Week 14: Midquarter and Thanksgiving!

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!

I hope you and your family had a wonderful Thanksgiving celebration.   I am so thankful for each one of your children in my class this year. What a blessing they are to me!  Thank you, parents, as well, for the support you give to your children and to me. I hope you were able to enjoy this holiday week with family and friends!  Thank you for your generosity for our seminary families as well.  We were able to give 20 dinner boxes (turkeys, pie crust, rolls, butter, etc.) Seminarians also were given a restaurant gift card, and kids picked from a toy box!

Midquarter

Today marks the midpoint of 2nd quarter.  It is a good time to talk with your child about the Friday papers that came home, check grades on Sycamore, and help them set goals for the 2nd half.  A great goal?  READ over the break!  Get those AR points before the last week of December!!!  And your kids are not too old to read with you.  You can model fluency and have great conversations over books.  Traveling?  Listen to audio books in the car.

Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions you have about your child's progress.  : )

Painting our Christmas project

Food Drive

message by Stuco

Literature activity

From the Class Blogger, Charlie

This week we practiced advent singing so we will be prepared for the real service.  On Monday we started a new chapter in Religion talking about Jesus birth.  We also had health screening.  We started our first presentation. On Friday we had a bunch of tests to finish before Thanksgiving break.  That raps up our week of school before a 9 day long break.


Can you tell they are excited!

What's Happening in 6th grade?

Here are two of our current units:

Social Studies - We have explored Human Environment interaction in the Great Lakes Ecosystem and held a class debate over whether things have improved since the 1969 fire on the Cayahoga River.  Students researched current environmental issues in North America and are sharing their findings through an online tool called Prezi by combining text, photos, and video.  We got through most of the presentations today.  Ask your child to show off their project to you!

Religion - We are finally into our Religion books!  Our focus shifts from What is in the Bible and the Reformation to the life of Christ and, as Charlie mentioned, we started with Jesus' birth.  We will be using the film The Visual Bible: Matthew along with our text to dig deep into Who was Jesus as well as his teachings, miracles, and passion. 

Advent Reminder

Have you marked your calendar?  Just a reminder that Wednesday, December 6, at 10:00 AM and 7:00 PM, Grades 5 and 6 will lead the first Advent worship services at Zion Church.  We have begun preparations for leading worship including practicing readings, auditioning for drama parts, and learning songs.  Thanks for help at home on learning lyrics!