Bud, Not Buddy final project

Part 1: Suitcase Activity

After reading Bud, Not Buddy, we learned how important Bud's suitcase full of personal treasures was to him. These items told about who he was and where he came from. You will make a connection to the text with this part of the project. 

1. Decorate/Illustrate the folder given to you to represent a suitcase, like Bud's.

2. Choose 5 items from home that you cherish and would keep with you if you were Bud Caldwell.

3. With each item, you must include a small artifact representing the item. (ex: a photo, an illustration, a flat object to represent the item)

4. With each item, you must answer the following questions into a thoughtful paragraph using complete sentences: 

• What is the item you have chosen to include?
• Why is this item so special to you?
• How does this item represent who you are or where you came from?
• Why would you not want to be without this special treasure?

Part 2: Rules to Live By

As we read in the story, Bud likes to make up rules to live by. You will get to create your own "rules to live by."

You must write 3-5 rules. Remember to refer to the book if you need examples of how Bud created his rules.  We will put all of our "rules" together and make a class book. 

Week 16 Spelling and Vocabulary

Spelling

1. confident
2. confidence
3. fragrant
4. fragrance
5. excellent
6. excellence
7. decent
8. decency
9. truant
10. truancy
11. brilliant
12. brilliance
13. resident
14. residence
15. evident
16. evidence
17. occupant
18. occupancy
19. reluctant
20. reluctance

Vocabulary

1. majestic
2. ruthless
3. ancestral
4. saga
5. destiny
6. recreational
7. artistry
8. unearthed
9. forge
10. embodied

Scholastic Book Orders

Welcome! It's never been easier to discover the best books for your child. Shop the flyer online to find the best choices for your child's interests and reading level. Plus, each time you place an order online you earn rewards for our classroom! If you have questions regarding your child's reading level, please let me know!

These book orders will be due this Friday December 14th.

https://orders.scholastic.com/LWJLD

Search Engines

Below are some great search engines to do reasearch on your Personality Trait Posters.

Happy searching!

http://www.ipl.org/

http://kids.yahoo.com/

http://kids.usa.gov/

http://www.sldirectory.com/studf/stumenu.html#top

http://www.refseek.com/

http://www.yippy.com/

http://www.sweetsearch.com/

http://www.lures.info/childrens_search/gogooligans.html

http://www.askkids.com/

Week 14 Spelling and Vocabulary

Spelling Words (con-, com-)

1. contrast
2. contact
3. compound
4. concentrate
5. combine
6. comment
7. conference
8. compete
9. community
10. convert
11. conversation
12. commute
13. constitution
14. conduct
15. consumer
16. continent
17. composition
18. communicate
19. compliment
20. condition

Word Work: Vocabulary

1. veered
2. anonymous
3. bland
4. motive
5. skeptical
6. reception
7. understatement
8. emulate
9. aim
10. fanatic

Happy Thanksgiving!

We will be busy over the next two days in 6B. We will not have our normal spelling/vocab tests this week since we do not have school Wednesday-Friday. Instead, we will be doing literature circles on the story Bud, Not Buddy.

I hope you all have a relaxing and enjoyable Thanksgiving Break.

Do not forget: Pyramids are due in class on Monday November 26th!

Typing Websites

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/  Dance Mat Typing

http://freetypinggame.net/play9.asp  Space Bar Invaders

http://games.sense-lang.org/olympia.php  Olympic Games

http://games.sense-lang.org/typingchefEN.php Typing Chef

http://funschool.kaboose.com/gamesFiles/flash/kaboose/spidertyper/spidertyper.swf  Spider Typer

Simple Salt Dough

You can use this recipe for making a "clay" to build things on the inside of your pyramid.

