What's Up

This week in sixth grade, we have been preparing for our math test on multiplying and dividing fractions. We finished reading chapter 8 in A Wrinkle in Time. During tech, the girls played code games in Hour of Code. The entire school is beginning to practice for our Christmas program that will be on December 17, next Tuesday. Our class is singing The First Noel. Last week, a elf named Rudy dropped off some pretty decorations for our classroom. We put bow on the windows, snowflakes on he closet doors, tinsel along the board, and a wreath and giant stocking on the outside of our classroom door. Chris taught the whole class how to make circular snowflakes, which we taped up on the closet along with the other glitter covered snowflakes. In Social Studies, we are learning about the Ancient Indians, and how they built the first, bathroom/sewage system.

This blog was written by Chloe in Sixth grade

Our Bahiti Mummification Process Update

This is a picture of week 1, week 4 and week 11.  We are performing one last burial for Bahiti today and will be checking in on  him again in a few months.  Stay tuned!

Entering December

This week in sixth grade we have been working hard. On Tuesday we had a math test with multiplying fractions. During tech time we practiced how to use spreadsheets and how to make graphs with google drive.  We are making examples with lunch counts and seeing how much lunch counts are per day of the week . This spreadsheet is making us more organized and taking advantage of technology. Sixth grade is very excited about the Christmas program! The Christmas program is going to be on the 17th of December at the time  7:00pm. We are going to be singing the traditional song Noel.  We have now entered the season of Advent.  We are having a prayer service with the whole school celebrating this time of year.


This was blogged by Angela

Update about Sixth Grade!

We have just finished reading the poem The Raven by Edgar Allen Poe, and started reading the book A Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'engle. This book is a Science fiction book about time travel. We have only read a few chapters so far, but maybe in a few blog posts we will be finished! 

In Math, we have finished learning about Prime Factorization and we are now moving on to fractions! We are starting off with multiplying fractions, but we hope to get to dividing fractions very soon!

In other news, we have just finished our Fall semester STEM classes! Our showcase was held yesterday Wednesday November 20th. Parents, visitors, and other classes in our school came in to observe all of our games and presentations! It was a great 6 weeks of STEM and we all hope that Spring semester STEM classes will be just as great! 

Last Monday, we had a speaker come in all the way from Liberia Africa. Macintosh, a man who grew up in Westpoint, the poorest neighborhood in Liberia, came to speak to the 6th, 7th, and 8th graders about his inspiring story and the organization he has put up for suffering girls in Liberia. His organization educates girls living in poverty in Liberia. We hope to one day help those girls and contribute to their company.

-Franki

Rorsarch Note Cards

Use your book (p. 418 and on) for a reference on how to make note cards

As a reminder...

Your note cards must include:

1. The source where you got the information.
*Make sure to include the author, title of the work, the website, name of the book, etc
*You will need this for your works cited
*Make sure to keep track of where you get ALL of your information

2. The information written out that you think will be helpful for your research paper

3. These can be done on index cards, on google drive, word, binder paper, whatever is easier for you.  Stay organized is what is very important!!

GOOD LUCK and HAVE FUN!!

Current Events How To

Directions: Choose a news source and write a summary of an article.  It must include the title, date, author, section, and source of the article.  Answer the questions: who, what, where, when and why in describing your article.  You must do at least one article from each section before repeating.  You cannot do all of the “choose your own” in subsequent weeks.  Check each section off as you go.

Ms. Bryan

September 25th, 2013

# 1

Current Event- #2

Title of Article:

Date of Article:

Author of Article:

Section:

Source:

Summary goes here which will include who, what, where, when and why.  Make sure to include enough details so that I know what the article is about by just reading this section. If there isn't a lot of information in the article, choose another article.

