Classroom Calendar 2011-2012

Welcome to 6th Grade @ MVMS!
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August
Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
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23 24 School Begins

Silent Reading Book or Team D/C Library Membership

Student Info Sheet

Parent ?s & read teacher websites

Cover Books-bring only LIT w/IR and Spelling to school

SS & Science & Math spirals needed Friday

All Suggested Supplies by Monday
25 
WORK ON YOUR AUTO-BIO SPEECHES, WE BEGIN ON MONDAY!

Lit: read 30, library membership?,
complete survey

SS: spiral

L. Arts: all forms due tomorrow

Colored pencils & fine/extra fine sharpies

26
 
29
Lit: read 30,
Parent read & sign Reading Wksh Expectations & Rules,
ID CARD

L. Arts: Autobio Speech Prep,
Sunburst Art due tomorrow

SS: single subject spiral for those who do not have yet

 
30
Lit: read 30, RWshp folders signed by tomorrow

L. Arts: autobio speeches

SS: Review for Friday Quiz,
bring purple workbook to class
 
31
Lit:  read 30+, be sure to have your book here every day

L. Arts: autobio speech pre

SS: STUDY FOR QUIZ FRI. & workbook pages 5-10 (as we did with sect. 1 in class today)
 
BOOK ORDERS DUE NEXT THURS. 9/8  

 

 

September

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday


 

 

 

1 Book orders due next Thurs.

Lit: read 30, Maroo map completely colored & labeled

L. Arts: last day of speeches tomorrow,

be sure to have your spelling book covered and in class on Tuesday!

SS: complete word search,
quiz tomorrow

 
2
SS Early Man Quiz today
 

Labor Day --
       No School


     

6 BOOK ORDERS DUE THURSDAY!

Lit: read 30

L. Arts: spelling Unit 7 pgs 48-50 due on Thursday

SS: none

 
7
Back to School Night!
6:00-8:00pm

Lit: read 30
Maroo:

L. Arts: spelling pages 48-50 due tomorrow,
spelling worksheet due Friday

SS: quiz signed by parent-due Friday



 
8 Poet & SCOPE donations $18 Checks to MVMS by the 14th.

The frogs are coming!

712 & 712: lets pull together and go to the Dance Masters Assembly!! (order 1 magazine on Sept. 13th-yes, only 1 and you can go!

Lit: BOOK ORDERs TOMORROW, read 30

L. Arts: spelling sheet due tomorrow

SS: signed test and bag tomorrow

 
9
Spelling Test today

SS quiz SIGNED due today
12
TEAM DIPAOLO & COCHRAN: let's all turn in 1 magazine order tomorrow so we can all go to the Dance Masters Assembly!!

SCOPE & POET Donation ($18)

Lit: read 20 pages/30+min.

L. Arts: Spelling U8 pgs 54-56 (due Wed)

SS: complete reflection (edit with parent tonight),  Early Man TOC checked & signed by parent (Wed.)
13
SCOPE & POET DONATION BY THURS. PLEASE

Lit:
1. read 30+
2. complete Figurative Lang. sheet,
3. read only CH5 of Maroo and write response to prompt in journal

SS: 1. spiral checked & signed by parent,

2. Signed grade sheet due tomorrow

L. Arts:
1. spelling pages (Wed.),
2. Log onto freerice.com and donate for 10 minutes
 

14 Rachel's Challenge Assembly & Parent Night @ 6pm in the Gym

Lit:  read,
complete Maroo CH 6

L. Arts: Rachel's Challenge reflection due Friday,
SCOPE & Poet donations

SS: none



 
15
Lit: read,
complete Maroo CH 7

L. Arts:  spelling worksheet,
Test tomorrow

SS:  IR Reader pages 13-15

 

16 MAPS Testing (wahoo!)

2nd day to turn in magazine order

Spelling Test today
 

19  Tomorrow morning is the last day to turn in magazine orders

Lit: read 30

L. Arts:
spelling pages 60-62 U.9

3 X 5 cards needed in class by Wed. for Vocabulary Workshop

S.Studies:  Catahuyuk internet activity (given Fri.) due this Thursday

Complete C-Notes started in class (Ch2 Sect.1)

Kleenex needed for our classroom-donations appreciated
 
20  SCOPE & Poet donations are still welcomed

Lit: read 30+,
Maroo: passge and steps

L. ARts: spelling, 3x5 cards for vocab workshop,

SS: c-notes CH 2, Sect. 2 (the same way as yesterday) and IR page 18
 

21
3 x 5 cards needed today

Lit:  read 30+,
check grades on Learning Point

L. ARts:

1. SCOPE sheet due tomorrow
2. spelling sheet due Friday

SS:  Use the study guide for quiz on Friday

Internet activity due tomorrow


 

22
SS: internet activity due today,
QUIZ tomorrow

Lit: read 30+
Maroo burial sequence board due Tuesday

L. Arts: 3x5 cards,

 spelling sheet

SCOPE quiz tomorrow (narrative fict. story on Navy SEALS)

 

23  Be sure to read over the long weekend!

Maroo burial sequence board due Tuesday!!