Ingredients:
1 cup salt
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup luke warm water

Directions
1. In a large bowl mix salt and flour.
2. Gradually stir in water. Mix well until it forms a doughy consistency.
3. With your hands form a ball with your dough and kneed it for at least 5 minutes. The longer you kneed your dough the smoother it will be.
Store your salt dough in a air tight container and you will be able to use it for days.
You can paint your creations with acrylic paints and seal with varnish or polyurethane spray.
You can let your salt dough creations air dry, however salt dough can also be dried in the oven. Bake at 200 F until your creation is dry. The amount of time needed to bake your creations depends on size and thickness; thin flat objects may only take 45-60 minutes, thicker creations can take 2-3 hours or more. You can increase your oven temperature to 350 F, your dough will dry faster but it may also brown, which won't matter if you are painting your entire creation (you can also cover your dough in the oven before it turns brown).
There are a few options to color your salt dough: 1. Add powdered tempera paint to your flour, 2. add food coloring or paint to the water before you mix it with the salt/flour, or 3. add natural coloring like instant coffee, cocoa, or curry powder.

Pyramid Progress Checklist

My Pyramid Project Progress

Have I…	Yes or No?
Collected all materials for building the outside of my pyramid? (4 pyramid walls)	10 points
Built a tomb room and a storage room inside my pyramid?	2 points- one for storage, one for tomb
Made five items to include on the inside of the pyramid that will be taken to the after-life?	5 points- one for each item
Made four canopic jars: each with the head of an animal?	8 points- one for each jar, one for each animal head
Built a trap or mode of protection on the inside of my pyramid to keep robbers away from my mummy and his/her possessions?	1 point
Created a mummy and a sarcophagus (casket)?	2 points- one for mummy, one for sarcophagus
Written hieroglyphs and pictures on the walls that state the Pharaoh’s name and/or message?	2 points- hieroglyphs, pictures
Made sure my pyramid base is no smaller than 8x8 inches..and no bigger than 12x12 inches?	1 point
Found a way so you can see the inside of my pyramid clearly?	1 point

Out of 32 points

32- 100%           26-81%              20-63%    14-44%    8-25%      

31-97%              25-78%              19-59%    13-41%    7-22%

30-94%              24-75%              18-56%    12-38%    6-19%

29-91%              23-72%              17-53%    11-34%    5-16%

28-88%              22-69%              16-50%    10-31%    4-13%

27-84%              21-66%              15-47%    9-28%       3-9%

Week 13 Spelling and Vocabulary

Spelling

1. circulate
2. circulation
3. conclude
4. conclusion
5. instruct
6. instruction
7. possess
8. possession
9. introduce
10. introduction
11. except
12. exception
13. discuss
14. discussion
15. collide
16. collision
17. oppose
18. opposition
19. estimate
20. estimation

Vocabulary

1. sacrificied
2. frigid
3. equivalent
4. participants
5. durable
6. expanse
7. deduced
8. affirmed
9. culmination
10. prime

Spelling and Vocab- Week 12

I am sorry for the delay on our list this week! It has been very busy the past two weeks with Halloween and Conferences. :) Since students do not have class on Friday, they will be taking their spelling post-test tomorrow. Be sure to study tonight!

Spelling (Prefixes: il-, im-, in-, ir)

1. illegal
2. indent
3. imperfect
4. irregular
5. inability
6. immobile
7. inaudible
8. impatient
9. individual
10. insecure
11. impolite
12. illegible
13. irresistible
14. impartial
15. illogical
16. inappropriate
17. improper
18. ineffective
19. immovable
20. irrational

Vocab and Challenge Words

1. jostled
2. careening
3. relishing
4. falter
5. supple
6. taut
7. frail
8. engulf
9. frayed
10. undulating

101 (sort of) Dalmations

Today we won second place in the school costume contest...but I think we can all agree these costumes (and acting skills) warranted a first place prize!

This Wednesday!

This Wednesday in 6th grade we will eat, drink, and be scary! Get it? :)

Our Halloween party will begin at 2:00P.M in the front U where we will watch K-2 grades parade in their costumes! We of course will shock the rest of the school in our "secret" costumes.

We will then return to our classroom at 2:30 for some treats and a short movie. Parents are more than welcome to join us in any festivities beginning at 2:00P.M!

Thank you to those of you who made donations for our "secret" surprise. It was so generous of you, and we really appreciate it!

