Monday before Christmas

We are planning to finish our measuring today. A few students might have to finish on January 4th, but that is alright as we will review what we learned that day. Tomorrow the students will go to first hour as regularly scheduled. Then there will be SSR, Channel One and breakfast. Following breakfast will be a movie in the auditorium, a dance in the gym, and lunch. Students will be dismissed at 1 p.m. for the Christmas break. Hope you all have a Merry Christmas and enjoy the time with your family and friends. Find joy!

Thursday

We are measuring today. We are measuring length, area, volume of regularly and irregularly shaped objects. We are finding the mass and changing between fahrenheit, celsius and kelvin temperatures. We are using seconds to determine time. It is fun. We will finish this on Monday. That way students will have to remember how to do this measuring over the week-end. I am hoping that will help the knowledge to stay in their heads. The students are enjoying this and learning too, what could be better?

To practice at home see the links: Finding volume with cubes, measure with centimeters, and metric conversion practice.

Wednesday

We learned more about measuring today by watching a video clip. The students practiced converting kilograms to hectograms and centigrams to decigrams. They drew an atom starting with the atomic number and figured out how many neutrons the atom would have.

The Project Northland paper was due today. For those who didn't get it in, it needs to be in now.

Tomorrow we will use what we learned today to do some measuring of distance, volume, time, mass and temperature.

I have added a few links, measurement, finding volume with cubes, metric conversion practice, and centimeter practice.

Tuesday

If you haven't turned in the Project Northland permission paper, it is due tomorrow, Wednesday, December 16th. You will get extra credit points for turning it in by tomorrow.

Today we played with a pH indicator and the students saw the color of the acids and bases change. It was fun and hopefully we learned about some of the properties of acids and bases. There is also a song on my links about acids and bases.

Monday

We corrected the students' work from Thursday. Then we began learning more about atoms. We studied the different energy levels that the electrons circle in and discussed why some atoms are heaveier than others. Tomorrow we will be doing some experimenting with acids and bases.

Thursday

Today turned out differently than I thought it would. I had some business to take care of and needed to leave town. The students were assigned the chapter review, I believe on page 50-51 or 48-49, 1-20. Students were supposed to finish it during class, if it is not finished, it is homework. The last five questions take some real thinking. If you will at least make an intelligent guess, you will get points. If not, they are worth five points each. Good luck.

Wednesday

We spent today getting our periodic tables ready for learning. Students colored them according to the different types of elements and included a key on the top so they can better understand how the periodic table works. We reviewed our SI song and the notes today were about SI measurements

Homework today is to finish reading the section through E47.

Tuesday

Our classes are shorter today because we have an assembly this afternoon. The homework for tonight is to read E28-E41. We are starting to learn about physical and chemical changes. The notes today explained the difference between the two. We are also learning the song included on the list of sites named, "Something Called SI."

Monday

We had fun learning how to make an atom today. We have studied that uncharged atoms have equal numbers of protons and electrons. We have also learned that the protons and neutrons are in the nucleus. So today, using pipe cleaners, beads, fruit loops and fish line we made the atoms we have been talking about.

Our notes today were to draw a helium atom, define hypothesis, and convert 15 cm to mm.

Tomorrow our school will have the opportunity to watch the high school play, Secret Garden. This will take place at the end of the day.

Wednesday

Today was a little odd. First hour students took the Direct Math Assessment which lasted for 90 minutes. They had no Science homework. Fourth and fifth hours had a lesson on how to correctly answer the questions in the Science book. We took the questions on E27, which follows their reading assignment, and they practiced answering questions with complete sentences, correct answers and words written and spelled correctly. Their homework is the last question, #5. The exact answer isn't in the chapter, they need to read and then make some assumptions. It is an important skill for the students to learn.

Tuesday

Today we watched a video about atoms and molecules. Students who turned in their fixed test will have the grades changed by tomorrow. We also corrected last night's homework. Tonight's homework is to read E16-E27.

Sixth graders will be taking the Direct Math Assessment tomorrow morning. Please make sure to bring a pencil.