Art	Politics	Weather
Entertainment	Style/Fashion	Science
Sports	Sports	Tourism
Health/Medicine	Family	Cooking
Choose your own	Choose your own	Choose your own

Rorschach Directions

Rorschach Test Research Project

Directions: Write a report on the Rorschach test.  It should be five paragraphs long and have a good beginning, middle, and end.  You need to have an outline first that is approved by me before you write the final draft.  Make sure to include a works cited and keep track of where you get your information.  The outline and final draft should be shared with me using google drive.

In addition, create an ink blot using paint and ask three people what they see. Record your observations. Did all the people see the same thing? Could you see all the pictures that the other people saw? Do you think this test says anything about personality? Why or why not?

Outline

You need to clearly show what the topic sentence, details and concluding sentences are going to be.  You are not writing your entire report here, but organizing your information.

Final Draft

The first paragraph is your introductory paragraph and should tell readers what they are going to write about, but not have all the details.

The middle three paragraphs are where your details are.  Each paragraph should be organized with all the same information in one paragraph.

The fifth paragraph is your concluding paragraph.  This summarizes everything you wrote about.  

Each paragraph should include:

1. Topic sentence

2. Three details

3. Concluding sentence

My email is jbryan@stmsf.org.  There will also be a copy of these directions posted on our blog for your reference.  

Pick Your Own God/dess

Directions: Choose an ancient Egyptian god/dess that you find interesting and make a powerpoint about them.  Check the circles below to make sure you have included all of the necessary information when you are done.  The slides must include the following information

Due Thursday, October 17th

At least three pictures of your god/dess or items pertaining to them (throughout the slides)

Slide 1

• Title page with God/dess name, your name, date and number

Slide 2

• Why did ancient egyptians worship all gods?
• What did they do to worship gods

Slide 3

• What is your god/ess name?

• What are they the god of?  Why are they important?

Slide 4

• What are interesting facts about them? (more than one)
• What do the symbols on their image mean?

Slide 5

• Are they related to any other gods?
• What myth does my god/dess appear in?

Slide 6

• Site all of your sources

STEM Electives

The STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) Electives have been chosen! STEM Electives have been scheduled to begin on October 9th. The classes will be held on Wednesday mornings from 8:30 to 10:30. There will be Stop Motion Animation, Introduction to Architecture, Basic Computer Programming, Personal Finance, Climate Change and Chemistry of Cooking! Many of our first time students doing electives are very excited! We will see you there!

 Blogged by Chris

Bahiti's Mummification Ritual

He was our favorite family member, he always made people happy when he was around.  He entered many competitions like Egypt's Got Talent, The Squawk, and Egypt's Master Chef.  The day his egg was laid we were filled with joy!  His feathers, were pure gold, his beak, pure white.  He was the best chicken ever!  We hope, that he may live in peace in the afterlife.  Bahiti was a wonderful chicken.  He would cook for the pharaoh and practiced fencing after school.  He would knit sweaters for his mother and scarves for his father.  On weekends, he would go out and work in the fields.  Some of his favorite things were apples, pink unicorns, and harvesting pink apples with Ra and Thoth.  He also liked to play with his kids.  When he had spare time, Bahiti would play basketball at a gym with his friends.  

We had a great time learning all about the mummification procedure and created one of our own rituals for our chicken Bahiti.  We will be continuing on with this project for the next several weeks to see the changes the mummification process has.  

Click here for pictures of our mummification and ritual.  Check out the pictures of the life size god/desss on the closet doors as well!

The beginning of our chicken mummification!!

We are off to a start on creating an ancient egyptian burial ritual!  We will learn about what an ancient ritual was and why ancient egyptians had them.  We will be making a coffin for our chicken and decorating the box with illustration of our chicken's hobbies.  Stay tuned to find out what our chicken's life was like!

Click here for pictures of our first day 

Literature Circle Information

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Welcome parents and students to our Sixth Grade blog!  

     We will be updating our blog and sharing what is going on in our classroom.  We have already gotten off to a wonderful school year and are looking forward to many exciting events throughout the year.  We will participate in outdoor education, creating our own opera, hosting the school picnic and much more!

Check back later for more updates!