The potato was domesticated by the Incas, and they developed over 140 different varieties. 6th Grade will be celebrating the end of our Inca Unit with a delicious potato bar on Wednesday, February 2. Please see the link explaining this and what you can do to assist us. Thanks.
Inca Unit test will be given on Wednesday, January 26. A study guide is being completed in school and will come home on Tuesday to be studied and signed by a parent. If you want to get a head start or your child forgets to bring it home, you can find the link here on our blog.
Monday: Fill out Inca Study Guide and begin studying for test.
Tuesday: Finish Study Guide and study for test.
Wednesday: Inca Unit Test
Thursday: Counselor Presentation -When to Go to an Adult About Yourself or Others
Friday: Begin Iditarod Unit--Begin Alaska Map
Reading: 12/13/10
Week of December 6, 2010
Inca Book Role of Women
Inca Book Clothing and Fashion
Inca Book Messengers
Origins of the Inca
Inca Book Engineering the Land
--Monday and Tuesday we are finishing our Inca video Secrets of Lost Empires. Ask your child about Inca stonework and bridge building!
--Wednesday and Thursday we will begin learning about Inca food and agriculture--especially the importance of the potato and the llama in Inca society. We will complete a paper on Inca agriculture on Thursday. If it is not finished in class it will become homework due on Friday morning.
We will also begin a new round of Daily Oral Geography. All students need a DOG spiral! Some students have been writing it down on separate pieces of notebook, and they have been lost by the time our quiz rolls around. (They can use their spirals on the quiz.)
--Friday we will be watching a very interesting video on llamas. There is a very, very short (maybe 5 seconds) scene of two llamas mating in the video and a small and endearing scene of a baby llama being born. I warn of them in advance and have run into no problems/embarrassments in all the years I have shown it. If you have objections to your child watching this video, please let me know.
--We do not send the Inca books home for make-up work because we only have a class set, they are getting worn out, and are out of print. Please check the attached links for pages from the books that we have read so far.
Reading:
This week we will be concentrating on Accelerated Reading. The students will be given time to silently read and take any AR tests as needed. In order to qualify for our Friday Movie Day, the students must have taken an AR test this trimester and have no missing work.
Working on Vocabulary Packet #6 and finishing Fact and Opinion lessons. Vocabulary Quiz on Friday, please study with your child at home!
Vocabulary Packet #6
Week of November 15th
Reading:
Wednesday is the last day to take AR tests for 1st trimester. Many students still have 0% of their AR goal for the trimester. Please encourage your child to read at least 30 minutes each night.
We are continuing our lessons on Cause and Effect this week. Also, Vocabulary Packet #5 should be completed by tomorrow. We will be having a vocabulary test on Friday. The link to these words is on the home page.
Wednesday, we will also be having a unit test over idoms, inference and cause and effect. Since this is a skills test, there is really no need to study.
Social Studies
Monday and Tuesday we will be watching an Inca video, "Secrets of the Ancestors". Wednesday - Friday, we will be illustrating and presenting Inca laws.
Social Studies:
· Monday and Tuesday we will be discussing Inca leadership and the Sapa Inca.
· Tuesday will be the final test over the countries and capitals of South America . Students will be provided with a word bank so that spelling won’t be an issue.
· Wednesday will be a short group assessment in which students collaborate to discuss/write/draw whatever they have learned about the Inca so far.
· Thursday we will read about Inca government and laws. Each student will be given a law to illustrate. We will work on these in class Thursday, Friday, and Monday. Any work not completed will be sent home as homework to be returned on Tuesday to present in front of the class.
· Daily Oral Geography (DOG) will resume on Thursday. Please remind your child to bring their SS spirals to class.
· Our Inca books are out-of-print so we do not send them home with students. I will post a link to the chapters we are currently working with each week in case your child needs to access them.
· November 17 is the last day to take AR tests before report cards are completed. AR goals will be included as a 100 point assignment in the Work Habits grade. Your child will receive a grade that will equal the percentage of the AR goal that they have accomplished, ie., 85% of AR goal will be 85 points in the gradebook. You can access your child’s reading record through the Middle School website. Follow the links through the Media link on the left-hand side. (You child should know how to do this.)
· This week continues our work on Cause and Effect reading skills.
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Reading
--Vocab quiz over Lesson 4 Thursday
--We’re studying Cause and Effect in Reading class.
--Reading logs for October need to be signed by parents and returned by Friday to receive credit.
--Last day to take AR tests for 1st Trimester will be November 17. Please check to see if your child has read books and taken his/her tests. Lack of doing so will greatly affect reading grades. Goals have been based on student reading levels.
