Day 19 - Hominids

Today is the 19th day of school. When we came in, we did not work on morning work, but we did do some problems on the computer from our Bits and Pieces math book. Then, we worked on our power points. Once break rolled around, we all got up, and we ate our snacks. Then, we sat back down, and we worked more on our power points. Actually, we finished them. Then we got to play Lure the Labyrinth. We all got hooked on it. But sadly, we had to go to Library, so we did. But when we came back, we got to start some science.

Then, we went to lunch/recess. And today is Friday, so you know what that means. FRIDAY GAME DAY!!!!!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAH NOT!!! Yeah, we were all talking, so we DIDN’T get to play. It really sucked. But, I guess we did learn our lesson. So, anyway, we came back, and we corrected our PC, and then we started on the real math lesson. In math, we worked on reading and writing fractions and decimals. Then, we moved right into Social Studies. We learned about hominids. Then, we packed up and went home for a long relaxing weekend!

Homework:
Read and Record 30 minutes,
PC Day 19
BPI p.47#19-24
Bonus 52 &53

Day 18 - Conference prep

Today is the 18th day of school. When the school bell rang, we all came in and we began morning work. Then, we all went and undocked our computers to continue our presentations for conferences. Then, it was break. We all got up, and we ate snack. Then, at 10:40, we were all back in our seats to continue our presentations. Once 11:15 rolled around, we all lined up, and went to P.E. In P.E., we went outside and did some hurtle, animal pick up, and ladder. Then, we came back in, and Mr. Steele gave us a few more minutes to work on our conference pieces, then we went to lunch.

After recess, we came back in and did a math test. Then we corrected the math test. After math, we moved right into more math. We worked with fractions and decimals. Then, we went right on into Language Arts for 9 minutes! Then we packed, stacked, and vacuumed, and went home.

Homework:
Read and Record 30 minutes
Pc Day 18
BPI p.47 #1-18
Bonus #51

Day 17-Fire Drill Frenzy

Today is the 17th day of school. When we came in, we all did morning work, then we moved on to finishing our Name Art, and we worked on our presentations for conferences. Then, we moved into break at 10:30 sharp, and we ate. Then, we worked more on our presentation, and all of a sudden, we heard a loud DING!!!! It was our very first fire drill. It scared all of us so badly, that we all jumped an inch right out of our seats! So, we lined up, and we went outside on the bottom field, where we all go if there is a real fire. But fortunately, the fire drill was just practice. Then, we came back and worked more on our presentations for the conferences. Then, we went to music. When we all came back, we did a social studies assessment, and then we went to lunch.

Then, we came back. Since it was a Wednesday, we only had 1 hour left of school. So, we came in, and we finished our assessments, and then, we worked on a workbook from a no-drug company called the Red Ribbon. Then, we graded our assessment, and then we packed up and went home.

Homework:
Read 30 minutes and Reading Record
Practice Counts Day 17
Additional Practice Packet page 20

Day 16 – Elodea Cells

Today is the 16th day of school. When the bell rang we all hurried into the classroom to start our day. We started with our normal routine and did our morning work. After we got checked off by Mr. Steele or Ms. McCreary, we got our netbooks and worked on name art, or hatchet questions, or our reading interview. After we worked on those things we started a power point for conferences. When the clock showed 10:30 we took our break. When it was 10:40 we went back to our seats, we continued to work on our power points. At about 11:19 we went down to P.E. After P.E. we put our netbooks away for the moment and set some goals that the parents will hear about at conferences.

After that, we went to lunch/recess. When our tummies were full and our energy was run down the bell rang, and we went back to class. When we got back to class we docked our netbooks and did some math. We worked on some more fractions. Then, we worked on a quiz working on describing and read our independent book. Afterwards we did some science and looked a seaweeds leafs. At 3:27 we packed our things and got prepared to leave.

Homework:
read 30 minutes and reading record,
practice count day 16,
AP pg.19

Day 15 - Reading Interview

Today to the 15th day of school. Welcome back from our 2 day weekend break! When we came in the classroom, we all got started on morning work, then we hit the computers and either did some questions for Hatchet, questions for Courage in the News, or we did Name Art. All of a sudden, Mr. Steele told us to close our “lids” to our computers, and he told us we had to take a reading interview. At 10:30, we had break, and we ate snack. After break, we got back on the computers, and we kept on working on the reading interview. After everyone finished the reading assignment, we went to music. Then we came back and we all graded ourselves on subjects to share with parents at our conferences.

Then, we went to lunch/recess. After that, we came back in, and started correcting our Practice Counts. Then, we started on fractions. After math, we went right into reading, and we worked on a detail chart. Then, we did 1 more thing, and that was...

Day 14-Jag-a-thon

Today is the 14th day of school. When the school bell rang over our voices outside, we all came in and got to work. We started the day off with some morning work involving circumferences, and diameter, science and social studies, and reading. Then we got onto the computers, and worked on an article that we read yesterday. Then we had to go and answer the questions about the article. Then, we had our break, and we moved right into science. We worked with the microscopes…again. But today, we got to look at our mini ponds, and we got to look at bacteria. FUN! After science, we walked down to the Library, and worked on our Destiny Catalog thingy majiger…………Ms. Joseph never really gave us the name of the assignment. Anyway, after Library, we went back up to the classroom, and we began Social Studies. In this subject, we pretended that our classroom was a cave, and we had to go in and look for artifacts.

Then, we went to lunch/recess. Today is Friday, so you know what that means! It was Game Day!!! We got to play capture the flag. But when the bell sadly rang, we all had to go in and continue working on the cave social studies project. Then, we worked on math and benchmark fractions. After math, we had to go to an assembly for the Jag-A-Thong. Yep, it is that time of year again, folks! After the assembly, we went back to the classroom and did one last question on math. When Mr. Steele told us to pack up, wwe happily did, and we went home. We have survived our 3rd week in Mr. Steele’s classroom.

Homework:
Read and Record 30 minutes,
PC Day 14,
BPI p.28 #12-23
Bonus #65-69

Day 13-Math Day

Today was the 13th day of school. When we came in, we quickly unpacked, and we began our morning work. After we finished our usual questions, we logged on to the laptops, and we work on the Hatchet questions. Then, we had break and we ate snack. After break, the 25 of us got cracking on math. In math we worked on multiplying pi. Then, we went down to the gym, and had our last day of bike unit. Then, after P.E., we headed back to the classroom, and got started on Social Studies. In Social Studies, we learned about what archeologists, historians, and geographers do. Then, when the bell rang 3 times at 12:25, we all ran down to the lunchroom. When we finished eating, we went outside to recess. Then, when we came back inside, we worked on some MORE math! Ugggggh! Mr. Steele did say we had to do 2 math lessons today…………….Anyway, in math, we worked on equivalent fractions. We also took a quick science check up quiz to see how we are doing and read a story about courage which we will finish tomorrow.

Homework:
Read 30 minutes and Reading Record
PC Day 13
BP1 p. 28 #4-11
Bonus #59-64

Day 12-Confrence Grading

Welcome to the 12th day of school. When the bell rang at nine we all hurried into class to start our day. When we got into class we started our normal day…or as normal as being in Mr. Steele’s class can get. When we were done with our morning work and got checked off and then we got our netbooks. When the clock rang at 10:30, we took our break and ate snack. At 10:40 we hopped back in our seats and continued our day. After break, we started our conference papers, and we graded ourselves. Ha-ha, who’s the teacher NOW! Anyway…we graded ourselves. Then we went to music, and we watched a Bach video. When we came back, we finished grading ourselves. Then we went to lunch/recess. When we came back, we began math, and we corrected our homework. Then we worked on circles…WOW! Then we packed up and went home, since it was a half day.

Homework:
Read and Record 30 minutes,
CS p.73 a and b 5 objects,
Day 12 PC

Day 11-Scientific Microscopes

Welcome to the 11th day of school. When the clock struck 9:00 a.m., we scurried in and got “crack a lackin” on morning work. We answered the 4 usual questions for math, science, social studies, and reading, and then when we got checked off by Mr. Steele, we got onto the computers and we answered the science questions, finished the mummy story, worked on Name Art, or we just read our book. After we finished that, we had our nice, ten minute break. Then, Mr. Steele told us to close the computers and get out our science items. So we did. In science, we got to work with the microscopes. It was very cool to see the items that we put underneath the scientific devices. After science, we went down to P.E. to continue the bike unit. This week we got to ride the bikes with a “team”. Then we came back from P.E., and we did some more science. Then we went to lunch/recess. When we came back from recess, we ended science, we got started on math, and we worked with a new book called Covering and Surrounding. In that book, we worked on circles, perimeter, and area. Then we moved into Language Arts. We read our “Hatchet” story, and then we packed up and left the classroom for the day.

Homework:
Read and Record 30 minutes,
covering and surrounding p.78 #1 -3 +47
Bonus 2+4,
PC Day 11

Day 10- Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle

Today was the 10th day of school. Before I begin, though I would like to welcome our new student! When we came in this morning, we unpacked and started our morning work. Then we logged on to the computers, and we began Name Art. But soon after we began, we went straight into science. We answered some science questions, then we had snack. Then we went to a recycling assembly. It was a play about reusing, reducing, and recycling. After that, we came back in and we worked more on science. Then we went to lunch recess. After recess, we came back in and we started math. After math we read some of our reading exert, Hatchet. Then we packed up and went home.

Homework:
Read and Record 30 minutes
PC day 10
BPI p.28 #1-3, 46-48
Bonus 65-67

Day 09-Capture the Flag

Today is the 9th day of school. When we came in, it was 9:00a.m., and we started the day with morning work. Like any other day, Mr. Steele or Ms. McCreary checked us, and then gave us permission to go and get our computer. Then we started the miraculous and favored name Art. After everyone had begun Name Art, Mr. Steele gave us about 20 minutes and then we had to start science. We discovered what was in our vials. We had sand, yeast, crystals that absorbed water, radish seeds, and…a sea monkey….it was much unexpected. But that’s science, right? When the bell rang at 10:30, we had break. But when the bell rang again at 10:40, we had to go back to our seats. So we began Social Studies. We worked on answering questions about the ancient humans. Then we had to go to library and work on the Destiny homepage and find all the genres of books. After library, we came back in and Mr. Steele explained the rules for Capture the Flag.

Then we all went to lunch, and we ate, and then we went to recess and we played Friday Games. And guess what today’s game was? It was Capture the Flag. So much fun right? Well, it was until someone got stung by a bee. After we came back in from recess, we got started on math. Today in math we took a test so Mr. Steele could check where we were. After math, we read for a little bit, and then we went straight into Language Arts. In Language Arts, we read part of a story. This one was called Hatchet. Once we finished that, we wrote down our homework, and then we packed up and went home.

Homework:
Read and Record 30 minutes
Practice Counts Day 9

Day 08 – Midsummer Night’s Dream

Today is the 8th day of school. We came in at 9:00 a.m., and then we started our morning work. After Mr. Steele checked us off, we went and got our computers from the locker outside of the classroom. Then we got to work on name art for a little bit, and then we had our break. At 10:40, we were all in our seats waiting to continue the academics. Mr. Steele let us watch an animated version of the Midsummer Night’s Dream, but he told us it wouldn’t be as good as the actual thing. This was probably true. Once 11:20 rolled around, we lined up for P.E., with our helmets in hand. When we arrived at the gym, we got the bikes ready, and we went outside. We were able to do the snail race, scan race, and the figure 8. When we came back to the classroom, we observed our vials, and we worked on our maps for S.S. Then the bell struck 12:25, and went to lunch/recess. When we came back inside, we started on Math. We worked with thermometers. Then we had Language Arts where Mr. Steele read us a story about friendship. Then we cleaned the room for Curriculum Night, then we packed up, and went home.

Homework:
Read 30 minutes and Record
Practice Counts Day 8
Bits and Pieces P.12 #13-17 and 19---Bonus 37

Day 07 - Band Assembly

Today was the 7th day of school. When we came in, we unpacked our backpack, and then we began morning work. After morning work, we logged on to the computers, and we did Name art. After computer time, we had break. Then we went to a band assembly. Then we went to music. After music, we came back and we finished our reading strategies. After that we went to lunch and recess. When the bell rang, we came back and checked homework. Then we went home.

Homework:
Read 30 & Reading Record
Additional Practice Page 17
PC day 7

Day 06 - Name Art

Today is the 6th day of school. Like any normal day, we came in and we started working on our morning work. Even though normal days do not exist in Mr. Steele’s classroom, we still came in and got to work. Once we finished with morning work, we turned our computers on, and we continued on Name art. We worked on filling in the white gaps with images we had made at Gimp. Then we had our break at 10:30, and we ate snack. At 10:40, we were all in our seats, and we started on some science. We worked on identifying items, and we put them in vials. Once 11:20 rolled around, we walked down to the gym, and started the bike unit in P.E. At 11:50, we went back to the classroom and finished up science. When the bell rang at 11:25, we walked up to lunch, and we ate, and then went out to recess. When we came back in from the great outdoors, we started in some math, and we worked in partners with thermometers. After math, we did some language arts, and continued with our reading strategies. Then we packed up and went home.

