Multiplying and Dividing Fractions

The sixth grade students will be taking the Fractions test on Multiplying and Dividing fractions on Tuesday.  Here are some of the notes on these two topics.

Multiplying Fractions
1.  Make all whole numbers and mixed number into fractions.
2.  Cross cancel if possible.
3.  Multiply the numerators.
4.  Multiply the denominators.
5.  Simplify in possible.

Dividing Fractions

1.  Make all whole numbers and mixed number into fractions.
2.  Leave first fraction alone, turn division into multiplication, take reciprocal of second fraction.
3.  Cross cancel if possible.
4.  Multiply the numerators.
5.  Multiply the denominators.
6.  Simplify in possible.

New Reading Project-Rebecca Caudill

On Monday, Ms. Hagensee ventured into the sixth grade Reading classroom to present the 2013 Rebecca Caudill nominees.  The sixth grade students will be choosing and reading 3 of the 20 nominations.  Students should be reading their first novel this week.  While reading, we encourage students to take notes on post-it and their reading project summary worksheet.  Along with taking the "Accelerated Reader" tests, the students will complete a project.  There are a total of five projects.  The sixth graders will choose only 3 projects, one for each novel.

The sixth grade projects include:
1.  A Timeline Poster
2.  Character Collage
3.  A Movie Trailer
4.  Top Five List (write about the top 5 Themes represented in the novel)
5.  Comic Strip

2013 Rebecca Caudill Nominees


Angleberger, Tom - The Strange Case of Origami Yoda
Baskin, Nora Raleigh - Anything but Typical
Draper, Sharon M. - Out of My Mind 
Falls, Kat - Dark Life 
Ferrari, Michael - Born to Fly 
Friend, Natasha - Bounce
Gaiman, Neil - The Graveyard Book 
Gephart, Donna - How to Survive Middle School 
Hawkins, Aaron - The Year Money Grew on Trees
Holm, Jennifer L. - Turtle in Paradise
LaFleur, Suzanne - Love, Aubrey
Lai, Thanhha - Inside Out & Back Again 
Meyer, Susan Lynn - Black Radishes 
Mulligan, Andy - Trash 
Perkins, Lynne Rae  - As Easy As Falling Off the Face of the Earth 
Rhodes, Jewell Parker  - Ninth Ward 
Senzai, N. H. -  Shooting Kabul 
Telgemeier, Raina  - Smile 
Wiles, Deborah  -  Countdown
Williams-Garcia, Rita   - One Crazy Summer 

Verbs Part II

Today, sixth grade students took a quiz on the first part of the Verbs Unit from the English textbook.  This week we will continue with the Verbs Unit and start part II.  In the second section of the Verbs unit, the students will eight different sections.

Lesson 6.  Simple Verb Tenses- students will identify and use verbs in the present, past and future tenses
Lesson 7.  Perfect Tenses-  students will identify and use principle parts of verbs and perfect tenses of verbs
Lesson 8:  regular and Irregular Verbs-  students will identify regular and irregular verbs, and will identify and use principle parts of some irregular verbs.
Lesson 9:  Subject-Verb Agreement- will use forms that agree in number with their subjects
Lesson 10: More Subject-Verb Agreement- use verb forms that agree with compound subjects joined by or, either/or, and neither/nor, and use verb forms that agree with the subjects in sentences beginning with here or there
Lesson 11: Contractions- identify contractions in sentences, and identify the words that make up a contraction
Lesson 12 & 13: Confusing Verbs-  students will correctly us sit, set; lie, lay; rise, raise; lend, borrow; let, leave; and teach, learn