Hello Bloggers. Water for Sixth Grade is making its glorious return to the spotlight with a Post the likes of which the World has never seen. Before we begin the Medieval Times Unit, we are going to take this opportunity to share what we have learned thus far in Social Studies. But wait, we are not going simply use Social Studies, you can share what you have learned in ANY class this year. This may seem like a lot of material to cover, but you will need a lot in order to 'win' this challenge. This is the 1,000 word challenge. The challenge is quite simple: post a 1,000 word comment. How much is a 1,000 word comment? It's basically one page, single spaced, 12 point font on Microsoft Word. If you reach 1,000 words, you will not only earn an "A" for this assignment, you will also earn the title of Master Blogger. Water for Sixth Grade has been resting for the last four weeks. WSG is now ready to take your comments and continue to share your ideas and knowledge with the rest of the world. I look forward to seeing you attempt this challenge. I am also looking forward to seeing you pass this challenge.
If you are not up to the 1,000 word challenge, perhaps you would like to do the 500 word challenge, in which case you would recieve a "B." Still too many words? Your third option would be the 250 word challenge which would earn you a "C." You may not go any lower than 250 words to gain points.
Task: Post a comment about everything/anything you have learned in 6th Grade.
Format: 1,000 words=A 500 words=B 250 words=C Below 250 words: Zero
Points: A=50 points B=43 points C=38 points
DUE Date: April 17th, 2009. Midnight.
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Hi Mr.Klumper I am soo glad that you are coming back. I am totally ready to start The Medieval times. I bet it will be really fun. I am going to try to make master blogger soo here it goes. I am going to try to cover every subject so that it will be a little bit easier. Hold on, I have to go to my next class. Bye
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In Math I learned about algebra, decimals, bar graph, line graph, plotting points, Achievement series. In English I have learned about More to come.
Mr.Klumper the things that I have learned this year are that reading, math science and English are really really really really really really really really really really really really really fun. Oh ya and social studies is ok you know but, those other subjects a lot more funny than yours. I learned that Egypt is a dangerous place. Water for 6th is a horrible website and you are a Meany for making up these rules. Mrs. Poppens is a nice teacher and so is Mr. Berg but you are not nice at all. And I can do what ever I want when im typing and the only person that can stop me is Mrs. Giles. Not you so hahaha. I like the lunch at school too. It reminds me of all the yummy stuff my dad and mom make one thing that I don’t like about school is the gossip and junk like that. The weather is nice and the sunny sun is shining so you can’t rain on my parade. I like the other teachers way more than you so back off and I also don’t like the comments that you post on your blog. I mean come on stuck in a bread place at sunshine. It is a happy place there not a violent place and why didn’t you use my story it was geneous better then all the ones that you have produced. I like your daughter she is cute. Unlike you. So what is your favorite hobby besides typing on the blog.oo ya I like the school lunch. I like the school lunch ilke the school lunch I like the school lunch I li9ke the school lunch I love love love love love love love love the blog blog. It is so so so so so cool. Like my brother max. not I love cheese at school one time I put cheese in my shoe and it melted and turned into motzorella cheese that you put the chips in you know. so how is your daughet doing.ok well type you later.
This year I have learned these things. In Social Studies we have learned about things in the stone age, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome and India. In India the unit we just did we learned about different religions like Hinduism and Buddhism. 41
i have learned that in social studies that every civilization has had a major river except the stone age. and that the stone age people were the forstto start using tools such as and discovered fire the tools were spears,using bones from animals as cutting tools
from rome I have learned that the two boys who were raised by a she wolf were Romulus remeus and that the clossiem is where all of the gladiators faught a gladiator is a person who fights to the death thegladiators didn' just fight each other they also fought animals such as tigers and elephants now we are moving on to greece the two main gods in greece zeus was the leader of all gods greece is also the home of the olympics that,s where they held special games to honor the gods such as zeus some of hose games where chariot racing running javelon throw wrestling in music class we learned that are lot's of different composers and we also learned howto sell something by putting a jingle on it and in english we leaqrned a lot of stuf we learned how to use anything that you can think of
Hi Mr.Klumper I want to be a master blogger like you so here it goes.
This year I have learned many things. I will start with gym, many people are lazy or out of shape this year. We also take tests in gym this year. Last year we played games the whole time.
In science I have learned that atoms are the smallest thing in the world. That a sperm cell has only 23 chromsomes and a egg only has 23 chromsomes. That friction is very important. That inertia makes a big diff in life. That is some that I learned in science.
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OK……. I have learned A LOT of stuff in 6th grade!!!!!!! First in spelling I learned a whole bunch of new words that I never would really say, but at least I know what they mean now. I don’t really know what else I learned in that class but…..yeah.
In gym class I learned not to give up and try your hardest. I also learned that I can do a lot better than I used to be able to do.
My next class (period) is a wheel course, so I have done music, adolescent skills, computer, and I just started art. For music I learned about Mozart, Beethoven, and a whole bunch of different kinds of music. For adolescent skills I learned to live a drug free life. Computer, I learned all the letters on the keyboard.
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I’m going to type 1000 words about what I learned in Science. We just recently learned about Punett Squares and genetics. Barbara McClintock studied Indian Corn, and why it was colorful. She also studied what determined what colors would be where on the corn. McClintock discovered the ‘Jumping Gene’, but a lot of other scientists (who were, by the way, all guys) didn’t really believe her. They didn’t believe her because up until then, there had been no evidence of a gene that jumped, and also, because she was a woman. When she was little her dad asked her teachers to cut back on the homework they gave her so she could have more time for sports. She was pretty athletic. McClintock had troubles finding a job that suited what she like doing, and ended up working as a professor. Going along with that kind of stuff, Gregor Mendel was the first to study genetics and how heredity went. He studied pea plants and what determined what color they were and if they were wrinkled or not. (Heredity) It turns out that there was a recessive and a dominant factor. There were also gene pairs. If there was a dominant factor (B) and a recessive factor (Bb) the dominant factor would overrule the recessive and the recessive factor would be hidden. Then there was the Punett Squares, which helped determine what traits a parent passed on to their children.
A Punett Square was a square, obviously, and you divide the square into four parts. Homogenous means the same, so if a father had Homogenous genes it would look like ‘BB’ or ‘bb’. Heterozygous means different, so if the father had Heterozygous it would look like ‘Bb’ or ‘bB’. You are supposed to put the father on top of the square, and the capitol before the lower case. Then you have to know what trait is recessive, because that would make it lower case, or if it was dominant, and uppercase. So lets say that a father had homogenous blue eyes, and blue eyes are recessive, so it would look like ‘bb’. You would put the two lower case b’s on top of the square, lined up with the two columns beneath it. Then the mother had heterozygous brown eyes. That would look like ‘Bb’.
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in since I learn about mitoces and meoses. Alsow about how cells sepurate and duble. In math we are doing the dakoda step test. We use rulers and scrach paper and a zzzzzzzzzzz !!!! In s.s we are bloging and JOUSTING bust mostly bloging if I dont move on I'll fall asleep again. so I'm going to move on :|. Im going to music now music is good its my first day but it seems like its going to be fun. to be bloged lader.
Ummmmmm…. I have learned a lot over the year but I will start with the subject spelling. In spelling class I have learned how to find the root word in the word. There are lots and lots of other things I have learned in this class. One other one is I know how to spell a lot better. I use to get a B in spelling but now I get an A.
Another subject is gym. In gym class I learned how to do mountain climbs and you have to have more indurance. Indurance is when you use your energy wisely.
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To start things off in social studies you came back and we started the Medevial Times civilization. I learned that in Medevial times the had jousting competitions. The jousting competitions were battles to try to get the other warrior off the horse before you fell off the horse with a weapon and armor. Before Medevial Times we learned about Ancient India and Buddhism and Hinduism. Buddhism was monotheistic which means the only believe in one god. Now Hinduism was the opposite of Buddhism, which means Hiduism was Polytheistic. In ancient rome there were gladiator that fought three different gladiator games in the colleseum. the three games were man vs. man, man vs. animal, and animal vs. animal. The people of ancient rome love to watch people die and some thought it was a religious thing to do if the went to the colleseum to watch a gladiator game because they thought that the gods liked to watch people die at the colleseum. In ancient greece there were alot of different gods and titans that the people of greece worshiped. Some of the gods and titans were Zeus, hyperion, poseidon, promethius and many more. In ancient china we learnd about many different inventions that the chinese people invented and we all got one assigned to us and we had to do a 1 minute and 30 second long speech about our invention. In ancient egypt we learnd alot about the pyramids and we had a really long webquest that had alot of information about ancient egypt. In Mesopotamia we learnd about the Tigris and Euphraties and irrigation. In the stone age we learned about how they would find food and shelter. The stone age civilization was the first civilization we studied (and to me the easiest). In English right now we are learning about adjective and how many different kinds of adjective their are. My favorite civilization was ancient Greece because we learned about how many titans and gods there were and what they were the god or titan of and how most of Greece believed in all of those titans and god.
My favorite unit was the Stone Age because I thought it was funny how they did brain surgery to cure a headache. That was from social studies but I have learned much more than that in my sixth grade year. My favorite subject was Social studies and the next one was Science, then math. My fourth favorite subject is reading and the next one is English even though it is my homeroom.
In science I learned that cells die and are born every second of our lives. I have also learned that when you die your hair and finger nails keep going until they die too. I learned in Science that there was a poison out there called iodine. What was the most exiting to learn in Science was what molecules look like in a microscope. I think that is enough for Science, lets move on to math.
I learned how to use a calculator in many different ways. What else I learned is that in meters, and liters is that you can move the decimals over to make it into a m eter a centimeter, a kilometer and many more. Same with the liters. I also learned that you can name the origins on the geometry. Now lets move onto reading.
I learned that poems can be in AB form. But that is all I can remember that I learned in reading. Let us move in on English.
In English I learned about all kinds of things. I learned about prepositions, adverbs, verbs, nouns, pronouns, and now we are learning about adjectives.
I have learned a lot this year. I have learned tons. I will keep learning. I will start with my first period class. Spelling is taught by Mrs. Poppens. We have learned that pre means before and post means after. I really really really really like spelling. Its fun. I go there on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. I go to gym first on Mondays and Thursdays. I go to gym with my friends. I enjoy gym. I have learned a lot from it. I have learned that I should never be in basketball, soccer, football, volleyball. I am not that good at basketball. Gym is really very fun. It’s the best. My second class right now is music. Its very really awesomely fun. Mrs. Gooch is nice. She is pretty. We just started that class today. Music is really very fun!! My third class is ok. It was fun when Mr. Harding taught. We have learned a whole bunch of stuff. Stone age was cool. They performed brain surgery but it didn’t turn out so well. The cave men or Neapolitans or whatever their names were very really cool. They liked painting pictures on the cave walls. We learned about other smart moves but ancient people too. We are now on medieval times. It’s ok. I will dominate in the joust. My fourth class is really very fun. We are learning about adjectives. We have a test on Thursday. That’s tomorrow. We have an early dismissal tomorrow. I have dance tomorrow. I learn that im sore after dance and I don’t realize it until the next day at school. My fifth class is lunch. Man it’s the best. We get nachos but I don’t ever get them. I love apples on a fork. It tastes better that way. I wish Ashley were here. My sixth class is really fun. Its better than social studies. We are taking the Dakota step test. Its easy. I hope I do well on it. We have learned about decimals, shapes, fractions, percents, and all that fun stuff. Study hall is great. Its good and nice and awesome. Mr. Berg is my study hall teacher. I have chorus on Tuesdays and Thursdays. That’s fun too. Science is great. We had a test yesterday. I Think I got a 100% but if I say that I might get a big fat F. That would not be good. My mom would hurt me. Reading is good. Acually very fun. Really fun to be exact. I love reading. The class not books.
I learnd alot over the year I'll start with S.S. I learned that mesopotamia had very srict laws and were very riligios. The stone a people were the first people to invent the spear and they had no godes. China invented the most invintshions of them all like gunpowder, rockets, bombs, toulet paper, and an earthqake sinser.
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I am going to go for a C Mr.Klumper so here it goes: what I learned in the school year is how to make a punnet square so I can determine how someone’s offspring might look like and what traits that person has. In social studies I learned about many religions such as Zoroastrianism and Buddhism but I’ve also learned about many civilizations such as Egypt, China, Mesopotamia, and recently ancient India and soon to be medieval times. What I have learned about in English is Adjectives, pronouns, and nouns although I have learned many things in English I only list some or ill probably reach two thousand words.
Hi Mr. Klumper I have really enjoyed having you this year as a social studies teacher. I really thought the last unit that we did was really fun. Andient GreecHi Mr. Klumper I really enjoyed having you as a social studies teacher this year. I really thought that the last unit was a fun experience to see that they have different religions and the religions were Buddhism, and Hinduism. They also believed in Reincarnation which is the belief that you can be something else that you aren’t already. In Egypt we studied the different pyramids that they had. One of the pyramids was the Great pyramid. In English we learned already was that we do like DOL which is Daily Oral Language.
in the stone age for headaches they would cut open you head and let the evil spirits out but they whould almost die right away.Next in social studies I learned about Mesopotamians and that they invented and used the irrigation system and used it too they also had a river but I cant remember what it was called. After that we learned about Egyptian and how they built their pyramids and what their pyramids held like the paraohs and the possessions. Next was china the Chinese built the great wall of china over the dynasties and they alos made a lot of weapons. Next in math we learned about pretty much math like geometry that was my favorite how to add and subtract time about the metric steps and also the coversions. In reading we learned about the mary celeste and how its crew just suddenly disappeared out of thin air. Then we learned about prefixes like mono poly and stuff like that. For English we learned about nouns adjectives but nouns was my favorite. Next is pe wich is my favorite subject of all cause you can throw stuff at people during doge ball and not get in trouble like last year during recess where if you threw a ball at someone you went to the principals’ office and no one likes going there . wait I forgot about social studies the Greece unit I liked Greece because they had huge armies or military’s but in Sparta they would take babies and tell the parents what they would be when they grew up most of the time it was a solider. Anyway back to pe my favorite subject there its ups and down because sometimes you hereto run for like 10 minutes that’s its downs its ups are games like mat ball and dekert ball which is kinda fun but theres still running involved. But its still fun . next is spelling you get a lot of tests in spelling and I hate studying for them but its go;od because I get good grades anyway. Homeroom is the best because we have house battles like harry potter but instead we have west side and east side.
In social studies we studied ancient civilizations. They are the Stone Age, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Med- evil times, Rome, Greece, India, China. We are currently studying the Med- Evil Times. In the Med- Evil Times you might have heard about knights and jousting. Well a knight is kind of like today’s Marines. “The best” A knight did not really joust the whole time it was more a get ready type of thing. The ancient India people had very advanced things such as garbage collectors sewage systems. They had vehicles for war such as huge chariots and elephants. A kings wealth was measured in the number of elephants he owned. Ancient Rome was located on Italy. “Who looks like a boot and looks like its about to kick Sicily.” In reading we studied point of view and read books. In English we studied adjectives, prepositions, and some other stuff that I do not remember. We are studying adjectives.
Hi I am Tanner Koster. I have learned so much this year and the year is not quite over yet. In math I have learned a lot about fractions. They really are not that hard. Also I have learned about proportions. Another thing I have learned about is decimals and percents. I have learned about changing decimals to percents and fractions. In English I have learned about nouns pronouns adjectives. Also I have learned about verbs. In social studies I have learned about the Stone Age, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, India, Rome, and china. In science I have learned about microscopes and the laws of motion. We just finished genetics. My favorite subjects have to be lunch, study hall, and homeroom because they are the easiest. In spelling slash vocabulary I have learned the definitions of many many words. Then in our wheel course I have learned about music such as Beethoven. And I have learned some adolescent skills. In auto skills I have learned about math and reading. Then I had computer basically typing skills. And today I just started art class. In reading I have learned the meanings of words also. I also have learned about ecosystems root words. Also in English class I have learned about poems and I have written like six poems. Then in reading and English I have learned about similes metaphors onomatopoeia hyperboles alliteration and personification. In math I have also taken some tests and learned a lot from them. That is not all I have learned though because I have learned so much this year in so many classes. I thought the blog was really cool and I am hoping to become a master blogger. The blog is awesome. My favorite subject other than study hall lunch and homeroom would have to be math. I am so good at math that I am in seventh grade math. I did not think that math was really hard. My favorite teacher would have to be Mr. Berg. I have him three to four times a day. On Monday Wednesday and Friday I have him four times a day. I have him for vocabulary study hall science and homeroom. On Tuesday and Thursday I have him for study hall science and homeroom. On Tuesday and Thursday I have physical education not vocabulary. That is some of the stuff I have learned this year but again there is still way more to tell about. Social studies is not the only class I have had to blog in though. In English I have had to blog twice. Mr. Klumpers blog is way better and I have had to blog way more. More to come from me Tanner Koster.
Hi, my name is Randall Howard and I am going to tell you about all the stuff I learned this year. Well maybe most of it anyway. I learned about a lot of ancient civilizations. My favorite ancient civilization is china. I hope that medieval times will be my favorite because I really want to learn about it. My first ancient civilization was the Stone Age. I thought that it was a pretty decant civilization. Cave men do a lot of duties but the worst one of all is when they do brain surgery. There brain surgery all they do is cut a big whole in your head to let the demons out. If you had a headache they would cut a small whole most people would not live from that. They had a lot of animals back then but they were cool. My favorite animal was either the woolly mammoth or the saber tooth tiger. Now that I think about it my favorite is the giant sloth. That is all I am going to tell you about the Stone Age. The second ancient civilization I learned about was Mesopotamia. This was also one of my favorite ancient civilizations. If I didn’t already tell you I learned about seven ancient civilizations but I am on my eighth. Mesopotamia was I think my favorite ancient civilization. It had the best video I have seen all year well I should say my favorite two videos. They were Lego videos though. They were with out a dought my favorite video of all time. I think it was my favorite video from middle school. It might find a better video in time but right now that was my favorite video by far right now. Moving on I should start talking more about Mesopotamia though. The Lego video was about irrigation. Now what I am going to tell you about a different ancient civilization. So that is the end of me talking about Mesopotamia. The third ancient civilization was Egypt. It was a really good one but not my favorite. Egypt was all about the civilization and pyramids but I forgot about pharos. this is all i can tell you for now to be continued.
So, for my first class, I think I will go with English. In English we have learned a lot of things. Some of them are verbs, nouns, adjectives, poems, linking verbs, prepositional phrases, and we will be learning about fairy tales soon (I think.) We also got to make Jelly and Junk sandwiches. I didn’t get to make mine, but I got to make Mathew Skadsen’s sandwich and it was pretty good. The presenting part was easy, but the writing part was really hard because it had to be so descriptive. But, it was still fun.
On to my next subject, Social Studies with Mr. Klumper. This is one of my favorite subjects this year. These are the units that we have learned about so far: Stone age, China, India, Rome, Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, we are now on the Medieval times, and I am sure that I have forgotten a few. I think my favorite units were either The Stone age or Rome. I liked The Stone age because everyone in it was so barbaric that it was just funny. I also liked it because we learned a lot about the first people and how we do some of the things that we do today. I liked Rome because Kenzie and I got to do a great project. We got to make a volcano erupt. It was a lot of fun just working with a friend and being able to do a fun project like that. We got to use some very odd things for that project. So that was pretty cool. The unit that I didn’t like would probably have to be India. I didn’t really like this one because there really wasn’t a lot to learn about. We didn’t really have any fun projects except for the skit. I liked theskit though because my group had a pretty good topic to make a skit out of. We had the shudras. I also had Troy in my group so that was interesting to. MORE TO COME.
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In social studies we have learned about seven ancient civallizations the first one was the Stone Age. Did you know that the ara of the stone age was 10,000 b.c. and they hunted irish elk did you know that the irish elk stood over eight feet tall. The hunters didn’t hunt this beasts with bows and arrows because well they didn’t have great of technology back then so they had to drive huge heards of the irish elk of the edges of cliffs. Back then this wasn’t as easy as it sounds because they couldn’t keep a fire going to scare the elk so when the fire went out the elk would normaly carge the hunters and would kill them
Hi Mr. Klummper I’m ready for the medieval times. It should be really fun. The best one though would be the Stone Age. Why would they cut the skull and take the piece out just to relieve them from a headache. THEY WOULD DIE!! The China area was AWESOME!!!!!! I loved doing the Chinese symbol project. I didn’t think I would win. The ancient India subject was ok. I mean it wasn’t bad but it didn’t have a lot. Mesopotamia was kind of cool it was just like Egypt though but the Lego movies were awesome. You need to find more of those or make some your self. Man you make use write a lot but it doesn’t really matter because its kind of fun. In math the Dakota Step Test is kind of easy. We also get to use a calculator too so that makes it easier. In science we had an open book test on genes. Some of the things were really sick and probably made some people uneasy which I could see, but that’s done now………………………I think. In reading we are working with rhythm and rhyme. Which I can see also because we are reading poems with rhythm and rhyme, poems with rhythm, or poems with rhyme. In English we are going to have a test tomorrow about adjectives. It shouldn’t be that hard I know a lot about adjective. Yeah um I don’t even have 250 words. Yeah in social studies I’ll be back.
Hi Mr. Klumper, I am ready for the mideveil times!!! I think that the geese is the best. What I am leaning in science is about genes no not the ones that you wear the ones that are n side you. And the best lab that we did was the microscope when we looked to see what the organisms look like. What I am learning about in English is adjectives those are easy like nice, sweet mean bad sour those are cool. I think that in English the fairytales are going to be easy. I think the easiest is the verbs like jump, run, climb, soo easy! In social studies the india was the easiest like buddah haha I like that name !! in reading the reading is fun yea that is mostly what you do there …. … in math we just got done taking our S.T.E.P
HI Mr. Klumper…… What I was going to tell you is that math is my favorite subject because I love math……… ok what we are learning is geography and it is kind of fun if you like math or geography.. but it is also kind of hard all at the same time We also learned about decimals, .fractions, and more but you can figure that by your self because I don’t want to ruin your fun if you like math.
I also like social studies because of Mr. Harding and of Mr. Klumper. What I liked in social studies or (SS) is ancient Greece. Ohh and let me tell you we are doing this jousting thing and we have to go against a girl if you are a girl and a boy has to go against a boy. This is really fun so once you get in ss you will know what I am talking about.
In reading we are learning about ped which means to do by foot, and med means to do by hand. Which is kind of hard because you really haven’t heard about those? We have only heard about manicure and pedicure.
Mr. Klumper has the most awesome blog ever It awesome and you should see the video on his daughter Isabelle and it was so cute oh my gosh I just broke a nail. I CANT BELIEVE IT. Oh sorry I just had a spas attack. But I am telling you that you should watch it I watch that video ten times in a row and it was so cute.
What I learned in science is like genes and they are like things that a parent carries to the offspring. And there Is more butt I cant really remember um um um I still cant remember, but ok.. there is something I want to tell you um gulp we are learning about reading is that we are learning about stuff such as genera’s and they are kind of hard unless you know them well like I don’t really know any of them. Butt yea…
I like cheese and broccoli, and so on but Mr. Klumper is the best teacher of all except Mr. and Mrs. Berg hahahahaha I am so evil Mr. Klumper so beat it oh sorry I meant to say that in my mind and so on. Yea I don’t know what to tell you any more. To be continued.
Hi I am here to tell you about what I have learned so far in 6th grade. I am going to start with English. We are doing adjectives right now. Before this we were doing poems. Some of those are simile poems, metaphor poems, or alliteration poem. Before that we were doing verbs. Later on we will do fairy tales. English is probably my least favorite subject so I don’t have too much to say.
Now I will tell you about math. Right now we are doing the Dakota Step tests. They are a test that the state of South Dakota requires. Before this we were doing use our measurement. Different kinds of systems. For that unit we had a sub because our teacher Mrs. Namanny had a baby. We have also learned about fractions, decimals, and percents. With those we converted them, reduced them, etc.
Here is science. Right now we are doing ecosystems. We just had our test over genetics yesterday. Before that we were doing cells. We have also done solids, liquids and all that stuff.
I have saved the best for last. SOCIAL STUDIES!!!!!!!!!! We have studied 7 civilizations. First we studied the Stone Age. That was a very interesting unit. Next we Studied Mesopotamia.
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Hi here is my 1000 word blog. First I’ll start with my favorite class and teacher Mr. Berg. Just kidding it’s really Mr. Klumper. I first thought this will be boring old geography and old western but when I walked into the class room I saw that board and knew this was no ordinary class and I was right. There has never been a boring moment in Mr. Klumper or Mr. Harding’s classroom. From slideshows, to the movies, to the web quest or speeches, to the election, to Troy raging on about Barack Obama, or Tom and Jerry Fridays, or even the blog there’s never a dull moment. Not many people noticed this but every civilization from Stone Age, to Mesopotamia, to Egypt, to China, to Greece, to Rome, to Ancient India, or finally to Medieval times have something in common they all interact with our world now.
Now lets go to spelling I learnt about … well words. For wheel course I learnt about composures, computer reading and math, the keyboard, drugs and ho to avoid them, and how to draw. In English I learnt about articles, verbs, nouns, pronouns, and more. In science we are learning about genetics
To be Continued.
Hi! I have learned a lot this year and I want to share it with you! For my first class period I have spelling and gym. In spelling I have learned many words and had a fun time. During spelling we did skits to help us study for the test. It is fun acting out the skit and I enjoyed it! My second period class switches every seven weeks so I have had art, music, adolescent skills, and auto skills. In art we did things such as making folders, and color wheels. My favorite thing I did in art was making the mask. Someone formed plaster to your face and then you got to decorate it! Right after art I had music, which was fun too. In music we made our own jingles for an advertisement! In adolescent skills we learned a lot about safety, violence, and drugs. We learned a little bit about making friends too. We only had seven homework assignments and they were all pretty fun! During auto skills we did math and reading on the computer. Every week we would have to meet so many skills. I think I am done talking about second period so I will move on to third. For third period I have English. We have talked about many things so far. My favorite thing to do in English was make a jelly and junk sandwich! We typed an essay on how to make a sandwich and then we got to make our sandwich and eat it! It was really good!!! My favorite period though is social studies! I like learning about other cultures. Some of the cultures we have learned about are Mesopotamia, India, Egypt, and Rome. In social studies we are almost always doing cool projects. I also like the blog. It is fun and entertaining!!! After social studies we get to eat lunch and our school has good food! After lunch I got to reading class and we have learned about figurative language (which I enjoyed)! We will soon be taking the Dakota STEP in reading class. While some people are in study hall I go to chorus and orchestra. In orchestra we are getting ready for our next concert and learning how to tune are instruments. Then I go to math and we are doing Dakota STEP right now.
Hey Mr.Klumper I am glad your back. I can’t wait till it’s my turn for jostling. Well my favorite unit I think will be Medieval Times just because of the jostling. Math is going well we have learned so much about adding, subtracting, division, and multiplication. We have also learned a lot about fractions. We leaned how to make a mixed number into a correct fraction. We also got to make a math t-shirt. Mine was very interesting it had lots of pokadots on it, and it had my 8th period math class signatures on the back. A lot of math we have done for the Dakota Step is with calculators I am glad Mrs. Redford taught us how to use the calculator for different problems. Now English, in English we have been learning about adjectives. I learned that adjectives are not very hard. In the past we have gone over nouns, predicates, prepositional phases, prepositions, figurative language, detailing jelly and junk sandwiches, and now adjectives. The jelly and junk sandwiches were very fun because lots of people forgot to say put the other slice of bread on the table. So the person that made the sandwich didn’t usually put the slice down. I got to read my remember, you ate ¼ of my strawberry jelly, strawberries, banana’s, and chocolate chip sandwich. I also remember how you didn’t like strawberry jelly because someone put A LOT on their bread and you said, “I’ll pass”. We also have done poems. Poems were very fun because we got to make one up out of the blue and write it down then print it. After that we got to start coloring our poems. I made one about my dog and how she brought back a drool tool. It was very fun. Now moving on to Reading, in reading we have done a lot dealing with short stories and answering a few questions to get us ready for the Test. We got to play jeopardy and I got 3 dum-dums because I got 100% on 3 coulombs. It was so much fun when we got to do a group project on 15-Minutes the book. We got to pick a partner if we wanted to. Katy and I worked together to make a t-shirt on the book. We also did a group project on the Mary Celeste. I wonder what really happened to the boat. Next is Science. Science is a little hard to me it’s just the tests they are usally hard even though I study really hard. The worksheets are really easy it’s so funny. We play really fun test review games
learned all of the gods for Egypt and all the gods of Greece all the gods are cool . Another thing I learned was the military of Egypt which we didn’t cover very much but I did learned more about what I already knew .My favorite thing about Egypt was the pharos and the pyramids. The pyramids were a some because they must taken a loge time to make because they were so big and heavy. Greece was my favorite unit so far Because it had a huge military and I like military things. My favorite thing about Greece was there gods they were cool because there were so many of them. The Greece unit was also fun because it was a long unit so that was fun. Another unit that was fun was Rome
Because it had a lot of interesting things about it like the coliseum that was fun learning a bout if you like to learn. Another thing I like was who they lived like with the bath house that was pretty cool and how it was like the place for hanging out . The best thing about this unit was everything it was asome!
