Mrs. George

Weekly Updates

3/20

Reading: We finished up our book reports and are about halfway through our next unit! We are reading excerpts from our textbook about not giving up. We will also begin IAR testing the week after Spring Break. Please make sure your child(ren) eat a good breakfast, get lots of sleep, and are ready to knock the test out of the water!

ELA: We finished up this week by doing 3 assignments in a center/rotation style. We practiced grammar, writing a response using RACE method, and did some practice with Theme. We also worked on comparing and contrasting in preparation for IAR!

HAVE A WONDERFUL SPRING BREAK!

2/27

Reading: We are finishing up our Literature Circles and beginning to work on our Book Report Projects! We also have been working on Main Idea and Details as this will be on their next text. Compare and Contrast is on IAR, so we have been doing some work with that as well.

ELA: We are still working on conventions and editing. We also started a mini "Who Dun' It" activity that practices editing and writing an essay with a template. 2 weeks ago we started working on individualized spelling packets/words. We will have our week 2 words next week. There will be a spelling test at the end of the week, so please encourage your child(ren) to study the words at home in order to be prepared for the test.

2/6

Reading: Still doing Lit Circles-books should be done around Feb. 23rd and then they will be begin their book report! We also started our next unit: Never Give Up.

ELA: We took our RACE test today and are beginning our next unit on conventions! This will include grammar, spelling, and things like capitalizing when appropriate and correct punctuation.

1/30

Reading: We have been working on our Lit Circles-the students have been doing great so far!

ELA: We are still doing the RACE writing method. We will be testing on this strategy next week. We will still be practicing every day until the test so the students will feel prepared.

*We will be working on conventions after this and there will be a test on that in a few weeks. For example, making sure sentences are capitalized, punctuation is used, no letters are capitalized in the middle of a word, complete sentences, "I" is capitalized, etc.

1/23

It has been a little crazy since we came back from break! This week in Reading we began literature circles! The students were put into groups based on their reading level and chose a book they want to read together. We will do this 3 days a week until the end of February. Each group planned out how many pages or chapters they would need to read to finish the book in time. At the end of the books, EACH student will choose a book report option they want to complete. These options are on Google Classroom.

In ELA, we have begun the RACE writing strategy.

welcome back! 1/5/26

I hope everyone had a great break and are ready to buckle up and finish the year strong! This week in Reading and ELA we are going to try to ease back into school. In Reading, we will begin our next unit called "Surviving the Unthinkable", but we will take it slow this week. The students are completing fill in the blank notes independently and this will be due at the end of the day Tuesday the 6th. In ELA, we are going to begin our RACE writing unit and practicing writing clear, purposeful, and focused responses. For the first two days of this week however, we are doing a New Year Resolution mini poster. This will be due Tuesday the 6th at the end of the day. These will be for a grade, so please your child(ren) get this done on time.

12/18-Happy holidays! merry christmas! happy break!

We made it! Not a big update this week. When we come back from break we will jump right into our next units for both Reading and ELA. Below are a few photos from today's snowman building activity! The kids all did a great job! They could only use 3 pieces of paper and a tape AND it had to stand up on it's own!

Enjoy your break!!!

12/12

Another week down! The students have been doing AMAZING on their MAP tests this week!! We have had so many mini celebrations for the goals that are being reached! Next week, we will be doing the activity next week. As a reminder, this is a "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" trial. The students will be split into two teams and plead their case on whether grandma got run over by a reindeer. This still relates to our argumentative unit because the students will be researching, finding evidence, and trying to convince the "judge" (me) of their stance. If there are any questions and/or concerns for this activity, please do not hesitate to reach out!

On Friday, December 19th, the students are still earning their "Full Day of Fun" as of now! As a building, we have been working on limiting disruption referrals. 6th grade has 7 referrals so far, so their earning of the full day

12/5

Welcome back from Fall/Thanksgiving Break!

In Reading: we have been working on Context Clues and Context Clues Types. Our next test will be on Context Clues, so we have been doing a lot of activities this week to practice! The test will be next week.

In ELA: we have finished our argumentative essays! YAY. Haha this has been dragged on for a very long time with the break, so we are all ready to move on. We started center work for ELA on Thursday. We will work on our next Unit for Reading and ELA after winter break.

