Language Land

5th Grade

We are so close to the end of the year! Students learned adjectives and adverbs this week. We reviewed using notebook pages for students to use for reference. They will continue using these notebook pages next year as well.

Students had K.E.Y. in my room on Tuesday, and we had MAP testing on Wednesday and Friday.

As for vocab... we are finished with vocab for the year!!

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 

We are so close to the end of the year! Students are reviewing the different parts of speech. We have been working on labeling the different parts of a sentence, but now we are diving a little deeper into each part. Students will have a Parts of Speech test on Tuesday, so we are reviewing and practicing each part to prepare. In addition to this, students are correcting their Pilgrim's Progress papers. If students correct these papers (in red) as I have edited them, they can earn 5 points back on their papers.

Students had MAP testing in my room on Wednesday and Friday.

They were able to complete some Membean minutes in class this week as well! Students are now only given 15 minutes of class time to work on their weekly Membean minutes. The other 15 minutes will need to be done on their own time outside of class. This is to help prepare them for middle school! Most of the time, all of their middle school Membean minutes will be completed outside of class time.

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.