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Friday August 23rd Writing Celebration- YOU ARE INVITED

You’re Invited! To a Writing Celebration. You- the parents- are invited to come to school on Friday, August 23rd, from 10:45-11:20 to celebrate your children publishing their true stories. Come to school and hear kids read their stories that they have worked so hard on and celebrate their excellent stories. Don’t forget to give yourself a little time to check in at the office on your way in. If you are attending please RSVP here.

Did you know we play board games on Tuesday in class? It’s a fun way to play without screens or electronics and get to know classmates. We play games like UNO, Jenga, Spaceteam, cards and more!

Reader’s Workshop

We just began a new short unit on Notice and Note Signposts. These are places where readers should stop and ask themselves a question about what the author is trying to tell the reader.

Writer’s Workshop

We will finish our full Unit on Narrative Writing with a celebration on Friday, August 23rd. You are invited! See above.

Math

We will finish the Unit on Area and Surface Area with an End of Unit Assessment on Wednesday. This will cover the second half of the Unit (Lessons 12-18). We will also begin the next unit: Introduction to Ratios

History

We will finish up learning about Early Humans and specifically looking at the Agricultural Revolution. We may start on our first civilization: Mesopotamia. We will continue watching CNN 10 each day.

Science

We will begin looking at the next section for science: Body Systems.

Thank you,

Mr. Gray

Information on what to expect at Fall Conferences.

August 9th

Dear Parents,

We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements:

Please click here to fill out information for fall conferences. After I review this information I will send out conference times.

Join the Woodbury PTA!

Here is the fundraising information for 6th grade.

Reader’s Workshop

We will finish up our unit on How to Outgrow Yourself as a Reader. The kids will review their reading log and make plans for growing as a reader. We may start another unit next week.

Writer’s Workshop

The students will shift to information writing and celebration the publication of their realistic fiction series.

Math

We will continue learning about surface area in the second half of our current math unit.

History

The kids will keep working on their Early Humans Flipbook as we learn about early humans, the agricultural revolution, and how humans adapt to their environment.

Science

The students will work on a project about cells and cell structures. They will review the information about cell structure and take a short quiz on tuesday.

Noemi was our kid of the week. Listen to how great her week was!

Dear Parents,

We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements:

Students should wear their DARE shirts to school on Mondays and Thursdays.

There are a couple more permission slips that were sent home last week that I need returned (that should be it for a while). 1. Coral Health Condition Information form and 2. Mr. Gray’s Technology and Device Responsible Use Agreement

Join the Woodbury PTA!

Here is the fundraising information for 6th grade.

Reader’s Workshop

We will continue on How to Outgrow Yourself as a reader. 

Writer’s Workshop

We will finish the realistic fiction book series the kids are writing. The will develop characters across their series and get ready to publish the series.

Math

We’ll continue our unit on Area and Surface Area by wrapping up the first half on area and taking a mid-unit assessment on Thursday. Then we will begin second half looking at surface area of 3 dimensional shapes. Your kids are making great strides manipulating and analyzing the area of parallelograms and triangles.

History

We will start our first chapter on Early Humans and the Agricultural Revolution.

Science

We will continue our science curriculum exploring the parts of a cell (their structures and functions).

Thank you,

Mr. Gray

Dear Parents,

We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements:

Monday is Picture Day! 

Thank you for coming to Back to School Night! It was wonderful to meet you and have you check out our classroom. Here is the fundraising information for 6th grade.

There are a couple more permission slips that were sent home in the Thursday folder that I need returned (that should be it for a while). 1. Coral Health Condition Information form and 2. Mr. Gray’s Technology and Device Responsible Use Agreement

Woodbury PTA

Reader’s Workshop

We will start a new unit on How to Outgrow Yourself as a reader. Students will continue with their independent reading books at home but we will read A Long Walk to Water together during school. 

Writer’s Workshop

We will celebrate the true stories your kids have written (they are great!). We will then move on to writing short fiction stories.

Math

We’ll continue our unit on Area and Surface Area studying the area of parallelograms and triangles. We may have our first quiz at the end of the week. 

History

We will continue an introductory unit on Why is History Important? This will lead into all of our work this year on Ancient Civilizations.

Science

We will continue our science curriculum exploring characteristics of life and different types of cells.

Thank you,

Mr. Gray

Dear Parents,

We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements:

Back to School Night is Wednesday, July 24th from 6:00-7:00pm. I will see you there!

I asked your students to go to my class’s work page and ask you (the parents) to fill out several online permission slips. Please fill those out by Monday. In addition, there is a paper permission slip for our DARE program (which will start on Monday) that I sent home yesterday. Thank you for your help with all of this information.

Listen for more information and announcements!

I am Mr. Gray.

Dear Parents,

Listen to my announcements in podcast form here: anchor.fm/gray6thgrade or on Apple Podcasts here. 

Get notified when I send a new podcast by following these instructions.

It was so wonderful to see you and your children at Open House last night to celebrate all their hard work in sixth grade. As promised, all of the photos and videos I’ve taken throughout the year can be found and downloaded here. Look for the down-pointing arrow to download. The video from last night is at the very bottom.

Mr. Battenfield just sent out this letter with important information about all the end of year activities coming up. It has the schedule and important information especially about promotion. The letter also explains:

The cost for these school-sponsored sixth grade end-of-the-year activities which include Soak City Waterpark, tile painting, and the Mediterranean luncheon is a $35.00 donation. This amount is actually much less than the actual cost of the events due to the fundraising efforts of the 6th Grade Parent Committee to defray the expense. Please note, that while it is permissible under state law for Woodbury to collect fees for field trips and activities, contributions are voluntary and all students will be allowed to participate regardless of whether a donation is made. Please make your check payable to Woodbury Elementary School and return it to your child’s teacher by Wednesday, May 29th. You may also pay through MySchoolBucks account clicking here.

We are going to Soak City for a field trip on Tuesday June 4th. In order to attend please sign the permission slip here.

Congratulations to softball teams 4, 6, 7, and 8 who made the playoffs of our lunchtime softball league. They will be playing in the playoffs next Tuesday and Thursday at Lunch.

Dear Parents,

Open House is this coming Thursday, May 23 at 6pm. We can’t wait to see you there.

Dare Talk

There are minimum days Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday this week and Monday, the 27th there is no school due to the Memorial Day Holiday.

We’re going to have a great upcoming week. Below is a short description of what’s coming up and important links and/or announcements:

Week of 

May 20-24

Reader’s Workshop

Reviewing our favorite books of the year.

Writer’s Workshop

TBD

Math

Area and Surface Area unit.

History

Rome

Science

TBD

Kid of the week

Our kid of the week was Elise and Max.

Our kid of the week podcast can be found here: Kid of the Week Podcast

Important Links

The Homework Page

Important Announcements

Grades are being added. Here’s How to Log In to Parent Portal

Are you buying books from Scholastic? Use my class code: P9Z4D

Other

We will continue reading aloud Greek Myths.

Thank you,

Mr. Gray

Amazon Wish List (Books)