August 18, 2009



This is our official second blog for sixth graders. I hope many of you are finding this blog helpful in keeping you up to date on what is happening in your child's classroom. Remember, if you have any suggestions or comments, please leave them on the blog and we will try to answer them as quickly as possible.



Social

We have officially started our unit on deserts and have talked about the Sahara, the Outback, and the Kalahari. Check with your son or daughter as to the locations of these deserts. We will begin Lesson 3 on August 19th covering Australia. On Friday, we will be talking about the deserts of North America.


Science

This week our focus is on the sun. On Monday students identify the six parts of the sun. Students were assigned to create a 2D model of the sun. There sun model is due on Friday. On Wednesday, (if there is sun) we are going to see how hot the sun is on Earth by measuring temperature using sunlight. Friday, students will begin to study about stars and galaxies by naming the three shapes of galaxies and different star patterns.



Language Arts

We will be having our first spelling test on Friday, August 21st. Every Friday students must turn in their spelling lesson and grammar packet. These items are assigned on Monday and must be returned on Friday. Remind your son or daughter to study for the test. All the students also took a pretest for practical writing and that unit is under way as of August 18th.



Math

Ms. Wallwork's class will be having a test on Wednesday, August 19th. All of the students have gotten right back into the swing of math. Mrs. Swanson's class is reviewing about solving for an unknown in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division problems on Tuesday and Wednesday. What the students don't realize is, they are doing Algebra!

Mrs. Schmitz math class is on lesson 23. We’ve done lines, rays, segments and missing #s in problems also perimeter.




Reading

In Ms. Wallwork's reading class we have covered quite a bit of information about WWII. We are on chapter 5 of Jacob Have I Loved. Also look for a reading list of the first four books we will be covering to go home in the Thursday folders this week.

Mrs. Schmitz reading class is on lesson 62. We are reading about Jackie Robinson. And combining sentences in L.A.

Mrs. Kolstad's class is working on Lesson 4, They Odyssey.

Ms. Pueringer's class is on Lesson 80 with a test coming up on Wednesday.

Reminders and notes



Ms. Wallwork's book orders are due August 19th. Mrs. Swanson placed her book order and it should be coming sometime next week!



A big THANK YOU to all the parents, grandparents, and guardians who have donated to our classrooms. We really do appreciate it.



Remember if you want to volunteer in the school to contact Lynn Imholte the volunteer condinator. LImholte@strideacademy.org