This year I have learned a lot of things. Let me just go through my schedule. My first class is English. Sorry Mrs. Sayed but yuck! We have done verbs, nouns, adverbs, prepositions, poetry, adjectives, expository writing, scary stories, and many more things. Next is forth period Science. In that we have done: cells, now doing ecosystems, plants, animals, and also many more things. (I can’t think of any more things about Science!!!!!!!!!!!) Next is Social Studies, in that we have done Stone Age (which was one of my top tens) it is hard to believe that Cave Men/ Women were so dumb! Really, fighting a Saber Tooth Tiger with a pointy stick. Hummmm… I wonder who will win that fight! Next we did Mesopotamia. That was fun but not as good as the Stone Age. The people weren’t as dumb there. Next we did Egypt. That was one of my top ten too. Learning about the mummies and other creepy stuff was totally my favorite part. The Nile and daily life was good too but not as much as the Mummies and Stone Age. Then we okay.. I’ll be back!!!!!
Hi! OK so for my 1000 word challenge I will about one thing from each subject and pick up rest with anything else. I will start with math. I am in seventh grade math, so we learned about graphing points at one time. You start with the first number and go left or right on the X axis. A negative number goes left, and a positive number goes right. Then you take the second number and go up or down to the number on the Y axis. Then take those two points and take them towards the center of the graph until they meet. And thats how you graph points in a nutshell. Haha I like that saying.
Ok, on to science. Lets venture to the topic of compunds and mixtures. Compounds are made of two or more chemicals combined to make a new one. An example is salt. The symbol for salt is SaCl. It stands for sodium chloride. Another example is carbon dioxide. The symbol for carbon dioxide is CO2. The 2 means that there are two oxegen molecules for every carbon molecule. My favorite word is molecular. It sounds cool, you should try it!! So if you have three carbon molecules then you will have six oxegen molecules. And mixtures are just several ingredients thrown to together and not forming a new compound.
And now to the subject of... English! Its pretty funny because our period always gets busted for talking, haha its pretty funny.
Hello I am going to tell you about math. At first I did not like math but my teacher Mrs. Namanny made it so much fun I forgot about how much I hated math. Now I look forward to math class. We learn typical math things. Like decimals. They are the little dots in long numbers that are not fractions. The decimal point is pronounced, and. We also learn decimals as I mentioned before, they are the numbers that look like this when typed, 4/7, this is pronounced four seventh. This is one example of decimals and fractions. They are usually taught together, because they can turn into each other. In other words you can turn 4/7 into a decimal. Another thing that is taught with fractions and decimals is percents. Presents are represented as this, % , my favorite is presents. They are easily turned into fractions. We also learn things like pints, gallons, cups, and things like that. We have math as one of the normal classes we have everyday.
Hi Mr Klumper I have learned a lot this year mostly I learned that sixth grade is way funner than Elementary school. In social studies I learned about the Stone Age and about mesopatania and rome and india and greace and in English I learned about adjective which were not all that fun but I learned something and I learned about prepositions which were not fun at all I failed practically all the assignments and I learned about words I guess and in reading I learned about point of view and books and I guess that’s pretty much it in reading but in spelling I learned about vocab words and how to spell them and there meanings but I wouldn’t go say that was the funnest class there is because it was and still is very bad , in science we learned about microscopes and all the stuff about microscopes can get pretty boring but we got to look at all sorts of things like the skin of an onion and the letter E out of a newspaper and that’s about all we looked at and we learned about things like cells and now we are learning about animals and that’s pretty much it in science. In math we learned about things like how to multiply and how to divide and now were doing the Dakota step test if you have ever done a step test you would know it is BORING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And we learned about things like factors and how to add and subtract and multiply and divide $ which means
I have learned a lot of things with Mr.Klumper even though it was boring I still learned a lot. I am going to name off all the things I learned, or at least try to. Well there is China,Egypt,Greece,India,Mesopotamia,Middle Ages, Miles Stone,Rome,and last but not least the Stone Age. Well I think I am going to go from the bottom and work my way up. First is the Stone Age. I remember some things like they made tools out of bison bones and other animals. They used bison skin for there huts or teepee. Next there is Rome. Rome is very popular because of its features and other things. One thing that is kind of gross is there is public baths were you can go and have a bath of course and you go for social times. When you go there is sevents that will get you towels when you need one. Also the men and women all separate. Also kids are not allowed to go. I don’t know why but there not. There is also other stuff but it would take forever, so I think ill just move on.
Hi in s.s I have leaned a lot about ancient civilization like Rome they had a pantheon I can tell you a lot a bout it like there Is a large hole in the top of it I think it is so cool and there is a big door and it was also burnet down and re built aging it is my favorite unit
But not as cool as geese because there was mythology I liked rhea because I did a speech about her it was very easy to do because she is so popular I got a lot of stuff on her then I would talk about something else but my favorite subject is s.s I had fun lending about that but in the first unit it was so long ago I forgot about it I real like the medieval times I real like at first. I think math reading and the rest are like this very very boring
Some things that I learned were actually a lot of things!! Well right know I will tell you what I learned about Greek Mythology. I learned that the ruling Titan was Cronus and his wife’s name is Rhea. Oceanus was the unending stream of water encircling the world. Hyperion was the Titan of light, the father of the sun, the moon, and the dawn. The Titan named Prometheus was the wisest of the Titans. And then Atlas who fought against Zeus. Then Zeus punished Atlas by making him hold up the earth for all eternity. Ok, now that I told you what I learned about the Titans I will tell you about the war. First Cronus killed his father (Uranus) and became supreme Titan. Second Cronus and Rhea have children. Third Cronus eats all of the children, fearing that one of them will grow up and overthrow him as king. Fourth Rhea tricks him with their sixth child named Zeus. Fifth Rhea tricks Cronus again by giving him a rock wrapped in a baby blanket which allows Zeus to escape. Sixth Zeus grows up to be a very strong god. Seventh Zeus goes back to Mt.Olympus, gives Cronus a poisonous drink that makes him vomit up all the children that he had swallowed. Eight Zeus defeats Cronus and becomes ruler of all the gods!! Now I will tell you about what I learned about Egypt! Ok, the topic that I will tell you about what I learned is daily life of Ancient Egypt. Their life was centered around religion, pharaohs, and family. The children were considered Very important. The Wifes duties of the home were cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the kids. The peasants farmed wheat or grain. Their diet was wheat and fresh vegetables. They had heavy taxes. The sizes of houses were huge. The roofs were flat and the doors where unique because they were four feet off the ground. The reason why is because it was to reduce the sand and water from coming into their house from the Nile. The homes of the Nobles had 25-30 rooms. he homes of the parents were small but nice. The slept on the top of the roofs because of the cooler temperatures Their homes were as big as they wanted them to be. To Be Continued….
Hi Mr.Klumper this is Thomas what I have learned that china made a lot of things. In math I have learned about the metric steps and about ounces, pounds, inches, yards, feet, and miles. I learned how many feet are in a mile and how many yards are in a mile. In English I have learned about adjectives, pronouns, and nouns. In science I learned about the human body and what DNA is I learned how the organs work in the body what is inside the eyeball and I have learned about Dr.Barbra Miclintock and Dr.Gregor Mendel and what they discovered about and how they discovered it. In reading I learned what ecosystem means and what an ecosystem is and how it works. And in the mighty social studies I have learned about the Chinese, the Romans, the Egyptians, the Mesopotamians. This is what did for now.
One of things I learned in sixth grade is in math. We learned about making decimals into percents, decimals into fractions, fractions into percents, fractions into decimals, percents into decimals, and percents into fractions. Also in math we learned algebra. Another thing that we learned was geometry. We learned a lot more.
In reading we learn about figurative language. Some examples of figurative language are idiom, simile, metaphor, and a lot more. We also learn read a book together in class. We also take AR test . AR test are when you read a book and take a test on the book and you have an AR goal which is when you take a AR test the book is worth and that is how many points you have to get. We learn a lot more than that.
In science we learn about how you have brown or blue eyes or brown or blond hair. An example would be if your parents were both heterozygous ( two different example Bb) brown eyes and they have four children two would have heterozygous brown. One would have homozygous ( the same example BB) brown eyes and one would have homozygous blue eyes. So now we would know if we had a offspring.
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All the things that I have learned during my time at BVMS in my five main classes’ are a lot. But it is what I’m going to talk about. In English class I have learned most about prepositions and prepositional phrases. I could do almost any sheet on them. We also covered a lot about verbs. We learned about adverbs helping verbs action verbs and more stuff that I can’t even remember. One of my favorites was poetry. Because we got to do lots of hands on work like gluing and being creative. I was a very good drawer when it came to drawing a picture for our poems. We did about six poems and each one of them I got a grade for.
The tests are very hard though because it is hard to study for English I think. But I am very glad that Mrs. Sayed gave the whole red team a free one hundred on any homework assignment we chose. We also always do something for every holiday whether it involves writing a made up story for Halloween or doing an activity for Christmas. I think that I got a lot out of this class this year and from the beginning to the end I have struggled a little bit but I got through it.
The next subject I’m going to talk about is reading. I think it is easy to work in reading class because there is always something to do such as homework and reading for AR (accelerated reader). I like AR because it is easy for me to make and I like having a goal to reach. My goal is usually around sixty but I would have gone higher if it wasn’t for summer when I want to play outside instead of read. I like to read because it is an escape from the real world and you can do whatever you want. During reading class we do lots of reading and answering questions about the text you just read. We do very few tests and when we do they’re not so hard that you can’t even get a good grade. We also do jeopardy for Dum Dums to be continued…………………..
I am going to talk to you about most of the stuff I have learned in sixth grade so far. In social studies I have learned about lots of stuff. For example, I have learned about Stone Age, Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, and now we are learning about Medieval Times. I also learned that Italy is shaped like a high heeled boot. In reading I have learned how to find the cause and effect in a story. Also how to read poems with good expressions, and we also learned how to find what kind of figurative language a poem is using. In English class I have learned lots. For example I have learned how to write a story, and how to write poems using figurative language such as onomatopoeia, personification, alliteration, and how to write haikus. Also in English class I have learned how to identify adjectives, and I have learned what articles are. Articles are the words a, an, and the. In science I have learned about cells and genes. We also get to do lots of labs or experiments. In math class I have learned how to find coordinate planes. Also I have learned algebra, geometry, and how to change fractions to decimals. In art class we learned how to make one and two point perspectives. Also I learned how to make a mask out of plaster, and then paint and decorate them with feathers, glitter, string, and pom-pom balls. In music class I learned about Mozart and Tchaikovsky. Also I learned about lots of other people and even about Elvis Presley. I even learned a dance in music class. In gym class I learned how to do other dances and how to keep pace while running in gym class or outside of gym class.
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So far this year I have had a lot of subjects, but I absolutely dislike spelling and English even though I get an A. Out of my other three classes (math, reading, and science) I like math the most, social studies second, and science third. This year in math we have learned equations, algebra, fractions, and a whole lot more. I think algebra was the hardest one. In science we have learned about genetics, blood types, and a ton of other stuff. My least favorite unit was the genetics one Even though the test was really really simple (no I am just joking my least favorite thing was the HOMEWORK and let me tell you we had a lot of it in all of the classes) . In English we have learned about verbs, adjectives, wrote poems, wrote stories, and adjectives.
Hey, this is Halle and im going to tell you what I've learned in every class. First of all in science we have learned to use the microscope and observe all of the specimens iHey, this is Halle and I’m going to tell you what I've learned in every class. First of all in science we have learned to use the microscope and observe all of the specimens in the glass sides. Some of the specimens looked normal but most of them didn’t look like what they were. I’ve also learned all of the supplies there are for science for example the glass slide, test tubes, and beaker. There are a lot more but I don’t feel like typing them all out so anyways. We also learned how to wash the supplies off and what to keep and what to throw away when we are done with an experiment. We have watched one cell divide into two cells which is called mitosis. There are six stages in mitosis. Now I’m going to talk about what I’ve learned in English well first of all it’s easy and hard some assignments are hard and some are really easy. We learned about verbs but everybody knows what a verb is, I HOPE! We also have done many poems which we had to illustrate and mine were pretty bad but it was fun. We had to make our poems up and that was really hard. My teacher was very strict with having a horizon line where it is suppose to be and the
people could not be on top of the horizon line and if they weren’t we would get points docked it was mean.
Everything I have at my school BVMS has been fascinating. Math, Reading, English, The one enjoy the most Social Studies, and science. In mth we learned a bunch about decimals. One thing about decimals is that when you are dividing them you have to slide the decimal to the right. Also we learned how to subtract and add decimals which was boring
We play really fun test review games some of the characters were Donald duck, daffy duck, and people like that. We were going to get to text in class our relatives to see if they knew an answer. Now we don’t get to because too many people really do text and they would text other people than their relatives. Well now I can go onto computer. Computer was really easy because I love typing and type a lot to my friends so for me it was an easy A+. Typing was awesome except symbols they were a little tricky. Next comes music, music was somewhat hard because we had a lot of homework it seemed like. And we didn’t get much time to work on it. For example we had a group project and we only had 1 day to work. I got by but some people had difficulties. Now comes Adolescent Skills, this class was fun and easy. We only had like 9 assignments in the whole 7 weeks! One day a police officer came in and we put on these drunk goggles it was really hard to catch something. It was very cool to learn things in a fun way. Moving on to Auto Skills, auto skills is a class that teaches you math and reading. This was a very very very easy class. In this class I mastered my goal every week. On Fridays we got to play games for the last 10 minutes of class. And at the last day of Auto Skills our teacher Mrs. Rycus brought us cookies and we played games the whole class period. Also we made these packets for her to be nice. The reason Mrs. Rycus was our teacher was because Mrs. Namanny was having her baby. So Mrs. Redford substituted for her. Well I guess that’s it. I am not doing anymore because I don’t have anything other subject to talk about. Wait, I have Social Studies. Well more to come I am don’t with my study hall.
Another thing that I like to do in Social Studies is play the review games. I love playing garbage can basketball. It is really fun when somebody in your class makes the 1000 shot. I have had a lot of chances at that, but I’ve only made it once, so that was pretty cool. Okay, now I think I’m going to move on to math.
In math we have learned about a bunch of stuff. We have learned about Adding, subtracting, multiplying, dividing, ratios, decimals, how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide decimals, fractions, time, charts, some algebra, how to use a calculator, measuring angles, measuring, metric unit, and probably more but I already have two lines of what we have learned, so I think that is enough. We also got to make t-shirts the other day for math. We made them for the Dakota Step Test. They were pretty fun to make even though we didn’t have a ton of time to work on them. The Step Test really didn’t seem that hard this year so that is pretty cool. We had Mrs. Redford for math for about two mouths because Mrs. Namanny was having her baby. Well that’s the end of study hall, got to go bye. MORE TO COME!
there are a lot of things that I learend this year like soscial studies is the best thing in school and that in reading we are doing stuff with poems story's
books and the ar goal in english it has been a lot of stuff about poemes domostrative pronouns and a lot of stoff but my least favorite of all the ones in the year is abou the ireggular and reggular or something like that in social it been about well a lot but to start we started with the stonge age wich was very fasenating then we went to mesopotamia wich was as well fasenating then egypt wich was cool how they made the worlds tallest man mad struckters or something like that the on to ancient china was cool how they had invented a lot of stuff that we use evsery day in our lives such as tolletpaper wich was gross then they made paper and etc. my point is they made a lot of stuff that we use every day then on to grece wicth was my medium favorite but it was still then rome wich had way to many gods then the one we just finished it was ancient indian but my favorite one yet will be midevil times then to math in math class we are now doing the standerd tized test or heck somettjing like that it's fun cause then we don't get any homework in any other class wich is great cause in math and english and science we would get homework like every singal night wich I didn't have a proplom with it's just to much for us kids to do in one night then in science we have been doing so much to deal with cells and more stuff like ecosystem but the fun part is next week we will finally be able to dicect our first thing it's something gross but cool it is owl dropping's or as I call them owl bombs cause when you crack one open you see nothing but what it has eat wich is really gross
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I am going o tell you about Mr.Klumper. Mr.Klumper is kind of eccentric but that’s what makes him great. I love how he has us do group projects. Also we make dioramas or skits. They are a ton of fun. WE MAKE THE DIORAMAS WORK AND THE ARE AWESUME. He is nice and funny. He has a blog called Water for Sixth Grade. WSG for short. He also makes movies. The movies help with our home work, give us answers, or mark milestones in class. Mr.Klumper absolutely adores John F. Kennedy. Mr. Klumper has giant posters or pictures or billboards.
ck! So this year we have learned many exciting things that we might think is interesting but the thing is is that all of the countries are different but that my fav was (obviously) greece. By the way its Becca but that doesnt matter.In science we learned about cells and today i learned that we have to discect an owl pellett-owl puke- and i think ill be sick that day....In english we learned about tons of stuff like what is a word and what is and also this year Hhas been AWESOME! at the beginning i thought i would never get my locker open and that i would forget all of my classe.....Well i didnt and i do.....wait thats not right....I can open my locker and i didnt forget my schedule(S).......Izzy acts like shes 6 i thought it was ur other daughter whn the screen came on! Crazy right?!I am sooo so so so so so so ready to start the medieval times! This is hard but im bored......My stepmom was a ss teacher in a small town called isabell in sd and my stay there was long. The school there is closing because there is not enough teachers and the town cant afford it. My dad calls it a blink town cuz if u blink twice the town is gon and on the way driving up there there was a town with 4 houses and a gas station the size of a desk :POD:. Well in reading my goal is 100 points…. I think it is anyway…..I feel bad for scisily because at anytime the earth could cause something like an eruption of land and italy could come crashing into scicily. Yeah poor scicily…..In math we learned about decimals and geometry-squares and circles. In these seven words I type now I HAVE THREE HUNDERED AND SIX!WORDS I HAVE THREE HUNDEREED AND SIX WORDS….im going to check my blog now so be right back!
In the 6th grade so far I have learned..... Starting with English, how to use the right nouns, adjectives, and pronouns in the right places. I have also been taught how to write a story, poem, or anything else properly. When we started poetry we learned how to write a good poem. One of the hardest sections was prepositions, but once you got the hang of it there pretty easy.
In music I learned that I was not born to play an instrument, because I couldn’t read music for anything. We did learn about who wrote some of the most known songs such as Beethoven’s 9th symphony, and the national anthem.
In computer I learned how to type WITHOUT looking at my fingers......usually.
In Social studies we learned about many different cultures, and ancient civilizations.
Look for more, here I have 140 words.
I have learned alot about the country in soical studies. I wont to tell u that egypt they had one mader river is the Nile River is the river they had to for water to get to the places to trade and get there food from another coutry tords the mesopatamia. I want to tell you about the Eglish is we are going to take a test tomorrow for ajetives. I fell very comforted to tske the test and studies for it again tonight. I will tell you that the test might be hard or easy. so next i will tell you about science class we just took a test on tuesday. I stuogoled a little hard for a little whyly on the test. and at the end of the day we played heads up seven up. we just got done with the dokota step test for the math proshon. We start the resding test next week tuesday.
Hey, Mr. Klumper! Wow 1,000 words. I will try to cover all my classes to reach 1,000 words. I will start with math. In math we are taking the Dakota Step tests, but we did our last session today, so on Tuesday because we don’t have school Monday because of Easter break we will be taking the reading session. Dakota Step tests are boring. Now I will do English. In English we are reviewing for our adjective test that will be held on Thursday. Then there is no school Friday either. In social studies Mr. Harding just had his last day but he will be popping in every once and a while. We also just started the medieval times, which is said to be one of the most exciting units. We also used the blog to talk to kids from different countries. In math Mrs. Namanny had her baby on January 27th so we had Mrs. Redford for a while, but now Mrs. Namanny is back so we are all happy. I just started auto skills today so I am reunited with Mrs. Redford again, accept in a different subject. I have heard that auto skills is really really boring! I have gone through almost all the wheel courses, I am on my last one right now. I have done computer, art, music, adolescent skills, and now auto skills. Those are in order of what ones I did first to now. Wow this is a lot of work. In reading we did this jeopardy thing and I got all of the answers right! (with the help of my pod members). In auto skills Mrs. Redford just taught us about the computer program we are going to be using in the next seven weeks. It is just about math and reading. I finished my book today, it is called The Fire Eternal. So when I take a quiz on it I will make my ar goal.
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In Reading we have learned about the different genres. So far we have learned about Mystery, Poetry and maybe a few more. Mystery usually has a question that has to be solved, and there are those that are never solved like the Mystery of The Mary Celeste. In Class we read a lot of poems and we learned about figurative language. Some examples of figurative language are a simile which is comparing two unlike things using the words like or as. The opposite of a simile is a metaphor, comparing two unlike thing without using like or as. There are a lot of more than just those two! One of the things we just worked on was Point of View. We learned about three different Point of views. First person which is when the main character is telling the story or also called the narrator. Now on to another subject, Math. We have learned a lot in math this year from Number sense to Algebra. In Algebra we learned about variables and equations, we also learned that you do not use the “x” sign to multiply you simply put nothing or you put a dot. The reason for this is “x” can be a variable and it would be to confusing to know which one is which. Some other things we have learned about in Math are measurement and how to convert the metric system and the U.S. customary system. For example if you have 5 Kg you have 5,000 g. That is all I have so far but I will have more coming your way. Coming still Science, Social Studies, English, and Spelling. So far there is 280 words!
This what I leanered in sixth grade.In English I leanered.About verbs.That we get a lot of homework. If you don't do it yuo get in a lot of trouble. In English she gives us a sheet a day. Sometime she gives us two days off of homework. In math I leanered to do test so there not that hard . We don't get a lot of homework in math. That why math is my best class. That we got done with are Dokota Steps. Next week we have some more test next week again. But its reading.
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Ok I am going to talk about math. In math we have learned about algebra. I think that algebra is really really hard. Right now we are taking the South Dakota Step Test. Its not that hard and I think that I am going to do really good. I am going to take us to what we have learned in social studies. First I am going to talk about the Stone Age. The Stone age is the fist thing that we started to learned about and hear is some neat facts about the Stone Age. They didn’t have electricity and they wrote what happened on big rocks. They found a way how to keep there torches light when they get wet. They grabbed tree sap and put it on to the torches. And they used torches to scare iris elk off of the cliffs and they would have people on the bottom of the cliff and they took them and ate them.
In social studies we have learned Rome. more to come.
Hi Mr. Klumper I am going to blog about well every thing!!!! I like how in Stone Age the people drew stuff on the cave walls. I think that is a great way to tell a story. I thought it was very funny when the people were trying to drive the elk of the cliff with fire and the fire went out. Then the elk would run right back at them!!!!! One time when the someone found some would that if it was on fire it would not go out in the rain. So they used that to drive the elk of the cliff and it worked. Ok next is the is Mesopotamia!! I like this one a lot because they had a special writhing and a funny word they called if cuneiform if you say that a couple of times it is funny. They also had 2 major rivers one is called the Tigris and the Euphrates. They were polyistic. Witch means they believed in many gods. The next thing I am going to talk about is Egypt. They had pharos and pyramids for the pharos and his wives. They also mummification for like the pharos ,and people who can pay for it. 207
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This year I am going to tell about a lot of things I have learned so far this year. First of I have learned a lot of new things I didn’t know about English. I learned all the prepositions and their phrases. Second, I have learned about adjectives, nouns, verbs, adverbs and a lot of other stuff. But the most important thing I have learned from 6th grade English is how to make a jelly and junk sandwich. That’s a joke. The real most important thing is how to make a story sound good. When you are writing a story one of the most important things to remember is to make sure it makes sense. Then, you need to have supporting details and a lot of other stuff. That’s what Mrs. Sayed says. Thirdly, when writing about how to make a jelly and junk sandwich you need to be very specific on how to make it. I’m done with English. Now I’m going to move on to science. Some things I have learned in Science is DNA and what it means. If you are wondering what DNA means it stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid. Another thing I learned about is cells. Cells are very important for the human body. Cells make up every organism in your body. Some other things I have learned about in Science is how to use a microscope and how to use its parts properly. One more thing I have learned from Science is matter. I am now going to move on to Reading. I have learned a lot of things in Reading. First, I have learned how to read a book. Ha Ha! Second I have learned about the different types of genres and how to look for them while reading a book. I have also learned about ecosystems and what animals live in them. More to come. I have 314 words.
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Hi mr.klumper hare is some of the many things that I know about anchient civilizations.STONE AGE.i learned about the stone age that it was not a real civilization.they used pine resin to keep the fire going.they would run elk off cliffs to kill them faster. I learned that they would do brain surgery on each others head.when they had headaches they cut into there heads and they would die. They would use fire to chase elk off cliffs because elk were afraid of fire.they used spears to kill bison and any other pray they wanted to kill.they wore fur for clothing and it was very warm.MESOPATAMIA.in ancient meso patamia they invented the wheel.the used water canals to get water to the crops. They had a written language but most people did not know it.they did not know it because it was so complex and hard. If one person killed the other person that person would be killed.if one person cut someones leg off they would have there leg cut off.the law was called an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth..that mean if yu hurt someone you will be hurt. CHINA. In china they had dynastys.the dynasty was the ruling family they ruled over everyone.Here are some things china invented.toilet paper fire works gunpowder cross bow and so many more things .ut I cant remember them all. China had weird rulers a lot of them were mentally un stable and did some pretty bad and horrible things and a lot of them killed them selves . one of the rulers tried to drink some mercury so he could live forever but it killed him and he did not live that long. Some of the rulers were good and did many good deeds and they helped people and were very good people.GREECE .this was a fun unit.in Greece there was many gods the main ruler was Zeus.his wife was hera she was veryy beautiful .
Hi Mr.Klumper I am going to tell you about how fun this year has been. In math we have been taking the Dakota step test. It has been really easy so far. In reading we are doing this packet thingy about pastures and forest… it is really boring. We also are doing jeopardy in reading… its still boring. In English we are learning about adjectives. That is okay but we have a test tomorrow. I am going to fail the test. Than I am going to get in trouble for bad grades. In social studies we are learning about medieval times it looks very cool. We have learned about Mesopotamia, stone age, Rome,
Hey its Denton this year was awesome we learned about adjectives in English, we also learned about cells in science what a fun time. In math we are taking the Dakota step this year and it is so boring you just have to focus, focus, focus and we have to take it in Reading and you have to do good or your going to be in auto skills which is boring to.
The first subject is adolescence skills and I learned that there are many jobs in the word and that it takes a serten amount of years to get that job. The second class is art and I learned vanishing points and using a ruler makes easy strait lines. The third class is science and I learned about parts and things that a cell does like the nucleus is the brain of the cell and the chromosomes are something inside of them that carries DNA witch is a chemical and it carries Genes witch we inherit from our parents Genes are things that tell us what were going to look like or what race gender or even how tall or what hand you are going to be. Another thing I learned in science is electricity there are different forms of it such as static witch is when we touch each other and it Zaps us it is created by electrons witch is apart of a atom witch is a small thing that we can’t see and then when we gather those up and then touch a atom with less electrons and more protons it make a shock. We also learned about atoms with are very small things that we can’t see and it has parts called protons electrons and neutrons the protons and the neutrons are stuck together and the electrons float around them. Every medal nonmetal and gas has a atom all living things don’t every different thing as more or less protons neutrons and electrons is one atom then something else there all different. The next class is math and I learned about algebra shapes. The next class is English and I learned about grammar, punctuation,
Hey Mr. Klumper I am really excited to do the Medieval times. It is one of my favorite eras. For this assignment I am going to cover allllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll of the subjects. Like reading, math, social studies, language arts, and maybe science. 1000 words is a lot I don’t know if I can pull it off. Are you going to do the 1000 word challenge Mr. Klumper? There is some excite news to write about though like Mrs. Namanny having Marillya her baby girl. And how Mrs. Redford took over. But now Mrs. Namanny is finally back in time for us to take the Dakota Step. WELCOME BACK MRS. NAMANNY! We all missed you.
To start it off I am going to talk about your subject, Social Studies. This year I learned about the Stone Age, Metopatamia, Greece, Rome, India, Egypt, and now (finally) Medieval times. The Stone Age was NOT a civalazation. It was basicly the cave man time. Metopatiamia was interesting. Egypt did mummification. Greece and Rome had gods, And Medieval times IS THE BEST OF ALL.
