This week we are also taking our Developmental Reading Assessement (DRA) testing to see how students have grown in the area of reading. As always, students are encouraged to read nightly in order for them to grow in the area of reading.
This week we will continue to work on central idea (claims) and finding supporting evidence (supporting details). Students are doing a great job with finding evidence to argue claims on topics of things that are happening in our world. We have debated on ideas such as requiring school uniforms, missing school to take a vacation to students being required to learn a foreign language while in school. I must say, the students have researched and gathered strong facts in arguing and supporting their personal opinions. Some would do great in 7th grade in the speech and debate club.
This week we are also taking our Developmental Reading Assessement (DRA) testing to see how students have grown in the area of reading. As always, students are encouraged to read nightly in order for them to grow in the area of reading.
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Hope everyone had a great Spring Break and had time to have fun and relax.
This week in class we will continue working on our text feature books which includes researching and siting resources. In social studies, students continue to learn about ancient civilizations. Please remember to join us on April 13th for our Night at the Museum. We encourage everyone to come out and see all the work that our students have put into this night. Fun for the whole family! As always, nightly reading is encourage! Students continue to work on their Civilization Project for our Night of the Museum. Please mark your calendar for Friday, April 13th from 5:00-8:00 at Willard Intermediate School to view all the wonderful ancient civilization exhibits. It is truly amazing to see all of the hard work these students have put in and the learning that has taken place.
This week in ELA, we are working on identifying the text features of non-fiction writing. As always, please encourage your child to read nightly in order to grow their reading abilities. This week we continue to work on summarizing information from a variety of sources and compiling a slide presentation. In our reading, we are also working on understanding an author's purpose. We have discovered that all information, rather written or verbal, is done so with a purpose in mind.
Students continue to work on their Ancient Civilization Projects and are planning ideas for their displays for our Night at the Museum. Be sure to mark your calendars for this great event!! As always, nightly reading is encourage as it helps your child grow in their reading abilities. Students continue to work on their Civilizations Research in Social Studies and are enjoying learning about all of the different facts of how people lived in the earlier days. Please mark your calendar for Friday, April 13th from
5:00-8:00 p.m. here at Willard Intermediate School. This week in ELA students are identifying central idea, summarizing and how figurative language is used within passages. As always, please encourage nightly reading in order to help your child grow their reading level. Welcome to the new year, 2018! This week we will begin working on analysing the text with evidence and discovering the central ideas in our reading. As always, nightly reading is encourage to create reading growth.
This week we will begin our unit on poetry. We will be discovering the different rythmes and patterns in poetry.
Remember to read nightly - we are up to 3 solid pages each night. Reading aloud helps students improve in not only fluency, but in accuracy as well. Happy November! This will be a short week as the students have had 2 days of break, but are back and ready to go. We will begin our Figurative Language/Poetry Unit this week. We will be discovering figurative language such as metaphors, similes, alliteration, hyperboles, idioms, personification, and onomatopoeia. We will be covering each of these in depth and incorporate them into our poetry. Students will discover that there are many of these in their everyday life, but now can recognize them with a name. This is such a fun unit and the students came away with such knowledge.
Our Veterans Day assembly is this Friday, November 10th at 9:30. Always a great day to celebrate our heroes!! This time of year always brings the beginning of great excitement at school. Students know that Halloween fun is just around the corner and soon to follow will be Thanksgiving and Christmas (and many days out of school).
In keeping with the Halloween excitement, students have been working on writing comparison paragraphs about funny looking monsters. They are collaborating with their peers to create a masterpiece of comparisons. We are more than half way through our read aloud, Wonder. Students will be ready at the beginning of November to take the Wonder test in the library to qualify for a trip to see the movie in theaters in late November. This movie is such a wonderful story of kindness and grace. Talk with your child about it as they have all loved hearing it read each day in class. As always, please encourage your child to read nightly as it helps to increase reading levels, fluency and accuracy. This is the best time of the year, especially for reading. It offers so many great ways to enjoy reading, rather it's while drinking a hot cup of cocoa, reading by a campfire or under a warm blanket, reading is always in season!!
We continue our in class read aloud, Wonder, and the students seem to really enjoy the book. As we read, we are discovering many lessons from our main characters and looking to identify its theme. This week we are also working on inferences, that goes along great with them, and identifying what "implied" meaning really is. As always, please encourage your child to read nightly, regardless of how long or how many pages - the goal is to JUST READ!! |
AuthorMrs. Miller has been teaching 6th Grade Special Services at Willard Intermediate School since August of 2008. Archives
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