Social Studies Quiz today (Sect. 1 & 2)

Spelling Test U.9 today

SCOPE quiz today
26

K-12 Professional  Growth Day 
No School

Maroo Burial Sequence due tomorrow!!

27 MAPS Testing (wahoo!)

Lit: read 30/20+pages

SS: none(worked in class on activity)

L. Arts: (no spelling this week)

 1.Progress Notice & Blue Folder signed DUE BY THURSDAY

2. SCOPE Poem sheet & affect vs. effect sheet

3. 1st camp installment $110 due Oct. 3rd

4. Study Vocab. Cards (yes/no piles)


 

 

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BINDER & SUPPLY CHECK TODAY - refer to sheet given last week.  Postponed until next Tuesday

Lit: read!
complete CH 10 Maroo
 

SS: none

L. Arts: study vocabulary cards!!!!

camp installment 10/3

Progress Notice & signed Blue Folder

 

 

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October

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
 3
Minimum Day - Parent Conferences-STUDENT COME WITH PARENTS, BRING YOUR BINDER WITH YOU

Lit: read,
complete body paragraph 2 Maroo

SS: none

L. Arts: study vocab cards,
CONFERENCE HOMEWORK,

Camp Installment

 

4  
Minimum Day - Parent Conferences

BINDER CHECK TODAY!


Lit: read

SS: STUDY
P-E-R-S-I-A

L. Arts:
study vocab cards,
CONFERENCE HOMEWORK,


Camp Installment


 Scope: read pages 2-10,  worksheets due Friday

Binder Check signed by Friday

 
5  Yee-haw!!! Federal Surveys due tomorrow please.

Regular Late Day - Parent Conferences



Lit:
read, finish Maroo CH 12


SS:
1. finish PERSIA (from class today)

2. Map due Friday- pencils first, then outline with skinny sharpie


L. Arts: 
1.
study vocab cards,
2.CONFERENCE HOMEWORK,

3. Scope: read pages 2-10,  worksheets due Friday,
4. read the Medussa Reader's Theater

5. Binder Check signed by Friday

 
6
Minimum Day - Parent Conferences

 

Lit:

SS:

 

L. Arts:  study vocab cards,
CONFERENCE HOMEWORK,

Scope: read pages 2-10,  worksheets due Friday

Binder Check signed by Friday

 

7
Minimum Day - Parent Conferences



L. Arts: quiz today, worksheets due today

 
10
Lit: reading

SS: IR pages 27-29

L. aRts:  Spelling U.10 pages 66-68 (Wed.)
Study Vocab. cards
Conference HW ASAP
 11  Conference HW due tomorrow!

Lit: reading
(we completed Maroo today)

SS: CH 3 Sect. 1- complete C-notes pgs 66-68(started in class today)

L. Arts: spelling,
SCOPE pages,
complete all vocab work in book-due tomorrow pages 21-27

 
 12 Donations still needed to keep SCOPE and have poet in the spring


Lit: reading,
Maroo journal chaps. 15 & 16

SS:  CH3 Sect. 1 summary,
be sure to thoroughly read Sect. 2 pages 71-75

L Arts: 
1. study for vocab. test tomorrow
2. Spelling sheets (Fri)

 

 

13
Vocabulary Test Today

Lit:  reading,
Edit 3 paragraphs w/parent (be sure it makes sense and has details)

SS: Sect. 2 C-Notes (all key terms, pages 71-72)

L. Arts:  spelling sheet,
Take home SCOPE quiz (Medussa)
14 GRADE PRINTOUTS COMING HOME TODAY-PARENT SIGNATURE (Monday)
Spelling Test Today

Lit: reading

SS:  finish section 2 c-notes pages 73-75 (due Monday)
17 BRING YOUR I.R. FOR LITERATURE TOMORROW

Lit:
reading,
Response To Literature typed and underlined with color pencil (Thurs.)

