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Welcome to Sixth Grade
By:  Jill Westholm,
Susie Farner,
Lacy Sprung
and the Sixth Grade Class

Weekly Newsletter
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DAILY ASSIGNMENTS

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Monday
August 27th 

Subject	Assignment
Reading
English/ Language Arts	Journal ½ page Cut out Coat of Arms and make sure it’s colored! Presented today
Spelling	Spelling Posttest on Thursday-study hard!:)
Math	p.5 8-17 write in short word and expanded form
Science	none
Social Studies	put tabs in note-taking notebook (purple) [vocab, people, places, events/stories]
Religion	take notes for pgs. 42-45 using new tabs 2 vocab words/books of the Bible; Ruth & Naomi story/meaning
Important Stuff to Remember:

Tuesday
 August 28th

Subject	Assignment
Reading	3 Questions for Dinner Party 8 Vocabulary on sheet for Dinner Party-include synonym, picture, and defintion
English/ Language Arts	½ page journal
Spelling
Math	none
Science	read handout from Mrs. Nitzel
Social Studies	none
Religion	Do pg.49 (1-10)
Important Stuff to Remember:

Wednesday
August 29th

Subject	Assignment
Reading	Read “Life & Death of Western Gladiator”  -no questions or vocab today
English/ Language Arts	Kinds of Sentences: pp. 32-34 ex. 2-24 Evens and 25-36 All ½ page Journal entry
Spelling	Spelling Test tomorrow! Study hard!:)
Math	p.7  1-20 all
Science	Scientist worksheet
Social Studies	latitude/longitude worksheet packet-due Friday
Religion	Old Testament worksheet
Important Stuff to Remember:

Thursday
 August 30th

Subject	Assignment
Reading	Vocabulary & Question Activity Sheet (both sides) for Western Gladiator
English/ Language Arts	Rough draft of Memo-due tomorrow ½ page journal
Spelling	Took Spelling Test
Math	p.9 1-8
Science	Computer lab quiz
Social Studies	latitude/longitude worksheet packet-due Friday
Religion	Book of Ruth worksheet due tomorrow
Important Stuff to Remember:

Friday
August 31st 

Subject	Assignment
Reading
English/ Language Arts
Spelling
Math
Science
Social Studies
Religion
Important Stuff to Remember:

Sixth Grade Web Quest:  "What Really Happened?"

Websites

Language Arts

Math

Science

Social Studies

Religion

Language Arts


Click here for Citation Machine!

Webster's Dictionary Online
Great website for looking up words in the dictionary, in the thesaurus, and even playing fun and educational word games

Dictionary.com
Also a nice online Dictionary

Scholastic.com for Kids
Includes games and contests, book central, a homework hub, and many other great resources for reading lovers.

Common Grammar Errors in English
A fun cite that explains the correct usage of commonly mistaken words and phrases in the English language.  Listed alphabetically.

Literature.org
Free Literature available for online viewing

Project Gutenberg
Also contains free Literature for online viewing--mostly classic works.

Math Websites

Practice measurements:
Length


All math topics:

aaamath.com
Contains subtopic categories
examples would be decimals, measurement

aplusmath.com
Creates worksheets for various concepts

http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/math/index.html
Online problem solving practice


http://www.superkids.com
Creates worksheets for various concepts

http://www.homeschoolmath.net
Creates worksheets for various concepts and online practice

Virtual Manipulatives
This site contains virtual manipulatives for most concepts
It also contains logic activities such as MasterMind, Tangrams, Number Puzzles, etc

http://www.flashcardmath.com/
 Creates worksheets

Word Problems and Brain Teasers:

Education Place-Brain Teasers
Contains word problems of the week,
along with a archive of problems

Scholastic Math Word Problems/Mysteries
Word problems that are listed by skill and
difficulty level

http://www.eduplace.com/math/mhm/
Houghton Mifflin Website-our math textbook

Science Websites:
Check back for sites that apply to current
unit of study

Internet Safety:
www.netsmartz.org

http://www.PHSchool.com

This website corresponds to our science textbooks and has links, self-tests and lots of great material which ties into our curriculum.

www.SciLinks.org.

Throughout your child's texbook there are "web-codes" listed in the margins of the text.  When you get on this website and enter the codes it will take you to the applicable links. 

Religion

Catholic Encyclopedia

http://www.newadvent.org/

Daily Mass Readings

http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/

Vatican: Holy See

http://www.vatican.va/

Liturgical Calendar

http://www.themass.org/calendar.htm

Social Studies Websites: