Sixth grade has been working on their service project this week! We are raising awareness and donations for the Caitlin’s Smiles foundation. This foundation, named after a young girl who battled pediatric cancer with smiles and a positive attitude, aims to create smiles and laughs for children fighting severe illness. Caitlin’s Smiles provides “Bags of Smiles”, craft kits, toys, coping kits, and care kits.

To find out more about this organization, visit http://www.caitlins-smiles.org/

Our sixth graders have been creating cards to go in the “Bags of Smiles”, posters to let others know about this foundation, and collection boxes for donations. We are hoping to collect 300 cans of Play-Doh to donate to Caitlin’s Smiles to go into the “Bags of Smiles”. At the end of our drive, we will be sending all the cards and Play-Doh to the foundation.

Please consider donating new cans of Play-Doh to Caitlin’s Smiles through our sixth graders to help support a great cause! We will be collecting them through 5/27.

In my house we have a tendency to find stray socks!  We fold the wash and we end up finding these lonely socks with no partner!  Does anyone else have that problem?  If you do, I have a solution for you!  Send sixth grade your lost and lonely single socks (clean of course)!  We use socks all of the time to erase our white boards and desks and we are always running short – they even get lost here!  If you happen to have any socks that have lost their way and are all alone in the world we will gladly use them as we continue learning here.

The most common excuses I am hearing from students about why they are not keeping up with the due dates are these: “Oh, I didn’t have time,” and “I was busy.” We have talked at length about how they need to make working on these things a priority, but unfortunately natural consequences might have to occur. In this case, a natural consequence is that they are furiously trying to get the majority of this packet done on Sunday night, which will be stressful. These due dates were intended to help them work progressively, so this wouldn’t happen. But as they were told today, whether or not they decide to follow through with the due dates is ultimately their choice. Due dates for the following week are below:

5/11: Word work #13 and Los Duraznos reader response questions due

5/13: Word work #14 and Las Uvas reader response questions due

5/16: ENTIRE Esperanza Rising guided reading packet due (completed)

Tomorrow we will have our Decimal Ops Unit test.  Students have studied and are continuing to practice these skills.  Please use the Study Guide, sent home last week and posted in Google Classroom, to help your student to study for this big test.

Any student who scores an 8 on this test (a PERFECT score) will be excused from math homework for the remainder of the year!

Thank you!

 

Hola,

Our next Spanish quiz will be in Monday, May 9 about numbers. Attached, the study guide previously given –>Número del 1 al …….

Also, attached are notes related to the planned grammar topics to cover on the rest of the unit about Guatemala, shopping and clothing.–>GRAMÁTICA UNIDAD 3 – GUATEMALA

Saludos,

Sra. Rivera.

Today, the historic origins and celebration of the ¨5 de mayo¨ were introduced to our students as part of appreciating traditions and cultures adopted in the U.S.A. from Mexico, also from  the “Chicano” community  in the U.S.A.  –>

5 de mayo presentación

Students have been working on a debate in history class on if the US should have used the Atomic bomb during WWII.  They will be debating against classmates on their sides starting on Monday.  Students have been working all week researching and creating their debate.  Below are some resources so students may work on the project at home over the weekend to create the best debate possible.

 

http://nyln.org/13-key-pros-and-cons-of-dropping-the-atomic-bomb-on-japan

http://debatepedia.idebate.org/en/index.php/Debate:_Bombing_Hiroshima_and_Nagasaki

http://waddelland.weebly.com/uploads/8/2/3/9/8239420/a-bombproscons1.pdf

http://sheg.stanford.edu/upload/Lessons/Unit%2010_New%20Deal%20and%20World%20War%20II/Atomic%20Bomb%20Lesson%20Plan.pdf

http://www.businessinsider.com/this-chart-shows-the-terrifying-power-of-modern-nuclear-bombs-2012-6

http://newint.org/features/2008/06/01/nuclear-weapons-facts/

During the week in the Spanish class we focused in practicing the shopping vocabulary, reviewing learned numbers from 0 to 100, learning numbers bigger than 100 up to millions and engaging basic conversations in Spanish about shopping. Attached the numbers vocabulary listing and videos that will help our students to review and practice at home —> Número del 1 al …….

Videos–>

Our next quiz is this Monday, May 2 about the shopping vocabulary from pages 2, 3, 4. Attached the study guide. LA ROPA UNIDAD 3

Saludos,

Mrs. Rivera.

 

Believe it or not, the end of the year is right around the corner! Due dates come along with that, so get ready! We will be working on finishing up Esperanza Rising (ER), a final novel project, and narratives. The following are the due dates that will be occurring throughout the month of May:

May 2: ER Las Ciruelas word work and reader response questions due

May 4: ER Las Papas work work and reader response questions due

May 6: ER Los Aguacates work work and reader response questions due

May 9: ER Los Esparragos word work and reader response questions due

May 11: ER Los Duraznos word work and reader response questions due

May 13: ER Las Uvas work work and reader response questions due

May 16: Entire Esperanza Rising packet (EVERYTHING completed), due

May 27: Esperanza Rising novel project due

May 30: Final narrative due

Students WILL be getting time to work on these things during class. However, it is up to them whether or not they use their time wisely. Regardless, they will probably need to be working on these assignments at home as well and they will need to take the initiative and responsibility to do that. Please encourage them as you see them working on these things (But do not do it for them!). The students are very capable and I’m sure that in the end all of their hard work will turn out wonderfully!