BOOtifully yours,
6B

Week 11 Spelling and Vocabulary

Spelling words (suffixes -ion and -ation)

1. correct
2. correction
3. explore
4. exploration
5. admire
6. admiration
7. subtract
8. subtraction
9. examine
10. examination
11. separate
12. separation
13. alter
14. alteration
15. preserve
16. preservation
17. reflect
18. reflection
19. substitute
20. substitution

Vocabulary: eerie, frothing, mounting, stabilize, dismay, looming, receded, desperation, collided, jutted

Week 10 Spelling and Vocabulary

Spelling

1. reserved
2. unlikely
3. purposeful
4. adorable
5. amazement
6. gentleness
7. sparkling
8. homeless
9. excitement
10. mileage
11. graceful
12. sincerely
13. advanced
14. usable
15. amusement
16. entirely
17. wireless
18. excluding
19. scarcely
20. changeable

Vocabulary

• lore
• abundance
• lush
• teeming
• altered
• sophisticated
• reains
• concept
• cultural
• heritage

Iowa Assessments

Best of luck on Iowa Assessments this week!

Week 9 Spelling and Vocabulary

Spelling

1. happening
2. limited
3. forgetting
4. equaled
5. fitting
6. reasoning
7. labored
8. permitting
9. scrapped
10. tutoring
11. admitted
12. honored
13. skidding
14. pardoned
15. modeling
16. preferred
17. scarred
18. favored
19. glistening
20. shuddered

Vocabulary

• venture
• defy
• consequences
• permeated
• poised
• rigid
• rudimentary
• sparsely
• array
• immaculately

Warm Clothing and Winter Outerwear Distribution

Sponsored by the Consultation of Religious Communities
P.O. Box 2025, Iowa City, IA 52244

Saturday, October 13, 2012   9:00 a.m. - 12:00 Noon
3 Locations

Iowa City distribution site

The Spot
1030 Cross Park Ave., Iowa City
(between Broadway & Keokuk)

Coralville distribution siteCoralville United Methodist Church
806 - 13 Ave. Coralville
North Liberty distribution siteNorth Liberty Community Pantry/NLFUMC
85 N Jones Blvd., North Liberty

This is a free distribution of childrenʼs clothing from pre-school (including infants) through high school ages, along with coats,hats, gloves, scarves, boots and other winter clothing for all ages.

Spelling and Vocab Week 8

Spelling Words

1. triangle
2. mental
3. error
4. panel
5. litter
6. pollen
7. gallon
8. cancel
9. abandon
10. rival
11. soldier
12. recycle
13. salmon
14. counsel
15. rural
16. vehicle
17. citizen
18. monitor
19. physical
20. oxygen

Challenge words: punctual, endeavor, abdomen, kilometer, dandelion

Vocabulary: detached, specimens, decomposition, compromise, complex, principle, elegant, equations, reluctant, shriveled

Today's Planner 10/2

Language arts: Indirect Objects

Spelling: Spelling word sort; Cursive write your spelling list (3 times per word)

Math: No homework; We completed some fraction work in-class today.

Writing: Think of an idea for your writing tomorrow.

Science: Finish writing goals if you have not done this.

Social Studies: No homework. Today we began an activity where students will "visit" different locations in Egypt and explore artifacts of the region. We visited the Great Pyramid at Giza today!

Home Letter- Week 7

Dear Family,

This week we’ll ask, “Why are certain activities important to a family’s culture?” In the narrative nonfiction selection Dancing Kane, we’ll read about a boy and his family who get involved in Mexican folk dancing and become performers in a dance company. Students will also read a play about Mexico in the sixteenth century.

This week’s...

Vocabulary Strategy: Idioms

Comprehension Skill: Persuasion— examine how an author tries to convince readers to support an idea

Comprehension Strategy: Summarize— briefly tell the important parts of the text in your own words

Writing Focus: Write to respond— summary paragraph

Today's Planner

Language Arts: Direct and Compound Objects

Spelling: Write list in planner, Spelling crossword

Math: Today we worked on Powers of 10 and reviewed Friday's homework. No homework tonight.

Writing: Reviewed examples of good writing; no homework.

Science: Write Goals!

Social Studies: Today we viewed a short film on pyramids. We are starting Chapter 8 on Pharoahs tomorrow.

