Lesson Plans are subject to change and will be updated as time allows.
Week of March 23
- Monday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); highs/lows; Teamwork activity (half of class missing)
- Tuesday: Journal (What are your plans for Spring Break) Finish The Revealers; Computer Lab - Thank you notes
- Wednesday: Journal (What is your favorite Easter candy? If you could hide eggs in the school, what would be your top three hiding places? Why?); Finish Thank You Notes;
- Thursday: 1/2 Day - Review of Comet Character
- Friday: NO SCHOOL - Enjoy Spring Break
Week of March 16
- Monday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); highs/lows; Work on SIP
- Tuesday: Journal (Today is Saint Patrick's Day. Do you like this day or not? Tell me about it!) Read from The Revealers; begin notes on PBA.
- Wednesday: Journal (Do you think you have a high PBA or a low PBA right now? Why?); Read from The Revealers; Finish PBA Notes
- Thursday: Journal (If you could star in any movie, what would it be? Why? Which actor would you like to meet? Why?); Read from The Revealers; Do Promises-Promises sheet and Kindness Sheet
- Friday: Journal (What did you learn in school this week?); SIP due today!! Teamwork activity - The Pretzel
Week of March 9
- Monday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); highs/lows; Catch-up day
- Tuesday: Journal (Do you like the whole idea of daylight savings time? Why or why not?) Read from The Revealers; notes on Life Centers
- Wednesday: Journal (Using your notes from yesterday, give me examples of two or three life centers); Read from The Revealers; Notes on principles; Homework: What are your top three principles and why?
- Thursday: Journal (Which three principles from your sheet do you wish the WORLD had more of? Why); read from The Revealers; begin SIP (Change due date to MARCH 20)
- Friday: Journal (What did you learn in school this week?); Go over graphing for SIP writing and discuss article Americans' Negativity About U.S. Moral Values Inches Back UP and SIP
Week of March 2
- Monday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); highs/lows; Sticks and Stones Activity part 2
- Tuesday: Journal (Free write or did you like Snow Dogs); read from The Revealers; continue discussion on Sticks and Stones and paradigms of others
- Wednesday: Journal (Sticks and Stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me - do you agree or not? Why?); discuss journal; read from The Revealers;
- Thursday: Journal (Why is it important to build others up? What do you do to be nice to others?); read from The Revealers; do positive paradigms of others sheet
- Friday: Journal (What did you learn in school this week?); finish positive paradigms of others; teamwork activity
Week of February 23
- Monday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); highs/lows; finish mirror, mirror activity; discussion of self-paradigms
- Tuesday: Journal (Do you believe you have a positive self paradigm? Why or why not? It's alright if you say no - I don't always have one either!); read from The Revealers; continue discussion on self-paradigms
- Wednesday: SUB: Movie
- Thursday: Sub: Movie
- Friday: Sub: Finish movie; read from The Revealers; Teamwork activity
Week of February 16
- Monday: No School - Presidents Day
- Tuesday: Journal (Tell me about your weekend); read from The Revealers; Top 10 stupid quotes of all time; stupid kid quotes; Basic notes about paradigms (point of view. We have them on self, life, others); Mirror, Mirror sheet. If not done, finish for homework. Miss Kuhrt's example
- Wednesday: Journal (What do you think of The Revealers so far?); Read from The Revealers; using the Mirror Mirror sheet from yesterday, each student will come up to a mirror and say one nice thing to themselves;
- Thursday: Journal (Do you believe you have a positive self paradigm? Why or why not? It's alright if you say no - I don't always have one either!); read from The Revealers; finish mirror, mirror activity; discussion of self-paradigms
- Friday: Journal (Do you think Catalina made the right decision to send her letter out to the seventh grade? Would you do something like that?); Sticks and Stones activity - finish
Week of February 9
- Monday: Journal (tell me about your weekend); highs/lows; Benefits of 7 Habits (all notes from 7 Habits); 7 Habits of Defective kids; HOMEWORK: What are two of your effective habits? Tell me about them. What are two of your defective habits? Tell me about them.
- Tuesday: Journal (What are you looking forward to about our guest speaker?); read from The Revealers; Go over Defective kids sheet; Assignment: What are two of your effective habits? Tell me about them. What are two of your defective habits? Tell me about them. Four paragraphs - four sentences for each paragraph!
- Wednesday: Journal (Are boys different than girls? Explain); Read from The Revealers; Finish yesterday's assignment; If not done, homework
- Thursday: SUB: Journal (Free write); Read from The Revealers; Begin Sticks and Stones activity
- Friday: SUB: Journal (What did you learn in school this week?); teamwork activity
Week of February 2
- Monday: No School - SNOW DAY
- Tuesday: Journal (tell me about your weekend); highs/lows; Riddle and discussion of Habit; Do you believe the answer to the riddle should be habit? - Students write a paragraph - if not done, finish for homework; Read from The Revealers; Parent Letter now due Tomorrow
- Wednesday: Journal (Free Write); Read from The Revealers; Habit Discussion and Notes; Habit Activity 1-54
- Thursday: Journal (Do you have more good or more bad habits? Explain); Read from The Revealers; Habit Notes; Round-Robin on Good, Bad, and Neutral Habits
- Friday: Journal (What did you learn in school this week?); Teamwork activity
Week of January 26
- Monday: Finishing 2nd nine weeks
- Tuesday: Parent Letter, Class description, Seating Charts; Read from The Revealers
- Wednesday: Journal (what do you think of sixth grade so far?); Journal discussions; Read from The Revealers
- Thursday: No School - SNOW DAY
- Friday: Journal (what can you do to make 6th grade awesome?); Teamwork activity