SS:
1. summary CH 3 Sect. 2

2. signed grades due tomorrow

3. Mesopotamia Technology Project due Thursday (started in class on Friday)

L. Arts:
1. spelling Unit 11 pages (Wed.)
2. folders & grades signed (Tues.)
3. Vocab. U.2 cards 1-10 (wed.)

 
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Lit: reading,
Response to Lit due Thursday (follow given directions),
IR pages 2-8 (did in class)

SS: quiz tomorrow,
Internet Assignment (Thurs),
We started a TCI in class today.

L. Arts:  Spelling U.11 (Wed)

Vocab U.1 (cards 1-10 due tomorrow)
19
SS quiz sect. 1 & sect. 2 today

Lit: reading,
Resp. To Lit due tomorrow (underline before you get here),
complete pgs 9-11 in Lit IR(worked on in class)

SS: none

L. Arts: spelling sheet (Fri),
Vocab card 11-20 due Friday,
read article in SCOPE
20
Lit:  reading,
1st draft of Maroo

SS: none

L. Arts: finish cards, work on pages 31-32 vocabulary U.2
21
'Eleven' quiz in literature today

Spelling test today

Vocab. cards 11-20 due today
24 Big Lit book in class tomorrow!

Shoeboxes for Rachel's Challenge

Lit: reading,

Book Talk notes signed (Tues)

Reading Goals (Tues.)

SS: Quiz signed (Tues.),

complete Sect 3 sheet & notes

L. Arts:  Vocabulary U.2 pages 31-34 due tomorrow,

Halloween Dialogue






 
25 Shoeboxes for Rachel's Challenge

Lit: reading

SS: complete Babylonian Sheet & read CH 4 pgs 81-86 for tomorrow

L. Arts:  Vocabulary test U.2 on Thursday,

8 sentences of dialogue (follow directions given)

 
26

Lit: reading

SS: Sect. 4 C-notes (college way) due tomorrow

L. Arts: vocab. test tomorrow,

Dialogue cartoon - work on and bring to class tomorrow!(due Monday-we will check on Friday to see how far you are)

27
Vocabulary Test today (U.2 & review of U.1)

Lit: reading

SS: study guide due next Tuesday  (test on Wednesday 11/2)

L. Arts: dialogue cartoon (Title on top, typed, colored neatly)
DUE MONDAY!
28
Q2 Book Talks begin today!

See yesterday!!


 
         

 

 

 

November

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
 31  Halloween

Dialogue Cartoon due today

Share final 1st Q grades w/parents

Lit: reading, complete SCOPE sheet

SS: study guide due tomorrow

L. Arts: Vocabulary U.3 cards due on Friday
 1

SS study guide due today

Lit: read, complete sheets from Scouts Honor

SS: test tomorrow!

L. Arts:  U.3 vocab cards due on Friday

Prepositions:
 2 SS Chapter 3 test today

Lit: reading, complete worksheet (Scout's Honor)

SS:none

L. Arts:  U.3 vocab card 8-14,
prepositional phrase sheet

 
3
Lit: reading,
complete paragraphs on setting & characters

SS: Ancient Egypt Map due tomorrow

L. Arts: all cards due tomorrow U.3

Grammar sheet

 


 

Arts Attack in the p.m.!

7 Q1 Report Card due signed on Wednesday

Read note on my homepage.


Lit: type & glue Scouts Honor sections (bring to class to color tomorrow),
reading

SS: Complete Sect. 1 c-notes & summary (worked on in class),
be sure to read Sect. 2!

L. Arts:  vocab U.3 book work pages 38-41 due WED.,

Y/N pile
 


 

Grade print out of my classes signed due tomorrow-Q2 grades so far

Lit: Scouts Honor project due tomorrow

SS: parent signature on test due Thurs.,

complete: C-notes (college way) Sect. 2 (vocab, pgs 100-102 only)

L. Arts: Vocab. U.3 book work due tomorrow
9  Scouts Honor plot project due today

Vocabulary book work due today.

 

10 Vocab. u.3 test today (reviews u.1 & u.2)

11

Veteran's Day
No School

14
Lit: reading

SS: IR pages 43 & 46 (tues.),
STUDY GUIDE FOR QUIZ DUE WED.

