Mrs. Goto's 15 year old cat..."Queen" of the Goto residence.

Mrs. Goto & her husband Bruce -- 9/22/07

Welcome to Mrs. Goto's 6th Grade Learning Lounge 2007-2008

December Birthdays:  Marja, Mintha, Minthan, Lethen, Shane

November Birthdays:  Andrew P., Caleb, Demarius

Mrs. Goto

Martha Lake Elementary

 Room 201

2007/2008

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P.E.:  Tuesday and Thursday from 9:15-9:45 

Music/Band/Orchestra:  Monday and Wednesday from 10:00-10:45. 

Library:  Every other Friday from 9:30-10:30.

You are the only person on this earth who can use your abilities.

COMPASSION Knows No Bounds.

Life is about who you love. --Anna Yu, age 12

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.  --AESOP ("The Lion & The Mouse")

Who looks outside DREAMS, who looks inside, AWAKENS.  --Carl Jung

DANCE as though no one is watching you, LOVE as though you have never been hurt before, SING as though no one can hear you, LIVE as though heaven is on earth.

Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born. -- ANAIS NIN

You meet your friend, your face brightens -- you have struck gold. -- KASSIA (c.840)

Kindness is the one gift that all can afford and all can repay.

CURRICULUM AT A GLANCE: 

6th Grade Reading:  Students are working in novel groups:  Felita, Fiji Flood, Bud, Not Buddy, The Crossing, The Watsons Go to Birmingham.  Students will continue working out of these books until 12/21.  We'll begin new novel studies groups in January 2008.

6th Grade Writing:  Essays, summary writing, persuasive writing, informational writing, creative writing, poetry, and narrative writing. 

6th Grade Communication:  Students will present their Salmon research Powerpoints over the next two weeks.

6th Grade Math Concepts and Skills:  We're working on Fractions, Decimals, Percents and Ratios for the next several weeks (Bits and Pieces 1 and Bits and Pieces 2). 

6th Grade Social Studies:  We're we're from our We The People textbook that focuses on citizenship and the constitution. 

6th Grade Science & Health:  We're well into our plant experiment.

6th Grade Art:  We'll begin working on our mixed-media self-portraits this week.

6th Grade Technology:  We use the computers for research, word processing, creating graphs, tables and more. 

Continue practicing math facts:  multiplication, division, addition and subtraction.  Thank you.  If your child does not know his/her facts rapidly, it will stand in the way of understanding intermediate and middle school math.  Your pre-teen will be too focused on figuring out basic facts and end up losing instructions on how to use important algorithms that are used daily in intermediate and middle school.  They will fall behind and become very frustrated with math.  Learning simple facts is SO IMPORTANT.  Thank you.

Spice things up -- practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division facts using dice or cards.

Do multiple digit multiplication and long division with your pre-teen.

Practice adding/subtracting/multiplying/dividing fractions.

Help your pre-teen understand that mastering decimals, fractions and percentages is really necessary in the "real world," particularly if they like shopping in stores or on-line.