Throughout the year, we'll have blog entries by the real 6th grade experts: The Sixth Graders, themselves. Here's our first post from one of our very own!
The first few weeks of sixth grade have been a blast! We have done so many things, because of Miss Dimitruk’s great time management. It is true, it is like she can predict the future. When she says we will finish math at 9:45 we finish at 9:45. Also for a while we have been working on our broken pots. We painted pots with caveman paintings and patterns, but the next week we came back from lunch, and they were all broken. Now we are going through the journey of putting them back together. One of our first homework assignments were to make and color the pieces of our dodecahedrons, then the next day we put them together in class. Now they are hanging from the ceiling and many of them are lopsided. We just started DARE this week, and so far we have seen some gross pictures, but have also learned some disappointing news. We found out that we are not allowed to ride any motorized scooters or skateboards until we get a driver's license. It brought up so many questions for our officer. This week we went through part one and two of The Hunter Games. In part one we would pretend that we were in the early times and we had to go find food and water, plus build our own miniature shelter out of paper and toothpicks. Then part two we would work together with our table groups and find food and water, but much larger portions so we could feed everyone. After we found our food and water we had to take turns each drawing a line, and building a model of our house on paper. It was hard, because everyone had different ideas so it looked nothing like a house. Also the people who cooperated the best got upgrades. For example, instead of using a spoon to get water, you could use a cup. It was such a fun experience. These first few weeks of sixth grade have been amazing, and we have already learned so much. We can’t wait to see what else we will be doing the rest of this year! ~L. Comments are closed.
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March 2016
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