November 29th to December 3rd 2010

Hello Students and Parents,
This week we will be going on our much anticipated field trip to the National Infantry Museum. Please make sure that the field trip permission form has been submitted if you want to attend. This promises to be a rich, learning experience for all of us.
On Monday, in Language Arts, we will begin working on grammar and continue focusing on Writing Workshop for the first ten minutes of each class. The last 10 minutes or so of each class will be spent reading. Please read at home as much as you can together. Tuesday, of course, is our field trip. Then the remainder of the week, we will finish our work in grammar and reading. Spelling test is on Friday! This week's words are desert-coarse-course-guest-guessed-mist-missed-accept-except-whose.
In Georgia Studies, we'll begin our unit on the Civil War. Please bring your textbooks to class with you. Tuesday will be an important day for us to examine how Georgia was involved in the history of our nation. Please study your vocabulary words to help with reading assignments.
See you on Monday! :)
Mrs. Pastor

Online sites to visit:
ELA
Sixth Grade Spelling Words
http://www.clovisusd.k12.ca.us/century/Extras/6th%20Sight%20Words.pdf
www.spellingcity.com
6th grade assessments for ELA
http://www.vesd.net/curriculum/CGuides/G6_CG_A.pdf
http://www.breakingnewsenglish.com/

GA Studies
Georgia Stories http://www.gpb.org/georgiastories/gps/SS8H6
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/teachers/wr/0,27955,101119,00.html
http://www.timeforkids.com/TFK/class/pdfs/2006S/060210_wr1.pdf
http://www.cnn.com/studentnews/
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/28/north-korea-slams-u-s-south-korea-military-drills/?iref=allsearch
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/11/24/nkorea.skorea.military.fire/index.html?iref=obnetwork

Georgia Studies-
http://griffinmiddleschool.typepad.com/matt_short/
http://www.rockdale.k12.ga.us/personal/jprice/My%20Pages/Georgia%20Studies.aspx
http://www.rockdale.k12.ga.us/personal/jprice/essential%20questions.htm
www.mystatehistory.com

Georgia State Government diagram
http://a-s.clayton.edu/smattie/GAGovtDiagram.ppt

State Government
bibbcsd.schoolwires.com/.../The_Georgia_Constitution.ppt
http://www.clayton.k12.ga.us/2009Curriculum/Secd/Private/SocS/12AmGovt/Unit7.pdf