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during the science we have looked at alot of crazy but yet gross stuf it's still cool even though some people have a problem holding down there lunch after we are done talking about this kind of stuff it's still a cool subject then to jym we do a lot of phisical stuff such as a test like pullups and pacer but there are plenty of fun games to do
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To start this 1000 word blog I want to start with the topic Math. In the unit probability I have learned that you make probability using a decimal, fraction, or even a percentage. I also learned that ¾ is also 75 percent. Another item I learned is that reducing is a lot easier now then it was earlier. 16 ounces are in a pound so that means 32 ounces in two pounds. Wow I just added! There are 4 quarts in 1 gallon. Also we had a unit on number theory. There I learned some handy ways to figure out quicker ways to add and subtract faster. If you are doing 9x7 hold up two hands and count over seven. Put that seventh finger down and you have the answer to 9x7. That is only one of the many tricks in number theory. I think that’s all I’m sharing for math even though you want more!! In reading class we read a lot on point of view. There is first person point of view, third person limited and omniscient. Also we have touched on some vocab and poems too. We have learned about stanzas, a group of lines of a poem is one stanza. One of my favorite poems is Sarah Sylvia Synthia Stout Would Not Take the Garbage Out. It is fake but funny because she doesn’t take the garbage out of course and it piles up. I recommend reading it. In spelling we have learned about Prefixes, root words, and suffixes. P.S we just beat Klumpers spelling class Ha-ha. Anyways we use a spelling book that is really boring. We haven’t had an assignment all week because of the Step testing though. Back to spelling we have all fun usually because of Mrs. Poppens. Now we are going to talk about science. Pretty soon we are going to dissect owl pellets and that should be fun because we get to see the animal the bird ate before it did its stuff to get it out. We have also talked about atoms and how they are super duper small. We learned that cells have 23 chromosomes each. The babies get traits form both parents. Dominant means that it might be visible. Recessive means that it may not be visible. Most people have brown eyes because a blue eye is recessive. Selective breeding is when you get the same cow over and over again. 404 words
In English class I learned that there are many different types of poetry instead of just nursery rhymes. For example, Haiku, alliteration, personification, rhyme, onomatopoeia, tone and voice, metaphor, and simile. Also, pronouns take the place of a noun. And with Haiku, almost every single poem is written about nature. 50 words
In English I learned how to write poems, and we are working on adjectives in class and some other stuff, we have just got done with j & j sandwiches.
maci... I luv social studys it is so fun im always looking forward to goiing to 8th perind every day for socail studys man i love social studys it just is so much fun i cant belive how fun it is and mr. klumper makes it even better. i liked makeing the citys and stuff but did i tell you how fun social sudys is i mean i just love it it is a blast i just love it but in socail studys we take notes wich i dont think it is as bad as doin other things i cant thing of any of them right now lol but ya and like the i think that the realy fun thing was that getting to see the awsomeMaci... I love social studies it is so fun I am always looking forward to going to 8th period every day for social studies man I love social studies it just is so much fun I cant believe how fun it is and Mr. klumper makes it even better. I liked making the cities and stuff but did I tell you how fun social studies is I mean I just love it is a blast I just love it but in social studies we take notes witch I don’t think it is as bad as doing other things I cant thing of any of them right now lol but ya and like the I think that the really fun thing was that getting to see the awesome t shirt that they made it is awesome I just love how it is so cool and also I liked having the junior achievement people come during social studies ya and I also just love social studies it is the best part of the day now that mr.klumper is teaching cause Mr. hearding was like supper boarding I could like fall asleep but anyway lets talk about awesome social studies it is so fun I just love going there I wish we had social studies every day of my life it is so awesome and I learned that in most of the units they were mostly sacrificed and ate weird things like barely and they made most of there clothing witch I think is really cool and that in most they would farm a lot and trade and do many many many mare awsome and supper supper cool things oh don’t let me forget about that in others in one of the units they would kill animals with speres I will add on later….. t shirt that they made it is awsome i just love how it is so cool and also i liked haveing the junyor achievment people come durring social studys ya and i also just love social studys it is the best part of the day now that mr.klumper is teaching cause mr. hearding was like supper boaring i could like fall asleep bbut anyway lets talk about awsome social studys it is so fun i just love going there i wish we had social studys every day of my life it is so awsone and i learnd that in most of the units they were mostly sacrafised and ate weird things like barely and they made most of there clothing wich i think is realy realy realy cool
Hey wats up Mr. Klumper? I’m so glad you are back! Well here is my blog about… well everything!!!! I liked the India unit the best because we get to learn about untouchables and all that cool stuff of how they lived. I like the way you let us play fun review games and stuff!!!
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Spelling
I learned about is tall tales like PECOS BILL. I also learned how to spell better .
Math
I learnd that math is fun . I learned about right angles and shapes.
I have learned a lot this year more thousand word. In English I have learned a lot its kind of fun I love to learn about the nouns the nouns are really fun because it’s a person, place, or thing. We did a jelly and junk sandwich, we couldn’t do a peanut butter jelly sandwich cause we had a person who was elergic to peanuts. So we did that it was fun probably the funniest thing in English. So we could do anything we wanted it was FUN we could use chocolate marshmallow crème gummi worms and skittles potato chips and stuff. Some of them were NASTY the way they looked (laugh out loud; lol). Now we are learning about adjetives. We are about to take our tests tomorrow I am not exited (laugh out loud; lol) to be contined
I have learned a lot in my sixth grade year so I’m going to tell you things that I learned in each class. Starting with Gym yes I learned stuff in gym. I learned how to juggle a soccer ball, through a football, and run up to 15 minutes without stopping! In Science we have learned about cells and how they function and what makes up a cell. The cell is controlled by the nucleus and inside the nucleus is something called chromosomes. In the chromosomes there are things called genes in genes there is DNA. DNA is the thing that holds the traits for humans like hair or eye color. DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic acid. We also learned that some traits are nominate like brown eyes are dominate and blue eyes are recessive. If these two traits are bound together the dominate trait will cover or mask the recessive trait which in this case is blue eyes. In English there is not much to say we learn about how to make a sentence and which words is some special name. But I’ll still tell you about it we have learned about nouns which is a person, place, thing, or idea. This Thursday (tomorrow) we are having a test on adjectives. An adjective is a word that describes a noun or a pronoun. For example “I like your blue bike.” The adjective in that sentence is blue is describes bike. Other kinds of adjectives are things called articles. There are three different articles a, an, and the. The next class I’m going to tell you about is Reading. We also have been learning a lot in this class like figurative language. Some types of figurative language is metaphor, simile, hyperbole, onomatopoeia, alliteration, and personification.
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Anything and everything I have learned is one, and my favorite, is how to fully use a calculator. Well not fully, but, I learned a few things. I learned how to make a fraction, by pressing this one button at the top. It will have a sort of F on it. I also learned how to make a fraction into a decimal. You use this one button also at the top, and it will have an F-D sign on it.
I also learned English. In my school, in my old town, we didn’t have English, or as some people here call it, language arts. I learned what improper verbs are, and I use tem a lot, so as you can tell, I’m no good at English. It is also my least favorite subject. I learned that Mrs. Sayed hates the word “Ain’t”. I don’t know why though, I love it. But back to what I learned.
I also learned how to memorize the key board. It is not that hard, I don’t know to explain it, talk to Mrs. Gyle if you want to learn how to type.
In science, I learned how mitosis works; it’s the splitting of one cell into two cells. First there are a few steps. One, (I don’t entirely know if they’re in the right order) hang on I’m out of time. More to come. So far 230 words.
Hi, this is everything I know. Reading: There are many types of genres. Such as science fiction, mystery, realistic fiction, sports, and historical fiction. There is third person limited, first person, and omniscient or all knowing. There are many types of poetry skills such as onomatopoeia, personification, simile, metaphor, and hyperbole.
Spelling: There are many parts to a word. The prefix or beginning of a word, the suffix which is the ending, and the root word which is the base. We do things called foldables to practice and remember our words for the week.
English: There are many types of words, such as verbs, nouns, pronouns, adverbs, prepositions, and adjectives. Some nouns are pickles, cheese, nachos, baseball, basketball, football, soccer, hockey, etc. There are also proper nouns which are capitalized like Peyton Manning or Maine. Verbs can be action such as run, skip, jump, gallop. Verbs can also be linking. Pronouns are he, she, us, we, they, them, him, her, I, me. Adjectives are describing words such as red, large, small, ginormous, blue, purple, etc. Some prepositions are as, on, of, to, with, and for. They are in phrases called prepositional phrases. Adverbs are words describing verbs.
Science: Our bodies are made up of bones, muscles, organ, and skin. Our organs include the heart, lungs, pancreas, bones, liver, stomach, and so on. We also have different systems such as the Circulatory system which includes the heart, vanes, and arteries. We have the digestive system with the stomach, esophagus, liver, and pancreas. We have the respitory system with the lungs, and the mouth. These organs are made up of tissue, and tissue is consisting of cells. Cells are the building blocks of life. They also have systems such as cytoplasm, mitochondria, nucleus, chromosomes, vacuoles, and cell membrane. Plant cells have all those systems and a rigid, cell wall, and and chloroplasts which do a process called Photosynthesis. Photosynthesis is where a plant takes in carbon-dioxide and sunlight and water, and gives out oxygen. All plants do this including ferns, flowers, and even trees! Some scientific tools are forceps, safety goggles, beakers, and medicine droppers. Outer space is another amazing scientific thing. There is 8 planets and pluto. The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Astroid Belt, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and the little one Pluto. 383 words. To be continued!
I have learned lots since the beginning of the year. I have learned some new words in spelling like solarium, and luminary. In math(I am in a seventh grade math class; Mr. Skibsted’s class) I learned how to divide integers(the positive and negative of a number: 4 and -4 are integers), multiply them, add and subtract them. I learned how to find area of different shapes like circles(this is geometry). In English I learned about figurative language, like onomatopoeia(words that mean what they sound like) and alliteration(the repetition of consonant letters). I learned about prepositional phrases, and prepositions like outside, over, and in. Science is really fun because I learned how to use a microscope, and it was really cool to view things under a microscope. I think we might dissect a frog later on(I don’t really like that idea). We are going to learn about ecosystems, and I already know some stuff about them. Social Studies may be my favorite subject this year because we learned a bunch about ancient civilizations. People that lived in the Stone Age were strange. They had features that allowed them to adapt to their environment. The earliest humans were called Neanderthals. Mesopotamia was an interesting topic. I learned about some early advancements like the wheel(very helpful, especially now days), cuneiform(an early form of writing), and irrigation(useful for farming, also used in other civilizations). Ancient Egypt was cool too. They had over two thousand gods, and they mummified their dead(I think they may have mummified some animals too). Their form of writing was hieroglyphics, which was a bunch of pictures, and each one stood for something. Ancient China would have been interesting if we had more time to do it, but we only had two weeks to fit everything in(I think).
Inventions in ancient China were the best to learn about in the Ancient China unit. Ancient Chinese people invented paper, kites, fireworks, toilet paper, bells, restaurant menus, and comasses(there were more too, but I can’t think of them right now). Ancient Greece was fun because we had the board game assignment, and the speech that someone had to give about a god or goddess.
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So I’m suppose to write one thousand words on the blog to get a “A” well here it goes. I’ll start with math. I've learned how to change a fraction to a decimal and a decimal to a fraction. I've also learned that there are many different ways you can make math fun like group projects and stuff like that. I learned a lot about fractions and simplifying them. I like math especially when I can get the homework done in class.
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I’ll start by telling you about what I have learned in social studies. At the very beginning of the year we learned a lot about the Stone Age. After that we learned about Mesopotamia, in modern-day Iran. They had an ‘eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth’ policy. We also learned about China. With out this class I may never have known how many things we use today were invented in Ancient China! For example: The abacus, gunpowder, printing, an earthquake detector, and the crossbow. We learned about ancient Egypt too. Making a mummy sounded rely gross. Pulling the brain out through the nose with a hook would make me lose my lunch. Why would the slitter be pelted with rocks because he’s doing his job the way he’s supposed to? I bet ancient Egypt went through a lot of slitters because of the rock throwing thing. The pyramids were amazing! How’d such primitive people make the pyramids so perfect? I’d sure love to know! I’d also like to go to the pyramids some day. I liked learning about Rome. It was so different form other places we’d learned about. India was fun, especially with Mr.Harding. I never knew that zero and decimals came out of India. I also never knew that games like cards, dice, snakes and ladders, polo, and others were made in ancient India. I can’t wait to rely get into the medieval times. Especially tortcher!
I liked going to art. It was fun making the masks and drawing our cartoons. I wish I could have a year-long art class. I liked music too. We learned about the periods of music. They were classical, baroque, and romantic. When we did a project when we made a talk show, the host asked me a question I didn’t know the answer to and we both looked a little stupid.
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Hi, What I have learned so far this year in Social Studies this year is about China, India, Mesopatima,Greece, Egypt, Stone age, And Rome, I am excited to learn about medieval times are next unit we will be learning about. My favorite unit to learn about was Rome because we got to do a big project on it and make life size stuff. What I also like about Social Studies is that we are talking to people from Scotland and people from Australia. I also like Social Studies because we do a lot of fun projects and learn a lot about other countries. We also learned in Rome about gladiators and gladiator fights. Some of the gladiator fights are gladiator vs. gladiator, animal vs. animal or gladiator vs. animal. In Rome we also learned about Roman baths, Christianity, and learned about the different cities by Rome. I am excited for mideval times because we are doing jousting tournaments every day till we are done with the unit. That is what I have learned in Social Studies this year so far.
In English I have leaned about pronouns, nouns, adjectives, poems and ECT….. My favorite thing to learn about poems because we got to come up are own poems. My favorite poem to make was about Onomopia because you could use words that made sounds like ding, crash, boom ECT... My other favorite thing in English was Jelly and Junk sanwithches. I didn’t get to make mine but I got to taste Caitlynn Schumacher’s it was good!!!
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First I will start out with S.S. what I have learned this year is social studies is that when a mummies are buried their insides are cut out and their brain is taken out with a hook… THROUGH THE NOSE!!!!!! Plus when the pharaoh is buried with his servants, and if they are living then they get killed and then buried. Now India, I think india is really cool because they have elephants for tanks. My favorite unit is China and it is my favorite unit because they made my favorite thing…. Fire works, they also made umbrella’s and those are really useful during the rainy season so we have a lot to thank China for many many, many, many, many, many things so “Thank you China!!!” they also made gunpowder, bells, paper, masks, and many other things. 138 words
I have learned a lot in 6th grade. I have probably learned more then a thousand words or more then a thousand things even if they are studied and point less. So I’ll start in my first period class spelling. I have learned a lot in spelling like, how to spell harder words or more challenging words. I have also learned how to make a foldable and even what a foldable was. My spelling teacher also taught me how and what a content vocabulary is and how to do well on spelling test and I all ways do good on spelling test anyway. Next I’ll talk about my second period class well I started with computer then went to art then music like general music where u sing and one the last day we danced to different music from way back then and music from now. After general music I went to adolescent skills and I just finished adolescent skills about 1 day ago but when this is posted it will be about five days ago. Now I am in auto skills and we just got introduced to Rupert a little character in the program we use in auto skills. I haven’t done anything on the program yet but I know we will being doing what ever it is on he program for the rest of the year. Hopefully it will be fun. My third period class is science and it will be for the rest of the entire school year. What I am doing in science is well we just got done talking a text of DNA and how to spell it and definitions of punnent squares and chromosomes and stuff like that. In science today we basically talked the hole time about when Mr. Berg hit an owl but never heard any noise but when he got to his other job his friend was like what is on the menu and Mr. Berg was like what are you talking about and his friend said you must have hit an owl because its stuck to the front of your car. 351 I have 351 words now including this so I’ll write back soon bye to be continued
I have learned a lot of things this year. I’m starting with Science. We learned a lot about cells. There are a lot of different parts inside one tiny cell. Its hard to believe that they all fit into something so small. Some of the different parts of cells (or at least the ones I remember) are mitochondria, the nucleus, chromosomes, the cell membrane, cytoplasm, and vacuoles. The mitochondria are sort of like a factory for the cell. They transform the nutrients and food that the cell takes in into energy. I guess you could also compare it to a coffee machine, since coffee gives most adults the energy they need to get through the day. The nucleus is the cell’s brain. It is also the manager of the cell. It controls everything the cell does. The chromosomes are located inside the nucleus. They are the storage units of DNA. DNA stands for Deoxyribonucleic Acid. The DNA is the blueprint for the cell. It’s sort of the design for the cell. The cell membrane surrounds the cell. It controls what comes in and what leaves the cell. Cytoplasm is a kind of jelly. It holds the vitamins and nutrient that the cell needs. Vacuoles are like a warehouse. They store food, water, and waste. Of course, all of this is only if you are talking about an animal cell. A plant cell has everything that is listed above, and they have the same functions. But there is one big difference. Plant cells also have two extra organelles. (By the way, organelle is the name for all of these little thingies in the cell that I am talking about.) Plant cells have chloroplasts and a cell wall. Chloroplasts are the organelles that let the plant transform Carbon Dioxide and sunlight into food (I think). The cell wall is the protection for the cell. It supports the cell. Also in Science this year, we learned a lot about genes. Genes are part of DNA. Like I said before, DNA is stored in the chromosomes. Genes are the things that determine the traits that we have. Traits are things like eye color, hair color, the shape of your nose, and things like that. There are two types of traits. There are dominant traits. And there are recessive traits. One example of a dominant trait is brown eyes. And an example of a recessive trait is blue eyes. When a mom and a dad (I really don’t want to say this, but you need to know if you are going to understand a single thing I am saying) have a baby, they each give 23 chromosomes. And in those chromosomes, there is DNA and genes. Okay, I really don’t know how to put anything else about this stuff into words, so I’m going to talk about something else now…
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This year in social studies we learned about Ancient Rome. In Ancient Rome there were gladiator fight which took place in the Coliseum. There were three types of gladiator fights, which were animals verses animals, gladiators verses gladiators, and animals verses gladiators. The gladiators often fought to death. If a gladiator was losing they could ask for mercy, and sometimes they were granted mercy by the king. When the gladiators would walk in the arena they would wear purple, because it was the king’s color. Also in Ancient Rome they had public baths. In the public baths they would meet up with others and talk to them. They would also bathe in the public baths.
This year in English we learned about adjectives. Adjectives describes the noun and adjectives tell how many. We also learned about nouns. A noun is a person, place, or thing. We also learned about verbs. Verbs show action or what something is doing.
In science this year we learned about cells, including plant and animal cells. We also learned about genetics, and genes. We learned about dominate and recessive traits. Brown eye color is dominate and blue eye color is recessive. To figure out what traits your offspring might inherit, you use a Punic square. I have 217 words.
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Hi mr. klumper im going to tell you everything i know. in science this year we have covered alot of subjects. we have learned about cells and all the parts like the nucleus and other things. we have learned about sexual reproduction and A sexual reproduction. Sexual reproduction is human and A sexual is plant. plants guve off seeds and humans give birth. we have learned about friction and how it works. we have also learned about electricity and how it was made. we have talked about newtons law of motion and watched vidios on it. we have learned about genetics and how you get your traits from your parents. we are just starting ecosytems and it sounds very interesting. Now to a different subject like spelling. we have lerned alot of vocab words. we have also done alot of foldables. in reading we have read the book 15 minutes and sasquach. we also learned about haunted ships and lots of other interesting things. in english we have learned alot! we have learned verbs and adverbs. nouns an pronuns. a noun is a person place thing or idea. we have learned about predicits and lots of other very interesting things. in auto skills we learned alot of math and reading. i didnt like that class very much but i learned alot. in music we learned alot about well... music we learend about the three time periods. they are the barock,romantic, and classical. they were all interesting and had alot of different things. Also they had alot of different musicians. in adelesence skill we learned about adelesense. we learned about drugs and smoking and also drinking and why they are all very very bad for your health. we wore drunk goggles that made it seem like you were drunk. we also learned about kids problems and bullies. in computer we learned all the keys and number properly and without looking. im am just starting art and havent learned much about it but we did learn what we are going to do. and last but not least we have social studys. ill start will naming all the civilizations. there is greece, china, egypt, midevel times, rome, india,and mesopatamia. Mesopatamia was are first and i have trouble remembering alot but i know that they had two maine rivers the tigris and the euphrates. next china they had alot of things they invented. they invented paper, bells,umbrellas, siesmagrapgh, gun powder, and fireworks. i know they are over populated and they hd alot of very deadly earthqaukes killing many many people.
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Things I’ve learned in social studies are Eygpt, Mesopotamia, Stone Age, Rome, Greece, India, China, and now I’m learning about Midevil Times. What I learned in Eygpt is that the Egyptians had rulers that were called pharohs. Egypt also had the Nile River to survive, pyramids to hide the pharohs, and in the pyramids were bubby traps that didn’t work. In Mesopotamia, they created wheels to help them move objects. In Mesopotamia a ruler named Homerobi made a code called Homerobi’s code that focused on a rule that went an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. If you hit some guy in the tooth and it falls out, that person gets to knock your tooth out, and lets say that your walking down the street and some guy walks up to you and pocks your eye out, you get to knock out his eye.(It means if you kill someone, he gets to kill you.) In Stone Age, I learned that the first people were all cave man. The first choir was accidentally made when a cave-man drooped a rock on someones foot. In the stone age the cave-men hunted wooly mammoths, giant sloths, and tried to stay away from saber tooth cats. During the stone age, the ice age happened. In Rome I learned that the Romans had brutal fights called gladiator fights in a giant dome called the colloseum.
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The first subject I’m going to talk about is spelling. In spelling we learn about vocabulary words and how to spell them. We have a workbook…..we work in it. We get a chapter in it every week. We also have skits. The skits are on the words in the chapter…normally. In science we read out of the txt book, do sheets, and have labs. Labs are things like experments. Science can be fun but then sometimes so so boring. In English we also have txt books that we read from…we have two books in that class though. We have normal books that has the basic sixth grade English stuff and a poem book. There are of course dictionaries, thesauruses, and etc. more to come…125
HI mr.klumper I am really happy that you are back and I am happy about starting medieval times. Now I am going to talk about what I have learned this year in my subjects. First, I am going to talk about is science. In science I learned that a Dominate trait is the strongest and a Recessive trait is the weaker of the two an example of a dominate is Brown eyes and an example of a recessive trait is blue eyes. I also learned that Barbra mliclintoc was one of the smartest women the world had ever seen but the only problem was that none of the other boy scientists didn't believe her because they were jealous
Two mountain ranges border it the Himalayan and the Hinducush. The biggest mountain in these mountain ranges even in the world is Mt. Everest it is 29,035. There are six modern countries that make up ancient India they are India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. The climates did not very much in ancient India Well let’s start with social studies since I’m required to do this for this subject. There are Oct.-Feb. the climate was mild and cool, Mar.-May it was very hot, and June-Sep. it was monsoon season. The three major rivers in India were the Indus, Ganges, and the Brahmaputra. The crops they grew were barley, wheat, rice, and beans. Almost all Indians farmed but in coastal areas they fished. Two major industries were textiles and clothing.
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To start with I am going to tell you about social studies. In social studies I have learned a lot. I have learned about mummies. And the seven steps to mummify a person. I also have learned about what is inside the pharos tombs. We also in our Egypt unit we learned about the Nile River.
Now I am going to tell you about my spelling class {spelling class is my first class of the day
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Hi I have learned in Social studies that poppa was covered in ash after the volcano erupted. The people of pompa were all killed .
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The subject that I am going to talk to you about is Soc. Studies and the reason why my favorite subject is is Social Studies. The first unit of Soc. Studies is Mesopotamia. Two of the rivers that are in Mesopotamia are the Tigris and the Euphrates. The people made their homes out of sun dried mud blocks. Mesopotamia had red areas and black areas the red areas were the areas where it was really dry like a desert. The black area was full of trees and the reason was because it was right next to the river. The people were using a technique called irrigation.
The next unit I am going to talk about is Stone Age. This unit has Neanderthals as the only people existing in this time. The Neanderthals survived on the other animals that they hunted. They used spears to hunt their food. The Neanderthals used stones to draw pictures to explain what might have happened. The animals that had existed were wooly mammoths and saber tooth tigers. The Neanderthals would also hunt Irish elk, these creatures were kind of like dear, but they weren’t dear. This is a couple of facts that I learned about when we studied the Stone Age. This is 210 words.
This year I have learned a lot and I’m so excited to learn more places next year! This year in social studies I have learned about these units China, Egypt, Greece, Mesopotamia, Stone Age, and my favorite Rome! When we were learning about Ancient China we learned about what how many things were made and what they were like chopstick. During Egypt we learned about the taker of life and the Nile River and more. Mesopotamia was about civilization, monotheistic, and polytheistic. Greece was about all the different gods like Zeus. Stone Age was about hunters and Bison. And lastly Rome, Rome was my favorite because We got to do a lot of fun and exciting projects. I can not wait to hear more about all of those next year!
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I am going to start off my 1000 word challenge by talking about English. Onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like the word it is, such as BAM, BOOM, and BANG.
Alliteration on the other hand is when words start with the same letter over and over, such as “Sassy Suzy sometimes sells soup on the street.” Other things I have learned in English are adjectives, punctuation, forms of writing, poems, how to make jelly and junk sandwich, nouns, verbs, and pronouns.
Next I will go to science. We have learned about cells, sexual reproduction, asexual reproduction, mitosis, meiosis, and microscopes. 101 words more to come or will it?
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Hi again Mr.Klumper! In Science, we are now learning about Ecology. We have to disect OWL PELLETS! VERY BEST EVER SUPER EWWWWWW!!! In math class we have learned about geometry. Let me think...we also have learned about fractions to mixed #s, mixed #s to decimals, fractions to decimals, and decimals to mixed #s. We have learned about improper fractions, too. In reading class we have learned about figurative language(also in English), root words, poetry(again in English) , literary devices, expression in your voice, and other cool reading things, too. Oh, bye the way, i should tell you one more thing form reading class, Mrs.Poppens is awesome! I should put in a good word for my other teachers too, so here it goes! Mr.Berg is my favorite teacher, he's cool, don't worry Mr.K, not quite as cool as you are though. Mr.Klumper is tied for him with for favorite teaher though. Mrs.Sayed is cool, but not that great. Mrs.Namanny is cool too, just not quite as old as Mrs.Sayed. I have a very quickly developing theory about Mrs.Namanny. Maybe, by the time Marillya ( I don't think I spelled that quite correctly) is 20, Mrs.Namanny might look like Mrs.Sayed. (No Offense Mrs.Sayed!!!) (Ohh, going back to social studies class, I learned that Mr.Klumper must have a higher metabolism then he looks like; for some reason he's always wanting a Big Mac or something from McDonald's. I wonder what he has against Burger King,because it's always something from McDonald's , never Burger King. Well, Mr.Klumper, I have news for you, Burger King has something like a Big Mac, it's called a Whopper! Sorry about that, I just feel the urge to confront you about your problems!) I learned that Mrs.Redford isn't all that bad, if you are good! I learned i missed Mrs.Namanny a lot, and it is not fun to have a teacher gone on maternity leave!:( I also have had these wheel courses I can talk about; Autoskills,Art, General music, and Adolescent skills. In autoskills, I became a better reader, and have improved in reading class and math class. in art, we doodled around with our self expression through art. In adolescent Skills, we learned the dangers of alchol,tobacco,and drugs, it was scary hearing what some of the side effects of it are. In general music, we learned about how music developed, how genres of music developed, and about a few different composers. Well, until I hink a little futher back, this is the comment I'm going to add onto my other one.
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hey like i said more from me Tanner koster. another thing that i have learned in science is some stuff about Gregor Mendel and Barbara Miclintock. in music class one of my wheel courses is about the periods of music like the rock and roll rap and many other time periods. there is not much elso to tell about what i have learned this year. that is all i am going to tell you. by.
Ok, I left off at English. I think I will write about... poetry. Yea sure. I will write about the different types of poems. Or at least try to. A Haiku is a poem with three lines where the first line has five syllables, the second line has seven syallables, and the third line has five syllables. A limmerick is a poem in which the first line has eight syllables, the second has eight, the third has five, the fourth has five, and the fifth has eight.
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there has been a lot of bstuff going on in sixth grade learning how to become master blogers and how to become internet litterets
or however you spell that so far math has been nothing but homework and fun and english has given me a sweet tooth and reading as well science rairly will we get dome dumes wich are tastey but to much is bad yah school has been fun and sixth grade will be gone in only a few months or should I say DAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so there wont be much homework but there will be the constent reminder don't forget study during the summer kids wich will be boring with no playing out side and locked in side doing homework if the teachers give us any (wich they better not) ha ha ha ha ha ha ha well the last few months has been nothing but cramming stuff in our brain and after two days of summer we will probably forget it all but then thats whats not really fun because then they'll give us an assingment and it is just like what the what is midevil times is that were they invented fire or make dounuts hmmmmmm well I give up .
that will be me on the first day of school in 2009 on august this year has been really fun but it has to end somewere and at some point there allready enoff stuff in our heads to get us to seventh grade and we should just get out of school like righ this instint there should be more taught in social studies and get more time in social studies like teach us about more stuff in egypt and more stuff about egypt there should also be more to do in math like get to play math games insteed of always getting homework otherwise learning about area and perimitter and circumfris okay maybe that one not yet but soon but you get the point then in english verbs poems jelly and junk sandwiches that was my favorite thing to do so far in english then we will get to make our very own fairy tales very soon.
then in science maybe a little bit lease in the book and more with the stuff weve benn studying like the functing parts of the cell wich was very fasenating or maybe more disecting then we learned in reading how you can tell the diffrence between figurative language poems first person naarrator and more and more but then in social studies weh with ave learned about so many places and that by the great pyramid lays a mcdonalds and a kontucky fried chicken then in the stonage the would drive elk off the edge just to kill them with fire and the rest they would keep for safe keeping then they made almost like a gass type jell from the witch doctor or if thats what they even called the doctor then to china they had invented gunpowder alot of there stuff we benafet from every day that cool how stuff made like more that two thousand years ago we still use today that I found very very very interresting to india they made water weal and some I said some people use it and they had poles to communi cate and my favorite part how one of the perian wars elephants were used to fight with the same with those huge chariots that were like sixth or five feet tall wich would be really hard just to kill even one of the men riding
Hey me again we have studied the body, cells, microscopes, and some other things. We are currently studying ecosystems now. In social studies we have learned about a lot of gods such as Zues, Hades, Hercules, and some bad people Medusa and a Cyclops. Those are just some but there are many more. We have had a lot of blogs to do. We have studied a lot of religions and emperors. We had one big project where we had to make something about ancient Rome. We also had to make a city. We learned that Romulus and Remus were thrown in a river and rescued by a she wolf. The she wolf nursed them back to health. They built city’s and one brother killed the other and that’s how Rome got its name. Rome is not a country like other civilizations it is a city and has both a sea and a river. Rome also had a city by it called Pompeii it was next to a volcano. The volcano erupted and the ash preserved everything that is why we know so much about ancient Rome. The mountains name was Mt. Vesuvius. They wear Togas. Its river is called the Tiber river. Greece has a lot of other peoples cultures and ways of life. Ancient India is way more advanced then other civilizations it has a metal bow that is six feet tall. The warriors of India did not declare war they let the other people do that. They could not destroy the peoples crops. They could not even hurt an Ambassador. That was their law of war.
