49- Weekly Updates (February 17-21, 2020)

Dear Parents, We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements: No School Monday! Spring Conference Week is February 24th-28th. I will send information home with your student if I’d like to schedule a conference. If you don’t get one and would like to schedule a conference please let me know. Reader’s Workshop We will begin our Deep Study of Character Unit. This is an in-depth 6th grade level unit on analyzing characters, setting, and theme. Students will be reading fiction books throughout the unit and should be working each day in their reader’s notebooks as well as logging their reading. Writer’s Workshop We will begin our Literary Essay Unit. This unit will tie in closely with the Deep Study of Character Unit as students will be growing ideas about characters and themes to write about. I am hoping to have a celebration for this unit just before spring break. Math Math Answers and Help Here The kids will continue our expressions and equations unit (algebra) with the study of the distributive property and have a mid-unit assessment on Thursday. We will also continue to review basic skills. History The kids will write their argument on whether or not Alexander the Great was really “great” and we will study Greek mythology. Science We will continue working on the water cycle unit. We will have our last lesson together this week on the water cycle. I will give out a study guide and probably take a quiz on the water cycle on Friday. Thank you, Mr. Gray