Thursday, December 6, 2018

Book Club Projects.

The students have been in book clubs the last 6 weeks. They are finishing up their books this week and will need to present their books next Friday, December 14th with their group. they may need to get together outside of class if they choose certain projects. Here is what it will look like:

Book Club Report
Fill out this form about your book as a group. Then decide what project you want to do for your book and present to the class. You will need to talk to the class about your book and retell the book from the beginning to an exciting part without giving away the ending or any spoilers. The goal is to get the class excited to read the book themselves. We will present in class the afternoon of:  Friday, December 14th!

Book Club Members:

Title and author of the book:

Genre:

Point of View (1st or 3rd):

Theme (Big Idea, Moral, or Message):

Main Characters:


Protagonist (Hero):

Antagonist (Enemy or Evil Character):

Setting:

Problem & Solution of Story:

Retell the Book from the Beginning to an Exciting Part Script:
(Be sure to include important details like the setting, who the main characters are, important events, etc.)

In the beginning of:







Then:






Next:






After that:








And to find out what happens next, you’ll have to read ______________.

Project Ideas:
Feel free to choose any of these projects to present your book or think of your own! Make sure you all collaborate together!

  1. Make a book preview/trailer on google slides, adobe spark, or IMovie.
  2. Design a poster to advertise your book. Be creative…use detail…elaborate…use color! Can you make it 3-D or movable?
  3. Design a game, based on the events in the book.. Be sure to include clear directions and provide everything needed to play.
  4. Look through magazines for words and pictures that describe your book. Use these to create a collage on a bookmark. Make the bookmark available for others to use as they read the same book.
  5. Make paper dolls of the characters in the book you read with different outfits for them to wear
  6. Puppet Show! Include a Script.
  7. Make a time-line of the major events in the book you read. Use drawings or magazine cutouts to illustrate events along the time-line.
  8. Interview a character from your book. Write at least ten questions that will give the character the opportunity to discuss his/her thoughts and feelings about his/her role in the story. However you choose to present your interview is up to you.
  9. Write a diary that one of the story’s main characters might have kept before, during, or after the book’s events. Remember that the character’s thoughts and feelings are very important in a diary.
  10. Build a miniature stage setting of a scene in the book. Include a written explanation of the scene.
  11. Create a mini-comic book retelling a chapter of the book.
  12. Write and perform an original song that tells the story of the book.
  13. Be a TV or radio reporter, and give a report of a scene from the book as if it is happening "live".
  14. Write a newspaper article about the story.
  15. Write poems about the story and read them to the class.
  16. Write a mini-book or picture book of the story.
  17. Make a travel brochure advertising the setting of the story.
  18. Write an obituary for one of the characters. Be sure to include life-time accomplishments.
  19. Choose a job for one of the characters in the book and fill out an  application.
  20. Write an ad for a dating service for one of the characters.
  21. Write a reader’s theater and perform it for the class.
  22. Make a new book cover
  23. Write another ending to the story or a new scene in the book that you wish was in it but wasnt’.
  24. Make “Wanted” posters for characters in the book.Include the following: (a) a drawing or cut out picture of the character or object, (b) a physical description of the character or object, (c) the character’s or object’s misdeeds (or deeds?), (d) other information about the character or object which is important, (e) the reward offered for the capture of the character or object.
  25. Perform a dance to a song that goes along with the theme of the book.
  26. Write letters from one character to another character and a reply.
  27. Make a map showing where the story took place.
  28. Make a crossword puzzle using ideas from a book. Need at least 25 entries.
  29. Write a letter to the author of your novel and explain how you feel about the book.
  30. Make a test for the book you read. Include 10 true-false, 10 multiple choice, and 10 short essay questions. After writing the test, provide the answers for your questions.
  31. Complete a series of five drawings that show five of the major events in the plot of the book you read. Write captions for each drawing so that the illustrations can be understood by someone who did not read the book.
  32. Create a sculpture of a character. Use any combination of soap, wood, clay, sticks, wire, stones, old toy pieces, or any other object. An explanation of how this character fits into the book should accompany the sculpture.
  33. Plan a vacation for one or more characters in the book. Where will they go? What will they eat, see, do. Where will they stay?
  34. Design and build a mobile on a hanger with images and objects that represent the events, characters, theme, setting, etc. in the book.
  35. Your Own Idea:

Decide which project you will do and how each member of the group will contribute. Show me your plan below:

Monday, December 3, 2018

12/3-12/7 Spelling List and Homework Note

12/3-12/7

Happy last month of 2018! Only 13 school days before Christmas Break starts on Thursday, December 20th. Tonight is the last
night of the play Annie. I'm so proud of all the hard work and amazing performance they have given. We will get to see Oak
Canyon perform a choir concert on Friday and our school's choir will be performing at the mall on Thursday. In science we are
working on heat and energy. Keep those insulation items coming in!
We will do a test on percents this Thursday! Let's have a great week!
Love,

Professor Malouf
Unit 3: Week 2
Spelling Words
1. actor
2. sweeper
3. scatter
4. gutter
5. platter
6. customer
7. sweater
8. flavor
9. mirror
10. vinegar
11. gardener
12. solar
13. calendar
14. waiter
15. barber
16. alligator
17. hammer
18. wander
19. tractor
20. editor
Vocabulary Words:
1. dilemma—a difficult problem or choice to be made
2. feebly—done weakly
3. persistent—continues in spite of interference or opposition
4. recoiled—fell back suddenly in fear or shock
5. roused—woken up from sleep or rest
6. skewed—took an indirect route
7. summon—call upon something for a certain action
8. vastness—very large

Friday, November 30, 2018

Sleigh Bell Cup Song For Christmas Sing

On Tuesday, December 18th at 2 pm will be our school's Christmas Sing. 6th grade will be doing percussion with cups to the Sleigh Bell Song.

Here is a link to a youtube video that demonstrates how to do it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=10&v=_KCrdoIKc88

Feel free to practice as much as you can!

Saturday, November 24, 2018

11/26-11/30 Spelling List and HW Note

Dear Parents and Students,

Welcome back! I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving Break. We will start learning about percents in
math this week. If your student wants to retake any of the 4 previous chapter math tests, have them let me
know and I can delete their previous test score from Mastery Connect and they can try again. We are
working on inference and argumentative writing along with realistic fiction for language arts.We are going
to begin constructing small houses this week and test them for heat loss/gain and then insulate them and
compare our results. Please send in any extra bubble wrap, foam, fabric, etc. that you can spare to help
withthis science project! Thank you! Also, please send in book orders. I will do an online order this
weekend. If you'd like to send in a check made out to Scholastic or exact cash along with the book order
form I can order your books for you. Otherwise order online at scholastic.com/bookclubs. My class code
is TLQTY. When you order I get points to order more books for our classroom! Thanks for your support!

Love,
Professor Malouf
Unit 3: Week 1
Spelling Words
1. wealthy
2. healthy
3. shoulder
4. toughest
5. exploit
6. agreed
7. volunteer
8. impeach
9. spoilage
10. poisonous
11. appointment
12. moisten
13. equal
14. streamline
15. guaranteed
16. creature
17. treasure
18. straighten
19. ceiling
20. earthbound

Vocabulary Words:
1. capacity—the maximum amount or number that can be
received or held
2. enthralled—to have your attention held by someone’s or
something’s skill or appearance
3. fallow—not used but still able to grow crops 4. insight—to clearly understand the true nature of
something
5. negotiate—deal or bargain with someone in order to

come to an agreement
6. regulation—in agreement with official rules or laws
7. resemblance—similarity that is easy to see
8. unseemly—inappropriate or improper

Monday, November 19, 2018

Thanksgiving Week/ Donations Please

Dear Parents and Students,

There is no homework this week as there are only 2 school days! Tomorrow I will bring some pies and we can play pie face the last little bit of school while we write down what we are thankful for about each other. When we come back we will be working on building little houses in groups and insulating them. I am requesting the following materials to help with our projects:

-cotton balls
-foam
-fabric
-felt
-packing peanuts
-bubble wrap
-newspaper/magazines
-aluminum foil
-wooden dowels
-cardstock paper
-paper towels
-We are also low on hand sanitizer and sanitzing wipes for our classroom :)

Thank you so much for your help with this!

Love,
Professor Malouf

Monday, November 12, 2018

11/12 Spelling List and Homework Note


11/12/18
Dear Parents and Students,

Happy Veteran’s Day! Today we had a special assembly to honor our veterans. Thank you, all you who have served. A week from today the 6th grade will be going on a field trip to Orem High School to see the Utah Symphony perform! We should be back right at our lunch time, so we will have lunch at school as normal. It should be a wonderful experience. I encourage students to dress nicely as it is a performance.Friday is the last day of term 1. Grades will be posted on Skyward November 27th. So get that make -up work in! Let’s have an awesome week!

Love,

Professor Malouf

Unit 2: Week 5
Spelling Words
1. simple
2. royal
3. national
4. valuable
5. survival
6. muscle
7. whistle
8. squabble
9. durable
10. incurable
11. scramble
12. scruple
13. needle
14. noodle
15. squiggle
16. throttle
17. securable
18. beagle
19. befuddle
20. bicycle

Vocabulary Words:
1. commemorate—to do something to honor or remember
2. contemplate—to think about something seriously for a
long time
3. forlorn—lonely and miserable
4. majestic—grand and impressive
5. lyric poetry—has a songlike quality and expresses the
speaker’s thoughts and feelings
6. sonnet—a 14-line poem that expresses a single,
complete thought
7. rhyme scheme—the pattern of rhymes at the end of
lines in a poem
8. meter—the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables

in a poem

Monday, November 5, 2018

Red Ribbon Week! 11/5 Spelling List

Dear Parents and Students,We will be talking every day about how it is cool to be drug free and
against violence. Here is aschedule of what students should wear:
Today: Kick off
Tuesday: Wear Red for support of being drug free
Wednesday: Wear silly socks today to show you can be silly at times but Bullying is nothing to laugh about.
Thursday: Wear PJs today (clean ones & not ones slept in) to show we can wear PJs and be lazy sometimes but we should never be lazy about being Safe On-Line.
Friday: Crazy Hair Day to show we can keep our head when making good choices!
Let's have an awesome week!
Love,
Professor Malouf

Unit 2: Week 4
Spelling Words
1. brutal
2. secure
3. open
4. cabin
5. fever
6. voter
7. forest
8. radar
9. decode
10. resists
11. labor
12. basic
13. rival
14. retire
15. topic
16. amid
17. unit
18. related
19. favor
20. relay
Vocabulary Words:
1. benefit—an advantage
2. deftly—done in a skillful, quick, and clever way
3. derision—ridicule or a lack of respect
4. eaves—the lower overhanging edges of a roof
5. expertise—having mastered a skill
6. impudence—behavior that is rude, bold, or disrespectful
7. legacy—something handed down from the past
8. symmetry—beauty and balance in shape and

appearance

5/20 Spelling List and Homework Note

This is our last spelling list/test of the year! Next Monday there is no school. On Tuesday we have Field Day and our School Wide Movie of ...