Welcome Note

Welcome to the 6th Grade Page! Each post below pertains to something the class is currently working on, or something they will be learning about within the week. Homework for the week will be posted on or before every Monday.

Tuesday, June 2, 2015

Graduation Announcements!

Graduation Reminders:
Graduation is on Wednesday, June 10th @ 7:00 pm.
Important times for Students:
·                     Students must arrive at school for graduation by 6:30 pm
Dress Code:
·                     Graduation Caps- Make sure hair and accessories are places accordingly.
·                     Come in your best Chapel attire
·                     Ladies in dresses
·                     Gentleman in dress pants and long-sleeve  dress shirts
·                     Ladies: Use your best judgment in modesty
Student Frames (Grad Poster Gallery):
These are your student’s self-portrait poster frames that will be hung inside the auditorium for everyone to look at during graduation!  It is a special opportunity to be creative in decorating the poster highlight the life of your 6th grade student.
·                     I am ordering the frames and will send them home in May.
·                     Please include the 8X10 Graduation portraits that I will enclose.
·                     Student name should be included somewhere inside the poster as well.
·                     The poster size is 22 in X 34 in. 
·                     Please decorate your poster so that it can hang VERTICALLY
·                     You can decorate the rest of the remaining space as you see fit.
·                     Helpful ideas:
o        Pictures from infancy to grade 6
o        Symbols or flat objects of importance (fun memories)
o        Important dates and times
o        Showcase the creative side of the student

These need to be completed and brought to school by
TUESDAY, JUNE 9th
Additional Reminders:
6th Grade Graduation Beach Trip
Saturday, June 6th
Meet at 7:30 am at the school if you need a ride
(If you are driving separately, please stay in contact with me!)
We will be returning between 5:00 and 6:00p.m.
Bring at least $10-20 for food.  Additional money may be brought for souvenirs.

Parents: Please let me know if you are available to drive!!  

Monday, June 1, 2015

Spelling List #34


Spelling List:
  1. preposterous
  2. postgraduate
  3. incorporate
  4. national
  5. information
  6. posthumous-given or done after a person's death
  7. penchant- a fondness, liking, or preference
  8. egotism-excessive reference to oneself
  9. criticism- an evaluation of good and bad points
  10. principal- most important; head of a school
  11. principle- fundamental belief
  12. consultant-counselor; adviser
  13. straight-containing no angles or turns
  14. cataract-a large waterfall
  15. cataclysm-a violent flood, earthquake, or other sudden change in the Earth
  16. accidental-happening by chance
  17. they're-the contraction  for 'they are'
  18. political- pertaining to government
  19. inducted-placed formally in a group
  20. optical-pertaining to the eyes
Word Builders: (Look up the definitions in the glossary on Pg. 80-81)
  1. auto
  2. bibli
  3. bio
  4. dic
  5. flu
  6. geo
  7. graph
  8. hydr
  9. log
  10. manu
  11. omni
  12. phon
  13. polis
  14. scrip
  15. theo
  16. viv
  17. ante
  18. anti
  19. circum
  20. con
  21. contra
  22. extra
  23. hypo
  24. inter
  25. mis
  26. mon
  27. non
  28. post
  29. per
  30. pro
  31. re
  32. sub
  33. super
  34. trans