November 2

Reminder: Central Elementary is a Peanut Free School. We have students with peanut allergies. Please help keep our school peanut free. Thank you! Chattanooga Trip: See the bottom of this letter about making payments. Anytime you want, you may pay in full for your child, or make partial payments (amount of your choice). Due to funding we have in our account, the student cost of the trip has decreased. Total student cost will be $57, which includes admission, food, and transportation. Total cost for adults is $95 if you are riding the charter bus, or $55 if you are driving. Daylight Savings time this weekend. Don’t forget to “Fall back” an hour. No School Monday or Tuesday, November 5-6. Mid-terms will be sent home Friday, November 9th Grandparent's Day will be November 14th for 6th grade students Veteran's Day Recognition will be Monday, November 12 at 9:30. Invite your Veteran! See invitation in Friday Folder. Tutoring letters were sent last Friday. Please return with a yes or no response. DAIRY QUEEN DAY 3pm-6pm on Tuesday, November 13th!!!! Central gets percentage of profits from sales. Nov. 13: Walking trip to GCHS for a musical performance by MSU Orchestra. This opportunity is free! Parent/Teacher Conferences will be held Monday, November 19th. Xmas Music Program will be on Wed., Dec. 19th at 9:00 (grades P-3) and again @ 1:00 for grades 4-6. 6th grade - wear sock toboggan or knit hats, mittens or gloves, scarves, and have handkerchief/bandanna for dancing. Boys will be at back of stage and girls will be in front of them. WHAT’S HAPPENING IN CLASS? Science/Soc. Stu: Studying World War 2 and the decades throughout history. Math Class: This week we have been working on prior knowledge we need to recall before our study of ratios. Writing equivalent fractions, writing fractions in simplest form, converting measurements in both the customary and metric measurement systems, and interpreting a Comparison Bar Model are a few of the skills we have been working on. Also, many students have used all their pencils from the beginning of the year and have depleted my classroom supply. Please check with your child to see if you need to pick up some more for them. Writing Class: Students have finalized their fiction story. Students will be finding compound subjects and predicates, and practicing editing skills. Reading Class: Students will be introduced to the Holocaust, and completing reading/research activities to help students understand the novel entitled, Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. We just started the novel this week. Spelling Words: Flashback, Obstinate, Occupation, Sabotage, Impassive, Trousseau, Fiancé, Rationed, Haughtily, Analogy, Imperious, Imprinted, Submerged, Synagogue, Tension I am making a payment for the 6th grade trip to Chattanooga, TN Aquarium. The total cost of the trip is $57 for students, and $95 for adults riding the bus, $55 for adult driving. Total amount due by March 1. I would like to make a November payment of _$_____, attached. You may pay as much as you like for a partial payment each month between now and March 1, or make a full payment. If you pay $12 a month for student, the amount will be paid in full by the time of the field trip. Payment for: (circle one) Student Adult Sibling Name of person to whom we will apply payment:___________________________

October 29-Nov 1

Writing Class: Students will finish writing a fiction story. Students will be finding subjects and predicates, and practicing editing skills. Reading Class: Students will be introduced to the Holocaust, and completing reading/research activities to help students understand the upcoming novel entitled, Number the Stars by Lois Lowry. Spelling Words: (We will have these words for a week and a half) Flashback, Obstinate, Occupation, Sabotage, Impassive, Trousseau, Fiancé, Rationed, Haughtily, Analogy, Imperious, Imprinted, Submerged, Synagogue, Tension

Have a Nice Fall Break!

October 8-12 Writing Class: Students will start writing a fiction story. Students will be finding subjects and predicates, and practicing editing skills. Reading Class: When we return from Fall Break, we will read a nonfiction article from the Storyworks magazine, determining cause/effect, and integrating information from a video and article. Spelling/Vocabulary Words for October 8-12: Tiresome, Arrogant, Surly, Agile, Midst, Peril, Thrive, Ally, Prolong, Scour, Unruly, Concealed, Bias, Hunch, Rambled, Mustered, Cheap, Frank, Ambush, Diminutive Have a spelling choice complete for Thursday.

September 14, 2012

Writing Class: Students are writing and revising personal narratives and painting pictures with words using Brushstrokes, as well as grammar and editing skills. Reading Class: Students have finished Where the Red Fern Grows. Goals include describing how the plot unfolds, and analyzing how a scene fits into the overall structure of the text. Students are classifying literary devices, and discussing the effect of figurative language. Please ensure your child reads AR at home for 15-20 minutes each night. AR Goal for the 9 weeks is 19.5. Spelling Words for next week: swiftly, dawn, pride, champion, despair, haggard, searing, scramble, predatory, petrified, berserk, lithe, ghastly, scourge, entrails, rebelled, symbolism, character, episodes, imagery Spelling Choice due Wednesday, Test Thursday.

