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GRAMMAR

Learning Objectives:

• • Study and Review for Unit 3 Assessment on Wednesday, January 20

NARRATIVE WRITING

Learning Objectives:

• • • Students will write publish their post-assessment for Narrative Writing

READING – OUT OF MY MIND

Learning objectives:

• • • Think About It – Would you be friends with Melody?
    • Analyse Melody’s relationship with Rose
    • Making Inferences
    • Discuss Stephen Hawking research
    • Higher Level Thinking – Analyse Chapter 15

SPELLING

GRAMMAR

Learning Objectives:

• • Use sit, set, lie, lay, and rise, raise correctly
  • Proofread instructions to correct verb forms
  • Use lend, borrow, let, leave, and teach, learn correctly
  • Proofread a notice to correct verbs
  • Replace the verbs said with more exact verbs
  • Use a thesaurus

NARRATIVE WRITING

Learning Objectives:

• • • Students  will write a descriptive vignette (Assessment)
    • Students will review the format for narrative writing

READING – OUT OF MY MIND

Learning objectives:

• • • Discuss and describe the secondary characters
    • Research and discuss Stephen Hawking

SPELLING

GRAMMAR

Learning Objectives:

• • Use verb forms that agree in number with their subjects
  • Proofread a book review to correct subject-verb agreement
  • Use verb forms that agree with compound subjects joined by or, either…or, and neither…nor
  • Use verb forms that agree with the subject in sentences beginning with here or there
  • Identify contractions in sentences
  •  Identify the words that make up a contraction
  • Proofread a dialogue to correct contractions

NARRATIVE WRITING

Learning Objectives:

• • • • Students discover the importance of showing, not telling, in their writing
      • Students will identify the characteristics of a vignette

READING – OUT OF MY MIND

Learning objectives:

• • • Describe how word choice and imagery contribute to the meaning of a text.
    • Describe the main character
    • Research and discuss Cerebral Palsy

SPELLING

NARRATIVE WRITING

Learning Objectives:

• Students will complete their fictional narrative drafts and publish their work

READING WEEK

FOCUS – COURAGEOUS FEMALES:

• Monday: Malala Yousafzai
• Tuesday: Pocahontas
• Wednesday: Rosa Parks
• Thursday: Queen Esther
• Friday: Character Dress Down Day – Half-Day

Boys Need to Learn Women’s History Too by Andrew Pillow

The whole reason we are taking a week to focus on outstanding females in history is that young girls are typically not taught enough about the courageous women that came before them. However, it is important that we remember that boys need to learn this information too.

This Reading Week was in part created to help girls combat the stereotypical images of women they received from their male-dominated history curriculum, but it may be even more important to combat those images in the heads of males. So many of the problems we have with the way men treat women can be chalked up to quite literally millenniums of viewing women as less-than. The adverse effects of exclusively teaching that history in class cannot be overstated.

It’s important not to shy away from history even if it isn’t pretty and the truth is women have been subjugated for most of human history. But in spite of being held back for centuries, women have always managed to become much more than the 2nd class citizens patriarchal societies intended them to be. However, history is largely written by men; so if you are not intentional about teaching the accomplishments of women, then you likely won’t.

Just as it’s important for white students to learn black history, it’s important for men to learn a thing or two about Women’s History. If we truly want society to advance in gender equality, then it’s not enough for women to see themselves as equal and valuable… men have to see it too. The easiest way to get a man to see something is to show it to him as a boy.

Learning objectives:

SPELLING

EXPOSITORY WRITING

Learning Objectives:

• Students will be able to describe the falling action of a narrative.
• Students will be able to describe the resolution of a narrative.
• Students will create a fictional narrative draft.

READING – PRAIRIE LOTUS

Learning objectives:

GRAMMAR

Learning objectives:

• Identify verbs in the present, past, and future tenses
• Use verbs in the present, past, and future tenses
• Identify and use the principal parts of verbs
• Identify and use the perfect tenses of verbs

SPELLING

• Study for Spelling Assessment on Friday

Spelling Words – Lesson 13 – Words with Endings /ən/ or /əl/

1. actual 2. beckon 3. burden 4. captain 5. comparison 6. example 7. foreign 8. people 9. informal 10. label 11. medal 12. peddle 13. personal 14. pigeon 15. several 16. special 17. sudden 18. natural 19. veteran 20. usual

GRAMMAR

Learning Objectives:

– Recognize and correct sentence fragments and run-on sentences

– Proofread for run-on sentences

NOTE: Unit 1 Assessment – September 23

 

EXPOSITORY WRITING

Learning Objectives:

– Students will be able to write their thesis statement and introduction.