Ok I have returned!!!!!!!! I am going to talk about Egypt again! I know that the Nile flows north. The land in the south is higher than the land in the north. It also has 2 name one the taker of life. This means the Nile over flows too much –drowns people and destroys crops. If it overflows too little, crops don’t get enough water and die. The other name is the giver of life: provides fertile soil for growing crops, method of transportation. There is something else to it is like two different places one is good witch is black land: the land along the banks of the Nile. Very fertile soil. Where all the farming is done. Another one is the red land which means desert. No crops can grow here. Ok now I am going to talk about the pyramids which are used for tombs, protect the mummy of the pharaoh. One pyramid is the pyramid is Giza Necropolis, contains the great pyramid and the sphinx. Necropolis is like an ancient burial ground. The Sphinx nickname which is like a guardian of the Giza complex. A sphinx is the body of a lion and a head of a man. The pyramids are made of limestone. The people who made the pyramid were made by workers that were free men who were paid. I know that pyramids have 4 sides . Egypt is in Africa.
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So far I have learned alot of things in every single subject icluding gym. I will start this assignment with telling you about what i have learned in my least favorite subject math class. I have learned a ton about fractions including how to simplafy them and make them into decimals and percents. I also learned haow to add them subtrat them multiply them and divide them. I have learned about many angels also. some angels i have learned about are right obtuse acute and staright. I have learned about these triangels= Obtuse right acute isscocellies eguilateral and scalene. 100 wordes
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Social Studies: I learned that people from the Stone Age were very very very dumb. That the Romans had public baths. that the Romans had aqueducts. That Chinese had many battles. Many of the battles were very very very cool.
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I am going to tell you about what I have learned about in social studies. We learned about the Stone Age and I learned that the people that lived during that time period were called Neanderthals. We would most likely call them cave men but their proper names are Neanderthals. The next thing I learned about is Mesopotamia. In Mesopotamia I learned that they invented a thing called irrigation, which I think is very important. Irrigation helps water the crops and stuff like that. Without it the crops wouldn’t get watered, therefore they would not grow, and they could not be eaten. Also Mesopotamia invented a thing called a wheel. A wheel helped them carry stuff around easier. Another place we studied is China. China invented many things such as matches, gunpowder, toilet paper, and many more. China also has a big wall called the Great Wall of China. The wall is used to protect china from enemies.
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Like I was saying yesterday if you don’t do good on the Dakota step you have to go to auto skills which isn’t the funnest class to be in but that’s why you have to do good on the Dakota step. Today im going to talk about social studies and what we do in the class of social studies we talk about the wars we had and the town of Rome its kinda fun but the webquest are the boring that’s why I don’t enjoy social studies.
In math class I learned how to add fractions, add improper fractions, and mixed numers and many more. Also I learned how to solve equations, and make expressions. For example, Peter has n marbles. Peter gives twenty-six to Henry. Peter gets seventy-three more. How many does Peter have left? I would make this expression like this one. (N-26)+(73). Also I learned how to find the perimeter of something. I also learned how to find the area. You find the area by multiplying the length times the width of whateer object it is. In english class I learned about verbs, nouns,proverbs, pronouns, prepositions, prepositional phrases, the layout of a story, subjects, predicates, adverbs, adjectives, and many, many, more. Also do you know what an article is? An article is the word a, an, and the in a sentence. The demonstrative adjectives are this, that, these, and those. I learned in english that an adjective modifies: wich one, what kind, and how many/how much.
In science class I learned that the traits a child has can be fifty- fifty. I learned this because of something very interesting I think anyways which is a punnett square. A punnett square is something that helps predict what a child’s traits will be by comparing or using the parents’ dominant and recessive traits. A dominant trait is a trait that masks other traits with exceptions. A recessive trait is a trait that is not visible unlessed paired with another recessive trait. Now, I’m going to tell you my favorite thing I learned in each subject. My favorite thing in art that I did was making the self portrait and making the masks. In music my favorite thing I did or learned was the dance we did, and learning about the people that composed music along time ago,and then my most favorite in music class was doing the skit thigs or whatever. My favorite thing in adolescent skills was drawing the “What is your emotion today” thing. Also I liked doing the friends wanted posters. In auto skills I liked doing the program entirely, except for some of the reading. In english class my favorite thing to do was learn about verbs, prepositions, prepositional phrases, and adjective. In math class I loved everything especially algebra. In social studies my favorite thing to learn about was pretty much everything, especially egypt. Egypt was my most favorite. In reading class I pretty much liked everything. Also in science class I liked learning about the cells, and about the genes and inheritance of stuff from your parents. In social studies I also liked china a lot too. I liked china a lot too because it was very, very, interestting. I liked doing the speeches not a lot but a little bit. And I liked learning about all of the many inventions china made. I liked egypt because I liked learning about all the different pyrammids and about the mummies and all the other stuff. I also like the web quests in social studies too. They were kinda (this may be very surprising)FUN!!! In social studies I also liked rome because I liked learning about mt. vesuvius and I liked doing the projects on all the different varieties of stuff. Now you know many of the stuff I have learned in sixth grade and there is much much more. Tthat would be much to hard to list all the other stuff though. Thanks for reading about all the stuff I have learned and liked in the sixth grade. =0)
This is fun what we are doing in Social Studies.
This year in sixth grade if learned a lot of things in all my classes in Reading, Math, English, Science, and Social Studies.
In Reading we do lots of things, for AR we read books right now I’m reading the clique series I have read five of the books so far, there awesome. In class we’ve been playing a game of jeopardy. We also have been working in a packet doing with things like Identifying Genre, Identifying Details, Identifying Author’s Purpose, Analyzing Character, Comparing and Contrasting, Understanding Setting, Identifying Theme, and last Making Inferences. My Reading teacher Mrs.Poppens is also my Home room teacher it’s fun being in her class, she is also my spelling teacher to!
In Spelling we learn about well words of course. We usually do things out of our books and do our pages in our book were we answer the questions on the page. We also have been learning about prefixes and root words.
In Math we are reviewing things we have already learned, we just took our math portion of our Dakota Step test. On the Dakota Step we had three sections of math things, there was quit a few questions on the test some would be hard but, they were mostly easy. I think I did well on my test because I barley struggled on the test. There were questions about triangles, angles, and more. Earlier in the year we learned about fractions and decimals and other things. We also have learned how to but a fraction to a decimal and the other way around, also how to do a mix fraction to a decimal or improper fraction and all of that on a calculator! This year my math teacher Mrs.Nammany had a baby to and while she was gone we had Mrs. Redford to teach us our Math.
In English we just took a test on Adjectives. When learning about adjectives in this unit we also learned about other things. One is Articles, articles are these three words, A, An, The. We also learned about Proper Adjectives, which are always capitalized. Next is Predicate Adjectives, which are adjectives that follow a linking verb and describes the verb’s subject. Other words used as adjectives is also something we learned about, they are those, these, that, and this which are demonstrative pronouns. My, our, your, his, her, its, and there are possessive pronouns. All, each, both, few, many, most, and some can be used as adjectives. Last, are Avoiding Double Negatives, which negative is a word that means no. At the beginning of class we either do a Language Practice or DOL. On the test I told you about earlier I did pretty well on it I was very, very exited about it.
In Science we have also just taken a test, which we have not gotten back yet so I don’t know what I got but, it was on genes, traits, cell division and more. In the unit we learned how to tell what trait the offspring would have. To so that we did Punnett Square which is pretty easy to do. We also learned about dominant and recessive traits. For example eye color brown eyes are dominant, and blue eyes are recessive so if one parent has brown eyes and the other has blue eyes their offspring would have brown eyes. This year we have also used telescopes to look at different things like a house fly, a onion root, and an inked e. We have also labeled the different parts of cells in animal and plant cells, which one has more parts then the other. In class some times we watch Brain Pop witch Tim and Moby they are fun to watch but your learning at the same time and after watching the video we take the 10 question quiz then you are told what you got on your quiz this is what it would look like 10 out of 10 or what ever. I like that in science you do a fun review game.
In Social Studies we also just took a test on Ancient India but Mr. Harding was teaching it because he is our student teacher but now Mr.Klumper is back teaching us again. In the India we learned about all kinds of things like the geography of India like Indus, Ganges, and Barahmaputra are all major rivers in India. Something that India is that they have a good sewer system. There is a caste system in India it goes Brahmins witch is the highest, then Ksatriyas, next Vaisdras. The Aryans came to India from Europe. The language they speak is Sanskrit. There is Hinduism and Buddhism for religions. Hinduism is Polytheistic witch means they have many gods; a book they read is the Vedas. Good deeds = good karma Good Karma = Good rebirth. Siaahartha Guatama founded Buddhism. The founder when he was little was very protected as a child he was kept inside the palace. He was never aloud to leave the palace, as an adult left for the first time, he saw a sick person for the first time. He saw a monk with no possessions and then decided to leave the palace and become a monk. The first ruler of the Indian Empire was Chandragupta Maurya the name of the empire was The Mprian Empire. Some thing you problebly didn’t know was that Ancient India made snakes and ladders, six sided dice, cards and more. They also made the decimal system and mathematical things.
This year is almost over it is kind of sad because I won’t have the teachers I like having to teach me. This year was my first year at BVMS it was the best! Next year I hope to have the same kind of year. All my teachers were awesome Mrs. Poppens, Mrs. Sayed, Mrs. Nammany, and Mr.Berg.[Mr.Klumper Sometimes] Next year at BVMS is going to be the Best! And in two years I will have my brother and my cousin with me in BVMS![FYI Mr. Klumper I am a master blogger}
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The Sun is made up of many flaming gases. There are also other things in space such as astroids and comets.
Math: There are many different geographical shapes such as triangles (3 sides), quadrilaterals( 4sides), pentagons( 5 sides), hexagons( six sides), 7 sided thingys, octagons(eight sides), nonagons (nine sides), and decagons which are 10 sides. There are also many types of angles such as right angles which are 90 degrees, acute angles which are under 90 degrees, and obtuse angles which are over 90 degrees. All of these angles are under 180 degrees. More coming... 479 words!!! Almost half way there!
To continue with math I have learned about rhombuses,parrolograms.sguares ,rectangels, and trapozieds. Next I will talk to you about social studies a okay subject propally the easiest. The first unit we learned about was the stone age. In the stonage the people were not very civalized and dicded to draw on walls. Better known as cavemen the neadrathalls were short and stalky( very very unatractive).They had unibrows and people didnt come from them people came from cromagnins.Neadrathalls jabbed at mamoths with there spears to try to kill them. It took many hours to kill one mamoth. The neadrathalls killed so many of the mamoths that the mamoths became extinct as ypu know they lived in caves. They hunted irish elk untill they became extinct also . they chased elk into places were other cavemen had set up. The cavemen learned about fire and how to perserve it even in the rain. They used pine resin from trees. Cavmen evutally became more civalliciezed and after a long time of livin in caves they moved up to becoming what we are today. I will next tell you abou are second unit mesopatamia. To be continued....100 words from last time and 200 from this time 700 words left to become a MASTER BLOGGER
I am going to tell you all the words I learned in spelling. In the first unit part 1 I learned the words revoke, advocate, eloquent, persuasive, audible, response, refrain, volume, resound, oration. In the second part we had the words convocation, auditions, elocution, evoke, colloquial, auditory, provokes, invoke, audio, vocation. In the third part I learned the words uttered, renounced, mute, discourse, fluent, verbose, verbalize, inquired exaggerate, lucid. In the second unit part 1 I learned the words physiology, respiration, sensitive, symptoms, benign, potent, corps, constitution, rejuvenate, inflammation. In the second part I learned the words sensory, sensation, corset, corporal, expire, aspirate, corpse sensible, desensitizes, perspire. In the 3 part I learned the words fracture, physical, stamina, posture, afflictions, vigor, invalid, nausea, exhale, complexion. In the 3 unit part 1 I learned the words forte, audacity, authentic, exude, bizarre, exotic, tenacious, captivating, stately, visionary. In the 2 part I learned the words contented, conceited, staid, contentious, deceitful, impertinent, incapable, steadfast, receptive, obstinate. In the 3 part I learned the words indignant, condescending, impulsive. sullen, notorious, pretentious, immodest, timid, despicable, defensive. In the 4 unit part 1 I learned the words microbes, biosphere, interaction, solar artificial, hydroelectric, ecosystem, terrain, savanna, viable. In the 2 part I learned the words hydraulics, hydrophobia, territory, inter, subterranean, hydrogen, terrestrial, solstices, solarium, terraces. In part 3 I learned the words cyclones, petrified, gravitated, molecules, crevasses, liquefied, nautical, petroleum, summit, cosmic. In unit 5 part 1 I learned the words surmounted, initiated, impede, paralyzed, proceed, gradual, marshaled, resumed, flexible, relinquished. In part 2 I learned the words graduated, exceed, reflects, succeed, reflex, regress, precede, deflect, digress, progress. In part 3 I learned the words amble, diffuse, deter, fluctuate, cascade, evolve, compress, eject, deploy, evacuate. In unit 6 part 1 I learned the words deferential, sage, humane, harmony, obligation, acquaintance, generosity, rituals, attained, heirs. Those are all the words my spelling class has studied but we have studied some prefixes. They are pre, post, ped, man, mono, poly. The words we have studied with pre are predict, prejudge, preview, prearrange, prefix, preapproved, pretest, prevent, prepay, precede. The words we learned with post are postscript, postdate, postmark, postpone, posthumous, postproduction, postindustrial, postgraduate, postmortem, postmeridian. The words for mono are monorail, monopoly, monolith, monocle, monotone, monosyllabic, monologue, monolingual, monochrome, monophobia. The words for poly are polydactyl, polytheism, polyglots, polyhedron, polygraph, polygon, polysyllabic, polychromatic, polyclinic, polymorphous. The words for ped are biped, centipede, impediment, millipede, pedal, peddler, pedestrian, pedicure, quadruped, tripod. The words for man are emancipate, manacles, manager, mandate, maneuver, manicure, manipulate, manual, manufacture, manuscript. I am going to talk about Egypt. The Sphinx nickname which is like a guardian of the Giza complex. A sphinx is the body of a lion and a head of a man. The pyramids are made of limestone. The people who made the pyramid were made by workers that were free men who were paid. I know that pyramids have 4 sides.
I know that the Nile flows north. The land in the south is higher than the land in the north. It also has 2 name one the taker of life. This means the Nile over flows too much –drowns people and destroys crops. If it overflows too little, crops don’t get enough water and die. The other name is the giver of life: provides fertile soil for growing crops, method of transportation. Pyramids are made of limestone and most pharaohs are brought there when they die. This is 576 words
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In English we really yummy sandwiches. They were the best! I got to eat like 5 sandwiches. Ok so not 5 more like 3 but they were still REALLY good. In science I gave Mr. Berg a picture of an Iowa Hawk Eye that I drew. I was amazed it turned out so good because I like the Huskers. We also learned about mixtures and compounds. We had to draw a picture too. I drew a piggy and a kitty because r. Berg loves kitties and piggys. In math we learned algebra which (If you pay attention {and I did}) is pretty easy if you think about it. We also learned about geometry that was easy too. I mean its just shapes and angles. I have to go do some stuff so I’ll be back
I am just going to go through all my classes in order. First there is spelling or gym. In spelling I have learnt many, many new words and what they mean. We also unfortunately lost a spelling challenge to Mrs. Poppens class L. In gym I have learnt lots of new fitness moves and how to play lots of new games. I’m now in computer but I haven’t learnt much, yet. In Auto skills I learned how to do math and reading better. I now know how to read at a consistent pace. In adolescent skills I learned about drugs and there effects. In music I learned about old composers and when they lived what type of music they wrote, etc. And in art I learned how to make a plaster mask. Next is Social Studies. In the Stone Age I learned about Neanderthals, what they did and their way of life. Mesopotamia was one of the first civilized places. They farmed, had a major river, gods, books, and so on. China invented a whole lot of stuff like coffins, kites, gunpowder, fireworks, and menus. They also built the Great Wall of China. Egypt had the Nile River, which is the longest river in the world!!! It is also very dangerous because it can get really high when it floods. The Egyptians also did mummification. That’s where you salt a dead guy, usually a pharaoh or rich people, down, take out their brain and other organs, wrap them in gauze, and stick them in a coffin thingy inside a pyramid. Egypt also has the great pyramids. There are only three, and they are HUGE. The Great Pyramid of Khufu is the biggest of the all. The Sphinx is pretty much right next to the great pyramids. Egypt was also the home of King Tut. He was the youngest pharaoh ever. Sadly, he died when he was only 18. Next is Greece. Greece was mostly about mythology. But there was the Trojan War, I though it was pretty interesting. It all started when Helen, the most beautiful girl in all of Sparta, fell in love with Paris, a dude from Troy. Helen went back to Troy with Paris. The king from Troy got really mad and wanted her back so he started the Trojan War that lasted 10 years, until the Spartans snuck into Troy by using a giant horse made out of wood. The Spartans killed everybody they could and burned Troy to the ground. The Trojan War was made up of myths and legends. Rome was pretty fun too. They had pretty much the same gods as the Greeks did. According to legend, Rome, a city, was founded by Romulus. Remus, Romulus’ really mad brother, climbed over Rome’s walls and killed Romulus with an ax. They decided to name the city after Romulus, so that’s why it’s named Rome. Rome was also the people that killed Jesus. They crucified him, which means they nailed him to a cross. Constantine, a Roman emperor, eventually declared Christianity as the official religion of Rome. Unlike most of the units we studied in Social Studies, Rome was a city, not a country. Gladiator fights were very popular in Rome. They could be man vs. man, man vs. animal, or animal vs. animal. The gladiators could be slaves, criminals, or thrill-seeking poor people who thought they really didn’t have much going for them anyways. The most famous gladiator arena was the Coliseum. India had certain castes. A caste is like a level. You are born into it and the only way to advance is to live a good life and be reincarnated as a higher caste. Reincarnation was the good karma=good deeds type of thing. We have also blogged to different countries around the world, like Turkey. Now I will move on to math, or ITA. By the way, ITA stands for Introduction to Algebra. My teacher is Mr. Skibsted; he’s a really cool guy. I have mostly learned about fractions, decimals, and math stuff. I love lunch, because they actually have like, 3 different choices for a meal. One of them is always the same, but hey, it’s better than the 1 meal-elementary food. In reading we finally got done with the book projects. YEAH! But we have to do the dumb Dakota STEP tests tomorrow. L. I can’t wait until tomorrow, not. In band I’m practicing really, Really, REALLY hard on my solo. It’s not that hard, but I don’t want to horribly mess up in front of the judges. Now there’s Science. In science I have learnt the how to’s and don’t do’s of the science classroom. I have also learnt how to handle and use a microscope properly. This is going to take up a lot of space, but here goes. Cells. The human body is made up of millions upon billions upon trillions of cells. In each cell there is a nucleus, cytoplasm, chromosomes, vacuoles, etc. In each nucleus there are 46 chromosomes, and in each chromosome there are genes. Genes tell the body our genetics. Genetics are our color of hair, color of eyes, height, and nose shape. There are also inherited traits. An example of this is if your dad has blue eyes, and your mother has brown eyes you are most likely to get brown or blue eyes. Dominant traits are the trait that’s most commonly seen. Brown hair and eyes are dominant traits. Recessive traits are the trait that is usually hidden, or not seen as often. Blond or red hair and blue or hazel eyes are recessive traits. In English I have learned how to write and talk properly. Adjectives, nouns, pronouns, adverbs, and verbs are just some of the things that we have talked about. Also ‘ain’t’ is considered a slang word, even though it is in the dictionary. We also made jelly and junk sandwiches. They were like the highlight of English, because there were lots of different types of food in the room, other than chocolate.
I left off at science but I am going to move on to Reading. In reading I have learned about a book called the Mary Celeste and how the crew members on board went missing. We don’t know how they went missing but they did. I am going to move on to Social Studies. I have learned a lot in social studies. I have learned about the Stone Age, Mesopotamia, India, Rome and a lot of others. I have also learned all the years they took place thanks to Mr. Klumper’s daughter. I have learned how to do a good project. But know I am going to tell you a couple of cool things about each civilization. In Mesopotamia I learned the meaning of the word. Mesopotamia means land between the rivers. In Mesopotamia I also learned that they invented lots of things such as the wheel and irrigation. They also had a system of writing called Cuneiform. In Egypt they had lots and lots of gods. They also had a system of writing called Hieroglyphics. In China things were invented such as toilet paper. Also in China they invented a famous wall called the Great Wall of China. The Great Wall of China was used for protection and other things. On to India, the unit we just got done studying. In India there were two types of religions Buddhism and Hinduism. There was a caste system and there were 4 or I guess 5 castes. One of them was the untouchables and these people were invisible. You couldn’t touch that untouchable not even its shadow. Also in India they had two major rivers: Indus and Ganges. In India the Aryans (a group of people) spoke a language called Sanskrit. The Aryans also had a nomadic way of life. The Aryans arrived in Northern India from the west. Aryans had a important mew technology called chariots. They also made steel. The Aryans had a oral history which meant they told stories. The Aryans wrote stories in books called the Vedas or book of knowledge. I am done with the Aryans. There were two mountain ranges that border ancient India. Those mountains were the Himalayan and the Hindu- Kush Mountains. The biggest mountain of all Mt. Everest is surprisingly still rising. Still I have more information about Ancient India. There were six modern countries that made up Ancient India. Those countries were India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka. The major industries in Ancient India are textiles and clothing. Still more information about Ancient India. In Hinduism, the religion has no founder and the religion came out of the beliefs of the Aryans. In Hinduism there was the belief that you would be born again into a different life. That belief was reincarnation. There were 7 truths of Hinduism but I am not going to name them all because I still have more information about Ancient India. The Indian Empire was founded by Chandragupta Maurya who started the first Indian empire called the Mauryan Empire. He had a grandson called Ashoka and Ashoka used stone pillars to communicate. All right, I am done with Ancient India and Social Studies. Time to move on to math. I have learned a lot of things from Mrs. Namanny and Mrs. Redford. From Mrs. Namanny I have learned how to make improper fractions into a mixed number and how to make a mixed number into an improper fraction. I have also learned from Mrs Redford that using the letter x means you can use that as a variable. Also from Mrs. Namanny I have also learned how to solve word problems. I have also learned about the different types of properties such as associative property, distributive property, and commutative property. From Mrs. Namanny I have also learned how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide. That is all I can remember from math. On to my wheel courses. In art I have learned how to draw a good picture. In Music, I have learned the different types of music. In Adolescent Skills I have learned that I should not drink and drive. In Auto Skills, I have learned two things. One is that math and reading is fun on the computer. Two is that Mrs. Rhykus likes to give out candy. Well, I have done I have over 1,000 words. Bye!!!!!!
Continued
We are at 211 words right here. We also in science learnt about power, electricity, and ecosystems. In reading we learnt about genres, poems, and idioms. Finally in math we learnt about multiplication, subtraction, division, and addition. We also learnt shapes, area, perimeter, triangles, and angles. I have also learnt that having a lot of teachers can be a lot of fun but also a lot more difficult. I like Medieval Times the best because I like to read about it. I also learned that Macy 4Muren wants to be a Buddhist and that the Buddha was not really fat! 311 words in counting,
To be continued.
Macy 4Murren
Master Blogger Contest
Mrs. Poppens is my teacher for Reading. We have covered genre and many things I thought should be in English, but Mrs. Poppens knows what she is teaching. We also studied a book called “Mary Celist” and did a project on that. I really like reading class. My favorite part of reading is getting candy from Mrs. Poppens when we win. I need to thank Mrs. Poppens for helping me to see the joy in reading and for being supportive by leading our book club. In book club we read Into the Dust. This was one of Mrs. Poppens favorite books. It was a sad book. We are currently reading the book “Found”.
In Spelling I think Mrs. Poppens does a great job. The vocabulary words have been very challenging this year. Sometimes I wonder in what situation I will ever use such language, and some of the words I have added to my vocabulary. Each week we make foldable for our vocab words. This has become a very useable tool in helping me to learn the new words. Mrs. Poppens always makes things fun. She plays word games with us to help us remember the words and she makes cool challenges against other teams (against you) (WE WON!). Mrs. Poppens is focused and maintains good control the class I really like her. My favorite part of spelling is the challenges and fun games!
I love Mrs. Namanny she is so cool and a trooper to come back to school after having a baby! Mrs. Namanny is really fun too! She lets us eat candy and play many fun math games. If we ask her for help she gives us more help she gives us guidance. Great Guidance! We learned about shapes, fractions, decimals, calculators, and all basic math things. This was the first year that I really was taught how to use a calculator. In the past all of my work had to be done by hand. Calculators do come in handy, but you still have to know the skill to be able to apply it the calculator. Did I mention that I Love Mrs. Namanny! YOU Rock Mrs. Namanny! Mrs. Redford did a wonderful job keeping our class under control and teaching us the things we needed to know while Mrs. Namanny was gone. I felt that I was ready for the Dakota Step test, thank you Mrs. Redford.
Mrs. Klumper, what can I say ….. Just kidding Mr. Klumper, I love your class and the fun things you do! You are always great with us! I love the projects we get to do. The Rome bathhouse was a fun project and thanks to Shane’s mom, we had plenty of dough. I always have fun in your class while I learn. We covered Rome, “Mess in my pants”, (teehee) Mesopotamia and Egypt and many other things. China, Stone Age, and soon to be MIDDLE AGES! I love the videos you create with Izzy, she’ll be a star someday. You are a fashion icon and I like how you are so funny. :{}
Mr. Berg is so nice and he controls a class like mine. Let me tell you he is on track every day! Good Man! Mr. Berg always starts with a story for that days lesson, they are sad and laughable and some days there just silly, really silly. We studied labs and chemicals, reactions, cells, reproduction, and pundit squares, all that fun stuff. We just started on unit on ecosystems. This should be a fun unit. My favorite part of science is the experiments that we do! Mr. Berg is nice and is always willing to go beyond the classroom time to help me when I need it. I like that.
Mrs. Gooch really controls the class for how big our band is. Mrs. Gooch is always busy and she can squeeze in time after or before school to help us with our instruments. Also I have Mrs. Gooch for music and she plays a lot of games. I really like that!
The best thing is that Mrs. Gooch knows how to play the trombone. Mrs. Gooch is patience at band lessons. I have solo contest coming up in May and I hope I don’t let her down.
I LOVE Mrs. Sayed, she is so funny. Mrs. Sayed is not just funny she does control the class I have. If we do get the occasional bad grade, she always offers a recovery, which is really neat, that way she knows that we now understand it. Which is cool! Mrs. Sayed is great when she explains our work and helps us with the first three problems. In general, I love Mrs. Sayed! Mrs. Sayed in the hallways lets us touch her head but no more can we give her a fo-hawk. Mrs. Sayed is just great in general. We studied nouns, pronouns, adjectives, poems and other English sentence structures.
I learned many things in my encore subjects, art, auto skills, music, computer, and adolescent skills. I learned new skills and things about health concerns.
My favorite thing about school is talking with my friends and eating. Thank you to the lunch ladies for giving me FOOD that is great because I eat a lot! I love how the lunch ladies say, “Thank you Macy” or your name after you leave. I love that it makes me feel important!
Besides what I learned in the classroom, I learned a lot about myself. I have become more organized by using my planner on a daily basis. Throughout the school year I have seen many kids trying to find their place among the 6th grade class, and in doing so, have hurt others along the way. I am thankful for the great friends that I have here at BVMS. My mom always says that we are so fortunate to be a part of this wonderful school system with great teachers and great community. You know what . . . I think my mom knows what she’s talking about. Thanks to my wonderful teachers, I am ready to face the challenges that 7th grade bring. Look out, seventh grade, here I come.