Spelling Words September 4-7 Spelling Choice Due Thursday Test Friday Drizzle Impossible Fault Luckiest Qualified Miracle Ghost Graveyard Liquor Coffee Numb Chores Chill Blood Champion tobacco accident oldest campground stubborn

Aug. 27-31

Reading Class: Students will continue the novel, Where the Red Fern Grows. Goals include describing how the plot unfolds, and analyzing how a scene fits into the overall structure of the text. Students are classifying literary devices, and discussing the effect of figurative language. Please ensure your child reads AR at home for 15-20 minutes each night. AR Goal for the 9 weeks is 19.5. Spelling words for the week of Aug. 27-31: welcome, education, confidence, season, blister, puzzle, curious, biggest, lantern, solution, grief, metal, straight, approve, ugly, strawberry, laughter, lessons, fearless, speech. Test on Friday.

Reading Class: Students will start the novel, Where the Red Fern Grows next week. Goals include describing how the plot unfolds, and analyzing how a scene fits into the overall structure of the text. Please ensure your child reads AR at home for 15-20 minutes each night. AR Goal for the 9 weeks is 19.5. Spelling words for the week of Aug. 20-24: behavior, maintain, display, clean, freight, escape, season, chimpanzee, receive, achieve, velocity, migrate, bright, reply, prize. These words all have long vowel sounds. Test on Friday.

Welcome Back to School!

Spelling Lesson 1: Activities will be completed in class. Please study words at home and be ready for a test on Friday! Word List for August 6-10: animal except distance canyon meadow install fantastic mention skill fraction method strict grand pleasant swimming Please complete the survey on the previous blog post!

2012-2013 6th Grade Knights

2012-13 6th grade Knights, please click the link to take a survey for my class. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dEZ0OWs5eUdKYjZxc0RuSXJMUGQydkE6MQ

Have a Great Summer!

Ren Fest!

Ready for the Renaissance Festival!

Spelling/Voc

Spelling/Vocabulary Words for April 16-20. Write the definition of each word in class as we go through the power point. Write each word three times each, DUE WEDNESDAY.
Agony
Bondage
Chagrin
Devastate
Futile
Perish
Petrify
Relentless
Vulnerable
Yield
Forlorn
Luminous
Reflective
Intellectual
Meager
Aptitude
Intrigue
Decline
Spindly
Felled
Flourishing
Platform
Militia
Prospects
Biography

April 13, 2012

April 13, 2012
• Monday is the ABSOLUTE LAST day to turn in pictures for Knights to Remember. Your child will not be in the class video.
• 7th Grade Registration forms must be returned SIGNED by parents.
• Mid-Terms go home next Friday, April 13, 2012.
• Boys Book Club trip to Nashville Sounds April 18.
• “Evening in Wonderland” Dance: April 26th 3:00 – 5:00.
• AR Carnival will be April 27. This will be for students who met their yearly AR goal of 74 points. Your child currently has_____ points. April 26 is the last day to earn points.

• KPREP testing will be April 30-May 3. We are doing our best to help your child prepare for the test. Students will be tested in areas of Reading, Math, and On-Demand Writing. Please avoid any absences from school those days.

• Renaissance Festival Trip May 4. Leave Central at 5:30 a.m.
• ANY MATH IN FOCUS “BOOK A” your child may have, please send back to school.

• Choosing the Best In the afternoons after testing, the Health Department will be speaking with the 6th grade about making good choices regarding Drugs, Alcohol, and Abstinence. Permission forms were emailed to you before spring break, and after. If you do not have email, please sign the form enclosed in Friday Folder.

• Knight to Remember will be the evening of Monday, May 14. This is a 6th grade Promotion Ceremony where we recognize your child, they perform for parents, followed by a dance and reception. We will show and have available the Knight to Remember video. Please make plans to attend.


Last day of school for students is Tuesday, May 15. It will be here before we know it!

April 10

Mixed Bag Sales and Spirit Card Sales continue this week!

AR Carnival will be April 27. This will be for students who met their yearly AR goal of 74 points. Your child currently has_____ points. April 26 is the last day to earn points.

KPREP testing will be April 30-May 3. We are doing our best to help your child prepare for the test. Students will be tested in areas of Reading, Math, and On-Demand Writing. Please avoid any absences from school those days.

Choosing the Best In the afternoons after testing, the Health Department will be speaking with the 6th grade about making good choices regarding Drugs, Alcohol, and Abstinence. Permission forms were emailed to you before spring break, and after. If you do not have email, please sign the form enclosed in Friday Folder.

Knight to Remember will be the evening of Monday, May 14. This is a 6th grade Promotion Ceremony where we recognize your child, they perform for parents, followed by a dance and reception. We will show and have available the Knight to Remember video. Please make plans to attend.

Last day of school for students is Tuesday, May 15. It will be here before we know it!

March 22

No School Tomorrow, Friday, March 23.

Students will be MAP testing in Language Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in the computer lab. Math MAPS April 9, 10, and 11th. We are seeing progress as the school-year gets closer to the end! Encourage your child to do their best on this last round of MAP testing!

Spring Break April 2-6

Alice in Wonderland practice Tuesday, March 27, Dress Rehearsal in-school March 28, play performance March 29, 12:30 and 6:00pm.

