grade 6 - blizzard bag #2

Grade 6 - Blizzard Bag #2

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Blizzard Bags are pre-made lessons and activities that allow students to work from home in the case of a

school closing (not a delay). Saint Mary School will notify you through ParentAlert when a Blizzard Bag

needs to be completed.

Subject and Assignments Math............................................................................................................................................................... 3

ELA ................................................................................................................................................................. 4

Science ........................................................................................................................................................... 7

Social Studies ............................................................................................................................................... 10

Spanish ......................................................................................................................................................... 11

Blizzard Bags should be returned to school within one week of the announced snow day. In order for the

snow day to count as a school day, all students are required to return their Blizzard Bags to avoid

extending the school year. The work will be graded and will become part of your child's overall grade.


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Religion Using the standard journaling rubric, journal on the snow day’s Gospel. The rubric can be found on old

journal assignments in Google classroom, or the hard copy I gave you. If you need the rubric email me

and I can send you an electronic copy. Make sure you answer the questions in full, and that you get the

correct Gospel for the day we’re out of school.

Journal Prompt on the Liturgy of the Word:

• What word or phrase jumped out at you in today’s reading?

• Imagine that you were present during this story. What do you see, hear, smell, taste, feel, etc.?

Describe everything in detail.

• Imagine that you are one of the people in the reading. What do you feel, think, do as a response

to the events?

• What did this reading remind you of in your life at this moment?


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Math Log on https://play.prodigygame.com using your username and password. Play for about 30 minutes.

Make sure you spend time doing the problems as you have fun with the program. We get detailed

reports of your activities.

https://play.prodigygame.com/


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ELA This blizzard bag will focus on review of the eight parts of speech. Please take a look at the attached

PowerPoint presentation on the parts of speech and complete the following questions below.

Nouns

Proper nouns are the names of particular people, places, things or ideas. They are written with a capital

letter at the beginning. Write a proper noun next to each common noun below.

1. country ___________________ 5. month ____________________

2. river ____________________ 6. day ____________________

3. city ____________________ 7. holiday ____________________

4. teacher’s name _____________________ 8. pet’s name ______________________

An abstract noun is the name of something that can’t be recognized by the five senses. You can’t touch,

taste, hear, smell, or see it; it can only be recognized by the mind.

Collective nouns are the names of nouns we use for collections of things.

Nouns that are used to name general things are called common nouns.

Circle the proper nouns. Underline the abstract nouns. Square the collective nouns. Star the common

nouns. You may do more than one action to each word.

knees Burmese Tiger September health

bouquet

Everest Tuesday litter dog bunch

happiness school Gull Lake fun desk

pain Friday Mr. Bussies batch flower

Vanessa Monday Long Beach bacon

yachting

biscuits bravery care spaghetti English

Adjective

Adjectives are words that describe nouns or pronouns by describing them, adding detail to them, or

refining their meaning. It answers the questions: How many? What kind? Which one?

Circle the adjectives in the story below.


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A leisurely, 100-yard swim brought is to the off-shore reef. We were looking for loose shells, unusual coral formations, flowering anemones, and brightly colored fish; we were looking out for sea spines, fine coral, moray eels, and unfriendly sharks. Jason had brought some bread crusts to entice the tiny reef fish, and Jen hoped that her can of cheese curls would attract some of the larger, hungry inhabitants. Dan and Joe had tucked some leftover chum in their pockets, just in case they saw a nosy squid or a scouting ray. Excited by the unexplored wonders of the reef and energized by the cool, clear, Caribbean waters, we skimmed along the shallower, in-shore edges of the reef.

Jess and I poked contentedly at the buzzing population of colorful creatures hidden in the cracks and crevices of the craggy coral. Jen, Jason, Dan, and Joe had rounded the ocean side of the reef and were out of sight. However, a cloud of chum and crumbs, propelled by voluminous bubbles churned near the turn in the reef. It appeared to be a school of fish. Jess and I raced recklessly toward the troubled waters. As we rounded the reef, we discovered a mass of frenzied fish swarming around our friends. On the deep, blue, ocean edge of this frightening scenario circled a dark, foreboding shape...

Pronouns

Pronouns take the place of nouns and other pronouns. Antecedent is the word the pronoun takes the

place of. Underline the pronoun(s) and circle the matching antecedent(s).

Example: Becky carried her cupcake to the trash, and threw it away.

9. Students brought their lunches to the beach.

10. Ken took Meg home on his new motorcycle.

11. The divers found pieces of coral and brought them back to the boat.

12. Joe and John could have kept the trophy, but they decided to share it.

13. The members of the class turned in their term papers.

14. We keep the priceless vase in its special cabinet.

15. Neither Erin nor Scott ate their lunches.

16. Becky and Susie blamed themselves for the accident.

17. The girl who had been hit by the dune buggy regained consciousness.

18. The ball touched the player’s hands before he noticed the wasp perched on it.

Adverbs

An adverb modifies a verb, an adjective, or another adverb. It answers the questions: Where? When?

How? How often? To what extent?

Circle the adverbs in the story. Draw an arrow to what it modifies.


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Example: The jogger ran quickly down the road.

