ANNOUNCEMENTS
SMS Parent Night tomorrow (7:00-9:00 p.m.)
SMS 6th Grade Course Request (yellow card) is due Monday
SPELLING/WORD STUDY
Barber: frequently, raspberry, pneumonia, leisure, argument and 5 additional words.
* TEST TOMORROW
Brazier: Prefixes and Suffixes
* TEST ON FRIDAY: 5 COMMON PREFIXES & 5 COMMON SUFFIXES (see planner)
* ASK: “How does the suffix ‘ed’ change the meaning of a word? Name a word that ends with this affix. What does the word you just said mean with and without this suffix?”
Kornas: Students created their personalized spelling list for this week.
* TEST ON FRIDAY.
MATH
Brazier - Switch One: Strand 6 (3-D Geometry) continues: Conceptualizing Cube Configurations
* ASK: “If you had a box with a volume of 60 cubic units, how many square packages with a height of two units could fit in that box?” (Answer: 7: the volume of the package is 8 cubic units; therefore, 7 whole packages could fit in the box.)
* STRAND 6 TEST ON MONDAY
* HOMEWORK #1: STRAND 6 DPP DUE ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15.
* HOMEWORK #2: STUDENT SHEET 7 DUE TOMORROW
Brazier - Switch Two: Strand 5 (2-D Geometry) continues: Practice with Cartesian Coordinates
*STRAND 5 TEST ON FRIDAY
* ASK: “Show me how you would plot a point on a coordinate plane.”
*HOMEWORK #1: COORDINATE PLANE HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT DUE TOMORROW
* HOMEWORK #2: STRAND 5 DPP DUE ON WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15.
Martinez - Switch One: Practice with Cartesian Coordinates. Battle Shapes.
*STRAND 5 TEST ON FRIDAY
*HOMEWORK:: COORDINATE PLANE HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT DUE TOMORROW
Martinez - Switch Two: Practice with Cartesian Coordinates. Battle Shapes.
*STRAND 5 TEST ON FRIDAY
*HOMEWORK:: COORDINATE PLANE HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENT DUE TOMORROW
SOCIAL STUDIES
Barber: Student panel debate work continues...
*ASK: Your child who their person is?”
Kornas: Chapter 11 test. O.U. Water Festival Poster
READING WORKSHOP
Barber: “Readers push their thinking at significant passages.”
Brazier: “Readers learn to see texts, and life, through the lens of power.”
Kornas: Book club meetings. “Readers read important passages extra attentively.”
Martinez: “Readers imagine the perspective of a minor character to understand what the story is really, really about.”
WRITING WORKSHOP
Barber: “Opinion writers link their evidence to reasons.”
Brazier: Mid-Unit On-Demand
*ASK: “What can you do as a writer of opinion texts that you could not do a month ago?”
Kornas: Free write, stamina check and reflection.
Martinez: “Opinion writers evaluate the relative strengths of the reasons for their opinion.”
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