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Welcome to our 6th grade Web Site! This is the place to keep up with homework, events, expectations, and class news for the Awesome Burton Cats. Watch for frequent postings on this site. Here's to a great year!! 9.08.08: We have adjusted classes at Monte Vista and have lost and gained a student in the process. We welcome Lilly to our classroom and have bid farewell to Lizzy. We still have a total of 29 students, 15 boys and 14 girls. Here's a run-down of where we are in our curriculum: Language Arts: We are reading "On Top of the World" this week in our Open Court reader. Our spelling emphasis is looking at suffixes. We are also reading Letters from Rifka by Karen Hesse. We are also learning the difference between narrative and expository writing. Our Open Court tests are given on Fridays. Mathematics: this week we are looking at the order of operations and at variables and expressions used in Algebra. We will have a test on Friday covering this week's work and last week's lessons on square numbers and square roots. Science: We will have a test on Thursday this week on Sections 1-4 of Chapter 1, the Introduction to Earth Science. Wednesday we will have an art lesson on creating expressive self-portraits. We hope to enter some of them in the annual PTA Reflections competition. The theme this year is Wow! We have not had very many parents join the PTA. Please join so we can move our racecar along the track. PTA pays for many of the special events and enrichment programs we have at Monte Vista, including field trips and end of the year events for our 6th graders. It is only $5.00 per person, so please contribute and join. 9.01.08: We have made it through our first week of school, learning new things, as well as learning how to work together. Each student contributes a unique learning style with personal experiences that will help others, as well as themselves, to achieve success. Each week students will receive a weekly grade report from the week before, noting any assessment scores, participation, and classwork accomplished, or not, as the case may be. Students are required to get a parent signature each week on their grade report to ensure that parents are informed of student progress. Classwork is received for credit, but assessments, projects, and notebooks receive grades. As students complete tasks and assignments at school, they will be better prepared to show what they know as they are tested. Students should be reading for an hour each day outside of class time. Within two weeks, they should be reading a grade level book each week. In class we will be reading a book together, in addition to the book each student is reading at home.Students are expected to bring their reading book to school each day in case they have minutes to read at school, then they are to take it home each afternoon to read outside of class daily. Tests are taken primarily on Thursdays and Fridays. Please make every effort to have students in school on those days so they will not have to make up missed exams. A large number of students do not know their multiplication facts. Please encourage them to get to know unknown facts as soon as possible, as they will just get farther behind in mathematics. I have placed several Web sites on our class pages for students to practice and improve. Thanks, everyone, for making sure you are arriving at school on time, in uniform, and ready to learn!  I appreciate you!!