ELA News week of 9/23

Nightly homework:  read at least 20 minutes!  Thank you for supporting your child's reading routine!

Monday:  Reading workshop, vocabulary
Tuesday:  Reading workshop, vocabulary, booksnap (done in class)
Wednesday: Reading workshop, vocabulary, metalog
Thursday:  Reading workshop, vocabulary
Friday:  Reading workshop, vocabulary

Math News ~ Week of September 16th

Hello!

We are off to a wonderful start to Math this year!

In class, we have been working on operations with rational numbers. Throughout this chapter, we will focus on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing decimals and fractions.

Students have spent an impressive amount of time on our IXL online math program this year! They have been working hard during class time, I/E time, and at home.

So far 6th-grade students have answered 7,493 questions in IXL and have spent 53 hours and 53 minutes practicing math skills. I have already seen huge gains in their math understanding!

Homework this upcoming week: 
Monday: pg.40 #11, 13, 15, 25, 27, 29, 33, 41, 46
Tuesday: pg.44 # 7-19 (odd), 27, 29, 32
Wednesday: pg. 52 #9-25 (odd), 28, 33
Thursday: pg. 58 #11-21 (odd), 23, 24
Friday: Chapter 1 Quiz

IXL Challenge Winners of the Week!
Block 1

1. Payton C. - 343 questions
2. Emily H. - 302 questions
3. Molly V. - 254 questions
4. Trevor E. - 253 questions
5. Addison M.- 242 questions
6. Molly K.- 230 questions
7. Adam B.- 221 questions
8. Chris S. - 198 questions
9. Teagan N. - 191 questions
10. Nevan P. - 181 questions

Block 2

1. Emersyn M. - 695 questions
2. Malakye C. - 319 questions
3. Jonathan P. - 229 questions
4. Maddie S. - 216 questions
5. Aaliyah L. - 199 questions
6. Rayann B. - 196 questions
7. Aiva H. - 174 questions
8. Alexander G. - 167 questions
9. Mayson S. - 158 questions
10. Mason F. - 140 questions

Have a great weekend! :) 

Mrs. Weckerly 

ELA Week of 9/16

Nightly homework: read at least 20 min!  Students have a book they are reading for our reading unit, so please encourage them to read it outside of class as well!

Monday:  reading workshop, sentence fragments
Tuesday: reading workshop, sentence fragments
Wednesday: reading workshop, run-on sentences
Thursday: reading workshop, run-on sentences
       *Scholastic book orders due by noon*
Friday: STAR reading test

Parent-teacher conference letters with scheduled times are being sent out.  Watch for them in the mail by the end of next week! 

Scholastic Book Order- Rogness

Students in Mrs. Rogness's 6th grade ELA class can use this information to place a September Book Order:

Here is our Class Code for online ordering! P69TG
Click on this link to get started: https://orders.scholastic.com/P69TG

Here are this month catalogs for our grade. Please order by our class due date. (September 19th)
https://editions.mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?i=606427

Orders are due THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 19 by noon.  Books are usually delivered in 1 week. 
Every order helps our classroom earn free books!

Thank you for supporting your child's love of reading!

Welcome to Math ~ First Few Week Updates

Welcome to 6th grade Math! 

We are off to a great start this year! So far, we have been reviewing math concepts that will help us prepare for the new learning that will take place over the course of the year. We have reviewed basic operations with integers, fractions, and decimals. We will continue some review this upcoming week and start getting into our first chapter on rational numbers.

We will kick off the week by taking our Star Math Assessment. This will help me to see what areas of math students are understanding and which areas we will continue to focus on.

We have also introduced our supplemental math website (www.ixl.com) that students are able to utilize at school and at home to practice math skills. This is a great tool to practice learning and refining the math skills that we will use in class this year. We will do a weekly IXL challenge to see which students have spent the most time on IXL for the week or have answered the most correct questions! I will post our winners on this weekly blog.

As a reminder, I am available most days after school from 2:45-3:30 if anyone needs any extra help with math concepts or assistance on their homework!

I am looking forward to a great school year! :)

Mrs. Weckerly

ELA Week of 9/9

Students chose their first book for our reading unit in class today (Friday).  Please encourage them to be reading it outside of class.  The nightly homework for ELA is to read at least 20 min every day!  Many students will need support to develop or maintain a habit of reading regularly at home.

Monday:  Reading workshop
Tuesday:  Learn metalog expectations & practice
Wednesday: Metalog 1 due in class today (will work on it during class- should not be homework)
Thursday: Reading workshop
Friday: Reading workshop

Welcome to Mrs. Rogness's 6th Grade ELA!

It has been a wonderful morning greeting my students and jumping off to an exciting new year!  Students set up their binders today, learned about the classroom, set expectations for our class, and reflected on their own reading/writing lives.  This blog is a place that I typically post toward the end of the week about the upcoming week so that you can see important information, deadlines, and what we are learning about.  Here's the information for the remainder of this week:

Tuesday:  Set up & Expectations 
homework:  Think about (or bring in examples of) things people read (recipes, cereal boxes, instructions of all kinds, manuals, ads, captions, etc.)  

Wednesday:  Reflection & Survey   
homework:  Read 20 min

Thursday:  Reading process & Book Walk
homework:  Read 20 min

Friday:  Thinking about Character
homework:  Read 20 min

If you have questions, you can contact me at jrogn@poynette.k12.wi.us
or 635-4347 ext.124