Congratulations to: Dustin, Cade, Emma, Michelle, Kim, Abe, Mary, Josh, Joel, Garrett, Gian, and Anna who earned themselves lunch in the room by completing an extra math sheet!

Week 7 Spelling and Vocabulary

Word Work: Spelling

1. fiber
2. simliar
3. regular
4. barrier
5. superior
6. grammar
7. rumor
8. character
9. director
10. acre
11. consider
12. junior
13. senior
14. solar
15. scholar
16. razor
17. surrender
18. particular
19. familiar
20. laser

Challenge Words: escalator, cursor, geyser, perpendicular, maneuver

Word Work: Vocabulary

1. jubilant
2. commemorates
3. initially
4. recollects
5. customary
6. reflect
7. multitude
8. intense
9. originated
10. agility

Pen Pals in Norway

Our pen pal class (in Rosendal, Norway) has begun to respond to our first letters! We anxiously await the arrival of their responses. :)

Open House

Tomorrow (Monday 9/24) is the Lucas Elementary Open House.
You can visit our room between 5:30-6:30 PM, and then enjoy dinner with your family!  I hope to see you there!

REMINDER

Tomorrow (9/20) is picture day at school! Please send the picture form with money back with your child tomorrow. I have included a reminder sticker in their planner.

Today's Work

Planner 9/19
Language Arts: Common errors sheet, Fact vs. Opinion sheet, Homonym story writing

Spelling: Practice your spelling list

Math: 1-11 Persuasive/Misleading Graphs

Homework Tuesday 9/18

Language Arts: Possessive Nouns, What's a pale pail?(homonymn writing)

Spelling: Word Sort (syllables)

Math: 1-10 Packet (Area and Perimeter)

Social Studies: Finish civilization projects! These will be presented tomorrow.

Another super day in 6B!

Planner 9/17

Today's Planner

• Language Arts: vocabulary sheet, proofreading for spelling, singular and plural nouns
• Spelling: Write spelling words in planner
• Math: 1-9 Circle Graph Study Link
• Writing: Finish rough draft

Week 5 Spelling & Vocabulary

Spelling- This week we are working on spelling words that are homophones (words that are spelled differently, but sound the same). I have included a "hint" next to the word, to help you understand the meaning, and study!

1. waist (where your belt goes)
2. waste (too much)
3. patience (calm)
4.  patients (seen by a doctor)
5. rite (ceremony/tradition; rite of passage)
6. right (fair/just; appropriate)
7. write (you write in your writing class)
8. muscle (a muscle gets bigger when you weightlift)
9. mussel (a type of shellfish)
10. principal (Mrs. Merriweather)
11. principle (standard; honesty is an important principle)
12. summary (brief statement that presents the main points)
13. summery (pertaining to summer)
14. sight (seen with the eyes)
15. site (place of activity)
16. cite (make a reference to)
17. stationary (staying in one place)
18. stationery (writing materials)
19. coward (person who is scared)
20. cowered (flinch/recoil from danger)

Vocabulary

• predominantly
• tendency
• welfare
• credit
• aspect
• aptly
• tension
• parallel
• innovation
• genuinely

Thursday 9/13

Reminders for Tomorrow!

1. Your weekly work in reading has to be done tonight in order to earn D.E.A.R. time tomorrow! 
2. No math or social studies homework tonight :) BUT if you are re-taking your social studies exam tomorrow, be sure to study! 
3. Be sure you have a Drop Everything And Read book for tomorrow. 

Week 4 Word Work (9/10-9/14)

Spelling:

1. source
2. flirt
3. hurdle
4. parka
5. frontier
6. forward
7. radar
8. earnest
9. afford
10. urban
11. discard
12. smirk
13. rehearse
14. mourn
15. surface
16. parcel
17. yearn
18. fierce
19. starch
20. formula

Vocabulary:

• clamor
• torrent
• clustered
• doleful
• swiveled
• coaxed
• transmissions
• accustomed
• urgent
• void

Homework: Monday 9/10

Spelling: Write your spelling words on the list in your planner.

Math: Division and Multiplication practice sheet. We will move on from this tomorrow!