L. Arts:  Adopt-A-Family items,
Spelling U. 12 due Wed.

 
15
Lit:  reading,
Complete worksheets from Pres. Cleveland

SS:  study guide due tomorrow

L. Arts:  spelling due tomorrow,
study for grammar quiz (use your packet in binder),

Adopt-A-Family items by Friday if possible
16 CHECK UPDATED GRADES & READ ANNOUNCEMENT

Lit: reading,

SS: study for quiz, 
computer lab today to work on Internet Assign. (due Friday)

L. Arts:  spelling pgs. 232-234 all in text (due Friday)
 

 

17
SS Quiz Today

Grammar Quiz today

Lit: reading, work on response to lit

SS: internet assignment due tomorrow

L. arts: see yesterday
18
Spelling Test U.12 today

Be Thankful!

Read each day
21
District Recess,
No School
22
District Recess,
No School
23
Admissions Day
 No School

24
Thanksgiving 
No School
 

25
Thanksgiving 
No School
28  Tomorrow is last day for Adopt-A-Family items

GRADES UPDATED AGAIN - CHECK LP

Lit: reading

Social Stud: Xword/word search (WED)

IR pages 47-49 (do w/textbook)(due Tues.)

L. Arts: 
U.4 cards #1-7 (study)
 
29  
Lit: reading,
complete: intro-body 2

SS: modified c-notes Sect. 3

L. Arts: U.4 vocab cards #8-14 (study),

SCOPE: worksheet
30
Lit: reading, complete first copy

SS: signed quiz,
review spiral

L. Arts:  vocab cards due tomorrow, SCOPE sheet
1
Lit: final copy complete & neatly underlined,
reading

SS: quiz signed,
read sect. 4 & complete IR page 52

L. Arts: vocab pages 54-55 (checking Monday) complete tonight
2 ARTS ATTACK

Hot & Rad!

 

 

December

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

5
Lit: reading

SS: C*Notes Modified Sect. 4 due tomorrow,

Group paragraph due tomorrow,

Quiz Sect. 3&4 as practice due Wednesday


L. Arts: finish bookwork pages 56-57 (due tomorrow),

Lazy Editor SCOPE sheet

6 Please read announcement on Home Page

Lit: reading

SS: quiz as practice due tomorrow, 

read section 5 & complete IR 53-55 (due Thursday)

L. Arts: Progress Notice by Thursday,

 study for vocab test on Thursday,
vocabularyworkshop.com

 

7
Lit: reading

SS: group paragraph final copy,
Sect. 5 due tomorrow(see yesterday),
Puzzle & Rhyme due Friday

L. Arts: vocab test tomorrow

Progress Notice!
 
8
Vocabulary U4 test today

Lit: reading

SS: Sect. 5 Quiz as practice (use the text, find your CORRECT answers),

Puzzle & Rhyme

Study Egypt TOC- test next Thursday!
9

 

12
Lit: reading,
IR pages 27-29 due tomorrow

SS: Practice Test due tomorrow,
Egypt name art due Wed.

L. Arts: Holiday Booklet:

1. figurative language
2. definitions

 

13
Lit: reading,
Matt Henson quiz tomorrow

SS: study for test,
name art

L. Arts:  Holiday Book:  1st draft due tomorrow (2-3 sent. per page)
14
Name Art due today
15
Ancient Egypt Social Studies Test today
16
Holiday Booklet due today
19

Winter Break
No School

20

Winter Break
No School
21

Winter Break
No School
22

Winter Break
 No School
23

Winter Break
 No School
26

Winter Break
No School
27 

Winter Break
No School

28

Winter Break
No School

29 

 Winter Break
No School
30 

Winter Break
No School
 
 

January

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
2

Winter Break
No School
 
Holiday: New Year's Observance
3
Lit: reading,
parent signature on essay

SS: Began Ancient Israelites, preview chapter 5

L. Arts: complete Unique Doll
4
Lit:  reading

SS: Ch 5 Section 1: read section, C-Notes (regular) due on Friday

L. Arts:
Vocab U.5 cards 1-7 due tomorrow

Grammar:
5

 

6
 

Lit: reading

SS: read sect. 2 pages 138-142

L. Arts: all vocab cards due today,
vocab. pages 61-62
SCOPE sheet on Langston Hughes
optional: find a Langston Hughes poem to share
10 check grades, read announcement-still many missing assignments in both classes...

Lit: reading,
IR pages 58-62 with all questions

SS: worksheet for section 2

L. Arts:  vocab pages 63-64,
noun sheet?
11
Lit: reading, first draft of Woodsong postcard

SS: c-notes sect. 2: key terms, check pts, check your progress,

STUDY YOUR SPIRAL ;)

L. Arts: all vocab pages due today

12
Lit: reading,
postcard due Tuesday 17th

SS: study your spiral ;)

L. Arts: study for vocab test tomorrow
13 Arts Attack today!

Vocabulary Test today U.5 w/U.4 review

Be sure to read this weekend. 