Day 05 - Mummy Mystery

Today was the 5th day of school. After our long, relaxing, weekend, we had to come back and turn our brains back on. We started the day off with some morning work, then we hopped on our computers and we finished and printed our Summer Stories. We then got to work on our name art. It was a bit challenging at first, but then we got good at it, and it became fun and easy…for some people. Once 10:30 rolled around, we had our ten minute break, and we had snack. After our break ended, we got started on science.

For science, we started working on our ponds; we also worked on writing some questions we could use to start an experiment. At 11:15, we went to our specialist. Since today was Monday, we had music. At music, we worked on reading and ‘clapping’ music. It was kind of boring, but we only did it because we had a substitute. After music, we headed back up to the classroom, and cleaned up our science materials. When the bell rang at 12:25, we walked up to the lunchroom, and we ate our lunch. Then we headed out to recess for the next 30 minutes, and we hung out.

When the second bell rang, we went back inside to start on math. We made fraction strips, and then we answered some questions on fractions like, “how can you make half’s into twelfths”? Once we finished math, we started on Language Arts. Mr. Steele had us do reading strategies. We worked on a story called “A Mummy Mystery”. Then we had to silent read, then we packed up, and went home.

Homework:
Read and Record 30 minutes,
PC Day 05
BPI Q#2and 25 P.12
Bonus #26

Day 04 - Shakespeare

Today is the 4th day of school in Mr. Steele’s 6th grade class! The day started with morning work, and then we jumped right in to writing our stories on the computers. At 11:15 a.m., we headed down to the library for our first library lesson. Ms. Joseph had us working on the computers and creating our passwords for the Juanita El Catalog Destiny page. After library time, we headed back to the classroom and had our first Social Studies lesson. We worked on maps, for the 25 minutes we had!

Then, we all walked up to the lunch room to put some food in our stomachs. Following lunch, we had recess, everyone’s favorite part of the day. Recess consisted of sports, tag, and hanging out with friends. But unfortunately, everything good has to come to an end. So recess ended, and we all ran back to class. So, we started the academics with math, working on the math lesson called “Bits and Pieces”. We worked on division, story problems, and fractions. Right after math, Mr. Steele gave us 10 minutes to finish up our reading assessment. To wrap up the day, we watched a movie about Shakespeare and discussed his plays. The purpose was to get us ready for the Shakespeare play later this year. Well, that’s what happened today in Mr. Steele’s 6th grade class. Until Monday

Homework
Reading 30 Minutes
Reading Record
Practice Counts Day 4
Bits and Pieces I
P. 12 #1, 18, 20
Bonus #21

Day 03 - Living v. Non Living

Today was the 3rd day of school, and boy did we do a lot. When we walked in, we all unpacked and started on our morning work. Then, like any other day, we got on our computers and started working on our essay for what we did this summer. After that, we had our ten minute snack/break. We came back, and started cracking on science. We put things into 3 different categories. Living, nonliving things, and undecided things. When the clock turned to 11:15, we headed down to P.E., since it was Thursday. In P.E., we had to take the pre-test for the bike unit, and then we got to watch the old school video we watch EVERY YEAR. Yippee! But, like any other student, we had to get over it. So we did, and we got through it, and we turned out ok. Anyway, we came back from P.E., and we finished up science.

Then, it was time for lunch, so we scurried down to the lunch room, and ate our food. Then we went out to recess, and we did our own thing. When the bell rang, we went back to the classroom, and then we started math. We worked on prime factorization, and division. Then Mr. Steele gave us a reading assessment that we worked on for the rest of the day. Then we packed up, and went home.

Homework
Reading 30 Minutes
Reading Record
Job Application due tomorrow!
Practice Counts Day 3
Prime Time p.57-58
#14, 19-22, 29, 32

Day 02 - Getting started

Another busy day getting all of our routines setup and finishing some initial assessments. Today was Music for our specialist.

Day 01 - Welcome back!

In the begining of the day we got organized my taking our school supplies out of our bag then put it away. After that it was off to PE we played a game called color tag. From that we came back to the class and did math test. These test were to see what we know so Mr.Steele knows where we are in math. After that we ate lunch in the cafeteria and the lunch was really good. Then we went to recces. From recces we finished are math problems and went to writing. Today we wrote about what we was fun and we really liked in the summer and it was fun. Today was a fun day at school.

Homework:
Read 30 minutes
Reading Record
Practice Counts Day1
Signed papers
Job Application due Friday