Mrs. Corrigan's News http://lcorrigan.edublogs.org Just another Edublogs.org weblog Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:48:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en WELCOME BACK http://lcorrigan.edublogs.org/2008/07/10/welcome-back-2/ http://lcorrigan.edublogs.org/2008/07/10/welcome-back-2/#comments Fri, 11 Jul 2008 02:37:24 +0000 lcorrigan http://lcorrigan.edublogs.org/?p=122 Welcome to Schilling Farms Middle School and Team 6B!  We are so excited to meet you and can’t wait to get your 6th grade year started.  You will be receiving lots of information our first week.  Some is also given right here on the blog so be sure to check it all out!


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Announcements:  The SFMS Open House is this Thursday, Sept. 20.  There will be a club fair in the gym, where students may sign up to participate in extracurricular activities.  The Book Fair will also be in the gym.  A dinner will be served in the cafeteria at 5:30.  Tickets may be purchased at school this week.  Please see your school newsletter for exact times.

 Due to difficulty with the grade program &  my computer, new grades will not be posted until after Monday, 9-17.


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Review:  Multiplication facts

Skills:  Decimals & fractions, frequency tables, making line graph predictions, mean, median & mode

Quiz on Monday & Thursday.  Mid Ch 3 test is Friday.

1st Think, Link, Learn test is Monday, Sept. 24.


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Review:  Multiplication facts

Skills:  bar, line & circle graphs

Monday, Sept. 24:  1st Think, Link, Learn test.

Mid Ch 2 Test is NEXT Tuesday, Sept. 25.


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Review:  Daily Oral Language; cartoon vocabulary

Literature Selection: ” Just Once”  pp. 18 - 28

Skills:  develop & use new vocabulary, story mapping, conflict

Reread selection Thursday night.  Selection test & selection vocab quiz on Friday.

Cartoon vocabulary quiz on Tuesday.

AR is up & running so tests can now be taken!


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Complete work on sentences.  Sentence and vocabulary tests are Tuesday.

Reading selection:  “Just Once”  pp. 18 - 26 in literature book.

Skill:  Conflict resolution

***Spinner book reports are due Tuesday!  Notes about this were sent home on Friday, Aug. 24 so check for requirements!


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Review:  multiplication facts

Skills:  multiply decimals, powers of 10, divide decimals

Begin defining Ch. 2 vocabulary (due around 9-21-07)

Mid Ch. 2 test is Tuesday, Sept. 11 .


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Review:  multiplication facts; Ch 1

Ch. 1 test and vocabulary quiz are Tuesday.  Vocabulary due that day.

Begin Ch. 2

Skills:  frequency tables & bar and line graphs


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Review:  Stringy and run-on sentences.

Skills:  combining sentences with compound subjects & verbs, kinds of sentences and classifying sentences by purpose.

Vocab quiz Tuesday.  Begin new vocab list Wednesday.

Sentence test will be Monday, Sept. 10.


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