Now I am a Master Blogger!
Wow, I get back from Florida and there’s a 1,000 word blog post. I swear Mr. Klumper is going insane. Anyway let’s start out with math. In math this year I have learned how to add, subtract, multiply, and divide integers, decimals, and fractions. I have learned about unit rates, and how to change one form of measurement to another. I have learned about the metric system and the standard system. I have also learned how to change a fraction to a decimal, a fraction to a percent, a decimal to a fraction, a decimal to a percent, a percent to a decimal, and a percent to a fraction. I have learned about many geometric shapes, and how to find perimeter and area. In science I have learned about electricity and magnetism, cells, the microscope, and genetics. I have learned about many things we can inherit from our parents. I have learned how we can predict what types of things offspring will inherit from their parents by putting together punnette squares. I have learned that a dominate trait usually covers a recessive trait. I have learned that brown eyes are a dominate trait and blue eyes are a recessive trait. In English I have learned about nouns, pronouns, prepositions, adjectives, verbs, and adverbs. I have also learned the different types of adjectives such as demonstrative, predicate adjective, articles, ect. Through the poetry unit I have learned about alliteration, personification, simile, metaphor, haikus, imagery, and limericks. I have written many poems, each time learning more about them. In reading I have read many books, wrote summaries on them, and learned about the plot events. I have learned the definitions of hyperbole, alliteration, personification, simile, metaphor, imagery, and onomatopoeia. I have taken AR tests on many books. I learned some things that good readers do, such as reread the book. I learned definitions of hard words, and how to figure out what words mean without using a dictionary. And of course I have to write what I learned in social studies. In social studies I have learned about the Stone Age, Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, ancient China, ancient Greece, ancient Rome, ancient India, and now Medieval Times. I have learned that cavemen are called Neanderthals, Mesopotamia wouldn’t be anything without irrigation, ancient Egypt used the system of embalming to mummify someone, ancient China invented many things such as toilet paper, (How could I forget that?) ancient Greece was where the first Olympics were held, ancient Rome made Christianity their main religion, ancient India had a social system called the Caste System, and Medieval times are yet to come. In social studies, I have given a speech on toilet paper, (Not fun) Cyclops, (Not fun) and public bathing. (Also not fun) I have made a country called Nadacia and a city called Rubytencia. I made a project in the “Creating Rome” project on the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius, and the city of Pompeii. I have done way too many blog posts and some were very long, such as this one. (I swear it will never end!) That concludes things for my core courses, so now I will move on to my wheel courses. In my first wheel course, adolescent skills, I learned about drugs and alcohol. I learned about the different types of drugs and how they can affect you. I learned that too much consumption of alcohol results in slow reflexes, and affects your actions. I learned about peer pressure, and to just say no to things you know are wrong. I have also learned about many career choices. If you like certain things, you should pick a certain job. In Auto Skills a yellow man named Rupert helped me practice my reading and math skills. Every week I would work on a reading program, or a math program, to help improve my skills in those subjects. In computer I learned how to type thanks to the Paws program and the cats at Typing Town. (Let’s go down to Typing Town where learning’s lots of fun!) I learned how to type the home row keys, and also all the other keys. I learned what fingers I needed to use to accurately type. I learned that using the wrong fingers can result in bad habits. I learned how to type symbols, on some I had to hold the shift key. I learned how to type all the numbers on the top of the keypad. It was very hard to reach them and to remember what fingers to use. I learned how to type with speed and accuracy. It is now easier for me to type and I make fewer mistakes. I typed paragraphs, (They were hard) and sentences. I learned how to enter scores into Microsoft Office, and how to do other cool tricks of Microsoft word. I learned how to find pictures on the Internet and put them into Microsoft programs. I also learned how to make a chart on Microsoft Office. In art, I made many different projects. I wrote my name in bubble letters and colored it in with creativity. I made 3D houses and 3D boxes with ribbon running through them. I made a charcoal still life and painted a still life, and then put ink on it. I made a color wheel with many different colors and used a DC logo as my symbol. I colored five mask designs and chose one to make. I hot glued things and put glitter on my mask. I drew a self portrait of myself and on one side colored it in charcoal and the other side made it abstract. I am currently in general music. In sixth grade I have learned many things in my core courses, (Science, math, reading, English, and social studies) and in my wheel courses. (Adolescent skills, Auto skills, computer, art, and general music) Now as the year is coming to an end, (Yay!) I can look back and say that I have learned a lot of things. And now I can say I have earned the title of “Master Blogger.”
P.S. I got 1021 words. (Counting these words)
In social studies I have learned that the Stone Age was in 10,000 BC, Egypt was in 5,000 BC, Mesopotamia was in 3,500 BC, China was in 3,000 BC, Egypt was in 2,600 BC, India was in 2,500 BC, China was in 1,250 BC, and Greece was in 500 BC.
So far this year I have had a lot of subjects, but I absolutely dislike spelling taught by Mrs. Nelson (do not worry it is not because of you Mrs. Nelson) and English even though I get an A in both subjects (same with you Mrs. Sayed) it is not because of you. Out of my other three classes (math, reading, and science) I like math the most taught by Mrs. Namanny, social studies is second taught by Mr. Harding and Mr. Klumper and science is third. This year in math we have learned equations, algebra, fractions, and a whole lot more. I think algebra was the hardest one. In science we have learned about genetics, blood types, and a ton of other stuff. My least favorite unit was the genetics one Even though the test was really really simple (no I am just joking my least favorite thing was the HOMEWORK and let me tell you we had a lot of it in all of the classes). In English we have learned about verbs, adjectives, wrote poems, wrote stories, and also learned adjectives. In spelling we are not very far in the spelling book compared to the other classes, but we have just scratched the surface of the dictionary like all of the other classes. During lunch I usually get the table closest to Mr. Paunch’s office in the cafeteria (also known as the lunch room or commons) (and I do not sit there because I get or got in trouble). Now I am going to tell you how my day starts from when I wake up in the morning at six thirty. I wake up in the morning at about six thirty each day and eat breakfast. When I am all done brushing my teeth and stuff I go outside and see the dog I am babysitting (with my parents’ help of course). Then I get on the bus at around seven o’clock. I am on the bus for about forty five minutes because we have to pick up a lot of kids, then stop at Robbert Bennis Elementary to drop of half of the kids, then we stop at the Brandon Valley High School to drop of half of the kids left, then we pick up even more kids that go to Brandon Valley Elementary school (I am not on the bus when they get off there), then I finally get off at the Brandon Valley Middle School. When I get to the middle school it usually seven forty-five so I have to wait about five minutes to go to my locker. Once I get to my locker, I have to get my morning binder my accelerated reader book out of my back pack. Then I go sit on the bench for ten minutes and wait for the clock’s hand to get to eight o five. After that I have either spelling or gym for first period, then I have Audo skills in second period, then I have science third period, then reading fourth period, then lunch fifth period, the social studies sixth period, then study hall seventh period, then English eighth period, then math ninth period, and finally homeroom tenth period. One more thing I can’t wait for summer break. oh and mr. K this is 544 words so you dont need to count not counting this sentance.
Ok I have talked about a lot of things. I am going to tell you about china!! Ok so in china there was something called the Silk Road. It helped the trading and other things like that. It went from china to Europe. China also had a thing called the Great Wall of China. The Great Wall of China was there for defensive purposes. In other words to keep the bad guys out. There was also a class type thing it was like
Top: kings
Middle: nobles
Bottom: peasants
One thing I liked about all of this is that every one helped each other out. Like the peasants grow the food for the nobles and kings. And the kings protected the peasants.
Ok some other things I know about china is that china has 2 major rivers the yellow and the Yangtze River. The legalism was that they had to obey rulers out of fear. The first emperor was shi huangdi.
Well got to go
Word count all together:613
Well I will tell you about everything I have learned in 6th grade we will start with math I have learned a lot about math like mean median and mode the metric system capacity measurement and how to use addition and subtraction and multiplication division and decimal and fractions now to spelling we learned many different prefixes and suffixes and we learn out of our spelling book that we are on unit six in right now also we learn stuff in English like poems limerick exaggeration alliteration idiom rhyme rhyme scheme and many more things like prepositions and articles nouns and verbs pronouns and adjectives I will name some nouns bus car train jet plane building it can be a person place or a thing and verbs such as run jump play walk jog skip and sprint are used in a sentence in reading we learned about first person omniscient second person third person and third person limited we also read A.R. books to make our goals for reading books this year I have had eight teen points every quarter and so far I have made them all and in science we learned about the body reproduction mitosis and meiosis and everyday we answer a thinking question that is written on the board we also learn about how science works and like we used microscopes and looked at the cells of plants animals and other stuff I also did this cheek cell experiment and the cells that we stained we looked at in microscope and we saw that you could see the nucleus and the cell wall but the stuff inside the cell was moving even though it had been put in the slide and in social studies my favorite subject we learn about a lot of civilization from the ancient times I will talk later ok im back on and I have more to tell you like Egypt they had surcofisisc and they would have the rich people or even some poor people and the pharaohs would be mummified and then they would have their jewels and their important items put in with them when they died and it would be like a seven step process they would take a thing and break the nose or they would take a wire and stir the brain till it gets like mush and watery soup like then they would pour it out of the nose and into something because they didn’t know what it was used for and they thought it took up to much space so that shows you that they weren’t the smartest people the next step would be to take out the main organs out of the body and put them in kanopic jars and then they would have someone cut a slit into the side of the persons body so they could fill it with Natron salt and that would then dry the body out for forty days then the person that was cutting the slit would then be pelted to death with stones and I really like the ancient Egypt unit and the next one would be Mesopotamia they would have the weirdest laws I have ever heard of and I also think that they would make sense to have laws like that because if you took someone’s limb they could take yours and that and they would also say eye for eye tooth for tooth and a ton of other stuff they lived in-between the Tigris and the Euphrates next I will move onto India I think that they did a pretty good job in the advancements that they made like the sewage system and using decimals for math which I don’t like much because I don’t like math and they made the decimals so now we use the decimals in every day life they also had two main rivers they were called the Indus and the Ganges and the main books for them were the Vedas ok right now we are doing international connections and I think we have like five countries AND I THINK SOME OF THEM ARE LIKE Austria Australia brazil Scotland and Egypt more about social studies now I think that the Romans were pretty cool to I like how there was gladiators and other warriors and the gladiators would fight each other and they would fight animals or they would fight animals to animals and also we have also have lunch which is basically an eating place and the social area and the place where we get food to eat when we are hungry and we also watch channel one which is basically is our news channel we learn a lot about the daily world and our country I don’t like reading but we learn about prefixes and other stuff I will do the stuff later also in spelling we have to learn words for learning I guess then we have a spelling test and a vocabulary test and he have to do three words then give the definition we also sometimes play this game called sparkle it is where you will have the class stand by there desks and they will like spell a word that you tell them to and each person will say a letter to the word and if they get the letter wrong then they have to sit down or if they say sparkle at the wrong time they have to sit down but after the word has been completely spelled out they will say sparkle and the person that is next will have to sit down also since I have to get sixty eight words left I will name off the teachers in the sixth grade wing Mr. Klumper, Mrs. Poppens, Mrs. Namanny, Mrs. Redford, Mrs. Mohr, Mr. Berg, and the principal Dan paunch and the vice principal is Mr. hill well I still have to get to 1000 words so I have to get about twenty more in math we had just got done with the Dakota step test and also in reading we got done with it yes I made it to the one thousand word mark and now I get an a in the blog assignment
Reading has been a hard subject for me because I don’t really get the figurative language thing. But the ones that I remember are simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole, alliteration, and onomatopoeia. A simile is a comparison between two things using the words like or as. A metaphor is also a comparison between two things but it does not use the words like or as. Personification is when you give nonliving thing human characteristics, like saying “The rain is spitting from the sky!” The rain can’t actually spit but the person is describing how the rain looks. A hyperbole is when you exaggerate something to more than what it really is or what the actual problem is. For example someone could say “I won’t be done with this homework until I’m sixty” (hey, that’s what I was saying). Onomatopoeia is using words that actually sound like them themselves for example “The car screeched to a stop” in this sentence the onomatopoeia word would be “screeched”
MORE TO COME WORD COUNT:138 I already have 230 so that’s 368
I am just going to go through all my classes in order. First there is spelling or gym. In spelling I have learnt many, many new words and what they mean. We also unfortunately lost a spelling challenge to Mrs. Poppens class L. In gym I have learnt lots of new fitness moves and how to play lots of new games. I’m now in computer but I haven’t learnt much, yet. In Auto skills I learned how to do math and reading better. I now know how to read at a consistent pace. In adolescent skills I learned about drugs and there effects. In music I learned about old composers and when they lived what type of music they wrote, etc. And in art I learned how to make a plaster mask. Next is Social Studies. In the Stone Age I learned about Neanderthals, what they did and their way of life. Mesopotamia was one of the first civilized places. They farmed, had a major river, gods, books, and so on. China invented a whole lot of stuff like coffins, kites, gunpowder, fireworks, and menus. They also built the Great Wall of China. Egypt had the Nile River, which is the longest river in the world!!! It is also very dangerous because it can get really high when it floods. The Egyptians also did mummification. That’s where you salt a dead guy, usually a pharaoh or rich people, down, take out their brain and other organs, wrap them in gauze, and stick them in a coffin thingy inside a pyramid. Egypt also has the great pyramids. There are only three, and they are HUGE. The Great Pyramid of Khufu is the biggest of the all. The Sphinx is pretty much right next to the great pyramids. Egypt was also the home of King Tut. He was the youngest pharaoh ever. Sadly, he died when he was only 18. Next is Greece. Greece was mostly about mythology. But there was the Trojan War; I thought it was pretty interesting. It all started when Helen, the most beautiful girl in all of Sparta, fell in love with Paris, a dude from Troy. Helen went back to Troy with Paris. The king from Troy got really mad and wanted her back so he started the Trojan War that lasted 10 years, until the Spartans snuck into Troy by using a giant horse made out of wood. The Spartans killed everybody they could and burned Troy to the ground. The Trojan War was made up of myths and legends. Rome was pretty fun too. They had pretty much the same gods as the Greeks did. According to legend, Rome, a city, was founded by Romulus. Remus, Romulus’ really mad brother, climbed over Rome’s walls and killed Romulus with an ax. They decided to name the city after Romulus, so that’s why it’s named Rome. Rome was also the people that killed Jesus. They crucified him, which means they nailed him to a cross. Constantine, a Roman emperor, eventually declared Christianity as the official religion of Rome. Unlike most of the units we studied in Social Studies, Rome was a city, not a country. Gladiator fights were very popular in Rome. They could be man vs. man, man vs. animal, or animal vs. animal. The gladiators could be slaves, criminals, or thrill-seeking poor people who thought they really didn’t have much going for them anyways. The most famous gladiator arena was the Coliseum. India had certain castes. A caste is like a level. You are born into it and the only way to advance is to live a good life and be reincarnated as a higher caste. Reincarnation was the good karma=good deeds type of thing. We have also blogged to different countries around the world, like Turkey. Now I will move on to math, or ITA. By the way, ITA stands for Introduction to Algebra. My teacher is Mr. Skibsted; he’s a really cool guy. I have mostly learned about fractions, decimals, and math stuff. I love lunch, because they actually have like, 3 different choices for a meal. One of them is always the same, but hey, it’s better than the 1 meal-elementary food. In reading we finally got done with the book projects. YEAH! But we have to do the dumb Dakota STEP tests tomorrow. L. I can’t wait until tomorrow, not. In band I’m practicing really, Really, REALLY hard on my solo. It’s not that hard, but I don’t want to horribly mess up in front of the judges. Now there’s Science. In science I have learnt the how to’s and don’t do’s of the science classroom. I have also learnt how to handle and use a microscope properly. This is going to take up a lot of space, but here goes. Cells. The human body is made up of millions upon billions upon trillions of cells. In each cell there is a nucleus, cytoplasm, chromosomes, vacuoles, etc. In each nucleus there are 46 chromosomes, and in each chromosome there are genes. Genes tell the body our genetics. Genetics are our color of hair, color of eyes, height, and nose shape. There are also inherited traits. An example of this is if your dad has blue eyes, and your mother has brown eyes you are most likely to get brown or blue eyes. Dominant traits are the trait that’s most commonly seen. Brown hair and eyes are dominant traits. Recessive traits are the trait that is usually hidden, or not seen as often. Blond or red hair and blue or hazel eyes are recessive traits. In English I have learned how to write and talk properly. Adjectives, nouns, pronouns, adverbs, and verbs are just some of the things that we have talked about. Also ‘ain’t’ is considered a slang word, even though it is in the dictionary. We also made jelly and junk sandwiches. They were like the highlight of English, because there were lots of different types of food in the room, other than chocolate.
This year we learned about Rome. In Rome we learned about Gladiator. Gladiators fight man vs. man, man vs. animal, animal vs. animal. Gladiators were slave, criminal, and poor. Gladiator fight in the colosseum. We learned about china. China built the Great Wall of China to keep out enemies of city.
We learned about India. The caste system is from rich to poor. We learned about Egypt. In Egypt they built the pyramids to put the king and Queen in the pyramid after they died. We learned about Greece. The army sent a wooden horse to the village they though that it was a treaty but at night the people in the horse came out and destroy the village of troy.
In science we learned about genes. Genes are what you parent gives you. Like how tall you are and if you have straight or curly hair. We learned about DNA. DNA looks like a winding stair case. DNA is used to find out how was the criminal. We learned about cells. The cell has the nucleus is the brain. The cell has a cell well to protect the cell. We learned about atoms. Atom is the smallest thing in the world.
In math we learned geometry. In geometry we learned about right triangle, obtuse triangle, and acute triangle. Acute triangle is all side are the same. Obtuse triangle is none of the side are the same. Right triangle is two side are the same. We learned about fraction. Fraction are top time and a bottom time.
Now for Math we started in the year with basic stuff like division and multiplication but about two months ago we started algebra. I love algebra it’s like a puzzle that you need to solve. We’ve also learned measurement in the customary system. At the time we had Mrs. Redford as a sub. And she gave us a cool way to remember the customary system going down: Kings, Humans, Dragons, Unicorns, Dog, Cat, and Mouse. In Social Studies we’ve learned how to become master bloggers, speak in front of the class without using our notes, and be creative and imaginative with everything we work on. My favorite unit that we’ve worked on so far is Egypt. In this unit got to learn how the ancient Egyptians preserved their dead (cool). But out of everything we’ve done my absolute favorite was the Pompeii project it was fun working with a group (even though I was the only girl!) and making our projects. The final thing when we exploded the volcano was the best. And that’s what I have learned this year!
WORD COUNT: on this one 180 all together: 548 yeah!! I’m done
In science class I have a lot of fun with the people I sit by mainly involving talking. I try to do my best not to talk but it just happens sometimes. We get to dissect and owl pellet soon so that should be fun. I have liked science a lot more in sixth grade that any other grade. I like the fact that we get to do so many experiments and get hands on with real chemistry. I have a great test record but for some reason not the homework. I have a B+ in that class too much. I want some A-‘s more. I usually don’t have homework in science so when we do I sometimes forget or don’t know how to do it.
In social studies we do a lot I think too much maybe. I like the teacher Mr. Klumper but not the hard homework he gives us. I always get seated next to the screw offs in the class so I’m always annoyed in some form. My mom nominated Mr. Klumper for teacher of the year so she must like the stuff that he does in class. We have to do so many different civilizations in that class I’m going to be dizzy. And if you mix that with being social you get a lot of hard work to interact with other people. My mom says it’s a good thing and that it will get me ready for collage when I get older.
My very first wheel course was computers. I am ok at typing. And when I started out the year I wasn’t so good but I’m much better now. The teacher Mrs. Giles is still kind of grouchy but if you’re nice she will be nice back. I think that they need to change the computer program they use to help you type really bad.
Hi I am here to tell you about what I have learned so far in 6th grade. I am going to start with English. We are doing adjectives right now. Before this we were doing poems. Some of those are simile poems, metaphor poems, or alliteration poem. Before that we were doing verbs. Later on we will do fairy tales. English is probably my least favorite subject so I don’t have too much to say.
Now I will tell you about math. Right now we are doing the Dakota Step tests. They are a test that the state of South Dakota requires. Before this we were doing use our measurement. Different kinds of systems. For that unit we had a sub because our teacher Mrs. Namanny had a baby. We have also learned about fractions, decimals, and percents. With those we converted them, reduced them, etc.
Here is science. Right now we are doing ecosystems. We just had our test over genetics yesterday. Before that we were doing cells. We have also done solids, liquids and all that stuff.
I have saved the best for last. SOCIAL STUDIES!!!!!!!!!! We have studied 7 civilizations. First we studied the Stone Age. That was a very interesting unit. Next we Studied Mesopotamia.
Mesoppatamia was are second unit. in tmesopatamia they dug canels and had very wierd laws. Mesopatamia had a major river and used irragation. they liked to npunish people by death. Are next unit was egypt. As you know Egyptians built pryamids to house there dead pharrohs.....thats all i thought egypt was until I learned tons of stuff like they Took out ther pharrohs organs and did this to cats also. Well I got to go. So far I have 400 words. almost halfway there.
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Well, in Social Studies this year, I’ve learned a LOT. We are working on Ancient Civilizations, and we have learned about a lot of different things. So far, we have learned about the Stone Age, Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, Ancient Greece, Rome, and India. I think that we actually learned more than that, but I can’t remember any other ones. I’m going to start with the Stone Age. Well, to start it off, 10 million or whatever years ago, we intelligent humans weren’t all that smart. We didn’t talk; we drew pretty pictures on rock walls; we hit people with rocks to make them make ‘music’; and we tried to kill and eat giant hairy elephants. Like I said, not all that smart. We lived mostly in caves. We were attacked by humongous kitties with huge fangs (saber tooth tigers). The animals weren’t the smartest. To start out, we cut off the meat from our prey by hitting it over and over again with a rock. Wow. As you can probably imagine, that didn’t work out so well. Then one day, when we hideous humans (and I forgot to mention before that we weren’t exactly good looking back then, and we obviously hadn’t invented the shower yet…) we hideous humans were sitting around hitting a dead carcass with rocks when ugly number one’s rock suddenly broke (obviously this isn’t how it really happened; I’m just trying to tell you what could have happened). Ugly number one looks at his broken rock and realizes, ‘hey, it’s sharp!’ and that was how the first knife was made (more or less). So from there we started making spears and arrowheads and knifes and things like that, and our tiny brains got bigger. And now we are the really smart people that we are today. Next was Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia was nicknamed the Fertile Crescent. It was nicknamed that because it was a sliver of land between to rivers and was very fertile. It was in the shape of a crescent. The two rivers surrounding it were the Tigris and the Euphrates. Mesopotamia was fertile because every time the Tigris and the Euphrates flooded (which was pretty often) they would deposit rich soil to the banks of the Fertile Crescent. Because of this, it had very good farmland. Also in Mesopotamia, the wheel was invented. This was very important because without wheels, they would not have been able to transport all of the crops that they grew into the city. If their carts didn’t have wheels, they would have to drag them. And that would not have been good. First of all, it would take them a very long time to drag this huge, heavy cart for a really long ways. Second, if they finally did manage, they would probably get a hernia. Or else they would die from the effort. And then they would not have very many people left in the town. They wrote with a very complicated form of writing. I wish I could tell you what this form of writing was called, but seriously, I can’t remember. I think it was something like Cuneiform or Kuneeform or something like that.
And that is 531 words, which earns me a grand total of 1006!
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We are at 319 words right now. Let’s talk about the Stone Age, in the Stone Age for brain surgery they would cut the persons skull off then let it sit so the evil spirits would be released then you took them to the cemetery. In Mesopotamia we learnt that Mesopotamian laws said that if you stole you would be put to death. In Egypt we learnt that the pyramids were hand built. In China we learnt that Chinese people invented many inventions used today. In Greece we learnt that Grecians traded a lot. In Rome we learnt that Romains people thought fighting people to the death was fun! In Idea we learnt that Buddha was a person not a god! Finally we have already learnt something in Medieval Times and that is that knights loved to joust or fight each other for fun. I also learnt that a teacher can have a student teacher and student teacher can have student teacher!!!!!! So ya um also I learnt that Social studies is an awesome class I hope I can have a teacher as awesome as Mr. Klumper in seventh grade. I also learnt that blogging is awesome.
This is where I leave you with 522 words left right now.
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Here is my complete list. Hey Mr.Klumper I am glad your back. I can’t wait till it’s my turn for jostling. Well my favorite unit I think will be Medieval Times just because of the jostling. Math is going well we have learned so much about adding, subtracting, division, and multiplication. We have also learned a lot about fractions. We leaned how to make a mixed number into a correct fraction. We also got to make a math t-shirt. Mine was very interesting it had lots of pokadots on it, and it had my 8th period math class signatures on the back. A lot of math we have done for the Dakota Step is with calculators I am glad Mrs. Redford taught us how to use the calculator for different problems. Now English, in English we have been learning about adjectives. I learned that adjectives are not very hard. In the past we have gone over nouns, predicates, prepositional phases, prepositions, figurative language, detailing jelly and junk sandwiches, and now adjectives. The jelly and junk sandwiches were very fun because lots of people forgot to say put the other slice of bread on the table. So the person that made the sandwich didn’t usually put the slice down. I got to read, remember, you ate ¼ of my strawberry jelly, strawberries, banana’s, and chocolate chip sandwich. I also remember how you didn’t like strawberry jelly because someone put A LOT on their bread and you said, “I’ll pass”. We also have done poems. Poems were very fun because we got to make one up out of the blue and write it down then print it. After that we got to start coloring our poems. I made one about my dog and how she brought back a drool tool. It was very fun. Now moving on to Reading, in reading we have done a lot dealing with short stories and answering a few questions to get us ready for the Test. We got to play jeopardy and I got 3 dum-dums because I got 100% on 3 coulombs. It was so much fun when we got to do a group project on 15-Minutes the book. We got to pick a partner if we wanted to. Katy and I worked together to make a t-shirt on the book. We also did a group project on the Mary Celeste. I wonder what really happened to the boat. Next is Science. Science is a little hard to me it’s just the tests they are usually hard even though I study really hard. The worksheets are really easy it’s so funny. We play really fun test review games. We play really fun test review games some of the characters were Donald duck, daffy duck, and people like that. We were going to get to text in class our relatives to see if they knew an answer. Now we don’t get to because too many people really do text and they would text other people than their relatives. Well now I can go onto computer. Computer was really easy because I love typing and type a lot to my friends so for me it was an easy A+. Typing was awesome except symbols they were a little tricky. Next comes music, music was somewhat hard because we had a lot of homework it seemed like. And we didn’t get much time to work on it. For example we had a group project and we only had 1 day to work. I got by but some people had difficulties. Now comes Adolescent Skills, this class was fun and easy. We only had like 9 assignments in the whole 7 weeks! One day a police officer came in and talked to us about drugs and how we would get put in jail if we do illegal stuff. We got to put on these goggles that made you think you were drunk at night and morning. It was funny watching people try to catch an object that the officer threw. To catch something you would’ve had to have practice. Tons of practice too. It was very cool to learn things in a fun way. Moving on to Auto Skills, an auto skill is a class that teaches you math and reading. This was a very very very easy class. In this class I mastered my goal every week. Our goal was to master at least 5 skills on the program. On Fridays we got to play games for the last 10 minutes of class I always played on coolmath4kids.com. And at the last day of Auto Skills our teacher Mrs. Rycus brought us cookies and we played games the whole class period. At the beginning of class in Auto skills we had these ten question worksheets. They were sometimes hard and sometimes so easy. Also we made these packets for her next wheel class so they could do the ten question worksheets too. The reason Mrs. Rycus was our teacher was because Mrs. Namanny was having her baby. So Mrs. Redford our regular Auto Skills teacher substituted for Mrs. Namanny. Well I guess that’s it. I am not doing anymore because I don’t have anything other subject to talk about. Wait, I have Social Studies. Well more to come I am done with my study hall. Ok, so Social Studies is so much fun. I really like playing in the joust tourney. Tomorrow April 15, 2009 I get to play in it. I hope you make I win. Because if I do win I will jump with joy. Not really but its fun just to say that. So in social studies we have learned about to much stuff to mention all of it. Some examples are China, Greece, India, Mesopotamia, Middle Ages, Rome, and the Stone Ages. In these units my favorite parts were the review games and of course your videos they are so funny. I liked the one where you put make up on Izzy and Olivia. Well that raps it up and I now am a MASTER BLOGGER:):)
HIIIIIIII MR. KLUMPER. Wwow 1,000 words i dont think i will be able to do this but i will try. I will try to cover all my classes to reach all of thoes words. I will start with math. In math we are taking the Dakota Step tests, but we did our last session today, so on Tuesday because we don’t have school Monday because of Easter break we will be taking the reading session. Dakota Step tests are boring. Now I will do English. In English we are reviewing for our adjective test that will be held on Thursday. Then there is no school Friday either. In social studies Mr. Harding just had his last day but he will be popping in every once and a while. We also just started the medieval times, which is said to be one of the most exciting units. We also used the blog to talk to kids from different countries. In math Mrs. Namanny had her baby on January 27th so we had Mrs. Redford for a while, but now Mrs. Namanny is back so we are all happy. I just started auto skills today so I am reunited with Mrs. Redford again, accept in a different subject. I have heard that auto skills is really really boring! I have gone through almost all the wheel courses, I am on my last one right now. I have done computer, art, music, adolescent skills, and now auto skills. Those are in order of what ones I did first to now. Wow this is a lot of work. In reading we did this jeopardy thing and I got all of the answers right! (with the help of my pod members). In auto skills Mrs. Redford just taught us about the computer program we are going to be using in the next seven weeks. It is just about math and reading. I finished my book today, it is called found by M.P.Hadixx. So when I take a quiz on it I will make my ar goal.
