5th Grade
This week in Language, we reviewed the different types of verbs and practiced each of them. Students completed notebook pages about these verbs as well to have as a reference.
On Friday, students turned in their unit 11 vocab pages. Next week, there will be no vocab due to a short week! Students will take the vocab quiz over unit 11 after spring break on April 4.
VOCAB QUIZZES/TESTS:
Pease help your students study for their bi-weekly quizzes! Their vocab words are their spelling words, as well as their vocabulary words, in which they need to know the definitions. They are responsible for spelling each word, and knowing the definitions enough to match them to the correct word. After the first few units, students will begin to have 3 review words on each quiz to total 15 words on each quiz. These extra words will be written in their planners :-)
If at any time, you have questions about our Language classes, please feel free to contact me by email at sfisher@grovecitychristian.org.
6th Grade
This week in Language, we talked about conjuntions, interjections, and capitalization. Students will have a test on Wednesday (March 19) covering adverbs, adjectives, conjunctions, interjections, end marks, and capitalization. This test will be an open-notebook test!
Students were able to complete Membean minutes in class as well!
Membean Explanation:
Membean is an online vocabulary program that is tailored to each individual student. As they learn more vocab words, they progress to higher levels, moving at a pace that suits their individual learning needs. They will use this program all the way through 12th grade.
Students have 30 minutes of Membean that they need to complete each week by Monday night at midnight.
I will begin the year giving them 15 minutes of class time twice a week, so they should be able to complete their 30 minutes in class. Towards the end of the year, they will be required to complete 15 of their minutes outside of class time to prepare them for middle school (following 6th grade, their assigned minutes will increase, and they are typically not given class time to complete these minutes). If a student is absent on a Membean day, or if we do not have school on a Membean day (Tuesdays and Thursdays), students are responsible for completing these minutes on their own time to reach their required 30 minutes for the week.
The program recommends that students split up these 30 minutes throughout the week, completing them in at least two different days, to enhance the students' memory of vocabulary. Due to this recommendation, an extra 6 points is added to the student's grade for completing their vocabulary throughout at least two days each week, totaling 36/36 points for that week's Membean.