Mrs. Mac's 6th Grade

Congratulations to Madison, Abbie, and Brooke for spelling all 50 words correctly to earn the TOP SPELLER award in my homeroom! These three girls will receive a $20 Walmart gift card!

A second congratulations to Madison for raising the most money in our class. She will attend a pizza party for this effort! We had 11 people from our class participate in the Great American Spell Check!

RED RIBBON WEEK ACTIVITIES

October 26-30, 2009

JOIN THE FIGHT AGAINST DRUGS

Ribbons will be handed out Monday, October 26.  Each ribbon is numbered.  Wear your ribbon every day.  Random numbers will be called each day.  If your number is called, and you are wearing your ribbon, you will win a prize!

All dress up days must still follow school dress codes.

Monday:

“YOU CAN’T SLEEP OFF THE EFFECTS OF DRUGS”  Wear you PJ’s to school!

Tuesday:

“DRUGS TURN YOUR LIFE INSIDE OUT AND BACKWARDS”  Wear your clothes inside out and backwards.

Wednesday:

“GO GREEN DAY:  SAVE THE PLANET AND YOUR LIFE!  DON’T DO DRUGS!!!

Thursday:

“RED AND WHITE DAY!!!  Wear those school colors with pride!   There will be a Drug Free March involving High School and Middle School Thursday afternoon. (More info to follow!)

Friday:“DON’T CLOWN AROUND WITH DRUGS!”  Costume day.  No masks and nothing  that resembles any kind of weapon are allowed.  Be creative and have fun!

In math, we are starting a new project, using the show The Biggest Loser. Students will be following a contestant they have chosen, calculating how much weight and % of body fat he or she has lost, making predictions, and puting this data on a chart. At the end of the show, students will create a graph from their data. All of this will be graded.

I have sent home a rubric (purple piece of paper) showing everything I will be grading in this project. Please email me if you have any questions.

I WILL NOT be requiring the students to watch the show each week. We will look up the data together online after each show. If you would like to watch the show with your child and follow their contestant, please feel free to do so. Biggest Loser comes on NBC Tuesday nights at 7:00 pm.

Parents/Guardians,

I will be sending home a letter explaining parent/teacher conferences for this Thursday, September 24. Your child’s conference time will be included. Please let me know if you cannot make this time and would like to reschedule.

I hope to see everyone Thursday!

Parents and students,

Please remember that your scholastic orders with money are due on Friday! The more orders we get, the more books we get for our classroom library!

Parents,

I sent home a form with your child on Friday about our online gradebook. It should have your child’s username and password attached. Please let me know if you have any questions about how to check your child’s grades online!

Thanks,

Mrs. Mac

Scholastic book orders were given out today. I strongly encourage that you and your child sit down together and look through it. The more books we order together as a class, the more class points we receive, which means the more books we can order for the classroom!

Orders are due by Friday, September 4 !

I would like to welcome all to Mrs. Mac’s sixth grade website. Please use this helpful tool to check on what’s happening in the classroom.