We will be doing a fun activity the week before break. It is a "Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer" trial. The students will be split into two teams and plead their case on whether grandma got run over by a reindeer. This still relates to our argumentative unit because the students will be researching, finding evidence, and trying to convince the "judge" (me) of their stance. If there are any questions and/or concerns for this activity, please do not hesitate to reach out!

**IMPORTANT: We have MAP testing starting next week for both Reading and Language Arts. Please make sure you child(ren) are getting lots of sleep next week, eating breakfast, and staying healthy so they can do their best on these tests-I know that they can be tedious, but we do want them to succeed!

11/21

This week we finished our unit on Pax! The students did their projects during classes and we will finish the week with Pax Day! In each class, there will be a different Pax related activity to celebrate. In ELA, we are pausing on the essays and will start working on them again after Thanksgiving break. Have a great Thanksgiving, Holiday, and/or break/time with your families!

11/14

We finished Pax!! We will begin our Pax projects now. There are 3 options: door decorating, movie trailer on Canva, or a one pager. The rubrics will be on Google Classroom so the students know exactly what they need to do to get a good grade. In ELA, we are writing our Argumentative Essays.

11/7

This week we had nothing new for Reading-still in Pax! The students have read a few chapters with a partner and/or on their own, but the remainder of days we most likely will read as a whole class in order to finish next week! We really the students to have time for their Pax project! We will talk about the projects at the end of next week. In ELA, we are still writing our essays and most likely will be done with them next week-fingers crossed!

Important dates:

11/12 LATE START DAY!

10/31

We are 7 chapters into Pax and are loving it! We have worksheets that we will fill out while reading and these are graded, so keep an eye for these in the gradebook! In Language Arts, we are still writing our argumentative essays; we have used a graphic organizer to write our thesis statements this week. We will begin drafting our paragraphs next week!

Important dates:

11/7-picture retakes!

10/23

We began our first class novel this week-Pax! We also began talking about argumentative essays and what their topic will be. The topic is, "Should People be Allowed to Own Exotic Animals?". They will need to choose a side and then research an article to help support their stance. We read two articles in our textbook already, so they will just research one more article on their to use in the essay as well. While we read our novel, we will work on various types of worksheets to help with comprehension and finding important details.

Important dates: Halloween is next Friday so the students are allowed to wear their costumes! Please make sure there are no masks, face makeup/paint, weapons, or inflatable costumes! We will also have different activities planned for that day that may involve Halloween itself. Please let us know if you do not want your child to participate. I will also be sure to send an email as soon as I know what activities they are exactly.

Next week is also Red Ribbon Week! Each day is a different dress up day.

Monday-Wear Red!

Tuesday-Sports Day!

Wednesday-Tye-Dye Day!

Thursday-Mismatch Day!

Friday-Halloween Costumes!

10/17

This week was full of revising essays and studying for our first Unit test! The students worked hard to get their essays done this week and we are so proud of them. Next week we will be diving deeper into our first class novel called Pax! This will take us all the way to Thanksgiving break. In Language Arts, we will begin our next essay-yes lot's of writing these next couple months! This next essay will be an argumentative essay about whether or not people should be allowed to own exotic animals. This topic goes along with Pax!

meet mrs. george

Hello Everyone!

I'm Mrs. George and I am one of the Reading and Language Arts teachers in 6th grade! I co-teach with Mrs. K for two class periods! This is my second year and I have loved being here.

I enjoy watching movies, reading books, eating tacos, going fishing, traveling, and everything fall!!

I am married and we have a new 6 month old puppy; her name is Honey and she is so fun! We live in Rockton, IL and love it there as well.

Please feel free to reach myself or Mrs. K at any time with questions and/or concerns at ageorge@nbcusd.org or jkamholz@nbcusd.org!

October Reading Outlook

This month we will begin Unit 2 in our textbooks! Our essential question is "What can you learn by seeing the world through an animal's eye?". This means we will begin our class novel Pax!!🦊 We look forward to this novel every year.

October ELA Outlook

This month we will finish up our Personal Narrative essays and then begin our Argumentative essays on the question: "Should people be allowed to own exotic animals?". We will also continue practicing grammar, vocabulary, greek and latin roots, and include some comprehension writing as well!

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