Q3 Week 8!

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Class book orders will be shipped tomorrow, 3/17.  Please bring to school if you have not done so yet.  Each book is $19.95.

Happening this week:

  • Compare/contrast peer editing 3/17 in class! Please have draft printed.
  • 3 RRJ
  • News Update
  • Vocab. Test Wednesday-study spellingcity
  • Marx & communist Manifesto due Wednesday
  • Daily math lessons, ST math, Target scores
  • Capitalism vs. Socialism due Monday, 3/23

Thank you for being patient as I try to update Engrade! One last busy week before the quarter ends.  Keep up the good work 🙂

Be Prepared for the start of 7th Grade

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Screen Shot 2015-03-10 at 2.59.17 PMBe Prepared for the Start of 7th Grade:  Check Vaccine Records Now

Make your appointments now. Avoid the back-to-school rush! 

Vaccines required for 7th grade (California Code of Regulations (CCR), Title 17, Section 6020) include:

·         1 dose of Tdap

·         2 doses of measles-containing vaccine: most students will have received these before starting Kindergarten, but some may have missed doses along the way.

·         Other vaccines encouraged but not required for 7th graders include meningococcal and HPV vaccines.

Week 7 Updates

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6th Graders have been working so hard lately! Only a couple more weeks until spring break and the end of the quarter.  Keep up the hard work!

Happening this week:

  • London, 1848 due Wednesday
  • Adam Smith postponed to Monday, March 16th
  • Students should be working on writing a draft of their compare/contrast essay
  • 3 RRJs
  • News Update
  • spellingcity
  • Daily Math lessons, STMath, target scores

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Volunteers Needed-StandUp For Kids Dinner

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StandUp For Kids is a national organization dedicated to directing homeless and children living on the streets toward lifelong personal growth.

Sixth Grade Volunteer families are needed to provide dinners to the homeless children at the local StandUp For Kids Center. We need volunteer families for Thursday March 26th.

If you are interested in helping our school with this project or need more information, please contact Bob Hamm at bob.hamm@yahoo.com. Thank you for helping with this very important OTA community outreach project.

Q3 Week 6

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Happening this week:Earthquake Drill

  • 3 RRJs due by Friday
  • News Update due by Friday
  • Finish Close Read #3: “Ghost of the Lagoon”
  • Writing Prompt #3: compare/contrast watching a movie at home vs. in the theater
  • Invention (19th century) project-due Monday, March 9
  • Pre-Write Compare/Contrast Essay due by Monday
  • spelling city: The Head
  • Daily Math lessons, ST Math, & Target Scores
  • MOVIE NIGHT rescheduled to FRIDAY, March 6th! Please bring baked goods for the sale!
  • WINE AND DINE GALA Tickets are now on sale! Help support OTA, April 25th

Friday (2/27) REMINDERS!

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  • FREE DRESS 2/27
  • Movie Night-Big Hero 6
  • Bake Sale! Please bring baked goods to sell at movie night. Please wrap for individual sale (ex. 2 cookies for $1).
  • A couple volunteers are still needed to help run the bake sale portion of movie night. Please let me know if you can help out. mschurch@otacharter.org.
  • Problem-Solution essay is due tomorrow, as well as the Adventure of Dancing Men packet.

We had some fun weaving today 🙂

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Q3 Week 5

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Happening this week:

  • 3 RRJ
  • News Update
  • Problem-Solution Essay due by Friday
  • Adventure of the Dancing Men due by Friday
  • Grammar Test Wednesday-look over grammar notebook/daily edits
  • Math lessons, ST Math, and Target Scores
  • SpellingCity
  • Start researching an Invention from the 19th century

**6th Grade has FREE DRESS Friday, Feb. 27th (from jog-a-thon)

**OTA movie night is THIS Friday, Feb. 27th: Big Hero 6

**6th grade will be having a bake sale for movie night.  Please bring in baked goods on Friday to sell at movie night.  Individually packaged to sell in $1, $2, $3, increments.  Some 6th graders will also sell rainbow looms.

**A couple parent volunteers are needed to help run the bake sale.  Please email me at mschurch@otacharter.org if you can help out! Thank you 🙂

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Reminder: Field Trip 2/19

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We are visiting the Copley Symphony Hall tomorrow(2/19)!  The San Diego Youth symphony is performing “Coming to America.” 6th grade will learn about immigration in Q4, so this is a little preview.  

Please wear your outdoor ed. uniforms and bring a sack lunch.  We leave OTA at 10:00, walk to the trolley, and return back to OTA between 1:00-1:30 p.m.

If you haven’t turned in your permission slip/ $7 for trolley and symphony, tomorrow a.m. is your last chance!

SanDiego Symphony

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