Friday January 16, 2015

Dear Families,  Students presented wonderful monologues today.  The first Winter Fitness day was quite a lot of fun for all last Thursday.  The main assignment on the horizon is the Ancient Rome graphic novel that is due February 9th. I encouraged students to take home as many of the page templates that they wanted for the long weekend.  If you are in need of more papers for the graphic novel, our classroom will be open on Monday afternoon and all day Tuesday.  A word about reading. While many students are reading independently, there are some students who are not reading.  Until a person gets into the habit of reading and makes a conscious effort to read, reading will not become a natural part of someone's life.  6th graders are expected to read 20 minutes a day at home.  As the monologues are completed, students should be onto reading another book that they will be able to use for the next book project. In math, we have started geometry with area and perimeter of rectangles.  We will move onto finding the area and perimeter of triangles and then the diameter and circumference of circles.  We are also reading a class read aloud called Firegirl.  I hope you have a great long weekend and you are able to get out and enjoy some winter fun.  Take Care, Ellen