6th grade news...
The sixth graders enjoyed a happy, healthy home stretch of Westminster Schools. We have much to celebrate and much to be proud of. We capped off our elementary years with some strong highlights:
We have been writing reflections about how we have grown as readers and writers, and how our math, scientific inquiry and geography skills have improved. Here are some quotes from the sixth graders:
The DCF helped me widen my range of reading. I read books such I would have never read before.
It was fun reading the physics books.
I used to like mostly fiction but now I think I have been more open to different genres.
On writing: The hardest part for me was mostly when you have to find all of your evidence to back up the thesis. You also have to revise and edit, revise and edit and takes such a long time to make it perfect.
Through 6th grade I think I have learned that if you write the graphic organizer with enough detail then it is really easy to write your paper.
I thought at first before we started the (ancient civilizations) challenges that they were going to be super hard and I wouldn’t enjoy it. But in the end, I was like, ‘This was so awesome, let’s keep going!’”
Mostly what I learned about geography was: There are over 50 countries in Africa. Egypt is near the Nile River. Mesopotamia was the first civilization. Asia and Europe are connected. The name Asia and Europe make up Eurasia.
This year in geography I have improved on finding the longitude and latitude faster. I also can solve photoperiod really quick now, after practicing for Journey North.
In this year’s math I have learned about graphing probability and much more. I think that this year’s math lessons have prepared me for middle school.
This year my favorite unit in math was probably when we did graphing at the end of the year. I liked that unit because it was fun learning new charts I hadn’t known about, so it was cool learning about stem and leaf plots, dot plots, histograms, and box plots.
I know I have gotten better at dividing, reducing and multiplying fractions.
The biggest struggle I had was with coordinate planes. This concept is more abstract, and I found it challenging to sit with the material. I got some help from my classmates with this, and I really appreciated their willingness to help me.
We truly have much to celebrate. We grew into a strong sixth grade community.
The sixth graders enjoyed a happy, healthy home stretch of Westminster Schools. We have much to celebrate and much to be proud of. We capped off our elementary years with some strong highlights:
- We completed our Community Service Learning Projects and presented a summation of our projects to the fifth graders. We made visual displays of our CSLPs, which we shared at our Sixth Grade Celebration.
- We enjoyed a well attended at our Success Night, in which we shared some of our best work from sixth grade. All students presented five writing reflections, a few of which have been shared below.
- Sixth Grade Celebration! We went out in style.
We have been writing reflections about how we have grown as readers and writers, and how our math, scientific inquiry and geography skills have improved. Here are some quotes from the sixth graders:
The DCF helped me widen my range of reading. I read books such I would have never read before.
It was fun reading the physics books.
I used to like mostly fiction but now I think I have been more open to different genres.
On writing: The hardest part for me was mostly when you have to find all of your evidence to back up the thesis. You also have to revise and edit, revise and edit and takes such a long time to make it perfect.
Through 6th grade I think I have learned that if you write the graphic organizer with enough detail then it is really easy to write your paper.
I thought at first before we started the (ancient civilizations) challenges that they were going to be super hard and I wouldn’t enjoy it. But in the end, I was like, ‘This was so awesome, let’s keep going!’”
Mostly what I learned about geography was: There are over 50 countries in Africa. Egypt is near the Nile River. Mesopotamia was the first civilization. Asia and Europe are connected. The name Asia and Europe make up Eurasia.
This year in geography I have improved on finding the longitude and latitude faster. I also can solve photoperiod really quick now, after practicing for Journey North.
In this year’s math I have learned about graphing probability and much more. I think that this year’s math lessons have prepared me for middle school.
This year my favorite unit in math was probably when we did graphing at the end of the year. I liked that unit because it was fun learning new charts I hadn’t known about, so it was cool learning about stem and leaf plots, dot plots, histograms, and box plots.
I know I have gotten better at dividing, reducing and multiplying fractions.
The biggest struggle I had was with coordinate planes. This concept is more abstract, and I found it challenging to sit with the material. I got some help from my classmates with this, and I really appreciated their willingness to help me.
We truly have much to celebrate. We grew into a strong sixth grade community.