SAINT URSULA VILLA PRESENTS:

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SAINT URSULA VILLA PRESENTS

• WHATS NEW IN THE 6TH GRADE

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• The Holy Spirit will come upon you, and the
  power of the Most High will over shadow you.
  Therefore the child to be born will be called
  holy, the Son of God.
• -Luke 135

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ACT 1 A VIEW OF THE PRESENT

• December
• 8 All school liturgy
• 13 Red Cross program and choir field trip
• 16 Advent prayer service
• 17 Last day before break

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• Social Studies
• Chapter 3 The Ancient Americas
• Chapter 3 test Wednesday, December 15
• Math (Mrs. Wietmarschen)
• Multiplication and division of decimals and whole
  numbers

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• Religion
• Jesse Tree book
• Advent activities
• Science
• Animals
• Finish animal research project
• Animal presentation start December 14

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• Language Arts
• Finish Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt
• Writing Tuck Everlasting group plays
• Grammar focus capitalization
• Nouns
• Changing singular nouns to plural nouns
• Gender nouns
• Noun test Thursday, December 16
• Weekly 10 vocabulary words

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ACT 2 A PEEK INTO THE FUTURE

• January
• 3 School resumes
• 11 Open House
• 13 6th grade liturgy
• 14 End of second quarter
• 17 Martin Luther King Jr. Day
• 21 Summer Bridge out of uniform day
• 27 St. Angela prayer service
• 31 Feb. 4 Catholic Schools Week

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ACT 3 DISCIPLINE WITH PURPOSE

• Focus of the month Asking Questions
• Allow wait time for a question to be asked
• Encourage questions to be asked that do not have
  a one word answer
• Avoid beginning sentences with would you like
  to (it is too easy for growing children to say
  no)
• Teach children the criteria for a good question
• Criteria for a good question
• One the has not been asked before.
• One the speaker has not already told us something
  about.
• One other people might also need answered.
• One that makes the speaker feel comfortable and
  not ill at ease.
• One that helps people think.

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THE END

• Mrs. Wietmarschen x1126 and Ms. Fiedler x1125