KPREP Testing Starts April 30 and ends on Thursday, May 3 for 6th grade.

6th grade trip to Renaissance Festival Friday, May 4. Please be at school at 5:30a.m. We plan to return by 6:00-6:30. Check out the Tennessee Renaissance Festival website at www.tnrenfest.com

Have a nice weekend!

March 16-23

Vocabulary and Spelling Words for March 13-16 Spelling Test Tuesday, March 20

1. Organizational Patterns

2. Cause and Effect

3. Chronological Order

4. Sequence

5. Order of Importance

6. Compare and Contrast

7. Informational Reading

8. Persuasive Reading

9. Nonfiction

10. Text Features

11. Author’s Purpose

12. To inform

13. To influence

14. To entertain

15. To describe

16. To express

17. To persuade

18. To explain

19. Main Idea

20. Supporting Details



March 19-22 (No School Friday, 23rd)

It's College and Career Week! This week we will be examining students' career choices from their ILPs and writing an informational passage about their job choices. Thursday will be a special day, as students get to dress up as their job or college choice. Also, Richard Henson, broom-maker and retired teacher, coach, principal, will be here as a guest speaker to discuss decision-making, setting goals, and workplace skills.



Students will be MAP testing in Reading Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in the computer lab. Language the following week, and Math April 9, 10, and 11th. We are seeing progress as the school-year gets closer to the end! Encourage your child to do their best on this last round of MAP testing!

Spring Break April 2-6

KPREP Testing Starts April 30 and ends on Thursday, May 3 for 6th grade.

6th grade trip to Renaissance Festival Friday, May 4. Please be at school at 5:30a.m. We plan to return by 6:00-6:30. Check out the Tennessee Renaissance Festival website at www.tnrenfest.com

Have a nice weekend!

February 28-March 9

We will be studying Persuasive Techniques for the next few weeks. Students need to know the definition, and how to spell the following words:



Name Calling

Plain Folks Appeal

Glittering Generality

Bandwagon

Testimonial

Hidden Fears

Snob Appeal

Facts and Figures

Unfinished Comparisons

Repetition

Weasel Words (Empty Phrases)

Febrary 27-March 2

This week we will be painting our pots as a culminating art activity for finishing the book, A Single Shard. Next we will start our persuasive unit on persuasive techniques, and examining and writing argumentative pieces. No spelling words starting out this week.

February 16-21

Spelling Choice was due THURSDAY, and test Monday. However, because of being at the middle school on Wednesday and No School on Friday, I am post-poning the test until Tuesday.
A Single Shard Voc. Chapters 7-10
1. haranguing:
2. exulted:
3. plaintive:
4. intricate:
5. noxious:
6. remiss:
7. serenity:
8. frenetically:
9. decreed
10. endeavor
11. foraging
12. grimacing
13. impeccable
14. meager
15. progressively
16. trepidation
17. conflict
18. climax
19. resolution
20. theme

Feb. 8

This week's words and Asian Countries:
A Single Shard, Chapters 3-6

1. ministrations
2. diligent
3. insolence
4. curt
5. felicitous
6. residue
7. suffice
8. crucial
9. patriarch
10. banter
11. arduous
12. connoisseur
13. emissary
14. entourage
15. envision
16. explicit
19. feign
20. impassive
Know the location of the following Asian countries on a blank map.
Russia
Kazakhstan
Iraq
Saudi Arabia
Iran
Kuwait
Afghanistan

January 30-February 3

In Reading Class we will be starting the novel, A Single Shard, by Linda Sue Park. Students will have a study guide with vocabulary, comprehension, and writing activities to complete after reading a group of chapters. This week we will read chapters 1-3.

Words for spelling and vocabulary: arid, momentum, complied, oblivious, cowered, perusal, derision, precariously, impudence, prosperity, simile, metaphor, personification, internal conflict, external conflict

HOMEWORK:Complete a spelling choice by Wednesday.
Complete the study guide questions for the chapters we read this week.

January 23-27

No school Friday!
This week we will be studying the world's largest rice-producing countries in Social Studies.
In reading we will be taking assessments (paper review and online) over poetry.

Next week we will start the novel, A Single Shard by Linda Sue Park.

Poetry Terms

January 9-20 we will be analyzing and writing poems. The following are poetic terms for spelling and vocabulary. Spelling choice due Wednesday, January 18. Spelling and Vocabulary Test is January 20.
Imagery_____________________________________________________
speaker______________________________________________________
Haiku_______________________________________________________
Onomatopoeia__________________________________________________
Personification________________________________________________________________
Rhyme______________________________________________________________________
Simile__________________________________________________________________________
Poetry___________________________________________________________________________
Repetition_______________________________________________________________________
rhyme scheme_____________________________________________________________________
narrative poetry____________________________________________________________________
rhythm__________________________________________________________________________
stanza___________________________________________________________________________
alliteration_________________________________________________________________________
repetition_________________________________________________________________________
metaphor__________________________________________________________________________
hyperbole__________________________________________________________________________
free verse_________