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This year in reading we read a book called Fifteen Minutes. It is about a boy named Casey who was always late. But then he got a watch that takes him back Fifteen Minutes. Casey uses the watch to get a better grade, not get dunked by a bully, and do better in football. Casey is not popular at all and his friends are not popular either. Todd is the bully with his friend Milton. There is a guy at their school whose name is Tractor. People call him Tractor, because he is so big and very strong.
This year in social studies we learned about many units. Like the Stone age, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Ancient Greece, Ancient India, Ancient Rome, and China. My favorite unit was Ancient Rome, because there was so much to learn and I liked doing the creating Rome project. In Mesopotamia they invented the wheel, which they used to irrigate water.
In China they invented many inventions such as gunpowder, the bell, fireworks, rockets, paper, the compass, acupuncture, kite and the toilet paper. China also had the Great Wall of China, which has the nickname the longest cemetery in the world. It has that nickname, because many slaves died while working on it, so when the slaves would die. They would just throw its body over the wall. China also had four different dynasties. In Egypt they had pyramids and the Great Sphinx. The pyramids held mummies and there ownings. Also in Egypt they had a river called a Nile River.
This is 264 words plus 217 words before equal 481 words, but there will be more.
Okay, the other things that I was forced to learn was how to convert fractions to decimals. Also in math, I learned how to create a bar graph, pie graph, line plot, and picture graphs. An acute angle measures less than ninety degrees. A right angle measures exactly ninety degrees. Lastly, an obtuse angle measures more than ninety degrees and less than one hundred eighty degrees. An isosceles triangle has exactly two even sides. An equilateral triangle has its entire sides equal. And a scalene triangle has absolutely no equal sides. I can now understand PEMDAS (order of solving some math problems.) PEMDAS stands for, parentheses, exponent, multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction. When I went to my wheel courses, I also learned a couple of things. Like in typing class, I learned how to type faster without looking. In art, I learned how to use charcoal, how to draw lines of symmetry, and how to draw faces. Music class taught me when Beethoven, Mozart, and Bach lived. And I didn’t know that there were two different time periods that were named the Brooke period and the Romantic period. We also learned that there are five notes on the scale which goes in the order C, D, E, F, and G. Then in adolescent skills we took a career test to see what job you might like due to your interests. My test told me that I would have a job in marketing and sales. At first, I didn’t think that I should have that career, but when I checked the jobs that fell under marketing and sales. I found the job I wanted to do was under that topic. In science class I learned how to draw a punnett square. A punnett square determines what characteristics a child might have. 301 words
Hi! OK so for my 1000 word challenge I will about one thing from each subject and pick up rest with anything else. I will start with math. I am in seventh grade math, so we learned about graphing points at one time. You start with the first number and go left or right on the X axis. A negative number goes left, and a positive number goes right. Then you take the second number and go up or down to the number on the Y axis. Then take those two points and take them towards the center of the graph until they meet. And thats how you graph points in a nutshell. Haha I like that saying.
Ok, on to science. Lets venture to the topic of compunds and mixtures. Compounds are made of two or more chemicals combined to make a new one. An example is salt. The symbol for salt is SaCl. It stands for sodium chloride. Another example is carbon dioxide. The symbol for carbon dioxide is CO2. The 2 means that there are two oxegen molecules for every carbon molecule. My favorite word is molecular. It sounds cool, you should try it!! So if you have three carbon molecules then you will have six oxegen molecules. And mixtures are just several ingredients thrown to together and not forming a new compound.
And now to the subject of... English! Its pretty funny because our period always gets busted for talking, haha its pretty funny. Ok, I left off at English. I think I will write about... poetry. Yea sure. I will write about the different types of poems. Or at least try to. A Haiku is a poem with three lines where the first line has five syllables, the second line has seven syallables, and the third line has five syllables. A limmerick is a poem in which the first line has eight syllables, the second has eight, the third has five, the fourth has five, and the fifth has eight. A couplet is a poem with two lines, generally beginning with “I made a mistake…” and each line ending with rhyming words. A few big lessons in English, don’t use the term “aint,” and NEVER say something weird or funny within earshot of Rachael. She wont shut up.
Ok how about reading now. Lets discuss the topic of figurative language. An idiom is a phrase that says one thing but means another. An example of an idiom is “In hot water.” It means that you are in trouble. Alliteration is where a sentence has multiple repeating first consonant sounds. An example is “I love licking lollipops.” Haha that’s a good one. A simile is comparing two unlike things using the words like or as. A metaphor compares two things without using the words like or as. A hyperbole is an exaggeration. Onomatopoeia words are words that sound like the sound they are. Example is “Plop plop, Fizz fizz.” That’s also alliteration!!! Symbolism is ann object symbolizing something. Like a red rose symbolizes love, or something along those lines.
And now how about band? Not too many musical lessons so to speak. But we learned that practicing a lot does help, and don’t make fun of people. That’s about it.
Lunch is interesting. You learn a lot sitting by Walker and his herd of dweebs. Haha, just kidding they are GENERALLY funny. School meat tastes like… “nitrate” look it up! Tatertots taste good, and you CAN have a rice crispy bar every day for an entire week without it getting boring!!
Study hall with Mr Klumper is… indescribable? It can be good or bad. I get my homework for english done there so I guess its better than doing it at home.
Spelling was fun. Last Tuesday was fun when Mr klumpers class came in and we had a prefix root word competition. I learned that there are a lot of prefixes that mean “not.” Auto- means self. Like “auto-pilot” where the plane flies itself(YIKES).
In computer we learned that the letters on a keyboard from top to bottom row, left to right are as follows: Top row: qwertyuiop Middle row: asdfghjkl Bottom row: zxcvbnm. That was fun. In music we learned that a quarter note gets one beat and a whole note gets four beats. Art, we learned that when you make a mask on someone NOT to cover their nostrils. It prevents breathing… heheheh…
OK overall word count: 745!! The other 255 to come later!!
P.S~ I put all comments on one post so it was easier for me to keep track of. And its fun to see a really long comment!! :) Smiles all around! (:
Hi, my name is Randall Howard and I am going to tell you about all the stuff I learned this year. Well maybe most of it anyway. I learned about a lot of ancient civilizations. My favorite ancient civilization is china. I hope that medieval times will be my favorite because I really want to learn about it. My first ancient civilization was the Stone Age. I thought that it was a pretty decant civilization. Cave men do a lot of duties but the worst one of all is when they do brain surgery. There brain surgery all they do is cut a big whole in your head to let the demons out. If you had a headache they would cut a small whole most people would not live from that. They had a lot of animals back then but they were cool. My favorite animal was either the woolly mammoth or the saber tooth tiger. Now that I think about it my favorite is the giant sloth. That is all I am going to tell you about the Stone Age. The second ancient civilization I learned about was Mesopotamia. This was also one of my favorite ancient civilizations. If I didn’t already tell you I learned about seven ancient civilizations but I am on my eighth. Mesopotamia was I think my favorite ancient civilization. It had the best video I have seen all year well I should say my favorite two videos. They were Lego videos though. They were with out a dought my favorite video of all time. I think it was my favorite video from middle school. It might find a better video in time but right now that was my favorite video by far right now. Moving on I should start talking more about Mesopotamia though. The Lego video was about irrigation. Now what I am going to tell you about a different ancient civilization. So that is the end of me talking about Mesopotamia. The third ancient civilization was Egypt. It was a really good one but not my favorite. Egypt was all about the civilization and pyramids but I forgot about pharaohs. I hopefully will remember about pharaohs before i am done. In Social Studies we also just took a test on Ancient India but Mr. Harding was teaching it because he is our student teacher but now Mr.Klumper is back teaching us again. In the India we learned about all kinds of things like the geography of India like Indus, Ganges, and Barahmaputra are all major rivers in India. Something that India is that they have a good sewer system. There is a caste system in India it goes Brahmins witch is the highest, then Ksatriyas, next Vaisdras. The Aryans came to India from Europe. The language they speak is Sanskrit. There is Hinduism and Buddhism for religions. Hinduism is Polytheistic witch means they have many gods; a book they read is the Vedas. Good deeds = good karma Good Karma = Good rebirth. Siaahartha Guatama founded Buddhism. The founder when he was little was very protected as a child he was kept inside the palace. He was never aloud to leave the palace, as an adult left for the first time, he saw a sick person for the first time. He saw a monk with no possessions and then decided to leave the palace and become a monk. The first ruler of the Indian Empire was Chandragupta Maurya the name of the empire was The Mprian Empire. Some thing you problebly didn’t know was that Ancient India made snakes and ladders. Greece was mostly about mythology. But there was the Trojan War; I thought it was pretty interesting. It all started when Helen, the most beautiful girl in all of Sparta, fell in love with Paris, a dude from Troy. Helen went back to Troy with Paris. The king from Troy got really mad and wanted her back so he started the Trojan War that lasted 10 years, until the Spartans snuck into Troy by using a giant horse made out of wood. The Spartans killed everybody they could and burned Troy to the ground. The Trojan War was made up of myths and legends. Rome was pretty fun too. They had pretty much the same gods as the Greeks did. According to legend, Rome, a city, was founded by Romulus. Remiss, Romulus’ really mad brother, climbed over Rome’s walls and killed Romulus with an ax. They decided to name the city after Romulus, so that’s why it’s named Rome. Rome was also the people that killed Jesus. They crucified him, which means they nailed him to a cross. Constantine, a Roman emperor, eventually declared Christianity as the official religion of Rome. Unlike most of the units we studied in Social Studies, Rome was a city, not a country. Gladiator fights were very popular in Rome. They could be man vs. man, man vs. animal, or animal vs. animal. The gladiators could be slaves, criminals, or thrill-seeking poor people who thought they really didn’t have much going for them anyways. The most famous gladiator arena was the Coliseum. India had certain castes. A caste is like a level. You are born into it and the only way to advance is to live a good life and be reincarnated as a higher caste. Reincarnation was the good karma=good deeds type of thing. We have also blogged to different countries around the world, like Turkey. Now I will move on to math, or ITA. By the way, ITA stands for Introduction to Algebra. My teacher is Mr. Skibsted; he’s a really cool guy. I have mostly learned about fractions, decimals, and math stuff. I love lunch, because they actually have like, 3 different choices for a meal. One of them is always the same, but hey, it’s better than the 1 meal-elementary foods. In reading we finally got done with the book projects. YEAH! But we have to do the dumb Dakota STEP tests tomorrow. L. I can’t wait until tomorrow, not. In band I’m practicing really, Really, REALLY hard on my solo. It’s not that hard, but I don’t want to horribly mess up in front of the judges. Now there’s Science. In science I have learned the how to’s and don’t do’s of the science classroom. I have also learnt how to handle and use a microscope properly. This is going to take up a lot of space, but here goes. Cells. The human body is made up of millions upon billions upon trillions of cells. In each cell there is a nucleus, cytoplasm, chromosomes, vacuoles, etc. In each nucleus there are 46 chromosomes, and in each chromosome there are genes. Genes tell the body our genetics. Genetics are our color of hair, color of eyes, height, and nose shape. There are also inherited traits. An example of this is if your dad has blue eyes, and your mother has brown eyes you are most likely to get brown or blue eyes. Dominant traits are the trait that’s most commonly seen. Brown hair and eyes are dominant traits. Recessive traits are the trait that is usually hidden, or not seen as often. Blond or red hair and blue or hazel eyes are recessive traits. In English I have learned how to write and talk properly. Adjectives, nouns, pronouns, adverbs, and verbs are just some of the things that we have talked about. Also ‘ain’t’ is considered a slang word, even though it is in the dictionary. We also made jelly and junk sandwiches. They were like the highlight of English, because there were lots of different types of food in the room, other than chocolate.
Well I guess I left off in science so I will continue from there! He he I just wasted about 10 words! Now we are on a new unit and it is about environment. This is really fun because we learn about different animals. We discover how they live with the same animals and different animals. Another is how nonliving and living organisms interact with each other. I guess that is enough science so here is English. Right now we are doing a unit on Fairy tales and it is fun. We just got a BIG packet and that is not cool. There are two types of fairy tales fractured, which is fairy tales already written and you mess them up or there is regular or true and those are like three little pigs. There is a rule called the rule of 3 or 7 and there has to be either seven of something or three of something. An example is the three little pigs or snow white and the seven dwarfs. We are going into adverbs next and that should be interesting. Ps I just got a ninety six on my adjectives test! There will Be A tiny tiny bit more to come. That’s a few more words HAHAhAH. 210 words
So i'm back. In social studies I leaner about these assignment China, Egypt ,Geography, Greece ,India, Mesopotamia, Middle Ages, Milestone, Rome, Stone age. China has a great wall was built to keep people out. Egpyt that they have pyramids that are for pharos and they have a river and its called Nile river. Greece has stores outside and the cool thing about it that when its hot out you get some air. Rome has big bath tub so people can get clean. Going back to English we are leaner about fairy tales and its pretty cool. That’s all I have to tell you.We have a lot of homework .Then we do guided notes in class. Then we are doing war thing. That we do every day. Then we have since it ok in since class. We leanered about cells. That was fun to do and we do guided notes. We don't get a lot of homework. Sometime we get to do heads up 7 up in home room. In in since we do stuff like microscope. That was fun to do we looked at so stuff like blood. It was fun to do it. This what I leanered in sixth grade.In English I leanered.About verbs.That we get a lot of homework. If you don't do it yuo get in a lot of trouble. In English she gives us a sheet a day. Sometime she gives us two days off of homework. In math I leanered to do test so there not that hard . We don't get a lot of homework in math. That why math is my best class. That we got done with are Dokota Steps. Next week we have some more test next week again. But its reading. That is so cool to leaner to how to do math. This is what we do math class. We work on is geometry. Here are some things that I leaner about that they have a lot of shapes. Now we are doing a picture of geometry. Then we play a game were she had to write on a piece of paper then there would be have to see how much the thing had to do with. That about it for math but if I have anymore thing in math I will tell you about it. Then in social studies we have do a lot in your class. That’s it I have nothing to tell you anymore but if I have more I will tell you ok Bye………. I forgot something that is cool that I get all my homework. That it now maybe if I want to write to you. That you are my favorite teacher in the world. That’s all I have to tell you. Bye………….
First, I will begin with the Stone Age. Many cave paintings were found in Tassili which is located in Africa. They made medicine from herbs which are how they dealt with sickness and injury. They studied animals to learn about the human body. In 7000 b.c. they would pull infected teeth, set broken bones, cut off limbs, and somehow perform brain surgery. Brain surgery was performed when people had headaches or head wounds. The procedure was like this cut a round hole in the patient’s skull. Then let out evil spirits. Considering they used rocks this would usually result in death. The earliest human species competed with the saber tooth cat for food. The hand axe was mainly used by the earliest human species. They discovered fire which they realized was the most useful tool during the Stone Age. The challenge for them was to find out how to keep the fire flames going. Later they discovered that pine resin was the key to keep the fire lit. Boys rarely lived longer than their teens.
Next, I will talk about Ancient Greece. Greece is different then most other countries because it doesn’t have a major river. It has a sea called the Mediterranean Sea located to the very south of the country. They are also “tied to the sea” which means they depend on the sea. On the coastline there are many harbors and inlets. Because of the fact they are located so close to the sea they have expert sailors and traders. Most people lived on the coast because of its rich soil and mild climate which is good for farming. They grew grapes, olives, and barley. The outdoor way of life is shopping, going to plays, having celebrations, and sporting events. The two early civilizations are the Minoan, and the Mycenae. From the Minoan civilization they started a written language, woven cloth, and pottery and jewelry. They became so wealthy because of the trading. They were famous for the cow jumping shows. They eventually became weak, but nobody knows why. The Mycenae civilization took control after the Minoan civilization. They were the most powerful Greek city-state. They had a 20 foot thick wall around the city.
Now I will talk about Ancient Egypt. Life in Ancient Egypt centered around three things; Religion, Pharaohs, and family. Children were considered very important. The women had 3 duties at home including cooking, cleaning, and taking care of the kids. Men would just go to work. Their diet was wheat and vegetables. There was a heavy tax imposed on crops. The effect was earning money. The homes were made out of sun-dried bricks. The bricks were made with straw and mud. The doors were 4 feet off the ground to protect from floods. The nobles would have 25-30 rooms and the peasant’s house was small but nice. They slept on roofs. They would do that because it had cooler weather. You could make your house as big as you wanted. This was possible because the bricks were a lot cheaper than they are today. For clothes they would wear a white colored tunic which is a long t-shirt. Men wore it down to there knee. Women wore it down to there ankles. They would be barefoot or have sandals on their feet. Men also wore skirts. The main jewelry was rings, necklaces, and earrings. Oddly, the men and women wear green aye shadow, black eye liner, and gold jewelry. Men had no facial hair. Women had hair to their shoulders. They also put a cone of scented fat on their head to smell good. There was also a process called mummification. Step 1. Announcement of death-Step 2. Embalming the body-Step 3. Removal of brain-Step 4. Removal of internal organs-Step 5. Drying out process-Step 6. Wrapping the body-Step 7. Final procession. Also they had 2 rituals. Ritual 1. Opening of the mouth-Ritual 2. Weighing of the heart.
I will talk about Ancient China now. The Silk Road is an important trade route from China to Europe. The Great Wall of China was built for protection. The class system for the Zhou went like this.
Top: Kings
Middle: Nobles
Bottom: Peasants
The significance of the North China plain was where Ancient China began. It was a good place for a civilization because of the Yellow River, which provides fertile soil. China’s two major rivers are The Yellow River and the Yangtze River. Double Cropping means to plant 2 crops on the same field in the same year. Oracle Bones were a tool used to predict the future by the Shang dynasty. The Bronze Age made many things such as tools, weapons, etc. The Golden Age was during the Zhou dynast. It was the start of money and school education. Legalism is obeying rulers out of fear. Some inventions are toilet paper which helped clean up after people did their “business”. Acupuncture which relieved stress by needles. The Great Wall of China is used to hike, bike, and tourism in modern times. Its nickname is the longest cemetery because people would die while working on it and the workers would throw the dead bodies right into the wall. The first emperor of China is Shi Huangdi. People in China call themselves the people of the han. The three types of people that built the Great Wall are slaves, criminals, and farmers.
Lastly, I will talk about Ancient Rome. The emperors of Rome included Caesar Augustus who used power to bring order and stability to Rome. He also improved the Economy. He created a fire dpt. And a police dpt. Caligula who was very cruel, mentally unstable, and considered himself a good ruler. Claudius who returned artwork stolen by Caligula, worked hard to improve Rome, improved laws, and granted citizenship to more people in Europe. Nero who poisoned his step brother, killed his wife and mother, and after his death the civil war broke out. Marcus Aurelius who lowered taxes, helped the poor, sold own jewels and property to help with the famine, and founded hospitals, orphanages, and schools. Sorry for the very boring Essay. If you read this whole thing then you must have had a pretty boring day.
I leaned Christianity is important part of life. Christians showed devotion by going to Jerusalem or Rome. Rome home of the pope. Jerusalem Holy City. Monks young men who devoted their lives to Christianity. Nuns young women who devoted their life to Christianity. Monastery where monks lived. Convents where nuns lived. Things monks did at their buildings pray, study, cultivating crops, and help the poor. Micioany people who go out to teach people that are nonbelievers about a religion. During the 800’s system of political, social, economic. Monarch King, lord pledged loyalty to monarch and military support if needed. Granted an estate, owned land, relived income, collated taxes, maintained order, enforced laws, protected serfs. Knights warriors trained to fight on horseback. Chivalry code of behavior, deep faith, ready to die for church, gave to all, stand against injustices. Serfs farmers. More to come
THAT WAS 1000 WORDS AND I HAVE 300 IN A DIFFERENT POST.
Some other things I learned this year is in English we studied nouns and pronouns and nouns .pronouns are nouns that mention a name or the name o0r the name of something. Nouns just mention general things that you hear every day and things like dog cat mouse kitten puppy mice are some nouns. Some pronouns are Jeff ,walker, Steve, Dan, sandy, Jacob, Dylan, and those are some pronouns .in reading we studied a lot of things we studied like well we did these reading logs and we had to fill them out to get the points we needed and if we didn’t fill it out we got a bad grade. The books I read this year were milkweed, assassin, devil arithmetic, 15 minutes, and many more but those were my favorite ones. In science we studied clones and they can be made by one person’s genetics and cloned to make a whole new living organism but scientists have not found a way to clone a human being for some reason they can’t figure it out. We also studied the microscopes and how you used them and how to find the specimen you were locking for .I locked at many specimens but I liked the fruit fly because it was so detailed and fun to examine. I looked at the spider but it did not look real it was just blue and not detailed. it looked like a toy with no detail. I looked at human blood and it was cool. In math we studied fractions and how to convert them into decimals and it was easy. We did decimals and how to convert them into fractions. We did a little bit of geometry and it was simple but hard for some kids not me. We learned about triangle such as obtuse acute right equilateral and scalene isosceles and many more I don’t remember.in math we did long division and it was fun we did long division on the board in front of the whole class and we did long multiplication and we went up to the board in front of the whole class and if we got them right we would get a pat on the back and a high five.we studied in gym we did fitness testing and what we did was pacer test ten minute run and much more things that really made us sweat.in music we studied history of music and we learned about Bach Beethoven and what was going on when they wrote there music and what there life was like whaen they were adults and when they were growing up.in auto skills we just redid some of the stuff we have covered in years past and it kind of just gave us some thinking to do and I did not think that it would be so challenging but it was and it really put us to the test.in adolescent skills we studied how to not give into peer pressure and what happens when you do drugs and alcohol.it gave us examples on what happened people who used steroids and how it gave them emotional problems with there health .some things we did in social studies is was we studied cave men they used pine resin to keep the fire going so they could run the elk of the edge off the cliff and they could kill for animals at one time instead of just killing one at a time.they would wear lots of fur so they could keep warmand they lived through an iceage and so they had to be warm so they would not freeze to death.in rome they killed the cristians untol won day the king said that they would stop killing them because he h ad a dream and he believed it so all the crisians would be safe and no longer be killed like they were a short time ago.the romans were very powerful and they did win a lot of wars. The romans had a fun time when they had a time called pax romana it was when all romans were proud to say I am a roman citizen and they had a good time during that period of that time.
Hi Mr. Klumper its Brendan again .
I will start this out with Social Studies. In Social Studies I learned about Ancient Greece Ancient Rome Ancient India Ancient China Ancient Egypt and now the Medieval Times. From Ancient China we got a lot of things such as gunpowder, fireworks, bells, and even toilet paper.(what would we do without that)Ancient Egypt had a lot of fancy and sometimes weird gods like Greece. Hades was a god in Greece so was Zeus but Hercules was Different he was part man part god. Ancient Rome was the most exciting because of the Gladiator games. gotta go bye!
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Hi Mr.Klumper I'm back and I am ready to continue... I think I left off from science so I am going to tell you about science. The other stuff that I learned about science is that Barbra Mlicintoc is that she studied corn plants. She also studied in the corn plant that the genes actually jump and therefore called JUMPING GENES!!!!
Now I am going to talk about reading. What I have learned in reading is that if you read that you actually get smarter, even if you read a fiction book like Circu Du Freak by Darren Shawn or Harry Potter the Scorers Stone by J.K Rowling. Both are great books but the stories that I like the most are the true stories because they actually happened in real life. Another reason why I like true stories is because then it makes you feel like you are actually their. Another thing that I learned is that the types of books. Their are Fiction, non fiction, and historical fiction.
Next I am going to talk about Social Studies. What I have learned in Social Studies is that the beginning of the middle ages were called the dark ages, life was very hard, few people could read or write, times ware tough,thhey struggled a lot.
To be continued!?!
Hi Mr. Klumper. In social studies I learned about ancient china. In ancient china there more people in that area than anywhere else. They built the Great Wall to keep the people that were fighting against them out. When someone died they would bury them in the great wall. It is many miles long. We also learned about Europe there are fewer people there than in China. We learned about Ancient Egypt. They built a lot of pyramids for their kings. When they would bury their kings they would bury their slaves along with them. Other worker slaves built the pyramids. The queen that was with the king before he died would go on to the next king. One of the pyramids has gold stuff on the top of it. And there is only one pyramid that is larger than all of the others. We learned about Ancient Greece. They had different handwriting called Sanskrit. Greek mythology is about gods and goddesses.
We are now learning about medieval times or the middle ages. They would have jousting which is where two people would get on horses and be on one side of a wall or rug and try to knock the other person down off their horses. Whoever knocked off a person would go on to the next round. Sometimes it leads to death. Sometimes they would do this in front of the kings and queens and whoever won the jousting tournaments would either be a duke or the next king.
In reading we learned about onomatopoeia, personification, and alliteration. Onomatopoeia is when the word sounds like a sound. Personification is giving something that is not living personality affects like talking. Alliteration is a sentence or four or five words that begin with the same letter.
In English we learned how to write poems. We wrote personification poems, similes and metaphors, haikus. We learned about nouns, adjectives, verbs, and other parts of speech.
In math, we learned fractions, decimals, liquid ounces, gallons, shapes, geometry pictures, and multiplying and dividing, adding and subtracting.
So far I have 343 words. I might add more.
Ok I had three hundred and twenty five in my other blog so I have six hundred and something left. Today in the beginning of the day when the bell first rang we went to our sixth period class to take our reading Dakota step test. It was very boring! There was a lot of short readings and I hate those they are dumb. In social studies we had the stone age and Mesopotamia were our first two units. I thought how they wrote was kinda cool, we have computers and pencil and paper. That would be awesome if we could still write on rocks. Math we have the decimal system and that was invented by the ancient Indians. The ancient Indians did a lot and I mean a lot of the things that we still use today such as the decimals system and the game snakes and ladders or as we normally call it, schuttes and ladders. They originally used the game to teach the children about reincarnation. Reincarnation is the coming back to life after you have died. I think it would be kinda fun to never really die and just come back as like a fish or something. Reading we have a lot of things kinda like our matrix I thought the matrix was fun but easy because I picked a Venn diagram, so I could get it done faster than like a t-shirt. The English test was easy, I got a goodish grade on it. We are going to start our fairy tales now and then adverbs I think. In our fairy tales we will get almost no homework! There is like thirty one days of school left and then there is summer. There is a sea that is in almost all of the ancient civilizations and that is the Mediterranean sea. There is also a lot of other seas in the units but they are not in any of the other ones. There is a lot of rivers too but there is none in the same units of the other ones. There are a lot of other things too such as mountains, plateaus, ect. The schedule was messed up today because of the reading dakota step testing. We had no first period or second period. So I had no gym or auto skills. But today on the other hand we had a normal schedule again so I got to go to spelling and auto skills. In auto skills we just did our academy of math thing, I wonder what the academy of reading is like. I will find out sooner or later. I finally cleaned out my math folder so it is like 5 pounds lighter. Reading we just corrected our pasture packet. Spelling we just did word wisdom. Math we worked on our posters. Social Studies we went to the computer lab. English we got introduced to our fairy tales. Ok only a little while to go now. Did you know that in the stone age we watched this video where cavemen went out on a journey to find food for their family, and sadly one guy died. They did not even take off his clothes, they just barred him with all of his fur WARM clothes. AND IT WAS BLIZZARDING! I am sorry but if that was my friend died I would take the clothes off of her so I can be warm. Dead people don't have to be warm. This is a lot of words. We had a new girl today too. We watched a lot of videos about all of our units. We are now having joust tournaments. I have to go against Katy T. I hope I win, but if I loose I'm not gonna cry or anything. Today for our joust tournaments the other people had to throw two balls and get it closest to the target. Hunter and Becca won. (I think) Only a tiny bit to go now. For our ar goal party we played mat ball with all of the other people that met their ar goal and it was a huge tournament. I got four home run things for my homeroom. I thought it was fun but I am pretty sure some people hated it. I like running. I only have like ten more words to do so I will just talk about social studies. Social Studies is semi fun we do a lot of more fun activities than in other subjects. Well anyways my computer does not have word count but on font size ten I have a little more than one page and you said a page is one thousand words, so here is my one thousand word essay. :)
This is the third and final post I will make for this assignment. Back to English, another thing is adjectives describe a noun or pronoun. They ask what one, which kind, or how many. P.s. we were studying this and I accidentally told Alex the wrong answer so he got it wrong. Ha!! Well there are many types of adjectives such as demonstrative and those are this, those and that, numbers like 1,4,4,6,8,6,544, and 2783949. In a sentence an example is, those ducks swim in this pond. A number example is 535 children lined up for a group picture. Poems were a fun unit too. I think we wrote 7 or 8 poems (that was a demonstrative adjective). There is a lot of different poems including alliteration, onomatopoeia, personification, and just to name one more metaphor. Alliteration is the same constant at the beginning of the word. Onomatopoeia is words that describe noise like boom. Personification is giving non-living objects human qualities. Metaphor is comparing two unlike things not using like or as. Well now to social studies. I know you are jumping for joy Mr. Klumper. We have done quite a few units so far. I think my favorite one was or s Medieval times because there is a lot of fun things to do with this unit. The jousting is really fun too. I guess Middle Ages aka medieval times took place in Europe. On Friday we have to take a hard quiz that I will study for sadly. I am getting close to obtaining the goal of 1000 words. I can almost taste the title of master blogger. Every kids dream to be a master blogger. My least favorite unit is the India one. There wasn’t much to do that unit. Egypt had some pretty cool things such as a mummy, pharaoh, and tombs. Greece was a fun unit too. I think that I am running out of info. I have like 70 words left. I can’t believe school is almost out. I learned sooooo much this year. Seventh grade isn’t to hard right. The last information I have to share is doing the project on Mt. Vesuvius. We had to build a volcano and it shot ash over our city. Pompeii was the city that got shot with ash. There were humans that died so fast that they were running. This is the largest city ever preserved. I have just become a master blogger YEAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! over 1000 words
Hello Mr. Klumper im back!!!!
