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Things to look forward to this week:

Math- we will begin a unit on factors and multiples.   Please, please be sure your child is learning their multiplication facts!  Flashcards are a wonderful thing!

Reading- We will begin the novel Sounder today and we will also be heading to the Bedford Public library this week.  If your child does not have a library card, please be sure to fill out a form so they are able to get one while we are there!

Writing- our focus this week will be descriptive writing, more specifically sensory details.

Class Dojo is up and running so hopefully you have all connected with our class so you are able to keep an eye on your child's behavior!

Welcome to 6th Grade students and parents!!

Hello!  I am Mrs. Wood and I am very excited to get to know all of you this year!  I look forward to a fantastic year being your teacher and I can't wait to watch you all grow educationally!  I will use this blog weekly to give you a heads-up on what our weeks will look like and I will also post fun things we do in class!  Please check this blog often!  If you ever need to contact me, I like email best: tara.wood@mybedford.us or you can call my classroom at 734.850.6240.

Welcome Back!

I hope you all had a fantastic spring break and enjoyed your time with your families!

This week in writing our students will be creating children's books!  When we are finished, we will vote on the top 5 books and read them to a kindergarten class at Mason Elementary through Skype!

In Math, we will continue working on area of a trapezoid and irregular polygons.  The students will have a quiz over area of a square, rectangle, triangle, parallelogram, trapezoid and irregular polygons on Tuesday, April 21st.  They will need to have the different formulas memorized for this quiz.

In Reading, we are beginning a mystery novel, The Westing Game.  This is a very entertaining novel and I think the students are really going to enjoy it!

Please be sure your child is reading at home each night.

Pi day was a success!! We created over 100 digits of Pi to hang in our hallways!
Also congrats to our runners up in the memorizing Pi competition! They include: Belle Easton, Joey Travis,  Juliana Vogel, Josh Schaffer, and Sarah Olnhausen. Our WINNER, with 154 numbers was....Jared Hallgren!!!! Please see pictures below!

Pi Week

We have some great activities we will be doing to celebrate Pi day- 3/14!

Your child will receive a handout today of the first 100 digits of pi.  The student to memorize the most digits by Thursday at 12:30 will have the opportunity to smash a whipped cream pie in MY FACE!  It should be a great time!

We will continue reading The Watsons Go To Birmingham in reading and also continue with our argument paragraph in writing.

No school for kids on Friday 3/13!

Spelling Bee Winner!!

Congrats to Sam Ramsey for becoming our class spelling bee champion!!

Great job to Sarah Olnhausen who was our runner up!

Sam will participate in the 6th Grade spelling bee on March 10th!!  Good luck Sam

What's the Deal??? Where have I been?

I apologize for the lack of postings on my part!  I have a lot of great things I need to post, along with pictures of some great things we have been doing!

This week:

Math- we are working on data: collecting and analyzing.
Writing- your children have become quite the poets!  We are publishing our very own poetry books!  We will be presenting these to the class on Friday so look for those to come home!
Reading- we are working on African American Literacy Centers for Black History Month.   Next week we will begin my favorite novel, Watsons Go To Birmingham.

Please check back next week to see some great things that are happening in our classroom!