Important Dates
September 20 – Cookie Dough Fundraiser begins
September 23 – Radio-thon for Blount County Education Foundation
September 23 – Mrs. Brand’s classes to library for genre lessons
5th graders – Wolf unit
Students will learn about wolves as they discover main ideas and details in their readings.
Students will develop fluency and comprehension skill as they interact with text in readers theatres.
6th and 7th grades – Wolf Unit
Students will chunk text and organize information.
Scholastic online book orders
Our class will recieve $3 for every order placed online!
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5th grade – “Food! The Good, the Bad, and the Gross!”
We will be working with main idea and details.
6th grade – Biographies
We will work on a biography together (Alfred Hitchcock) and students will choose a biography from a list of several to complete graphic organizers, one pagers, and present and share with the class.
Welcome Back! I hope everyone had a great summer and is ready to get back in the swing of things at school.
Book orders will come home Monday and will be due by Friday. Please see the letter about placing book orders online. Our class will earn money toward books the more orders that are placed online. Orders can still be placed with cash or a check made payable to Scholastic. All orders will be delivered to school and sent home with the students.
Please send a composition book, two-pocket folder, and a pack of index cards you have not already done so.
This week the 5th grade will be learning the ropes of the READ 180 classroom as they begin a unit on forest fires and fire safety. We will focus on main ideas and details in the text.
The 6th and 7th grades will begin reading the novel Surviving the Applewhites.
If you have any questions during the school year, please email me at kbrand@blountboe.net
This week we will begin a new novel, A Long Way from Chicago. It will take a couple of week s to cover the book. We will use graphic organizers and learn note taking skills as we read.
We will be working with figurative language and will write our own similie and metaphor as well as hyperbole and personification.
This week we will complete a project based on the historical fiction novel we are reading in groups. Each novel will require computer research, knowledge of the novel, and a visual representation. Each group will present and “teach” the historical facts to the class. All work for the project will be completed IN CLASS.
Tuesday – ASA testing (5 and 7)
Thursday – ADAW test (5 and 7)
Testing Week
We will be ARMT testing this week on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. We will use Monday and Tuesday as time to review test taking skills and test format.
Reminder: Report cards come home on Friday.
Reading and Writing Celebration Week:
Interacting with the novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. We will be researching Mark Twain and life in Mississippi. Several fun school wide activities are planned for the week. Ask your child about Tom’s adventures.
This week we will complete our biographies. We will make a group “One Pager” to use when presenting and sharing information about our biography. We will complete our read aloud, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, and will compile a class graphic organizer relating to Tom.
SAT-10 review will begin near the end of the week.
We are going to be reading biographies this week. Each group will choose one biography from the list to read, interact with, and present as a group to the rest of the class.
Choices for the biographies:
Amelia Earhart, The Wright Brothers, Daniel Boone, Roberto Clemente, Elizabeth Blackwell, and Davy Crockett
This week we are working on persuasive writing. We are reading persuasive prompts and discovering the issue and audience. We will take a stance, deciding if we are”for” or “against” the issue and develop 3 reasons for our stance. Once all the information is in place, we will be ready to write a persuasive paper.