am poems and self portraits to honor her. They will be posted in the gym but I wanted to show some of them on this blog.

Friday is picture retakes so make sure to practice that lovely smile on Thursday night!

Here are our vocabulary words for this week:

1. nanny
2. shirtwaist
3. tenement
4. bastings
5. knickers
6. suffragists
7. nickelodeon
8. offhanded
9. constitutional amendment
10. abolitionists
11. petitions