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My e-mail: mfreeman@d91.net
Kelvin Grove School: 815-838-0737 My extension: 122
(ALSO CHECK OUT THE DRAMA PAGE FOR INFO ABOUT DRAMA CLUB!)
CLASS NOVELS:
Freak the Mighty by Rodman Philbrick (Fall)
True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle by Avi (Winter)
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (Spring)
*You may wish to purchase these novels in advance for your child.
ANNOUNCEMENTS:
*Scholastic Teen magazine is currently selling The Outsiders, a novel we will be starting in the spring. Feel free to order from Scholastic Online so that your child has their own personal copy of the book.
*Go to www.scholastic.com and log in under "parent" to create a username and password for yourself. You may then select books for your child, month by month, and pay with a credit card. No more checks... YAY! You will need the class activation code, which I previously sent home with your kids. As the teacher, I have to submit the order at the end of each month, so expect your book orders to arrive around the first of every month.
*Encourage your child to read 500 minutes per month, or at least 16 min and 40 sec per day!
*Parents:
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Thought for the Month: "There is no time like the old time, when you and I were young, when the buds of April blossomed, and the birds of spring-time sung! The gardens brightest glories by summer suns are nursed, But oh, the sweet, sweet violets, the flowers that opened first!" ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sixth graders: Enjoy the spring season and all its beauties... Work hard fourth quarter, and know that summer vacation is just around the bend!
*Extra Credit Opportunity: Write a poem (3 stanzas, five lines each) about spring! Include a simile, sensory detail, sound effect, and hyperbole! This offer Expires: 5/15/12
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Language and Reading: 6th Grade
This Week's homework:
Monday:
Tuesday:
Wednesday:
Thursday:
Friday: Work on Speech--Due next Wed, May 16
Use Citation Machine below to create your Works Cited page!
Citation Machine:http://citationmachine.net/index2.php
“If
I Were in Charge of the World”
Written by: Judith Viorst AND Austin J
If I were in charge of the world
I’d cancel books, spoiled spinach, bugs, and also Madonna.
If I were in charge of the world
There’d be tangy tangerines, indestructible spleens, and candy ten
times bigger.
If I were in charge of the world
You wouldn’t have cancer
You wouldn’t have sickness
You wouldn’t have homework
Or “It’s due in two days!”
You wouldn’t even have to do it.
If I were in charge of the world
Funnel cakes covered with cinnamon sugar
Would be healthy
All humans would be humorous
And a person who is really small
And acts really tall
Would still be allowed to be
In charge of the world.
Last Week's homework:
Monday:
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Persuasion Map Website: http://www.readwritethink.org/classroom-resources/student-interactives/persuasion-30034.html
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."
~Dr. Seuss
READ, READ, READ!!
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