Social Studies
By: Crystal , Marcus and Katelyn In Social Studies we learned about mummys and how you do mummification. Mrs. Holmquist makes it fun so we feel we are not even learning. The Nile River is a part of Egypt, it flows North unlike all the rivers in the world. It…
Ancient Egypt
This week we have been focused on Ancient Egypt. We learned where the term "Rosetta Stone" comes from and why all those commercials about it have to do with language. Here's what 6C learned. What about you? What do you know about ancient writings?
Student Council Elections
Over the last few weeks, 6th grade students interested in being a Student Council officer have been working hard to get elected. Along with completing an application, students also had to get signatures of other students who endorsed them, a teacher recommendation and had to write a speech. After getting…
Fun with Gobstoppers
This week we learned important pieces of an experiment write up. We talked about questions, prediction and hypothesis. We practiced writing predictions and good, complete hypotheses. We learned that in order to have a good, complete hypothesis, you need to have 3 important parts: If, then and because. If, states…
Close Reading
On our second day of school, my awesome 6th graders undertook their first reading assignment: close reading! Many of them had experienced it before, but for majority of the students this was their first time working with the text in this way! We read an article about the 'Top 10…