Homework - 11/30/2012

Reminders:
1. Please return report card covers and envelopes

For Monday:
1. Rules - Read p. 76-88 and complete Expanding Your Connections sheet (at least three connections that fall into at least two different categories)
2. Math Textbook p. 136 #1, 2, 6, 9; Workbook p. 50-51
3. Symphony writing (good copy)

For Tuesday:
1. Science - read pages 6-7. Complete notes page and CYU p. 7 (you can write the answers on the lines on the back of the notes page)

Homework 11/29/2012

Letters:
1. Basketball permission slip

Reminders:
1. Casual Day tomorrow - $3 suggested. No uniforms.
2. Please return signed report card covers and envelopes.
3. Five of you are serving at tomorrow's mass. Please be early.

For tomorrow:
1. Rules - read p. 66-75 and complete Expanding Connections sheet
    (at least 3 connections, in at least 2 different categories)
2. Spelling Quiz Lesson 8
3. Religion Quiz - Chapter 4
4. Religion Chapter 4 Review: p. 30

For Monday:
1. Math - Textbook p. 136 # 1, 2, 6, 9; Workbook p. 50-51
2. Symphony Writing - good copy

Homework - 11/27/2012

Letters:
1. Basketball permission slip
2. Report Cards sent home
3. Paper copy of the newsletter
4. November Calendar
5. Book Fair Preview flyer
6. December Supervision calendars
7. Choir permission slip (for choir members)

Reminders:
1. No school tomorrow for Parent-Teacher Interviews
2. Grade Six students are required to attend their interview time. Please do not bring siblings into the interview.
3. Book Fair tomorrow.
4. Casual Day for Covenant House - $3 suggested (Fri.)

Homework:
1. Rules - Read p. 50-65 (2 Chapters!) and complete Making Connections sheet (Thurs.)
2. Spelling Lesson 8: p. 48-51 (Thurs.)
3. Religion Chapter 4 Quiz (Fri.)

Homework - 11/26/2012

Letters:
1. Library letter
2. Basketball permission slip
3. Choir permission slip (for choir members)

Reminders:
1. No School Wednesday, but Grade 6 students are required to attend their parent-teacher interview. Please do not bring your siblings into the interview.
2. Book Fair on Wednesday during the interviews.

Due Tomorrow:
1. Math - Just Measure It sheet
2. Math - dictionary: fill in definitions for acute, obtuse, straight and reflex angles (with pictures)
3. Rules (Novel Study) - Read p. 41-49 and Making Connections sheet

Due Thursday:
1. Spelling - Lesson 8: p. 48-51

Homework - 11/23/2012

While there is no new homework after Club Aviva on Friday, here is a repeat of the work due Monday, and also a couple of reminders.

Letters:
1. Read the Newsletter online. We're having trouble getting the email to everyone this week.
2. Library Letter
3. Basketball permission slip

Reminders:
1. You will have a chance to work on your All About Me PowerPoint on MONDAY. If you want to bring pictures on a USB stick, you are welcome to do so. Instructions are at the bottom of this post.
2. We will be measuring angles with a protractor on Monday. I have 17 math sets under my desk. (Maybe some of you have your math set with your supplies in your desk or cubby). If you do not have a protractor at school yet, please know that you will need it next week. As always, it is much easier if you label it with your name (in small letters).

For Monday:
1. Math Textbook p. 131 #1, 2, 5. Workbook p. 48, 49 (all)
2. Symphony writing
3. Novel Study - read p. 29-40 and Making Connections sheet
4. Colour your Reading Power friend
5. Science - Living Things web

How to move files from your computer to your USB stick:
1. Put your USB stick into the USB slots on your computer. (They're rectangular, and are usually on the side of a laptop or the front and back of a desktop box. Sometimes, you even find them on the side of your monitor.)
2. Your computer will probably tell you it is installing your stick. Wait for it to finish. You will get a message that it is ready to use.
3. Use Windows Explorer (or Finder on a Mac) to find the pictures on your computer.
4. For each picture you want, right click and choose copy (NOT cut).
5. On the left side of your Windows Explorer, you probably have a My Computer section, which lists your C, D, E, F etc. drives. For many of you, your USB stick will be the E or F drive. It will be called something like Cruzer, or Mass Storage Device, etc. Double click on it.
6. Right click where the files are listed (maybe a blank white area if there's nothing on the stick already). Choose paste.
7. Repeat until each of the pictures you want is on your USB stick.
8. When you are finished, make sure you eject your USB stick safely... not safely for you, but for the stick. Make sure you close all the windows that are using the USB stick (like Windows Explorer).
9. In the bottom right corner, you will find an icon with an arrow. Right click on it, and you should see the USB stick name. When the option comes up, choose safely eject, or stop. You will get a message saying that your USB stick can be safely removed.
10. Now, just make sure your USB stick makes it into your backpack, and you can have pictures in your PowerPoint!

Homework - 11/22/2012

Please return:
1. Library letter
2. Basketball permission slip
3. Choir Christmas Concert permission slip (choir only)

Please remember:
1. Five of you are serving at tomorrow's school Mass. Please be at school early.
2. Club Aviva tomorrow. Dress in athletic wear, and bring only what you need (lunch).

For Monday:
1. Math Textbook p. 131 #1, 2, 5; Workbook p. 48, 49
2. Colour your Reading Power friend
3. Rules p. 29-40 and Making Connections sheet
4. Science - Living Things web
5. Symphony writing rough copy (see criteria below)

Our Trip to the Symphony Criteria:
3 paragraphs (5-8 sentences each)
1. What did we do?
2. What did you learn?
3. Personal Response (How did you feel? What was your favourite part? Did you change your mind about anything? etc.)

Homework - 11/21/2012

Please return:
1. Library letter
2. Basketball permission forms

For tomorrow (Thursday):
1. Math Textbook p. 127 #1, 2, 5;  Workbook p. 46, 47
2. Spelling p. 42-45 (and quiz)
3. Rules - Read "Don't run down the clinic hallway" (p. 13-28) and complete Making Connections sheet

For Monday:
1. Colour Reading Power friend

Homework - 11/20/2012

Letters:
1. Library Letter
2. Interview times sent home today
3. Basketball permission

For Wednesday:
1. The bus leaves at 8:30. Be at school early please! (8:15)
2. Rules - Read "Follow The Rules" (Ch. 1) and complete Making Connections page
3. Kenya Chapter 4 Paragraph (Virtual Safari)

For Thursday:
1. Math - Textbook p. 127 #1, 2, 5. Workbook p. 46, 47 (all)
2. Spelling - p. 42-45

For Monday:
1. Colour your Reading Power friend

Homework - 11/19/2012

*star* - Library Letter
1. Show your parents the letter from Miss Borraccia (tomorrow)
2. Rules - Novel Study Preview (tomorrow)
3. Spelling Lesson 7 - p. 42-45 (Thurs.)
4. Find the new blog... if you are reading this, consider it done! (tomorrow)

Please continue to work on any overdue homework for Mrs. Garcia, and hand it in tomorrow.

Welcome

Welcome to the second term Grade 6 blog. 

While the address is different, this blog will still be linked from the main OLGC website. 

I look forward to working with you this year!