Happy Holidays!

Ahhh...winter break is here. :)

Today in Humanities, we had an open-mic share day and the students shared a piece of writing that they felt proud of. We've got some fantastic writers in the sixth grade!

Homework: Enjoy the break. Rest. Be safe. Happy Holidays!

We're almost there...

Today in Humanities we finished up the final rounds of the geography bee to determine the class winners. Congratulations to the following students who will compete in the schoolwide geography bee on Friday, January 9th:

1. Kheonthe Odias (6B winner)
2. Connor Bayliss (6B runner up)
3. Korey Silas (6A winner)
4. Sam Jessup (6A runner up)

Then, we worked on some more quickwrites and students had the chance to further develop their quickwrites, if they chose to do so. Other students finished their writing/art pieces for the Holocaust contest or prepared a piece of writing for tomorrow's "open mic" share session.

Homework: Bring a piece of writing that you are proud of for tomorrow's open mic session. Miss Devine and Miss Ramsey's advisory reminder: bring in candy for the gingerbread house competition tomorrow.

Quickwrites & GEOG BEE part I

Today, we did some quickwrites, or short writing responses based on prompts (poems or stories) that Miss Devine read. Tomorrow, we'll work on some more quickwrites and talk about how we can expand these short writings to create a complete piece of writing. Thursday will be "open mic day," a day for students to bring in any work that they have written throughout the course of the year and feel especially proud of, to share with the class.

We did the first part of the Geography Bee today and we will complete the second half tomorrow to determine a class winner for the school bee.

Feliz martes!

No homework. Be on the lookout for progress reports as they will emailed home today. World geography part of the bee is tomorrow- so quiz yourself with whatever you can to be prepared!

Countdown until winter break...

Today in Humanities, students took their vocab/spelling quiz over their IR/IL words. Then, we passed out graded work, including project grades. Students selected pieces of their best work to add to their class portfolios.

Tomorrow we will be having the class preliminary round for the school Geography Bee. Today in class, students used atlases to complete a Geography Scavenger Hunt and we went over the answers in class. Students can further prepare for the Geography Bee tonight by asking family members to quiz them with any geography facts about the 50 states or countries of the world.

Homework: Reading responses due tomorrow. Students need to do these tonight and bring them to class along with their calculated reading pages for the week.

Kid quote of the day: "Miss Devine, you work at Red Lobster? Cause you got on their colors...."

Finalmente!

Today in Humanities, students took the test to assess their understanding of the European Up-standers studied in their particular class. Then, they began work for the Georgia Commission on the Holocaust's writing/art contest answering the following question: What are the lessons of the Holocaust? All students must submit an entry and entries are due next Thursday, December 18th before the break.

Weekend Homework: Vocab quiz is on Monday, therefore students need to study and drill their words over the weekend.

Que disfrutan el fin de semana!

JEOPARDY time!

Today, students reviewed their knowledge of the Up-standing Europeans studied in their class by playing a competitive game of Jeopardy. Students will have a test tomorrow to assess their knowledge of the up-standing Europeans studied in their class and they must study their report packets tonight for the test.

Homework: Students need to continue making their notecards if they did not do so in class. They need to study these notecards for the Up-standing European test tomorrow.

Reminder: Vocab quiz will be Monday.

Presentation DAY!

Today, students presented their Up-standing European group projects and gave each other feedback for the presentations. Miss D showed groups their presentation grades when all presentations were complete and students had the chance to read feedback that they received from their classmates. Miss D passed out a packet containing all group members reports and students are to read over this tonight. We will be using the packets to play a review game tomorrow before Miss D assesses student knowledge of the Up-standers on Friday.

Homework: Read through packet of European Up-stander reports. Come to Humanities Night- 6:30-8pm.

Here come some up-standing Europeans!

Oi! Well, that's all the Portuguese I know for now....

Today Miss D collected reading responses and counted up pages for the week. Group members evaluated each other based on project contributions and turned in the evaluations to Miss D. Then, groups were given time to practice presentations before doing a dress rehearsal presentation for their peers. I saw some creative and engaging presentations, therefore I'm excited to see what will come tomorrow!