Woodsong postcard due Friday

 

16

Martin Luther King Jr. Day - No School

Enjoy the day~volunteer or lend a hand to someone
17
Woodsong postcard due today

Lit: reading,
have an autobiography/
biography in class by Friday

SS: read sect. 3,  complete study guide and c-notes (modified) - due Thursday

L. Arts: none
18

Lit: see yesterday,
Book Report-Presentation signed (tomorrow)

SS:  see yesterday,
begin Critical Thinking ?s for Challenges activity - due Friday

L. ARts: Unit 6 Vocab. cards (1-7)
19

Lit: reading,
work on Auto/bio project


SS: Sect. 3 SS work due today,

Critical ?s due tomorrow

Lit: U.6 cards 8-14
20 Signature on Oral Book Report by today, no excuses
  
Auto/bio book due in class today


 SS: Critical Thinking ?s due today,

working on Study Guide in class (due Monday) 

U.6 cards (15-20) due on Tuesday 24th
23
Lit: reading,
work on auto/bio project

SS: Study Guide due tomorrow

Study for Test on Thursday

L. Arts: U.6 cards due tomorrow, review U.4 & U.5

U.6 book work (part 1)-all due Wed.

 

24

Parent signatures needed on both Reading Goals & SS Study Guide

Lit: see yesterday

SS:
study guide due today

L. Arts: U.6 cards due today,
bookwork (part 2) all due tomorrow

SCOPE take home quiz
25

Lit: reading, work on oral book report

SS: study for test

L. Arts: all book work for vocab due today,

study for vocab test tomorrow
26
Vocab Test today U.6 w/review of 4 & 5

SS Ancient Israelite test today

Lit: reading, work on oral book report project

L. Arts: work on SCOPE sheet that goes with R. Theater
27
Non-Student Day

Reading,
work on oral book report project

SCOPE sheet due Monday
30 
Lit: oral book project, reading

SS: India map due Friday

L. Arts: noun sheets
31  WHITE REPORT CARD SIGNED-DUE THURSDAY

Lit: oral book project, reading,
Circuit Worksheet

SS: internet activity due TOMORROW

L. Arts: noun sheet
Check out your grades on My Plan through the MVMS website.

Lit: oral book report, reading,
outlines due tomorrow

SS:none

L. Arts: noun quiz tomorrow
   

 

 

February

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
 

 

1Check out your new grades on My Plan through the MVMS website.

Lit: oral book report, reading,
outlines due tomorrow

SS: map due Friday

L. Arts: noun quiz tomorrow
2 Oral Book Reports begin today -Everyone's outline due today

REPORT CARD DUE TODAY

Lit: reading

SS:  test signed and returned tomorrow & map of India

L. Arts: took noun quiz today
3 India map due today
6
Lit: reading 20+,
presentation prep

SS: critical thinking paragraphs due tomorrow,
finish regular c-notes CH 6 Sect. 1

L. Arts:  SCOPE,
Vocab cards U.& #1-14

 

 

7 Presentations continue this week

Lit: reading

SS: read section 2-ready to discuss tomorrow

L. Arts: vocab cards due tomorrow,
Scope sheet

 
8
Lit: reading,
presentation prep

SS: Sect. 2 CH 6: finish IR pages & c-notes
(READ FOR MEANING & UNDERSTAND)

L. Arts:  U.7 pages 87-88,
finish SCOPE quiz
9
Lit: reading,
presentation prep

SS: complete IR Sect. 3

U.7 pages 89-90
10
Lit: reading

Vocab. pages due today (test on Tuesday)

SS: finish modified c-notes and summary for sect. 3due Monday
 
13 14 HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!

Vocab test today (U.7)

S.S. quiz today-Chapter 6 Sect. 1-3
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20

Lincoln's Birthday

No School

 

21  District Recess
       No School
22  District Recess
       No School
23  District Recess
       No School
24

Washington's Birthday

No School

27   28  UCSD fieldtrip today 29 1 2

 

 

March

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
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April

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
2 Spring Break
       No School  
3 Spring Break
       No School
4 Spring Break
       No School
 5  Spring Break
       No School

 

6 Spring Break
       No School

 
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May

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

 

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28

Memorial Day
No School
 

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June 

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
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School Ends
     

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Teacher Checkout

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