Sixth Grade Sedulous Scholars: Presentations, NWEA, and Fractions!

Today was an extremely busy day in the suite....we hardly had time to breathe between the class hero presentations, a new math unit, history, and the science NWEA. We are finally done with our tests which means Mrs. Goers can finalize the invitations for specific teams and get them out this week. I was hoping to have them out this weekend, but I have five different pans in the fire between school and home, and just didn't get to it! Thank you for your patience!

The presentations went fairly well. Most scholars met their three minute goal. Some fell quite short, but grades will filter in over the week as I take the time to look at every poster/timeline/written piece and then get the rubrics done. Overall I believe it went quite well for the first time! :)

We began a new math unit today and your scholar was supposed to teach you strategy three this evening, adding a string of numbers together. Scholars are getting faster and faster as the days move on and they will be pros at this by the end of the year! We are working with dividing fractions, and will be multiplying and dividing them tomorrow.

In history we are working on our Greece and Rome unit. We will have the test this week, but that does not mean we are done with this unit. It gets carried on to October as we finish The Odyssey and Julius Caesar. Today we read about Caesar in history. I love the way Core Knowledge ties subjects together. The scholars get to hear about these famous people in more than one subject.

Speaking of famous people, we filled the board this morning with people we have studied so far this year. The scholars needed to pick three of the people off the board that they think show or showed respect. They are writing a paragraph about each this evening. Tomorrow we will work on our conclusions. There is a big surprise tomorrow morning at 8:30 so we will get to writing around 9:30 tomorrow morning.

A past student is in town to visit. His name is Terenti Bittner, and he is Russian. I taught him 11 years ago, and he is currently 26 years old. He drove straight through from New York and is currently resting. He will be visiting our class tomorrow, and hopefully have a couple minutes to talk to the students as he is a professional photographer. The scholars will enjoy hearing his story.