Homework: Do vocab sentences. Be prepared to turn in vocab sheet tomorrow. Prepare for presentation. Remind family members about Humanities Night tomorrow from 6:30-8pm. Come prepared.

"Irreplaceable"

Today in Humanities, students received new Root Vocabulary words for the week. These words are:

il, ir= not
1. illegible-adj- not capable of being read or deciphered
2. illiterate-adj- unable to read or write
3. illogical-adj- not making any sense
4. illegitimate-adj- not sanctioned by law, illegal
5. irregular-adj- lacking perfect symmetry or evenness
6. irrelevant-adj- not relevant, something that does not apply
7. irrational-adj- without reason or understanding
8. irreplaceable-adj- unable to be replaced

Then, students were given time to plan their presentations and practice them. Tomorrow is a dress rehearsal for presentations therefore students should come with all materials necessary to present in class (costumes, props, etc.).

Homework: Prepare for presentation. Do vocabulary pictures. Do reading response and count up your reading pages for the past 3 weeks. Everyone should get a 100 for super reading!

* Don't forget: HUMANITIES NIGHT on Wednesday the 10th: 6:30-8pm!

Think about it....what does Beyonce say is "irreplaceable" in her hit song?

Finishing project boards

Today was the last class day that students had to work on their project boards. All project boards are due completed on Monday. Next Monday and Tuesday students will practice their Up-standing European presentations. They should be prepared to present on Wednesday in class and on Wednesday night from 6:30-8pm at Humanities Night.

Homework: Complete project boards. Have a good weekend- stay warm!

Project board work!

Today, students received their tri-fold project boards and worked in groups to create their project boards for their upstanding European. Students will have tomorrow to work on project boards as well. Boards are due at the beginning of next week and projects will be presented at Humanities night on Wednesday and for the class next Thursday.

Homework. Pen pal letters due tomorrow. A typed report from each group is due tomorrow. Students should bring any materials they need to work on their board to class tomorrow.

miercoles!

Today in Humanities, students wrote letters to their parents/guardians informing them about ACMS Humanities Night and inviting them to the event, which will be held next Wednesday, December 10th from 6:30 to 8pm here at school. 6th, 7th and 8th grade students will be displaying work that they have done in both Language Arts and Social Studies classes. Our class will be presenting our projects on up-standers in European history. Letters will be mailed to houses today.

Then, students met in their project groups to finalize their board plans and to plan out the materials they are bringing to work on these boards tomorrow in class.

Homework: Pen pal letters are due Friday. Report typers must type their group's report by Friday. Students need to bring in any materials that they need to work on the project boards tomorrow.

Up-stander Project work (with special guest, Ms. Gardner!)

Today in Humanities, Miss Devine collected pen pal letters. Students have until Friday to turn these in. Then, we divided the class into two groups- those who worked on presentation planning yesterday and those who worked on report planning yesterday. Those students who worked on report planning were with Miss Devine, writing their rough draft of the report using the guidelines from the rubric distributed in class. Those students who worked on presentation planning worked with Ms. Gardner, our special guest, on "getting into character," using the presentation rubric distributed in class. Later, the presentation planners created a rough draft of how their presentation would appear to the audience and the report planners turned in the first draft of their report.

Students are reminded that final European Up-stander projects (including project board, report and rehearsed presentation) are to be completed by next Wednesday, December 10th. Students will be presenting in class as well as at Humanities Night from 6:30-8pm that evening.

Homework: Pen pal letters due Friday. Complete rough draft of report or presentation plans if you did not do so in class.

Bienvenidos de nuevo!

Welcome back from Thanksgiving break! I hope everyone had an enjoyable and restful break.

Today in Humanities, students received their pen pal letters from Honduras and it was very exciting. We read several of these aloud in class and shared the pictures and gifts that we received as well. Students who received letters have a pen pal letter response due this Friday. Students will likely receive letters back from their pen pals again after Christmas break.

Groups then organized their groupwork materials in a folder. Each group folder should now contain: a bag of index cards with notes, the bibliography, the project board plans, and the plans for developing the character.

In class, the bibliography collector and the report typer worked on planning the report. The role player and the presentation leader worked on the character development sheets. Any of this work that was not completed in class is for homework.

Homework: Work on pen pal letter- due Friday. Work on any report plans or character development plans that were not completed in class.