If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me at suzanne.lorenzi@olmlancers.com



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Since the official school progress reports were sent out on the Friday before Thanksgiving, I will not be sending one home on Monday, November 28..

6th grade Religion:

Monday: no class due to elective day schedule

Tuesday:  practice songs for Christmas program
read 318-323 in text about Advent
watch video:  Advent tradition

Wednesday:  Bible search
review:  penance

Thursday: penance service

Friday:  song practice
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6th grade English

Monday:  flashcards unit 7

Tuesday:  continue persuasive writing --finish rough drafts
rough drafts due typed Friday

Wednesday:  English Test unit 3

Thursday:  completing the sentence unit 7
English p. 144, 175

Friday:  p. 145-146 aloud
vocab. bingo



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6th grade Reading

Monday:  silent reading
grammar:  p. 100-101 #2-46 evens to prepare for Wednesday's test

Tuesday:  
silent reading
TFK election worksheet

Wednesday:
silent reading
 library
begin class novel:  Flying Solo

Thursday:  silent reading
read to kinders

Friday:  silent reading
TFK worksheet

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8th grade English
 Monday-flashcards unit 8

Tuesday:  library
finish movie

Wednesday:  graphic organizer:  persuasive speech/essay
completing the sentence unit 8

Thursday:  currently December rough draft
write essay from organizer, due typed 12/7

Friday:  no class due to minimum day schedule

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8th grade reading
Monday:  silent reading
Anne Frank questions
hand out study guide

Tuesday:  silent read
Anne Frank movie

Wednesday:  silent read
Anne Frank test

Thursday:  silent reading
activity about the Holocaust

Friday:  no class due to minimum day schedule


Attention 8th graders: We will be reading To Kill a Mockingbird after we finish Anne Frank.  You will need to purchase your own copy of the book because we will annotate it.  This means you will need to write in it.  Please do this soon.  You will need to have your book after Thanksgiving.  You can purchase it at Barnes and Noble or online.

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If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me at suzanne.lorenzi@olmlancers.com


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You may notice that some things are repeated on this blog from last week, especially with 6th grade.  We had a busy week with preparing for the veterans assembly and visiting the elderly at two locations.  We did not get to everything we had planned, so some things were postponed to this week.  I apologize for any inconvenience, but sometimes certain things take priority.  Last week's activities were certainly worthwhile for our students and for those they served.

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6th grade Religion:

Monday:  practice songs for Christmas program
Tuesday:  pack shoeboxes in faith families...please be sure you have brought your items

Wednesday:  handwriting,
watch school performance of Thanksgiving program

Thursday:  Bible search

Friday:  song practice
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6th grade English

Monday:  no class due to schedule for electives

Tuesday:  begin vocab. review p. 80-82
continue work on graphic organizer for persuasive speech

Wednesday:  vocab. p. 83
writing:  write introduction for persuasive speech

Thursday:  writing-continue with persuasive speeches
grammar worksheet

Friday:  grammar:  p. 96 #1-8
vocab. bingo


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6th grade Reading

Monday:  silent reading
Time for Kids:  American Symbol

Tuesday:  finish TFK worksheet

Wednesday:  library
TFK extra

Thursday:  silent reading
read to kinders

Friday:  silent reading
watch Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

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8th grade English
 Monday-grammar-p. 97-98 
#1-8
go over Holocaust vocabulary


Tuesday:  library
syn/ant unit 7
p. 111 #1-13 grammar

Wednesday:  watch Short Life of Anne Frank Documentary

Thursday: Spelling/vocab. tests unit 7
review p. 102 evens

Friday:  p. 103 #38-76 together
vocab. bingo
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8th grade reading
Monday:  silent reading
Anne Frank

Tuesday:  silent read
Anne Frank

Wednesday:  silent read
Anne Frank

Thursday:  silent reading
Anne Frank

Friday:  silent read
Anne Frank

Attention 8th graders: We will be reading To Kill a Mockingbird after we finish Anne Frank.  You will need to purchase your own copy of the book because we will annotate it.  This means you will need to write in it.  Please do this soon.  You will need to have your book after Thanksgiving.  You can purchase it at Barnes and Noble or online.

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If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email me at suzanne.lorenzi@olmlancers.com

Homework help:  There will be no homework help on Thursday, November 10.  Sorry for the inconvenience.

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Planners:  Parents, please help me out by not signing a blank planner and not signing the planner for the whole week at one time.  If the planner is to be of most benefit to the students, it must be utilized correctly.  It is the student's responsibility to correctly fill out the planner each day with that day's homework.  If the parent signs a blank planner, the child will not see the importance of filling it out.  I would like to make the suggestion that if your child brings you a blank planner to sign, PLEASE have them fill in the homework before signing it.  It should really be filled out before leaving school so that they can be sure they have written down the correct assignments.  Also, please be sure to check the planner on a daily basis and sign it.  It is the student's responsibility to ask you to do this.  By 6th grade, they are capable of handling this responsibility.  Just a thought:  when my son was in school at OLM (he is now in high school), I would not sign his planner at school, even though I worked on campus. It was his responsibility to take care of this the night before.  If not, he faced the consequence at school.  Any students without their planners signed will be given a red card.  Five red cards in 2 weeks will result in a detention.  Teaching responsibility at this age goes a long way in creating successful learners.
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6th grade Religion:

Monday:  practice prayer service and songs for the elderly for Wednesday

Tuesday:  practice prayer service and songs for the elderly

Wednesday:  Bible search

Thursday:  assembly to honor veterans....If you know a veteran, please invite him/her.  We will be honoring veterans at 8:30AM in the auditorium.

Friday:  no school due to Veterans' Day
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6th grade English

Monday:  vocab. words hand motions
choosing the right word unit 6
grammar:  worksheet p. 21-22

Tuesday:  persuasive writing graphic organizer

Wednesday:  grammar:  p, 96 #1-8
spelling baseball to prepare for Thursday's test

Thursday:  spelling/vocab. tests unit 6
grammar:  p. 97 #9-18

Friday:  no school due to Veterans' Day


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6th grade Reading

Monday:  silent reading
finish TFK from Friday

Tuesday:  Book test

Wednesday:  visit the elderly at Park Merced

Thursday:  silent reading
read to kinders

Friday:  no school


​The next book test will be Tuesday, November 8.
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8th grade English
 Monday-vocab. review p. 82-83, 87
grammar:  p. 109 #1-33

Tuesday:  library
flashcards unit 7

Wednesday:  grammar:  p. 95-96
Holocaust vocabulary

Thursday: completing the sentence unit 7
grammar: p. 110

Friday:  no school
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8th grade reading
Monday:  no class due to electives

Tuesday:  silent read
Anne Frank

Wednesday:  silent read
Anne Frank

Thursday:  silent reading
Anne Frank

Friday:  no school