Well, I liked that we got to learn how to spell really hard words in Spelling and like got to use computers in auto skills and it was kind of fun learning about stuff in adolescents skills!! In math, we learn about shapes measurement, weight/capacity and fun stuff like that… not really fun if you ask me though!!! In reading we got to learn about different things in like poetry and other fun stuff like that, next on my schedule is lunch, most of the time the salad is good,,, and the pop tarts!!!! Anyway, next is English is fun, the way we get to learn about cool stuff like adjectives… what is more fun than learning about adjectives???...Just kidding!!! Well anyway, next is study hall with you, which is completely hard cause if you catch us doing nothing you send us to a dictionary to copy a page out of it!! WOW!!! Next is Science, where we were learning about cells!! AND NOW WE ARE LEARNING ABOUT stuff like animals and where they live and other awesome stuff like ecosystems!! Finally, its time for homeroom where Mr. Berg lets us play HEADS UP 7 UP!!! I love being a berginator!!!!!!!!!!! Now that im done talking about my schedule lets talk about what I do after school usually after the bell rings I go to my locker, get my stuff, talk to my friends for a while, then i go outside to wait for my bus to come. I don’t like waiting for my bus because its boring because my bus is like one of the last buses to come pick us up, plus I have some weird people on my bus!!! =) Then when I get on the bus for the five minutes I am actually on the bus, it is kind of boring I just sit there and find a way to entertain my self most of the time anyway. So next when I get of the bus I walk inside and get attacked by my to humongous puppies!!! Lady and Sophie are field spaniels and a poodle crossed with a border collie!!! I think its weird the way Mr. Berg dissects all that weird stuff, ewwy!!! Well anyway at my house my room is like totally torn to shreds because my parents and I are totally remodeling my room!!! Im excited about that!!! SOOOOOO… I think that we should be done in about 4 months...in other words....forever!!! So, we should be done in about four months...in other words....forever!!!
Well got to go
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Ok leaving off at wheel courses. This wheel course I have music. In music I learned notes and how many beats each one has.
Now I will tell you about my socail studies class.In s.s. I have learned more than ever about different civilizations.Each civilization has different culture. My favorite civilization is prob. Greece because of all of the Gods and Goddesses.
The next class I am going to talk about is science. Science I learned about alote of stuff like Atoms, Cells, Ecosystems,and alote more.But now we are learning about Ecosystems and what they are.
English is my next class I will talk about. English we learned about nouns, pronouns, adverbs, verbs, and alote more. But now were maken a story.
The class I will talk about next is math. Math is a Challenging class.But we just took a test over everything we know. We learn alote of things over the year.One thing that I learned is converting fractions to decimals to percentages.
The next class is reading. Reading is a good class. I learned alote about the settings, plots, rising action, and much more. After this class I like books alote more than I did last year. Books are more interesting now.
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As I was saying. In science we learned about asexual reproduction, sexual reproduction, and some other stuff like cells and what they do to help us. I’m getting closer I’m at like close to 500 words so about half. I know this has taken along time I have been busy with drum line, but that’s done now. In English we are about to start writing fairy tales which should be fun if you make it fun. We also learned about verb and adverbs. That was kind of boring but I’m getting an A in English so I should be fine, but that was awhile ago. We learned about alliteration and stuff like that. In math we learned about rays, lines, points, line segments, and um……………………………………………………………………let’s see……………………um………… and that Mrs. Nammany was going to have a baby that she had already. She’s so cute and little. Wow I’m out of things to say. That me think………in spelling!!! Yeah in spelling! In spelling (which is my first class{everyone’s first class is that though}) we learned about prefixes(pre, re, post, man(or manu) and something that starts with a p. yeah um………………… in gym (work with me here I’m running out of things to say) we finished the fitness test. I’m getting closer I’m almost at 700, but I’m not there yet I still have a lot to go. I FORGOT ABOUT READING! HOW COULD I FORGET THAT!!! In reading we made flip books like we did in social studies ( Have you ever wondered why it’s called social studies? I have ….just now. Strange. Anyway back to the assignment. ) about words like personification and stuff like that. Just the meanings and examples. I kind of wish I was done but I have to keep going. We did a picture in math using shapes. I made an elephant standing on a platform. We learn about monks in your class and how they give up everything to worship god. Even their families. They don’t even get to see their friends OR family. That’s sad. I could not live that life. I want to see my family and friend. I want to get married some day. I pray to god, but I wouldn’t throw my life away just like that. I’m not saying that I don’t like monks or nuns it just not the life for me. I’m getting closer I’m at 800 something .813 but whose counting. Um…… we learned a lot about you at the beginning of the year. We learned about the food chain today in science. How grass is almost always the first thing that is eaten. In reading today we corrected papers. In social studies we did a guessing game where we had to listen to a description of the person, read a paragraph about them, and look and describe the picture that is given. After all that then guess what the person is. I haven’t even made it to 900 yet that’s how much I don’t have yet. Finally I made it to 900 now all I have to do is get 1000 and I’m done. We also had a joust. Mackenzie won and Shane won. Mrs.Sayed read us a fairy tale and told us what we are going to do when we start writing our fairy tales. Almost done. We are going to do art projects in math this week. We are going to be dissecting owl pellets to see what the owl eats. I wonder what we are going to do for the rest of the year. There is 1000 words I am now a master blogger.
Ok I have cover a lot but I have not told you about my favorite yet which Greece is!! I have no clue why it is my favorite it just is!! Ok a couple of things I know about Greece is that there was no major river. I know that Greece depends on the sea and the lands are very good for farming. I also know that Greece’s climate is pleasant. This is not to cool and not too hot. I would like that. The mountains separate Greece which makes travel very hard. Ok I know that in Greece they always spent time outside doing like plays and stuff like that. I know that geeks believed in gods. Like Zeus and people like that. They believed that they lived on a mountain called mt. Olympus. I know that there was a war called the Trojan war. The Trojan war was a war between the Greeks and the Trojans, and there was a wooden horse sent to trick the Trojans. The war was mostly over the most beautiful girl in all of Greece named Helen. Some other things I know about Greece is that Athena was born out of Zeus’s head. Now I am going to switch subjects and talk about Rome! Right now I only need like 187 words!! I know that Rome was a city in Italy. The two main differences Rome has with all the other civilizations we studied is that it is not a country and have both a major sea and a major river. Rome is considered to have a perfect location because it is along a river, near a sea, and hilly to protect from attack. There were two boys in that were named Romulus and Remus they were thrown into a river until they were found by a she-wolf that raised them. Just imagine getting raised by a she wolf that would be kind of creepy and cool at the same time. But they grow up and built a city (different cities of course) and one got jealous so he killed his brother. That is the perfect way to handle things just kills the other person so you won’t have to deal with them. The war between Carthage and Rome was called the Punic War. Rome won the war. A gladiator was a slave or criminal or a poor person who had nothing. Well I have like 1,002 words so I think that will do
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Hey, It’s me again, nicole. I left off at mitosis, right, two hundred words? Great. OK, so one of the phases is prophase. Another is metaphase, anaphase, telophase, that was so spellt wrong, I’m terrible at spelling, which is next. I don’t have nearly all of them. I’m missing like three or four, I’m also terrible at science, and English. I forgot, did I already do English? I don’t know. I wouldn’t be able to tell you much anyway. But now to spelling. I can’t tell you much. As you can tell, I suck, really bad, but that’s beyond the point. I can’t really tell you much. I learned how to spell a few words that’s really pretty much all. Not much, huh? Anywhay, now there’s math. I suck most at that. I did learn a lot though. I learned to do long division. I also learned how to turn a mixed fraction into an ordinary fraction. And how to turn fractions into mixed fraction, and to turn a fraction into a decimal and the same but switched around and such. Also to turn a fraction into a percent and the switchy thingy too. I have a, what do you call it, ok, come on, oh, right, a writer’s block. I learned that we evolved from Neanderthals in social studies. I also learned about Egypt, this, I didn’t learn in school, but, the females used crocodile poo, dung, etc. for birth controll. My mom loved I mean was obsessed the most biggest fan of Egypt. She was going to be an egypttoligst if she hadn’t had me and Megan, obviously my sister, not adopted, blood sister. They were my favorite part in the school year and still are. A unit will have to work really, really, really, really, really, really, REALLY, REALLY, and I mean REALLY hard to beat that section. I’m going for the a because I want a really good grade in social studies. I want to learn why they call it social studies if they don’t study social ness whatever social is plural. Ok this is going great, only five hundred words to go. I’m half way done! Ok, I really don’t like doing this, I don’t think you should make us do this. I sort of like the other teachers because they don’t make us do this. I mean you can’t make everyone do this. I gotta go, see ya.403 words
Hi Mr klumper its Brendan again as I was saying the Gladiatorial games were a big part in Rome's popularity. Some Gladiators fought to the death for adventure or to find the courage in themselves. Then Christianity came into Rome with Jesus. Jesus taught peace with people and that's when the Gladiatorial games started to stop.
As you can probably tell Christianity was the main religion in Rome. According to Izzy Rome's existance started in the year 0.
in spelling we have all to tell you we made foldabales this year in math we learnd about cubed long divishion adding times in reanding we talked about alot like what is a plot and the climax and frist person secont person tride person limited and thrid person oonishint in scinice we leaned about newtons frist law of and newtons thrid law and newtons secont law
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One of things I learned in sixth grade is in math. We learned about making decimals into percents, decimals into fractions, fractions into percents, fractions into decimals, percents into decimals, and percents into fractions. Also in math we learned algebra. Another thing that we learned was geometry. We learned a lot more.
In reading we learn about figurative language. Some examples of figurative language are idiom, simile, metaphor, and a lot more. We also learn read a book together in class. We also take AR test . AR test are when you read a book and take a test on the book and you have an AR goal which is when you take a AR test the book is worth and that is how many points you have to get. We learn a lot more than that.
In science we learn about how you have brown or blue eyes or brown or blond hair. An example would be if your parents were both heterozygous (two different example Bb) brown eyes and they have four children two would have heterozygous brown. One would have homozygous ( the same example BB) brown eyes and one would have homozygous blue eyes. So now we would know if we had a offspring. Some vocabulary words we learned in Genetics are chromosomes, Genes, Recessive genes, Purebred, and hybrid. A tool that we used in Genetics is the punnett Square. Some people that we learned about are Gregor Mendel and Barbara McClintock. We also learned about Mitosis. The stages in mitosis are first Prophase. Then Metaphase and Anaphase. Next is Telophase. Lastly is the daughter cells. Also we have learned about food chains.
In math we learned about algebra, decimals, and bar graphs math is not that fun but right were doing wanted poster s and its awesome because I made gunshot holes in the poster and blood so its pretty sweet. In reading were doing book talks and I have the book deathwatch it sounds like a great book to read and we haven’t started reading it yet. The book is about hunting big horn sheep with a sweet rifle with a scope and they go without food and water for a long time like three weeks. In social studies were doing the joust battle and I won in the push-ups against Andrew I had 24 and he had 21 and that was in 25 seconds and I was tired that day and didn’t feel like doing push-ups that’s the best that ive actually done at home I can never do that stuff and my brother pushes me like really hard that’s all for today bye.
I have learned a lot this year. In math I have learned how to covert fractions into decimals and I learned how to use customary system and other stuff in math. In science I have learned about how traits are passed in genetics. And I have learned about cells and how they work. They have a nucleus that controls the cell. And I have learned about chromosomes. Humans have 26 chromosomes and I learned about Granger Mendel. He worked with pea plants. In computers I have learned how to use Microsoft power point and type fast. In English I learned about personification, similes, onomatopoeia, nouns, and verbs. In social studies I learned about the Stone Age, India, Mesopotamia and Egypt. In China they have a Great Wall to protect them. It is very, very, very long. The big river there is the Yellow River. In Ancient China there were four dynasties. One was the Zhou Dynasty. In Egypt they had three pyramids. They put dead kings in the pyramids. One of the big rivers there is the Nile River.
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I am back again Mr.Klumper and I am going to continue with social studies because I left off with it.
The elderly had volunteered to stop eating so the rest of the town could survive because the town was progressing very very very very slooowwly. Ok, now on to the medical section. In the medieval ages diseases was a consume to them because the didn’t have the right medical stuff and a lot of people were always sick. The one thing that scared the people the most was the sickness that was called BLACK DEATH!!!! Black Death was very bad because if someone got it everyone got it and everyone died because they didn’t know how to dispose their bodies properly it was so lethal that it has wiped out entire towns. this is why the people were so scared about Black Death
Hello again Mr. Klumper I will now do auto skills, auto skills was kinda fun but at the same not really. I learned that the program is so so so so stupid, I would type in my awnser and it would count it wrong even though I got it right. That really ticked me off. Now I will do art, art was my first wheel course and it was also fun and not fun not fun. I was the demenstrator for the masks, that was very cool. Now on to Adoulecent skills, we learned that drugs are worse then we thought. That it is hard to catch a ball while drunk. That it is a long way to get to be what you want to be. Now toMusic, I did not really like musis music because we only sang one time. That in rythem baseball you dont even get to hit a stinkin ball at all. Now to computer which I am in right now the typing town song is kind of catchy. That I can now type a lot faster than Icould when I started. In general I am liking middle school. A lot of boys and girls are starting to " go out" with each other now. In lunch some people are really dumb and get nachos every day. That is it I think, See ya tommorow Mr. Klumper.... Peace out to everyone out there in the world. Bye-Bye!!~
What I learned this year is to find all my classes, it took a couple of days to get the hang of it though. The first class is spelling every week we get new wordlist and every week we have to do a foldable, a foldable is like a study guide you take a piece of paper and fold it and then you cut it into 10 equal parts then you put the words on top of the 10 equal parts and under each word you put the definition for that word. The second class i learned how to type kind of fast, another second class (there are 5) is art, you get to make masks out of plaster, another class is music, I learned that Beethoven was the greatest composer of all. I learned how it felt to be drunk in adolescence class; a police officer came in and let me try on these glasses that made you feel like your drunk. The third class (social studies) I learned about a lot of ancient times and places like Mesopotamia, Stone Age, Egypt, Greece, Rome, India, and I’m just starting medieval times. The fourth class is reading, something I learned in reading is about 1st 2nd and omniscient. For reading a book I have a reading log and I have to put how many pages I read and how many minutes I read a day. The 5th class is LUNCH I have learned that not all meals are healthy and some are bad for you. I also get more variety for stuff to eat like nachos. The sixth class is English; I have learned a lot of things in this class, like preposition, nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs, and personification. I am working on fairy tales in English right now and it sound like fun, you have to write one, the process is that we read a couple so we get used to it. The 7th class is study hall, you don't really learn anything in there but it's a good tool to finish you homework or even read. The 8th class is science, I have learned a lot of stuff just like English, I have learned about cells, mitosis, what is in cells, energy, like lightning, ecosystem, and a whole lot more of scientific studies. The 9th and final class is math, i have learned about graphs such as pie graph bar graph, pictograph, and a whole lot more, i have learned how to multiply add subtract and divide fractions, i have learn how to convert fractions in to decimals and percents. My favorite class is social studies because we get to do alot of fun things like the joust battle we are doing in this class, we win a t- shirt if we win.
in homeroom we also do fun activities. Oh i almost forgot about P.E. I learned how to play mat ball and all of these exersizes, for example the mountan climb you sit on the floor like your going to do a push- up and you run on the floor like you would when you would climb a mountain.
Hi I am here to tell you about what I have learned so far in 6th grade. I am going to start with my wheel courses. First I had adolescent skills. In theis class we learned about drugs and alcohol. Officer Steffel brought in glasses that simulated a person that is drunk. We also did a little in jobs. We also did an emotion picture with our face and our emotion. Second, I had auto skills. In auto skills we did a math and reading computer programs. We had to meet a certain amount of objectives. Third, I had computer. In computer we learned almost all of the keys on a keyboard. We did that with a program called the paws program. Fourth, I had art. First in art we made name things. Then we did a box project. We needed something to go through the boxes. I choose a computer mouse that is going to a computer. We also did houses those were really cool. Then we did a still life project that you had to charcoal in. We also did a still life that you had to paint then ink. After that we did my favorite project. The mask. We made our masks out of plaster. We then painted them and put stuff from home on them. After that we did a cartoon and had to draw faces on them. Finally we did a portrait of our face half of it was real and the other half was abstract. My last wheel course is music. Haven’t been in music long but the time I have been in there we have doen notes. Now I am going to tell you about my core classes. I will start with English. We are doing fairy tales right now. Before this we were doing adjectives. Before that we did poems. Some of those are simile poems, metaphor poems, or alliteration poem. Before that we were doing verbs. English is probably my least favorite subject so I don’t have too much to say. Now I will tell you about math. Right now we are just doing artsy type of stuff. We are doing wanted number posters now. Last week we where doing the Dakota Step tests. They are required by the state. Before this we were doing use our measurement. Different kinds of measurement systems. For that unit we had a sub because our teacher Mrs. Namanny had a baby. We have also learned about fractions, decimals, and percents. With those we converted them, reduced them, etc. Here is science. Right now we are doing ecosystems. We just had our test over genetics not to long ago. Before that we were doing cells. We have also done solids, liquids and all that stuff. I have saved the best for last. SOCIAL STUDIES!!!!!!!!!! We have studied 7 civilizations. First we studied the Stone Age. That was a very interesting unit. We learned about the different types of animal and people way way back then. Next we Studied Mesopotamia. One of the thing we learned in this unit was about the fertile crescent. I also learned about the Hebrews. They where founded by Judah. They were monotheistic. There was also the Phoenicians. Along with the Lydians. After that we studied the Egypetians. They had great art work. Obviously they had all of the pyramids. In Egypt is the Nile River. Then we had Ancient Greece. After that was Ancient Rome and then the middle ages. Mr. Klumper I am sorry I didn’t become a master blogger. My good post I didn’t copy paste right so I lost a lot of words there so I had o do a lot over again.
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I am back! What was I telling you about? Oh, yes I was telling you about J.F.K. John F. Kennedy was sworn in as the 35th President at noon on January 20, 1961. In his inaugural address he spoke of the need for all Americans to be active citizens, famously saying, "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." He also asked the nations of the world to join together to fight what he called the "common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease, and war itself." In closing, he expanded on his desire for greater internationalism: "Finally, whether you are citizens of America or citizens of the world, ask of us the same high standards of strength and sacrifice which we ask of you."[21]
Foreign policy
President Kennedy's foreign policy was this to an extent: "Do not supply those armies of countries that plan to do us harm, do not give weapons to the Communists, do not supply bombs to the middle east."
Cuba and the Bay of Pigs Invasion
Main article: Bay of Pigs Invasion
Prior to Kennedy's election to the presidency, the Eisenhower Administration created a plan to overthrow the Fidel Castro regime in Cuba. Central to such a plan, which was structured and detailed by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with minimal input from the United States Department of State, was the arming of a counter-revolutionary insurgency composed of anti-Castro Cubans.[22] U.S.-trained Cuban insurgents were to invade Cuba and instigate an uprising among the Cuban people in hopes of removing Castro from power. On April 17, 1961, Kennedy ordered the previously planned invasion of Cuba to proceed. With support from the CIA, in what is known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion, 1,500 U.S.-trained Cuban exiles, called "Brigade 2506," returned to the island in the hope of deposing Castro. However, Kennedy ordered the invasion to take place without U.S. air support. By April 19, 1961, the Cuban government had captured or killed the invading exiles, and Kennedy was forced to negotiate for the release of the 1,189 survivors. The failure of the plan originated in a lack of dialog among the military leadership, a result of which was the complete lack of naval support in the face of organized artillery troops on the island who easily incapacitated the exile force as it landed on the beach.[22] After twenty months, Cuba released the captured exiles in exchange for $53 million worth of food and medicine. Furthermore, the incident made Castro wary of the U.S. and led him to believe that another invasion would occur.[23] The Cuban Missile Crisis began on October 14, 1962, when American U-2 spy planes took photographs of a Soviet intermediate-range ballistic missile site under construction in Cuba. The photos were shown to Kennedy on October 16, 1962. The United States would soon be posed with a serious nuclear threat. Kennedy faced a dilemma: if the U.S. attacked the sites, it might lead to nuclear war with the U.S.S.R., but if the U.S. did nothing, it would endure the threat of nuclear weapons being launched from close range. Because the weapons were in such proximity, the U.S. might have been unable to retaliate if they were launched pre-emptively. Another consideration was that the U.S. would appear to the world as weak in its own hemisphere.
Many military officials and cabinet members pressed for an air assault on the missile sites, but Kennedy ordered a naval quarantine in which the U.S. Navy inspected all ships arriving in Cuba. He began negotiations with the Soviets and ordered the Soviets to remove all defensive material that was being built on Cuba. Without doing so, the Soviet and Cuban peoples would face naval quarantine. A week later, he and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev reached a basically cordial, lasting agreement. Khrushchev agreed to remove the missiles subject to U.N. inspections if the U.S. publicly promised never to invade Cuba and quietly removed US missiles stationed in Turkey. Following this crisis, which brought the world closer to nuclear war than at any point before or since, Kennedy was more cautious in confronting the Soviet Union.
Latin America and communism
Main article: Kennedy and Latin America
Arguing that "those who make peaceful revolution impossible, will make violent revolution inevitable,"[24] Kennedy sought to contain communism in Latin America by establishing the Alliance for Progress, which sent foreign aid to troubled countries in the region and sought greater human rights standards in the region. He worked closely with Puerto Rican Governor Luis Muñoz MarÃn for the development of the Alliance of Progress, as well as developments in the autonomy of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico.
Peace Corps
As one of his first presidential acts, Kennedy asked Congress to create the Peace Corps.[2] Through this program, Americans volunteer to help underdeveloped nations in areas such as education, farming, health care and construction.
Vietnam
The extent of Kennedy's involvement in Vietnam remained classified until the release of The Pentagon Papers in 1971.[25] In Southeast Asia, Kennedy followed Eisenhower's lead by using limited military action as early as 1961 to fight the Communist forces led by Ho Chi Minh. Proclaiming a fight against the spread of Communism, Kennedy enacted policies providing political, economic, and military support for the unstable French-installed South Vietnamese government, which included sending 16,000 military advisors and U.S. Special Forces to the area. Kennedy also authorized the use of free-fire zones, napalm, defoliants, and jet planes. U.S. involvement in the area escalated until Lyndon Johnson, his successor, directly deployed regular U.S. forces for fighting the Vietnam War.
By July 1963, Kennedy faced a crisis in Vietnam: despite increased U.S. support, the South Vietnamese military was only marginally effective against pro-Communist Viet-Minh and Viet Cong forces. Regarding Ngo Dinh Diem, the Roman Catholic President of South Vietnam, as insufficiently anti-Communist, the U.S. gave secret assurances of non-interference for an impending coup d'état.[26] On November 1 1963, South Vietnamese generals overthrew the Diem government, arresting and soon killing Diem (though the circumstances of his death were obfuscated).[27] Kennedy sanctioned Diem's overthrow.[28] One reason to support the coup was a fear that Diem might negotiate a neutralist coalition government which included Communists, as had occurred in Laos in 1962. Dean Rusk, Secretary of State, remarked "This kind of neutralism…is tantamount to surrender."
Kennedy increased the number of U.S. military in Vietnam from 800 to 16,300. It remains a point of some controversy among historians whether or not Vietnam would have escalated to the point it did had Kennedy served out his full term and been re-elected in 1964.[29] Fueling the debate are statements made by Kennedy's and Johnson's Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara that Kennedy was strongly considering pulling out of Vietnam after the 1964 election. In the film "The Fog of War", not only does McNamara say this, but a tape recording of Lyndon Johnson confirms that Kennedy was planning to withdraw from Vietnam, a position Johnson states he strongly disapproved of.[30] Additional evidence is Kennedy's National Security Action Memorandum (NSAM) #263 on October 11, 1963 that gave the order for withdrawal of 1,000 military personnel by the end of 1963. Nevertheless, given the stated reason for the overthrow of the Diem government, such action would have been a policy reversal, but Kennedy was generally moving in a less hawkish direction in the Cold War since his acclaimed speech about World Peace at American University the previous June 10, 1963.
After Kennedy's assassination, new President Lyndon B. Johnson immediately reversed his predecessor's order to withdraw 1,000 military personnel by the end of 1963 with his own NSAM #273 on November 26, 1963.
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KK. I’m at six hundred and thirty three words. I’m almost done. Where was I? Oh yeah, I don’t want to do this!!! But I guess I have to Mr. Klumper. Well, in reading, I have to do this thing called literature circle. I’ve been doing it since like first grade. I didn’t go to Brandon valley so I have a different education as everyone else. I really, really don’t want to do this. But I have to read hatchet. I’ve already read it though. It’s KK. It’ not that good though. I can’t believe it’s real. Think it is real though. I’m not sure. You’ll have to read it and see. I think it has an epilogue. And it has other books in the series. What does that mean? oh well. Ugh! I only have seven hundred and sixty three words. So that means like three hundred words. Why can’t there be like a calculator stuck to my right no left arm? It would be next to me forever or I should say attached to me and I would never have to try and struggle to get math subjects or problems. Only fifty more words. Yay for me!! Um I suppose I should talk about learning, as much as I hate to. Yay I’m done!!!!!!!!!!! 1170 in all.
Hey it’s Michaela again just adding to my previous blog of 140 words.
In Social Studies we learned about Ancient civilizations like, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Stone Age, Greece, Rome, India, and China. My favorite ones were Stone Age and Rome they were the most fun.
In Science we learned about different kinds of energy. We learned about genes and genetics, we learned how we got some of the physical features that our parents have. We also used microscopes to make things easier to see, I really liked that section. Now we are learning about ecosystems and how different animals live there.
In English we learned about adjectives and verbs and a bunch of other stuff. We did Prepositions they were really confusing at the beginning, but I got them figured out. Then we did poetry, which was kind of easy most of the time. Then we did a Jelly and Junk Sandwich that was fun I guess. Now we are doing fairy tales, we are going to make our own soon.
In math we learned about mathematical expressions and different quadrilaterals. Then we did Algebra, a lot of people thought they were hard but I thought they were somewhat easy. We learned about mean, median, and mode. We did fractions and decimals. I thought they were kind of hard to multiply and divide. But Mrs. Nammany had t leave for a few months. She had her baby on my birthday, January 27th. So Mrs. Redford came and kind of subbed I guess.
Then in Art we shaded and learned how to draw objects’ with correct “proportions”. I wasn’t that great in Art either.
I haven’t been able to get an A in English yet so I am hoping that I will be able to get one this quarter.
Sometimes the homework got a little overwhelming like all the social studies projects and one day we had five tests on one day, it was hard.
Now I have auto skills with Mrs. Redford she taught math for a while so she knows our names. We take math and reading test on the computers in her room.
I think I liked almost every teacher this year even though they all had at least one really boring class no offense every teacher does. Well I got to go look for more, there are 394 words here so byee!
