What is Weekly Work?

Goals of the Grade 6 Weekly Work program:

-flexible timeline (can be done anytime throughout the week as long as it is completed by Monday morning)

-flexible location (can be done: in the classroom, on the bus, at home, in the car, at the arena)

-students work on improving their reading (to self, others, with teacher), writing (from word study to sentence structure, organizing paragraphs, crafting journal entries), computer skills (typing, talk & type, organizing files in folders, editing), mental math operations, and more

-student owns responsibility, organization, and initiative for quantity and quality of independent work in class and homework completion (you get out, what you put in) ...how hard will you work?

-save paper and minimize loose/lost papers

Students are responsible for completing their work and using their checklist so that they can hand in competed work each Monday morning. For now, Weekly Work consists of the following 4 components:

A) Vocab Bingo activities

Use the Set Words for the week (posted in class and on website) to complete at least five Vocab Bingo activities. These activities can be done in the Weekly Work book or on the Google doc for that week.

B) Hit The Button

Practice various computational skills in these one minute challenges. The goal is to compete against yourself (not other people) to improve your mental math operational skills.

C) Reading - Don't think this is important? Please read this!

Students are expected to read for at least 20 minutes each day.

D) Journal entry:

1. Choose one of the two writing prompts given in class.

2. Organize your ideas first, then write complete sentences and paragraphs.

3. Read it over to be sure that it makes sense and there are no mistakes.

3. Have someone look over your work and give suggestions that will help you improve your writing.

4. You choose whether you write 2 paragraphs or 2 pages. Challenge yourself to do your best work!