A Thanksgiving "Shelf"ie Update!

This week in ELA we spent a lot of time writing our final narrative of the year. I am excited to read through them over this long weekend! When you come into school on Tuesday, be sure to check out all the new narratives hanging in the hallway.

Throughout our two-day week, we wrote what we were thankful for on our front board. Check out some of our answers below!

Finally, I have a long overdue "Shelf"ie update! We have officially filled our third shelf! Keep up the great reading sixth grade!

Biztown, Figurative Language Turkeys, and ... A Snow Day?

This week was a busy one in ELA! On Wednesday, we took a trip to JA Biztown. While we were there, we practiced being excellent citizens as we worked together to complete our jobs and make the town run smoothly. Camille was our mayor and she did great!

We also created figurative language turkeys that describe Thanksgiving. Students spent time brainstorming different senses of Thanksgiving to then use these details to create different examples of figurative language. We are hoping this helps us use powerful figurative language (and other writer's craft strategies we've discussed) in our final narrative of the year! (We will be starting informational writing after Thanksgiving!)

Finally ... we had our first snow day ... already! On Thursday, the first storm of the season brought a lot of snow (and some ice). This storm gave us our first snow day of the year!

Question of the Week: Write a short poem of what you did on your snow day. Send this to me by Monday morning for a prize!

This Week in ELA!

Our week started off with two days of rain and cold. So, how do we make that better? We decided to list our favorite rainy day activities! We also projected a fireplace to our screen to make it feel a little cozier.

In ELA, we practiced some more grammar skills to prepare for our final narrative. We will be writing our last narrative of the year from now until Thanksgiving Break. When we get back, come prepared to write informational pieces!

On Friday, we had our November PAWS Meeting. At this meeting, we learned about the North Hills Little Free Library, congratulated our Academic Excellence winners for October, and played Limbo! Congratulations to Nash, Cole, and Lexi for winning the October Academic Excellence award!

The week ahead will be a busy one. On Monday, you all have off! On Tuesday, I will not be here, so you will have a substitute. When the substitute is here, you will be practicing using figurative language and imagery in your writing. I can't wait to see what you come up with! On Wednesday, we finally go to Biztown!! This was one of my favorite field trips when I was in school and I cannot wait to go with you all on Wednesday.

This Week's Question: What part of Biztown are you most excited about?

Grammar Practice, Elections, and Cultural Heritage Day

This week in Writing, we practiced several different grammar skills so that we can apply them to our final Narrative writing piece. As a fun way to practice these skills, we played some games including Scoot and Who Dun It. We also had a race to see which team could properly punctuate all the dialogue in sentences first. On Friday, we completed some story swaps. To do this, we each wrote a few sentences before it was time to pass the writing off to the next person. It was great to see where different people took the same storyline. This is definitely a Fun-Write Friday activity we will be doing again soon!

We held our Biztown Elections for Mayor and District Attorney on Wednesday. All of our candidates did an excellent job. Congratulations to Camille for winning the role of Mayor!

Our Cultural Heritage Party was Friday afternoon and it was a blast! Thanks so much to our parent volunteers for making it such a wonderful afternoon. We were able to learn about Egypt, India, and China through different activities, while enjoying some good food from our countries.

This Week's Question: What is one thing you learned at our Cultural Heritage Day party?