At lunchtime, students at our school quickly rush to the cafeteria. They stand impatiently in line

because the food in our cafeteria tastes great. The sandwiches are piled high with meat. The money

flows out of their pockets quickly to buy the delicious food. The pizza never disappoints them. The

students swallow their food greedily. They are extremely fast eaters. After lunch, the students move

quite slowly to their 4th hour classes.

Prepositions

Prepositions show the relationship of a noun or pronoun to another word in the sentence.

Unjumble the preposition at the end of each sentence. Write the word on the blank line.

19. Mike is standing _______________ Pete. (ebsdei)

20. The cat is _________________ the tree. (enar)

21. It is leaning ________________ the fence. (ganista)

22. They ran _________________ the garden (dranuo)

23. The ball is __________________ the table. (duner)

24. The children ran __________________ the playground (rothugh)

Underline the prepositions in each sentence.

25. Does the basketball season generally come before the football season?

26. The standard length of a basketball court is 94 feet, and the width is 50 feet.

27. A basket attached to a backboard hangs over each end of the court.

28. Her free throw hit the backboard above the basket.

Conjunctions

Conjunctions are words that are used to join words or groups of words together.

Use an appropriate conjunction to complete each sentence.

29. I wanted to go to the movies, ___________________ I didn’t have any money.

30. My parents were angry ___________________ I was two hours late.

31. He said I could have it ___________________I gave him ten dollars.

32. Sally swept the floor, ___________________ I did the washing up.

33. You cannot leave ___________________your room is tidy.

34. The match was still played ___________________it was raining heavily.

35. I had not seen her ___________________ the middle of the year.

36. Sally could not come to the club ___________________she was feeling ill.

37. The weather was cold ___________________it was the middle of winter.

38. We left the classroom ___________________ the bell began to ring.

Interjection

An interjection expresses a strong emotion or feeling.

Add an interjection to each sentence. Choose a variety of interjections.

39. ________________! Do not interrupt the speaker.

40. ________________, what a wonderful time we had on the safari!

41. ________________, this is a fabulous pasta salad.

42. ________________, what an incredibly rude thing to say!

43. ________________, I can’t take it anymore.


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Science INQUIRY SKILL FOCUS Introduction

Pose Questions

Why isn’t my radio working? What’s the most popular radio program? How does a radio work?

What’s the best kind of music? These are different kinds of questions you might ask. Some of

them concern physical objects. Others are based on values or opinions—what people believe is

right or wrong, or beautiful or ugly.

Questions are an essential part of science. But scientific questions are limited to the

natural world—to material objects and energy changes you can observe directly or with

scientific tools. The objects may be either living or nonliving things. The energy changes may be

easy to observe, such as the sound of thunder overhead, or more difficult, such as the light

coming from a distant star. What makes a question scientific is that it can be answered by

observations, or evidence.

Scientists may start with a broad question such as “Why do people get colds?” Next, they

break the question down into smaller questions: Can you catch a cold from someone else? Is

there a relationship between getting chills and catching a cold? They state the final question in

a way that can be answered by investigation or experiment. A good scientific question is “Does

getting chilled cause colds?”

Narrowing down a question often helps researchers plan an investigation and gather

evidence to answer the question. For example, to determine whether chills cause colds, a

scientist could ask volunteers to undergo low temperatures that produce chills. If few or no

volunteers catch colds, the scientist has obtained evidence to answer the question.

TIPS FOR POSING QUESTIONS

1. Begin by listing several questions on a topic about the natural world.

2. Try to eliminate questions that cannot be answered by gathering evidence.

3. Break broad questions into questions that can be investigated one at a time.

4. Word questions in a way that allows them to be answered by an investigation or experiment. Here are some good ways to begin scientific questions: “What is the relationship between . . .” “What factors cause . . .” “What is the effect of . . .” Be sure that the question identifies a relationship or factor you can investigate.


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Choose the one question below that can be answered scientifically,

and word it in the form of a scientific question.

• Which flowers are prettier, daisies or roses?

• Can you get warts from handling toads?

• Do cats make better pets than dogs?

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INQUIRY SKILL FOCUS Practice

Pose Questions

Examine the statements below. For each of Questions 1–10, write yes if the topic can be

investigated scientifically. Write no if it cannot be investigated scientifically. Then, for each item

to which you answered yes, rewrite the topic in the form of a scientific question. Answer

Question 11 on a separate sheet of paper.

1. Some people work better in the morning, and other people work better in the afternoon. _______________________________________________________________________________

2. Taking something that belongs to another person is wrong. _______________________________________________________________________________

3. Snakes travel in pairs. _______________________________________________________________________________

4. Animals behave in strange ways before an earthquake. _______________________________________________________________________________

5. People who don’t recycle should have to pay fines. _______________________________________________________________________________

6. Basketball is a better sport than soccer. _______________________________________________________________________________

7. You will remember best whatever you read just before you fall asleep. _______________________________________________________________________________

8. Maria’s kind of bike is faster than Rob’s kind of bike. _______________________________________________________________________________

9. Each year when the weather gets cold, birds fly to warmer regions. _______________________________________________________________________________

10. Trucks use more gasoline than cars. _______________________________________________________________________________


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Social Studies Name___________________________________________


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Spanish ¡OJO! You might want to save some ink and paper by not printing out the little stories – You might

just want to print the worksheets which follow and read on-line. I will have a copy of the stories in

class. : )


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