November 2014 Monthly Overview For Parents

Teacher: Mr. Jones Grae: !

Dear Parents,
For the month of November, 2014 our grade 6 class will be studying
the following things in nglish !anguage "rts, nglish #ocial #tudies,
nglish #cience and nglish $ath%
"n#lish
$an#%a#e &rts
'Novel (t%y: &e will continue to read, study
and discuss the novel '(he )ity of mber*
+)ha,ters -+12 .setting, characters, ,lot,
vocabulary, ,redictions etc%/ (his will include
grou, and class discussions as well as cha,ter
,resentations and summaries%
')eain# $o#: (he students will be e0,ected
to read for a minimum of 10 minutes ,er day
and record it in their reading log%
'*ritin#: (he students will be e0,ected to do
a variety of di2erent writing activities during
November% (hese will include, 3ournal writing,
essay writing and other writing
assignments4activities%
+" big em,hasis will be ,laced on editing and
,roofreading our writing in November% (his is a
critical s5ill that the students will need to wor5
hard on%
'(+ellin#,Grammar -%i.: (he students will
have a grammar and s,elling 6ui7 each Friday%
8nits -+12 will be covered in the s,elling te0t
boo5%
'Jo%rnal *ritin#: #tudents will continue to
write wee5ly 3ournals about a variety of to,ics%
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"n#lish (ocial
(t%ies
1nvesti#atin# 2%lt%res: &e will begin with an
overview of the elements of culture and an
e0,lanation of how cultures are related to their
environments% &e will then move into a study of
9a,an that includes these to,ics: landforms and
climate, meeting nature;s challenges .the in<uence
of environment on culture/, rights and
res,onsibilities, the arts, and daily life% "t the end
of the cha,ter students will be as5ed why learning
about other cultures is an im,ortant ,art of being a
global citi7en%

Pro3ects: =rou, re,ort on 9a,anese culture,
individual ,resentation on a culture of their choice

Vocabulary: Physical environment, landforms,
climate, relief map, climate graph, natural
resources, imports, exports, social order ,and
individual rights.
"n#lish (cience (hroughout the month of November we will be
focusing on di2erent magnifying tools that are
used to ma5e the invisible world visible>
Microsco+es: &e will be learning about the
develo,ment of modern microsco,es, learning
how to use a microsco,e and all of the ,arts of
a microsco,e throughout the month%
&e will be conducting di2erent e0,eriments in
the science lab throughout the month using
microsco,es, slides and water sam,les%
-Important Vocabulary: magnify,
microscope, adjust, slide, cover slip, knob.
"n#lish
Mathematics
Orer o4 O+erations: &e will be studying the
order of o,erations in math for addition,
subtraction, division and multi,lication%
1nte#ers: &e will be studying both ,ositive
and negative integers throughout the month%
/ecimals: we will be starting to learn about
decimals near the end of November%
Important Vocabulary operation, positive,
negative, tenths, hundredths, thousandths,
integer.
?f you have any 6uestions or concerns you can contact me through
email at m3ones@cbis%or%5r
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