–  Students will be able to start turning their notes into a paper.

 

READING:

Learning Objectives:

–  Identify expository nonfiction and describe its major characteristics

–  Demonstrate comprehension of passage through Think Critically quiz.

 

SPELLING

– Study spelling words for test on Friday

Spelling Words – Unit 9

1. accept 2. adapt 3. adopt 4. affect 5. allusion 6. complement 7. compliment 8. device 9. devise 10. effect 11. except 12. formally 13. formerly 14. illusion 15. incite 16. insight 17. principal 18. principle 19. precede 20. proceed

Here are a few competitions for you to be aware of. These are not mandatory, but would most certainly be fun to get involved with. Please be aware of the details for due dates, expectations, and submission places. Best of luck and I hope everyone gives it a try!

VLOG Competition

• DUE DATE: September 30th
• 2 Min VLOG
• Submit to agayle@ucci.edu.ky

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Charleston Wrap

A huge thanks to those of you who have already purchased and encouraged your friends and coworkers to do the same. You are our trailblazers and we truly appreciate you.

Even if you’re a little late to the party we can still make this year a record breaking year and based on how amazing you’ve been so far I know that you are the absolute best group of parents to pull this off.

So what now?

Here’s all you need to do

1. Register your student online by clicking here enter our School ID [z- 11554]
2. Invite friends and family to shop and support our students. Send emails, share on social media, and text the fundraising link to your friends & family to quickly spread the word!
3. Look out for the catalog packets coming home with your student today. Our Campaign runs through until September 27th, 2019!

Thank you for your support!

We’ve had a blast reading the George’s Marvelous Medicine. Hopefully, you’ve heard that we made our own, Grade 6’s Marvelous Medicine!

“It’s alive! It’s alive!” (Oh wait…wrong book…whoops!)

We certainly had a lot of laughs while making our concoctions…and I’m happy to report that no sixth graders (or teachers) were harmed in this experiment.

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GRAMMAR

• Identify compound predicate in sentences.
• Recognize the connecting word and or or that joins parts of a compound predicate
• Identify compound sentences
• Identify the simple sentences and the connecting word that make up a compound sentence
• Identify and, or, and but as conjunctions
• Choose the appropriate conjunction

For additional help with compound predicates, please visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7lrLDGQ40bg

Compound Sentences: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DGKY3eM9PY

READING

• To set a purpose for listening for listening
• To evaluate the content of oral communication
• To develop deeper meaning to vocabulary words
• To identify realistic fiction and describe its major characteristics
• Demonstrate comprehension of passage through critical thinking quiz.
• Read and understand a personal narrative
• Connect ideas across texts
• NOTE: Spelling words were assigned and sent home today to study for spelling test on Friday.
  

WRITING

• Students will be able to complete a pre assessment showing their ability to write an informative piece of writing.
• Students will be able to have a basic understanding of informative writing and why we do it.
  
• Students will be able to reassess their original piece of writing.
• Students will be able to start thinking of a topic to learn about and study.

LITERACY HOMEWORK

Monday:

• Workbook Plus: page 11
• Read for at least 30 minutes and update Padlet, describing the setting of what you’ve read
  

Tuesday:

• Workbook Plus: page 15
• Read for at least 30 minutes and update Padlet – free write.

Wednesday

• Workbook Plus: page 17
• Read for at least 30 minutes and update Padlet – Name your favourite characters and tell why they are your favourite.

Over the weekend and well into Monday, many of us watched in horror as Hurricane Dorian took aim on parts of the Bahamas. With the category 5 hurricane remaining over areas for approximately 2 days, the destruction that was wrought was utterly heart wrenching to watch and listen to.

For many of us, this brought back horrible memories of Hurricane Ivan in 2004. We can still remember the needs that were experienced in the aftermath of such a storm. It was here that Samaritan’s Purse were able to step in and offer much needed disaster relief assistance. They were the first volunteers on the ground in Grand Cayman. 

Now, we are requesting your help to aid our neighbors in the Bahamas.

First Baptist Christian School will be holding a special Dress Down Down on Friday, September 13th, where all donations will be given to Samaritan’s Purse (Samaritan’s Purse will be receiving donations via First Baptist Church) for urgent hurricane relief in the Bahamas. Additional donations can also be dropped off to the FBCS School Office during regular school hours.

We thank you for your willingness to help us serve others in Christ. We also implore you to continue to pray for those affected by this historic and deadly storm.

For additional information on Samaritan’s Purse, please visit https://www.samaritanspurse.org/.