45 Temple Street Reading, MA 01867 Phone: (781) 944-1236 Fax: (781) 942-9008. Parker's 5th Grade Class. I am so excited about the year we are going to have together and I look forward to getting to know you and your child. This is my second year here at Bay Crest Elementary teaching fifth grade. PARKER'S 6TH GRADE L.A. The daily workshop is set up so that students will be presented with a mini- lesson and then be sent off to write until it is time. 6th Grade Math email. All assignments can be found on the 6th grade. Corrections will improve your child's grade in the class as well as help.

Middle School Block: 5A final tests Monday and Tuesday, 5B will be working on root words on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday.
Language/Word Study: The students will be reading chapters 6-13 in Maniac Magee
Math: The students will be working on lessons 1.6 - 1.9. They are reviewing using and applying data to graphs.
Reading Workshop: The 6th grade class is discussing how to BUZZ effectively. They are also discussing characteristics of fiction and nonfiction books. In addition individuals are being assessed with Guided Reading materials.
Writing Workshop: Developing (Ideas and Content) will be the focus for this class till MEA break. Students will begin writing six different stories and then develop one of them into a published product.
Band is on Cycle day 2.
Agendas will be completed at the end of each day. Mr. Wagner will sign the Agenda. It is encouraged that parents initial the agenda to confirm the data.
Have a great week.

Thank you to the anonymous benefactor who donated Twix candy bars for the entire student body and staff today. What a great way to brighten our day! Thank you so much!!

The Football Awards Meeting scheduled for today had to be postponed to a later date.

Wrestlers weigh in today at 2:30 in the boys’ locker room.

The Fall Play is available for viewing on the school website www.isd547.com from January 22-28.

Virtual Senior High Knowledge Bowl Meet on Monday at Immanuel Lutheran Church in the morning.

SPEECH TEAM: Meeting Tuesday (1/26) in Mrs. Lee's room during your Panther Hour. Please bring your Chromebook or laptop.

Congratulations to the Cast and Crew of the Fall Play and One Act. You did an amazing job with the difficult task of recording both productions. I know it was stressful and tiring, but your extra effort resulted in two great recordings. Huzzah from Mrs. Lee. The Cast would like to send a huge thank you to Anya Wagner, Chase Thieschafer, Laura Hagel, and Jayme O'Brien for your help with the Fall Play and One Act. We really appreciate it! An even bigger Thank You to Jon Jensen for all of his work with filming and editing. To David 'LIght Man' O'Brien: Thank You for stepping in at the last minute and ensuring the show could go on.

National Geographic cancelled its annual Geography Bee this year, but that did not stop students in grades 6-8 from competing. The questions were created by Mr. Duberwoski, Mr. Owings, Mr. O'Brien, and Fred Liljegren. All students in grades 6-8 competed in the preliminary round of forty questions. Ten students advanced to the finals, with Sarah Toyli coming out as the winner. 1st place: Sarah Toyli 2nd place: Nolan Steidl 3rd place: Anya Wagner

Reminder: Please eat food in the designated areas only. It’s also important to not keep food that spoils in your lockers!!

Menus-Breakfast Every Day-Fruit, Cheese Stick, Juice, Milk Today: Apple Churro Monday: Cereal

Today: Quesadilla, Vegetable Variety, Fruit Variety

What Do You Learn In 6th Grade

Monday: Cheese Pizza, Corn, Broccoli, Mixed Fruit, Grapes

Sports

Congratulations to the Varsity Girls’ Basketball Team on their 49-40 win over Underwood last night. The B-Squad lost. 7th and 8th grade girls basketball both won last night. 7th grade score was 20-14. 8th grade score was 25-7.

Junior high basketball practice will be over at 5:00 today.

Daily Workmrs. Parker's 6th Grade L.a. Classic

Wrestling Tri at Perham today at 5:00 p.m. Bus leaves at 3:10 Dismiss at 2:55 The Varsity matches will be livestreamed on Magnitude Sports and can be found at youtube.com/MagnitudeSports or at www.msportsnet.com. They plan to be streaming the Junior Varsity matches on Facebook Live from the Perham Mat Club Facebook page. Lakes 99.5 FM will have the call for the first and third matches when Perham is wrestling. BHVPP Wrestling page will also be facebook live our JV matches.

Boys’ Basketball at Hillcrest today at 5:00 p.m. Bus leaves at 3:30 For live stream you can google Hillcrest live stream or go to their website www.ffhillcrest.org and go under parents and live stream events.

Hockey with Northern Lakes home (Wadena) today at 7:00 p.m. Here is the livestream link for our home games. We will stream both JV and Varsity! https://wadenahockey.mylivegame.com/

6th Grade Classroom

Jr. High Girls’ Basketball at Rothsay High School (Bill Rose Gymnasium) on Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. It will be on youtube live under Rothsay Athletics.

Girls’ Basketball at Long Prairie on Tuesday at 5:45 p.m. (please note earlier start time)

Boys’ Basketball here with Battle Lake on Tuesday at 5:00 p.m. Ticket Takers: Heidi Murray & Jill Klimek

Upcoming Events

January 28 – Virtual FFA State Degree Review

January 28 – Boys Basketball Pictures after school

January 30 – Saturday School 9:00-12:00

February 1 – Virtual FFA State Degree Interviews

February 2 – Virtual FFA Ag Mechanics & Floriculture Contest

February 8 – Virtual Senior High Knowledge Bowl Meet

February 11 – Virtual FFA Contest

February 15 – No School, Sno Daze Coronation 7:00 p.m.