Summer!

Dear Parents and Students,

Congratulations on completing a successful year of schooling.  You are now onto 7th grade!  As a final blog post, please consider the following:

• Ms. Matson is retiring - a fond farewell to an amazing career.  If you want to stay in touch with her, here is her email:  litlermatson@yahoo.com  Or feel free to write a REAL letter or send her a postcard:  Ms. Litler Matson 712 Village Green Lane East Madison, WI 53704
• Summer workbooks and notebooks are meant to be instructive and to help keep your brain working.  No need to stress about it - do your best!

Have a GREAT summer.  We'll see you in the fall!

Sincerely,

Jomana Team

Weekly Update May

NEWS:
34 students had 100% work completion this quarter for MATH!
Science fair and Family Fun Night is Thursday from 5:30-7:30

ACADEMICS:
Math:  1) Unit test today 2) Students turned in their books and will be starting Probability

Language Arts: 1) Many students passed their RETAKE spelling test from last week.  A number of students will be retaking this test again tomorrow.  2) Vocabulary test on Friday - Literary Devices  3) Poetry books due June 6th with presentation  4) Memorize poems for presentation on June 6th.  Every student is expected to have a poem memorized.

Reading: 1) See Poetry Genre requirements

Science: 1) Science Fair is Thursday

Social Studies: 1) Current events due Friday

Update Before Memorial Day Weekend

NEWS:

• Science Fair and Family Fun Night is Thursday, June 1st!
• After this weekend, there are only 11 days for the JoMaNa students to make their mark on their 6th grade year!
• Yearbooks are on sale in the office for $15
• We are finalizing the Jomana Team's "Happy" documentary and will send you details once the movie is done.  

ACADEMICS: 

Language Arts: Poetry Booklet and Memorized poem due June 6th.  Click here for the requirements.  

Science:  Poster and projects due May 29th.  Science Fair is June 1st. 

Social Studies:  Religion project due June 4th.  Presentation on June 4th.  

Weekly Update May 21

NEWS:
Olympics Closing Ceremony was today and the JoMaNa Team represented!  We earned 25 gold medals!

Academics:
Language Arts:  1) Vocabulary -  we will repeat the words from last week.  Click here. 2) Concrete poem due tomorrow.  3) Must bring genre poetry book tomorrow to work on memorizing poems.

Reading:  1) Memorize poem for presentation June 5th

Math:  1) ACE 1, 2, 3, 4 page 78-79

Science:  1) Science fair projects due May 28th.  Science fair is May 31.

Social Studies:  1) Current events due Friday  2) Continuing work on Religion/Spiritual traditions  3) Started Rastafarianism today.

Weekly Update 5/15

NEWS:
1) Fun Run is this Friday!

2) Due to lack of interest in meeting expectations, the Lock-In has been cancelled. However, the Milwaukee Museum trip is still on! Parents: Please plan to pick up your child by 5pm at Sherman Middle School.

3) 19 more days until summer vacation :)

 ACADEMICS:
 Math: 1) No homework tonight. Continuing working on area of parallelograms.

Language Arts: 1) Poetry unit started. Students chose books. Must pick a poem to memorize and be prepared to present to the class. Poetry booklet requirements also assigned. 2) Due tomorrow: I Am From poem. 3) Vocabulary - click here.

Reading:  1) Read poetry book and work on memorizing your chosen poem.

Social Studies: 1) Studying Confucianism. Chinese poetry due Thursday.

Science: 1) Continuing Force and Motion. Students participated in outside lab today.

Weekly Update May 1

NEWS:  Students are expected to have 100% work completion in order to participate in the Lock-In.

ACADEMICS:
Language Arts:  1) Vocabulary due Friday.  Click here for the list.  2) Letter to Mr. Belic, Ms. Goth, and Mr. Jampa due by Wednesday. 3) Starting poetry on May 10th

Reading:  1) Quiz/Short essay on Loser and Gutsy Girls May 4th  2) Book Review due May 9th

Math:  1) ACE #16-21 page 12 and 13

Science:  1) Continue working on science fair project  2) Force and Motion activity in-class

Social Studies:  1) Current events due Fri  2) Continuing religion and happiness 3) Optional storyboard due Thursday on movie "Kundun" 4) Will have homework tomorrow (Wed -due Thur)

Weekly Update April 24

NEWS:
 - Permission slips for the Badger spring football game has been distributed. Tickets are limited so this is a first come, first serve event on April 28.

 - Permission slips for the Milwaukee Museum fieldtrip and the JoMaNa Team lock-in has been handed out, and should be turned in as soon as possible.

ACADEMICS:
Language Arts: 1) Vocabulary test on Friday. Click here for the list. 2) Continuing our study on Happiness. Reflection questions due Wednesday. 3)Interviews for documentary should be completed this week. 4) Essay and prefixes/roots test on Thursday.

Reading: 1) Loser and Gutsy Girls characterization sheet due Friday. 2) Books need to be finished by Monday, April 30th. Quiz and short essay test for both books on Wednesday, May 2nd.

Math: 1) Finished Bits and Pieces III - students are required to turn in books. 2) Will get new book today: Covering and Surroundings.

Science: 1) Starting Force and Motion in-class and out of class activities. 2) Continue to work on science fair projects.

Social Studies: 1) Current Events due Fri 2) Buddhism word search due Fri 3) Fifth political article due Thursday