Social Studies: IF you did not take your test today, you should be preparing to take that by Wednesday. Some of you have arranged to meet with me early tomorrow, at recess, or after school. Don't forget!

Ask someone at home to check and sign your planner tonight!

Weekend Agenda -9/7/12

We did not get time to fill our planners at the end of our day today.
Here are the things you should do this weekend!

• Read at least 20 minutes every day! Now that you all have great books from the library, you should be immersed in a good read. :)
• Study for your Social Studies test on Monday! I have included the study guide on the blog, and you also received a paper copy in class.
• No math homework, but try to practice standard division a few times on your own. The more you practice, the better you get! Practicing your basic multiplication facts can help.

Social Studies Study Guide Ch3/4

Social Studies Study Guide

Chapter 3&4

*Hints: Study your notes!

o   You should study the vocabulary words we have covered so far…even in chapter 1 &2 J It may help you when looking for an answer.

o   When taking a multiple-choice exam, it sometimes helps to cross out the answers you know are incorrect first. This helps you narrow your thinking to find the correct answer.

Chapter 3

·         What discovery began the Neolithic Age and what discovery ended it?

·         What was the greatest benefit when people began farming?

·         How did people in Neolithic times build homes to protect against animal attacks?

·         Why did people live in larger communities during the Neolithic Age?

·         What was different about living in Paleolithic times compared to Neolithic times?

·         What happened to Neolithic traders as they traveled and traded items?

·         What were the results of people developing special skills in Neolithic times?

·         What changes came about because people began living in permanent shelters?

·         There will be a Venn diagram that you will fill in with the similarities and differences between Paleolithic and Neolithic times.

Chapter 4

·         What does the name Mesopotamia mean?

·         How did Early Sumerian cities protect themselves from attacks?

·         What change, caused by farming in northern Mesopotamia, led people to move south?

·         How did Sumerians create an irrigation system?

·         What happened when people from many villages used Sumerian irrigation systems?

·         Why were Sumerian settlements called city-states?

·         Why didn’t Sumerians continue living in small villages, as their ancestors had?

·         What made it harder to live in Sumer than in the Zagros foothills?

·         Know the sequence of problems/solutions that we filled out in class.

o   ____________ caused Mesopotamians to à move to the river valley à ____________ caused Mesopotamians to à build irrigation systems à ____________ and ____________ over water caused Mesopotamians to à live in larger communities.

Week 3 Spelling & Vocabulary

Week 3 Spelling Words:

1. mound
2. gloomy
3. caution
4. annoy
5. dawdle
6. counter
7. haughty
8. rejoice
9. devour
10. thoughtful
11. flawless
12. maroon
13. droop
14. doubt
15. bamboo
16. hoist
17. oyster
18. exhausted
19. scoundrel
20. boundary

Target Vocabulary:

• menace
• resolve
• manipulated
• precisely
• emphatically
• agony
• demeanor
• vigorously

Spelling Words: Week 2

1. scene
2. bracelet
3. mute
4. strive
5. faithful
6. devote
7. rhyme
8. succeed
9. coax
10. rely
11. conceal
12. forgave
13. lonesome
14. delete
15. confine
16. exceed
17. terrain
18. reproach
19. abuse
20. defeat

Vocabulary: Week 2

1. mentor
2. employed
3. scholastic
4. grimly
5. contested
6. tumult
7. pursuit
8. culprit
9. deprived
10. miraculous

Homework For Today:

Spelling: Practice your spelling words for tomorrow!

Language Arts: Fragment and Run-On Sentence Worksheet, Contraction Page, Pen pal letter (Ms. Brumwell's Class Only)

Social Studies: Cave Exploration; No homework

Writing: Write a paragraph for the beginning of your story.

Science: No homework

Math: No homework

Spelling Words Week 1

1. batch
2. reject
3. vanish
4. sloppy
5. rhythm
6. blunder
7. strict
8. meadow
9. recover
10. cleanse
11. text
12. mystery
13. expand
14. bluff
15. promptly
16. initials
17. statue
18. polish
19. somehow
20. dreadful

Target Vocabulary

• literary
• revisions
• manuscript
• wry
• editorial
• muted
• maze
• publishing
• pressuring
• disclose

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