Vocabulary Packet Link - https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_t06f5KqvwoNzRjMDZmODAtOTczMC00YjE4LTg1MTUtNzkxZjVjMjYxYmE2&sort=name&layout=list&num=50
Vocabulary Packet Link - https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B_t06f5KqvwoNzRjMDZmODAtOTczMC00YjE4LTg1MTUtNzkxZjVjMjYxYmE2&sort=name&layout=list&num=50
Social Studies
--Test over the countries and capitals of South America will be next Tuesday, Nov.9. It will be worth 100 points in the Content Knowledge grade. We have been working on these in class for over 4 weeks—and those students who have studied them at home a few at a time know them very well. The rest had better get studying!!!
--We continue our study of the Incas. Ask your child what an ayllu is. This week we are creating symbols or totems to represent ayllus. Then we will move into Inca government and laws—and they had some mighty strange ones!
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Reading Week of October 25
- Make-up vocabulary quizzes to be given at lunch on Wednesday. Ask your child or look on Skyward to see if he/she needs to prepare for it. I'm regiving it to all those who received a D or F on the quiz last week. Students must bring a signed noted stating that parents confirm that he/she studied.
- End of 1st trimester is coming in November. AR goals are worth 100 points in Reading Work Habits. Too many of our students either have not earned enough points or have not read any books this trimester.
- We are working on Vocabulary Packet #4 in class. Next quiz will not be until the end of the week following Halloween. Please study these new words and definitions with your child.
- We have been using a Kid's Discover Inca magazine to read for main idea and important details as well as improving skills in analyzing text structure.
- October Reading Logs are due Monday, November 1st.
- Reading about the formation of the Inca Empire
- Organizing text through use of graphic organizers
Reading Week of October 18
- Vocabulary Packet #3 Quiz and Packet Due
- AR and Library
- Inca Magazine and questions
- Vocabulary Packet 4
Social Studies Week of October 18
- Reading and learning about the Origin of the Incas and the development of their empire
- Use this information to find main and supporting ideas and show them in graphic organizers
- Continue studying the countries and capitals of S. America, only 4 countries left to learn
- Final Test over Countries and Capitals of S. America week after Halloween
Reading Week of October 11
- Continue work on Vocabulary Packet 3 - Test November 18th
- Idioms
- Idiom Illustration - due Friday
- AR and Library
- Continue studying the countries and capitals of South America
- We are quizzing on these daily to give the students practice. Please study at home as well.
- Rod of Gold - Inca Creation Myth
- Inca Creation Project - Due Friday
Reading October 4-7
- Book Fair
- Library and AR
- Inference Quote Reasoning - due October 7 - Quotes will be sent home the 6th to be discussed with families before class discussion on the 7th
- Stories with Holes using Inference
- Review AR Goals - Due November 15
- Vocabulary Packet #3 - Due November 18th
- Inference Test - Thursday (this is a type of test that does not need home studying)
- Learning countries and capitals of South America
- Quiz October 7th over - Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia - Students must be able to correctly spell and locate these countries and their capitals.
- Start Inca Creation Myth and activity
Beginning Inca Unit -
- Physical and political geography of S. America (these will be done at school and will need to be colored and labeled).
- Students will be responsible for knowing the countries, capitals, and important physical characteristics of South America. They will be tested over this information in the coming weeks, so any extra practice at home would be much appreciated.
· Inference Skits & Vocab Packet Lesson 2. (Introduce words & Exercise A)
· Read Aloud & Vocab Packet, Exercises B&C
· KIS Strategy: Model, discussion, and independent Content Knowledge assignment
· Inference Reflection,Vocab. Packet: Exercises D, Library, and AR
· Vocab Review, Ice Cream Inferences, Modeling, Partner, and Independent.
· Vocab Review, Planet Boom Boom, complete independently, class discussion. Work Habit Grade.
Pass out Quote Reasoning Homework to fill out and discuss with family.
· Vocab Quiz & Read aloud. Turn in Vocab Packets.
· Quote Reasoning Group work and Reflection Sheet. Class discussion. Read Aloud & AR
· Library & AR
· Inference Test Pgs.
Vocabulary Packet Week 2 - http://www.scribd.com/full/37830674?access_key=key-959nk0d41avozn28kbn
Vocabulary Packet Week 2 - http://www.scribd.com/full/37830674?access_key=key-959nk0d41avozn28kbn
Continue identifying Hemispheres using a world map or globe
Learn to read latitude and longitude to locate places on the earth
Quiz next Wed, September 15th, over map skills.
Reading:
School Records Graphic Organizer Due Thursday, September 9th.
We will be working on Vocabulary Week one. Students will need to know the words and definitions by next Thursday, September 16th. Click on the attached link for a list of word and definitions!
http://www.scribd.com/full/37077864?access_key=key-2i8yvtnyr31krhmxmoze
Complete vocab packet week one will also be due on September 16th. Study Study
Look for AR books to be coming home. Students will soon be responsible for reading 30 minutes each night. Start the habit now!
