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Friday, March 21, 2014

6TH GRADE NEWSLETTER

CAROLINE BENTLEY SCHOOL

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Phone - 815-485-4451 or Email Mrs. Cook - bcook@nlsd122.org Mrs. Morgan - hmorgan@nlsd122.org Mrs. Popovich - npopovich@nlsd122.org Mr. Rakoczy - mrakoczy@nlsd122.org Ms. Ruhl - jruhl@nlsd122.org Miss TenBroeck - ktenbroeck@nlsd122.org Mrs. Voss - evoss@nlsd122.org

Next week at a glance...

Monday, March 24 Ruhl - Vocab Quiz Theme 4 Tuesday, March 25 Wednesday, March 26 Thursday, March 27 - Super Family Night 6pm-8pm Friday, March 28 Morgan - Reading Lesson 21 Test Please know that these dates are subject to change. Be sure to check your childs assignment notebook for any changes in dates.

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6TH GRADE HAPPENINGS... Bentley School uses email to communicate with families. If you have not been receiving updates via email from Bentley School please log onto PowerSchool to check your email address on le. You may also call the Bentley ofce to update your email address. Please do this so you stay up to date with all of the Bentley news. Join us for a fantastic evening at our annual Super Family Night on March 27th from 6-8PM! This is an evening that we wait for all year! Come out and experience family activities all over the building. Stop in the lunchroom to have dinner and dessert! Shop the bookfair for all of the latest and greatest books that families will love reading. Above all, get out of the house! Please consider entering a craft project made from recyclables into our contest! We would love to see the creative side of your family! This is our biggest night of the year at Bentley and we hope you can join us! The New Lenox Police Department is holding their annual Cops Care food drive until April 4th. Students are asked to bring in nonperishable food items to help ll the food pantry. The winning class will receive a pizza party courtesy of the police department. The Healthy Lunchtime Challenge invites children ages 8-12 and their parent(s) or guardian(s) to create an original lunch recipe that is healthy, affordable and tasty. Participants have the chance for an invite to a Kids State Dinner at the White House, where a selection of the winning recipes will be served. Recipes must be submitted by April 5. For more information, visit www.recipechallenge.epicurious.com/.

Whats happening in class...

MRS. MORGAN This week we nished up Lesson 19 on Monday. Then, on Wednesday, we started Lesson 20. Lesson 20 was a review unit and the students showed how well they learned the skills covered in Lessons 16-19. Students also started reading their independent reading books. They should have through Day 5 done by the end of this weekend. Independent reading sheets are due on March 31. Next week we will start Lesson 21 in Story Town. The skill we will focus on is compare and contrast. We will read a nonction selection on Ancient Greece, which will tie in perfectly with social studies. In grammar we will continue with verbs, focusing on past and future tenses. We will take the Lesson 21 test on Friday of next week. Action. The students were able to do an interactive activity of arranging and rearranging the verbs so that they would t into the correct column. Next week, we will be doing even more with verbs and learning about past and future tense! This week we wrapped up with theme four in StoryTown and we will begin Theme 5 on Monday with some interesting stories about Ancient Greece!

MR. RAKOCZY Rakoczy Language Arts: !This week we continued to listen to Wonder!and The Watson's Go to Birmingham. ! We have had some great discussions on the challenges that the characters have faced in each book. ! We also read Let's Fly a Kite!this week. ! It was a Reader's Theatre selection. ! This week was a review week so all of the target skills were touched on again. ! Next week, I will continue reading!Wonder!and!The Watson's Go to Birmingham.!We will also read Ancient Greece, which is an expository nonction selection. !We will also be working on a writing a comparison and contrast piece.! Rakoczy Science/Social Studies: !This week we continued learning about cells and nished our Ancient China unit in social studies. ! We also worked on Big 6. !The 3D Cell Project was assigned yesterday. ! For this project, each student will construct an animal cell or a plant cell. ! The model must be 3D and labeled. ! We completed the written rough draft portion of the project in class. ! Models (labeled) need to be constructed at home and returned with their typed chart on April 7th. ! Next week, we will review for our Ancient China test on Monday and take the test on Wednesday. ! In science, we will continue learning about cells. ! We will also work on researching our third question for Big 6.!

MISS TENBROECK Math: This week in math, we began chapter 11 learning about area of parallelograms. Students also continued to work on their animation projects. At the end of the week, we began working in the computer lab for those students that were ready to start scanning their pictures onto the computer! I am very excited to see their nal products! Next week, we will continue in chapter 11 learning area of circles and complex gures. We will also nish the animations and begin presenting to the class. Science/Social Studies: This week in science, we began chapter 2 learning about cells. Students were introduced to the different organelles and will be using that knowledge next week when we begin the cell city activity project in class! We also worked on the Big 6 project on Thursday. The due date is coming up fast (April 4th) and students will be getting one more class period next week to work on their projects. After Thursday next week, the remainder of the project must be completed at home. In social studies, we continued chapter 17. Next week we will nish chapter 17 as we begin to move into chapter 7, learning about Ancient Greece!

MRS. VOSS This week we nished up the Chapter 10 assessment project and graded papers will come home next week. We started Chapter 11 and practiced nding the area of parallelograms, triangles, and trapezoids. Next week we will continue in Chapter 11 with selected lessons which include nding the area of circles and complex gures. The following week we will take the Chapter 11 test and the date will be noted in the next newsletter.

MS. RUHL Back: This week the students have been getting further into their novel The Westing Game. We are hoping to have it nished by next week. In Grammar we reviewed our verbs: Helping, Linking, and