Weekend Outlook

Over the weekend, you'll continue reading Walk Two Moons. I'd like you to read up through Chapter 11.

In the book, Sal moved from Kentucky to Ohio with her father. Now she is on a road trip with her grandparetns. They went from Ohio into Indiana and are now on their way to South Dakota.

Please find out FIVE facts about each state: Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana and South Dakota. You can put them into your English/Humanities notebook.

In addition, make sure you are studying the Vocabulary words. You are going to be quized on them Tuesday.

See you on Monday when we will be meeting for Social Studies.

Have a great weekend.

Ms. Larson

Vocab Words

So we're delving into the book today ... and I'd like you to study some vocab words.

Here they are again:
elaborate - fancy; done with lots of attention to detail
cautious - careful
cadaver - a dead body
flinch - to wince in pain or draw away from
diabolic - exceedingly wicked
predicted - made an educated guess
sheath - a protective covering, often for a sword
ambush - to attack with no warning
gullible - niave; easilly foole
divulge - to tell, usually a secret
trek - a long journey
vivid - bright; easy to see or imagine
ornery - stubborn and ill-tempered
detect - to find out or discover
colossal - extremely large

Sentences are due tomorrow ... Friday!!!

Time Capsule

As I mentioned in class, I'm reprinting the directions for the Social Studies assignment here:

Choose THREE items to put into a time capsule to teach future generations about today's society.

Write a short description (3 sentences) about what your item says about modern society.

The answers should be written down in your Social Studies notebook.

(Don't foget your homework for English, too .... see yesterday's post)

Taking a Journey

I'm excited that we started to take our first steps into the book.

Talking about steps, we spent some time today discussing the quote from the book, "Don't judge a man until you've walked two moons in his moccasins." It's an important quote and theme in the novel.

If you didn't have time in class, make sure you fill in and return the journal response that looks like a shoe. When you complete it, think of a role model or someone you admire.

In addition, I asked you to visit the blog to answer another journal prompt. As I mentioned in class, the book is about a girl who goes on a road trip. I'd like you to:

1. Press comment to this post
2) Tell me about the most exciting journey you've been on in five sentences. Tell me where you went, for how long with who and what made it so exciting. Again, try to make this into a five sentence response.
3) Make sure to put just your first name and last initial in your reply.

I look forward to reading your comments.

- Ms. Larson

Surveys and Reading

Hi class,

For those who answered the class survey, you are in the clear tonight ... except for your reading. Don't forget that you should be reading for 20 minutes each night.

If you haven't taken the survey yet, please see the last post and follow the link to the survey.

Tomorrow we start Walk Two Moons in English.

Welcome Back

Hello Grade 6.

I'm looking forward to seeing you back in school on Thursday.

We will be getting right down to business on Thursday. First up in English, we will be doing a novel study on Walk Two Moons. I've read this book several times and still love it!

In Social Studies we are going back ... way back. We'll be kicking off the year by looking at early man.

You can start handing in your summer work tomorrow.

Click here to take survey.