I am blogging on my couch!! Blogging isn't very exciting. I have learned that albert Einstein has great hair!! I wonder what kind of shampoo he used?? E=mc squared. That means he did not use conditioner. Just kidding. No one knows what it means. In spelling we are learning about the prefixes mono, poly, man, and ped. I got a 100 in the science test!! I think I did very well on the English test. I am reading the books Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer. Also, I am reading Face on the Milk Carton for reading. In English we are learning and writing fairytales. Its really fun. I am happy its spring. In gym we are playing hockey and of course, I stink. I am now in music. We have took three quizs. I hope I do well on them. In science we are learning about food chains. We watch vidoes called Tim and Moby. We have to watch Channel 1. It's ok. I am so glad we do not hadve to swim like my mom did. I am also glad that we are not getting as much homework. I have kinda forgot what I have all typed so if I repeat something its not my fault. The house battles are cool. I am on the West Side! I think. Yeah, I am pretty sure. For homeroom I am the Poppens peeps. I think I have already told you that I like the China and Stone Age unit the best so far. But if not you know now. I hope we get to go on feild trips because we havent gone on any. I forgot alot of things I wrote. I do not have microsoft word so I dont know if I have 1000 words yet. I will cover alittle more stuff. In social studies we learn about geography such as mountains, river, lakes, seas, deserts, and stuff like that. We learn about cultures, religons, lifestyles, and government. Oh, I almost forgot in math we are making bridges! Its very fun. I am the company manager. I am done. Unless I dont have enough so To be continued...maybe...
Ok well I cant get on to your blog mr.klumper but I am pretty sure I left off at 351 words so I’ll start at 4th period. In 4th period I go to English. We have done a lot of things in English like verbs adverbs and now we are working on fantasy, and Mrs. Sayed is going to have us make up our own story where go defeats evil and there has to be well its called the 3 or 7 rule. It’s where you have to have like here are some examples: the three ugly stepsisters and the three little pigs and the seven dwarfs. Fairy god mothers giving you three wishes and same with genies, and in sleeping beauty with the three fairies or three god mothers that take care of her and watch over her. So those are some examples of the three and seven rule. So my next period is 5th period its lunch and part of channel one. So I bet you know what lunch is but because I have to get 1000 words I am going to tell you any way. Lunch is where you go to eat. It’s kind of like a mini food court. Well not really but I like to think of it that way only it must be a very poor food court because there are only three choices of food to pick from but I am not complaining because they have a salad bar thing and a ice cream thing and well more food. Ok so I am not sure if you know what channel one is so again like I said I’ll just tell you even if you know. Channel one is after or before you go to lunch it just depends what side you are on the red side or the black side it doesn’t really matter the red or black side. Any way what you do in channel one you basically go to your 5th period class and watch TV well you watch channel one sometimes its fun to watch channel one other times it can be boring but don’t worry it only last for about 15 to 20 minutes. My favorite part of watching channel one is one Friday when the sing the weekend rap I think its cool kind of cool at least. Ok so now I am moving on to 6th period, which is math. Right now in math we or I was doing this picture thing where in the picture you had to include shapes like the square, right triangle, obtuse triangle, pentagon, octagon and so on, but I finished it so I am happy and its not late either. Through out this whole week in math we are going to be doing like art projects with a hint of math funny (lol) sorry Mr.klumper I know you don’t like that word. So my next period is 7th and I have 2 things going on there. On Mondays and Wednesdays and Fridays I have study hall I used to have band one those days but I quit. Then on Tuesdays and Thursdays I have chorus, which is fun and I, love when we have concerts. The next period I have is eighth. I have to go to reading. In reading we do lots of stuff like ar goals. What ar goals are is on all most every book in the Brandon valley middle school library there are these little tags or stickers on the side that tells you after you read the book you can take a test on the book and gets points that go to your ar goal. If you do good on the book you get 100% but even if you get one wrong it goings down to about 90% and it depends how many questions there are in the ar test and the test is on the computer.
So I am all ready passed 1000 words and I haven’t even gotten to social studies and social studies is my favorite subject!!!!!!!! Well any way I went passed 1000 words so I hope I get a hundred bye caitlynn Schumacher 1043 words
Social Studies
The first unit we did in social studies was the Stone Age. Did you know that during this time frame they hunted monsters like for instance the Irish elk which stood over nine feet tall? The people didn’t hunt these things with spears and arrows they drove them of f cliffs instead. One huge problem with this method is that they could not keep a fire going in moist conditions and the elk would not be scared if the fire was out so they would turn around and charge the hunters. Basically the hunter becomes the hunted.
After the Stone Age unit we studied Mesopotamia. Mesopotamia is the land between two rivers. The Mesopotamians developed cuneiform so that they could communicate with each other through writing. The Mesopotamians used irrigation to water their crops. They were the first people to domesticate animals and plants. Those plants were rice, barley, and wheat. The first domesticated animals were sheep, goats, and cattle. The Mesopotamians would trade services for food not money. This way the had more to eat. The code of Hummarabi has some fair laws and some brutal laws, such as "an eye for an eye" that seriously is an awkward and brutal law.
The next unit that we studied was the Egypt unit. Mummies and pyramids are what most people think of when some one says Egypt. My two favorite parts of this unit was mummies and the pyramids. First thing I will talk about is the mummies. A mummy is the body of a person (or an animal) that has been preserved after death. Normally when we die, bacteria and other germs eat away at the soft tissues (such as skin and muscles) leaving only the bones behind. Mummification usually happens if the body dries out quickly after death. The precise age of the pyramids of Giza has long been debated because, until now, there has been little evidence to prove when the pyramids were built. The question of who built the pyramids, and how, has also long been debated by Egyptologists and historians.
The next unit we studied was the china unit. The thing I liked the most about the china unit was all the inventions. 160 is an estimate of the number of inventions made in china. The Great Wall of China is one of the only man made structures visible from space. It is 30 feet tall and the towers were forty feet tall. It is 1500 miles long and took seven years to build. An estimate of 500,000 people died working on the Great Wall of China. In china there are a lot of people.
After the china unit we studied the mythology. The Titans, also known as the elder gods, ruled the earth before the Olympians overthrew them. The ruler of the Titans was Cronus who was de-throned by his son Zeus. Most of the Titans fought with Cronus against Zeus and were punished by being banished to Tartarus. During their rule the
OK, now for my last subject, social studies. I like Rome, so here is a short summary on the public bath!! The bath wasn't just used for hygenic purposes, it was a social gathering. And good thing, because a lot of nasty sweaty people all sitting in the same unchanged water is definitely not my idea of "hygenic." The hot bath was heated by a fire under the bath and off to the side. Because the warm water went to the top and the cold waer went to the bottom, the cold water would go to the fire and heat up. So in all, the water stayed heated.
Now that I have hit 1000 words, I am a master blogger and would like to finish watching What Not To Wear!! YAY
Hey Mr. Klumper I am so glad your back! I can’t wait believe I lost today! I thought for sure I was going to win. Oh well by the time your done reading this your going to be amazed with me because I am actually going to get to one-thousand words! I think my favorite unit is going to be the Medieval Times. So here I go. First I am going to talk about reading class with Mrs. Poppens. Reading class is fun because we get to do group projects. Some examples are when we did a Mary Celeste project. What we did for this is we got into groups of around four. Then we did our theory on what we think happened to the Mary Celeste. Next for reading I am talking about the dum-dums. I love eating them. We get dum-dums by getting a one hundred percent. Last week in Reading we played reading jeopardy. There were five columns and there were categories that were like root words, ecosystems, gladiators, poems, and five short reading. We also did a project on fifteen minutes the book. I did a t-shirt with Ben. We did a really cool design! We did a lot on Figurative Language. We did onomatopoeia, alliteration, hyperbole, imagery, personification, simile, metaphor, and idiom. Now moving on to, in my opinion boring science. Science is my least favorite subject. I think the tests are very hard. Even though I study I just think their hard. I only like to play the review games because I get to write on the white board. In the review games we have funny characters like daffy duck, donald duck. We were going to get to text in class our relatives but then Mr. Pansh said no. Because too many people already do text in class. Oh well. Now onto math, math is fun because I like Mrs. Namanny. She is so pretty and I like the clothes she wears. Some things we have done in math are addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals, pie charts, bar graph, line graph, picture graph, acute angles, obtuse angles, right angles, squares, rhombus, rectangle, triangle, circle, trapezoid, hexagon, octagon, polygon, mean, median, mode, time, kilogram, meter, milliliter, liter, kilometer, quarts, inches, ounces, pounds, yards, gallons, feet, quadrilateral, nonagon, and a decagon. I really am happy that Mrs. Redford helped us learn some tricks with the calculator for the standardized test. I used the fraction part on the test. In math we made t-shirts. My t-shirt was awesome it said, “Maci is so awesome”. It was very colorful. It had a lot of dots on it and I had the class sign it so a million years from now I could remember who was in my class. Now onto English, in English today we read fractured fairy tales and real fairy tales. Now, I will tell you what we have doing over the years in English class. We have done adjectives. I learned that adjectives are not very hard. In the past we have gone over nouns, predicates, prepositional phases, prepositions, figurative language, detailing jelly and junk sandwiches, and now adjectives. The jelly and junk sandwiches were very fun because lots of people forgot to say put the other slice of bread on the table. So the person that made the sandwich didn’t usually put the slice down. I got to make someone’s jelly and junk sandwich I made Cassidy’s. In her sandwich was well I actually don’t remember but I think you were there so in English we are doing fairy tails and stuff and I think there really cool but we just got done with a really hard test I failed it but I am going to retake it soon. Anyways my fairy tale is going to be about wait I don’t yet know what I am going to do. But I do know it is going to be awesome and it’s going to be better than yours. Just kidding. Well now I am moving on to art. Art was fun. My favorite part of art was making the masks. My mask was so so so so so cool. Even though I liked a lot of stuff I did not like making the color wheel. What we had to do is pick our favorite symbol and make colors around it I got all my colors messed up. Next is auto skills, auto skills was so boring. I felt I wanted to sleep that would have been perfect. My teacher usally is supposed to be Mrs. Redford. But Mrs. Namanny was out having her beautiful baby so Mrs. Rycus filled her spot. And the last day I was excited to play games and eat cookies but you came in and said, “Can I have Emily, Ben, and Maci come down to my room”. We had to count papers for the standardize testing. I was so disappointed. I like cookies. You should make me 3 cookies and give them to me. Next is music, music was terrible. I did actually like doing the evolution of dance at the last day of class. I did not like doing anything else. The test in music was very very very and non-ending difficult. Next is Adolescent skills, Adolescent skills was boring until the police officer Steffel came in and more on that later. We read through books and talked about drugs. Sound fun huh? Ok, so officer steffel came and taught us about being drunk and smoking. He brought these awesome glasses and it made you drunk either morning or night vision. Next is Social Studies. Just to start off I love this class it is the best class ever! My project was well I loved everything so there is not a favorite. Actually everything was my favorite. I liked playing in the joust but I wish I could have won it. The thing I like best about your class is how we learn stuff the fun way! Well I am officially a master blogger….BYE
So I am suppose to write one thousand words on the blog to get an “A” well here it goes. I will start with math. I have learned how to change a fraction to a decimal and a decimal to a fraction. I have also learned that there are many different ways you can make math fun like group projects and stuff like that. I learned a lot about fractions and simplifying them. I like math especially when I can get the homework done in class.
I enjoy English because the homework is easy to get done. I have learned about adjectives, pronouns, nouns, verbs, and prepositions. My favorite was verbs because they are easier to find in a sentence. I also enjoy writing poems about sports. The best part in English is when we get to write stories. My favorite story that I wrote was the spooky stories. I enjoyed hearing them some actually gave me the creeps. We get to have class time to work. Mrs. Sayed lets us sit where we want then stay there for the limited time.
Science is one of my better classes. I had fun looking at the microscope at the prepared slides. I am looking forward to the coming unit. Which is about mammal’s lives. I liked the cell unit because we got to learn what cells are made up of. I am also looking forward to dissecting owl pellets this year. The greatest part of this class is when we have a group discussion about science. In science we do a lot of work out of the textbook. We also have very limited homework during the week.
Now Social Studies is another one of my favorite classes because I love history. My favorite unit is the one we have just started Medieval Times. I like this unit because of the joust battles and the good deed worksheets. Greece was another unit I had fun doing with the gods and Olympics. I was excited for the speeches about the gods and hearing what every god did. We can’t forget China the great inventors of toilet paper. China to me is one of the greatest civilizations of them all. China invented so many different things such as gunpowder, noodles, and BOMBS!
Have you ever read a book that you were so into that someone had to yell at you to put it down? Reading is something you will use all through life including free time reading. I enjoy reading because it is an easier class for some others and me. Mrs. Poppens makes things easier for me to understand in class. We have learned about climax, rising action, and falling action. I like it when we have a full class period of reading our books. I am glad we don’t do that much out of the textbook because I think things are easier to learn when we do them mentally and physically. Reading has always been something I can do anywhere in the world.
Gym is one of my better classes because we get to learn new things physically. I had fun when we had our basketball because we got to play three on three. It was a lot of fun because I was on a good team and we all worked together. The baseball stuff is a lot of fun and easy. I have a lot of fun playing the baseball games. The soccer test online was cool because it was online. The warm ups are good and get everybody loose for gym. The dancing thing was okay not my favorite. It was something new. My all time favorite part of gym is when we play Deckert Ball.
` Adolescent skills was an interesting class learning about drugs, alcohol, communication skills, and much more. I thought it was neat when the Officer came in and talked to us and let us see through the special goggles. The job interesting thing was fun to see what I would become if I followed my interests.
The video about mixed communication was a real lesson. The lesson was that if you were kind of mad and said you weren’t in a mad voice the person may take it the wrong way. I think to many people do that in the school and we, as students don’t notice it. The other fun thing was learning about all the things that drugs and alcohol could do to you. There are many things like sleepiness, sickness, and it can get much worse.
Now class spell the word hydroelectric. If you did not spell the word correctly you will spell it correctly once you have been in Mrs. Nelson’s class. Spelling is a good class because it teaches you grammar and spelling. I think the foldable is a good study tool to use. I think it is a good idea to alternate with gym and spelling. I enjoy spelling on the days that we line up and we go down the row of student letter by letter. The word wisdom book is okay but I like it when we do the spell offs and stuff. I enjoy spelling because every day my grammar gets better and better.
Auto Skills was one of my wheel courses that I just recently had before my class computer. Auto skills was a program on the computer that was teaching us about math and reading. The reading portion of the class was quite simple except the auditory visual matching. That was when you had to get a ninety-six percent or above and taking you the same amount of time as the other lessons. The math portion was fun because it was just simple math. Most of it was adding, subtracting, dividing, and multiplying. I liked the seating arrangements because by going in alphabetical order I got to sit by my friends. I had the greatest time on Fridays because we got to play math games on teachers websites. I honestly liked Mrs. Namanny’s linked math websites like cool math for kids.
Hey, Mr. Klumper thanks for the challenge it was challenging. By the way counting this little sentence and the number I have one thousand thirty nine words. I have received an “A”.
One of the big rivers is called the Nile river and they had three phyramids in Egypt. One of the Dynastys was called the Zhou and i dont remember what the other one was. There were four Dynastys, actually, so really only three. In math I learned how to convert fractions into decimals and how to use geometrical shapes for the needs to a project. We are making a Wanted picture with a number of any sort of your choice and mine was fifteen and then you had to have four details on how that number is special. In Reading we learned like the meanings on what Onomotoepoeia and what Alliteration are. A simile is using the same thing and using like or as and a Metaohor is different things but also using like or as. In Science we learned about some famous scientists, Barbara Mclintock was the first girl scientist that had ever been found to be a detective for Pea Plants. The human body when is being or giving off an offspring or a baby they give off 46 chromosomes. Half of them are from the mom and half of them are from their dad. Which would be twenty three chromosomes each that they would give off. In English we are reading Fairy Tales and we just took a test on adjectives and proper adjectives and underlining the thing that needs to be capitilized. We are learning about two different types of Fairy Tales right now. One of them is called a Fractured Fairy Tale and the other one is called a True Fairy Tale. An example of a true fairy tale would be The Emperor's New Clothes and an example of a fractured fairy tale would be: The Princess and the Pizza. We also usually do DOL when we get into class right away which is Daily Oral Language.
ok.... now I will tell you about what were some of the things I learned in adilacents skills. In this class we learned how at this age we are adilecents.
The next class I will talk about is auto skills.In auto skills class we learn how to do reading and math better. We have a reading and a math goal for each week. I learned that you have to always be on time with your work. Its kinda like a job because you have to do somthing in a sertane amount of time. If you dont get your work do you have that much more the next week.
Computure is the next class I will talk about. Computure is prob. the hardest class I had because you cant look at the keys. It made me better at typeing.
The next class I will talk about is Art. In art class I learned you have to be more creative. There are lots of other things I learned. Art is prob. my favorite class. One of the many many reasons is that this is my favorite class is because you get to be creative and you self expression in your art work.
What I leanered in this unit
I learned all of the gods for Egypt and all the gods of Greece all the gods are cool. Another thing I learned was the military of Egypt which we didn’t cover very much but I did learned more about what I already knew .My favorite thing about Egypt was the pharos and the pyramids. The pyramids were awesome because they must take a long time to make because they were so big and heavy. Greece was my favorite unit so far because it had a huge military and I like military things. My favorite thing about Greece was there gods they were cool because there were so many of them. The Greece unit was also fun because it was a long unit so that was fun. Another unit that was fun was Rome because it had a lot of interesting things about it like the coliseum that was fun learning a bout if you like to learn. Another thing I like was who they lived like with the bath house that was pretty cool and how it was like the place for hanging out. The best thing about this unit was everything it was awesome! The next unit I remember learning about was Egypt actually I didn’t remember the whole unit because that would be hard. Any way back to my assignment that you assigned me and is do on Friday and today is Tuesday which would mean that I have a couple days to do it . Well you and I both know that I am wasting words but I am really just blogging about stuff. Any way back to the boring part that’s not fun but have to do no matter what I say. It was pretty good I guess because it was long so we got to do a lot of fun stuff. But over all it was pretty good my favorite part was mummy feigning things well I didn’t but the Egyptians did. The next unit that was fun was the Stone Age. The Stone Age wasn’t very fun because it was only the beginning of the year so that means we didn’t get to do very much because we didn’t know very much well we cover some stuff so ill talk about that. The Stone Age was stupid so we didn’t get to hear very much talking in the videos. My favorite part about the Stone Age was the way they hunted they just let elk kill them selves. (Which I guess was pretty smart) But not really. The next unit was Mesopotamia which was the second to last on my list to greatness. The Mesopotamians’ were smarter than the Stone Age people but still weren’t very smart. The best part about Mesopotamia was the Lego video which still wasn’t that good. The next unit that I am going to talk about is midlevel times and will probably be my favorite. The best part so far was that story about the black plague. I’m surprised nobody knew about it that was strange. I also learned from my dad that when the Romans would make pots that they would use led in their glaze so when some one drank from it they would get lead poisoning and die. The next unit I am going to talk about is India. India was pretty boring but it wasn’t bad the coolest thing about India was the speeches because it was kind of like a competition so that was pretty cool. I would also like to ride in one of those chariots that sounds cool. Well now ill have too get to the boring part when I talk about deferent subjects but I did manage to squeeze six hundred words out of social studies. Now I am going to talk about English not that it’s my favorite because its not. So that I got that cleared up l am going to talk about English like I said before. English over all was pretty boring but that’s just me but the jelly and junk sandwiches were fun I made a pretty cool sand witch. I stinks we didn’t get to use peanut butter thought. In reading it was boring because we spent for ever on the Mary Celest thing we maid a poster we had vocab words for it we did like ten story’s on too. So that was boring. Science was fun thought because one I like science two we did labs a lot. The funnest thing that we did so far (well as far as fun at school goes) was when we did the microscope lab. I am at the seven hundred twenty nine part of this blog and I’m running out of things too say so ill do the boring part and just type off of the guided notes that you gave us so here I go. Here is some things I learned off of the Rulers and Invaders: Guided notes. A Europe empire middle ages 500 ad to 1500 ad Doomsday book helped keep track of people in England during the middle ages ruler Charlemagne conquered land and forced people to become christen. Kingdom fell apart. Vikings attacked from Scandinavia countries Denmark Norway and Sweden. Vikings invade all over England France Germany Ireland Italy Russia and Spain. Normans group of Vikings. Settled in northern France became Christians and church leaders. Famous Norman William the conqueror. Most kings govern strong and justly. King John was different because of force military and money. English lords were angry with john’s rule. A civil war breaks out the result magna carta. Helped every body king could not make special demands for money with out the consent of lords. No free man could be imprisoned exiled or deprived of property except by law greatest value limited royal power. King had to obey the law. Well this is about it I mean I am just about to master blogger Dom which is a pretty big honor it is such a good honor that we should get a trophy now that would be cool or maybe a master blogger wall of fame. I did go over a bit I know but o well and even though your probably not going to read this and just look at how many words we wrote I think you should think about the hall of fame that would be cool. :)
Although we are only a few weeks into the medieval times unit and we probably haven’t realized it we have already learned a lot. I’ll start with geography like the rivers there are five they are the Rhone River, the Danube River, the Volga River, the Seine River, and the Rhine River. There are four seas and they are the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, North Sea, and the Baltic Sea. Also there are four mountain ranges the first being Carpathian Mountains, the Alps, the Pyrenees, and the N.W. Mountains. Last but not least there is one bay and it is the Bay of Biscay.
In medieval Europe Christianity was an important part of life. Christians showed devotion to going to Rome or Jerusalem but Mecca. Rome was the home of the pope and still is today and was considered the kingdom of Christians and Jerusalem was also considered a holy city. Monks were young men who devoted their lives’ to Christianity; likewise nuns were the same thing except women. Monks lived in monasteries and convents where were nuns lived. Some of the things monks and nuns did at their buildings were pray, study, cultivate, and helped the poor. Missionaries were people who went out to teach people that are nonbelievers about a religion. Back then there was a thing called feudalism and it had a hierarchy and here’s the order. First were the monarchs they were the supreme ruler (king or queen.) Second were the lords they pledged loyalty to monarch and military support if needed, some of the other things they did were granted estate, owned land, rived income, maintained order collected taxes, inforced laws, and protected the serfs. Third were the knights they were warriors trained to fight on horseback, also they had to follow a code of behavior called chivalry and this was of course a code of behavior which includes deep faith, ready to die for church, gave to all, and stand up against injustice. The fourth and last was the serfs and they were farmers.
Back then women had few rights. Unmarried women had rights, but if they got married then they gave up their rights. So basically married women had no rights, they were basically controlled by their father or husband.
p.s. this is 366 words and the last one i typed was 134 so that's 500
Here I go this year in math I have learned and had a lot of fun because it is my favorite subject. I can not wait to learn more about angles, fractions, percents, and decimals, perimeters, and many, many, many, more. We just got done with are Dakota Step Testing. So we are learning about geometry; squares, right triangle, obtuse triangle, rectangle, hexagon, octagon, and much, much, more.
In science we learned about animal cells, and human cells, genes, and plants. We also learned about ecosystem and another is anaphase, metaphase, and telephone. Science we have had a lot of funny moments. The thing I like and think is really funny is that we always get off subject about Mr. Berg’s stories like his squirrel in his backyard that he want to kill because it is so annoying.
Reading class we have learned about onomatopoeia (the word that I can never spell or say), alliteration, personification, stories, paragraphing, reading learning how to make fun of Mr. Klumper, and much more. The thing I liked most was the AR test it was more fun. The AR test were simple just read a book and take a test, then past the test, read more and take test, you made you AR goal!
English was fun but sometimes hard. The projects were fun like the poetry, or the scary stories. And now we are learning about fairy tales. Then we get to write fairy tale books. The fairy tails are going to be so much fun you’ll have to wait to read mine (ok, maybe you don’t want to read it…laugh out loud (lol).
Are wheel courses were a lot of fun! My first was Music, which was not my favorite. Then I went to Adolescent skills that was a lot of fun because we got to make are selves with funky faces and see if people noticed. After that I went to Ado skills, we had to do math and reading things that was not very fun. Computer was next that was fun at times. In computer we would go on this program called paws and it was boring and hard (sometimes). Now for my last wheel course I go to art I’m there now and it is a lot of fun already!
Next year I can not wait…ok well maybe I’m going to be a little nervous and scared that there going to make fun of me like Mr. Klumper. Next year I’m going to have about the same amount of fun or maybe more fun. We will be learning about more digesting frogs and stuff in Science. CAN NOT WAIT! WOW that was a lot of tiping!!!
Hi Mr.Klumper im going to tell you how fun this year has been and what I have learned ……. Iv learned to stay on teacher’s good sides…its bad if you don’t…try to get good grades or you get in trouble and get your phone takeing away…. Friends are very important; you really rely on them with almost everything….. in spelling we do a packet thingy and its boring, in computer class we type and look at this weird book and that’s boring, in science we do experiments and that’s ok its better then other stuff…but when we read out of the txt book its really boring, in English were doing fairy tales and broken fairy tales and there ok but confusing, in ch.1 we just talk so its fun…but then Mrs.sayed yells so its not ok any more, in math were doing a bunch of coloring things so its ok because I sit by all my friends and we talk the hole time until she yells…then we just stay quiet for like 10 mins then start again so that class is ok until we have to work again, then theres study hall and that class is my favorite!!!!, then I have reading and we do like nothing in that class so its sooooo boring… and we read all the time …, then I have to go to social studies…. and that class is ok because the jousts are something new which is always good, but the txt book and guided notes are really boring!!!!!!!!! We just got done with auto skills and that was HORIBLE nobody liked it we jus sat there and did math and reading stuff on a computer and everyone always talked and she couldn’t keep us quiet so she just yelled at us like the hole time while we read and did math…but then yet there was always game days on Fridays if we were good. but, they were math games and they were normally kind of boring so I was glad for that class to be over but now we have computer which might be worse but I don’t know because we haven’t been in that class long enough to know yet!?!?? 493!!! Almost done!! Close to being done with it!
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This year has been a lot of fun!!!!! In social studies, we have learned about ancient civilizations for our units. Here are the ones we’ve studied so far. The Stone Age, famous for cavemen. Technological advances include the rock, and the spear. Ancient Mesopotamia, where the famous ziggurat, an ancient type of temple originated. They also invented irrigation, the process of watering fields. Ancient Egypt, where the famous pyramids, giant tombs, and mummification, a process of preserving the dead, so their spirits could recognize the bodies in the afterlife. Ancient China, home of the infamous Qin Shi Huang or Huangdi, the first emperor of China. Home of the samurai, a fierce warrior. And inventions such as Gunpowder, kites, and much more! Greece, where movies such as Troy and 300 were inspired. Also home to philosophers such as Socrates and Plato. Ancient Rome, home of the infamous Collessium, where bloody gladiator fights to the death were held to entertain the people. Also home to the infamous dictator Julius Caesar ruled. Ancient India, home of the manhole system, and the process of smelting iron into steel.
We are currently studying the medieval times. Or middle ages, or dark ages. We will later study Mesoamerica, and Ancient Africa. My wheel courses were Art, Music, Adolescent Skills, Auto Skills, and Computer. In Math, we’ve studied Statistics, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Time, Statistics, Geometry, Probability, Algebra, Measurement, and other math like stuff.
In Science, we are learning about ecology. Past units include Cells, Genetics, Electricity, Matter, Mass, and Motion, Genetics, and other units I do not remember. In English, I have learned about Nouns, Adjectives, Verbs, Prepositions, Pronouns, and possibly another unit I forgot about.
Qin Shi Huangdi was the first emperor of china. He burned books that spoke out against him, and buried anybody alive the disagreed with him. He started a big project called the great wall of china. A giant wall that was made to keep the Mongols out. The work was so hard, that a lot of people died while working on it. They would then throw the bodies inside, and continued working. It is now called the longest graveyard on Earth. He started the Chinese system of money, which was also the first system of money. In the Stone Age, they would take a sharp, well, stone, and cut a large hole in the head, and wait for the evil spirits to come out. HA!!!!
The first four dynasties of China were the Shang, The Zhou, the Qin, and the Han. The Shang’s people defeated the Xia’s people to become the first dynasty of China. In fact, the people of China still call themselves people of the Han because the Han dynasty did so many good things for China. The process of mummification is first embalming the body, then they would cover the body in natron salt and let it sit for about forty days. Then they would either pull the brain out of the nose with a hook, or stir it up, and let it drain out of the nose. They would remove the organs, and stuff the body. They would then wrap the body with hundreds of yards of linen, and put it in a sarcaphogus, and carry it through the city. People were paid to cry, and they would then put it in a pyramid that took usually twenty years to build. Running out of time! Gotta go! Sorry I did not make it to 1000 words! (580)
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Mrs. Nammany was my great math teacher and well she was gone having her baby I had Mrs. Redford.One of things I learned in sixth grade is in math. We learned about making decimals into percents, decimals into fractions, fractions into percents, fractions into decimals, percents into decimals, and percents into fractions. Also we have learned about algebra. Another thing that we learned about was geometry. Also in math we learned about charts like a pie chart or a line graph. Some vocabulary words that we learned in math are a ray, segment, intersecting lines, perpendicular lines, parallel lines, expression, epuation, inverse operations, line, acute triangle, right triangle, obtuse triangle, equilateral triangle, isosceles triangle, scalene triangle, line of symmetry, reflection, rotation, translation, and a lot more. Another thing that we learned is time. We learned how to measure angles. We learned a lot more.
My great reading teacher is Mrs. Poppens. In reading we learned about figurative language. Some examples of figurative language are idiom, simile, metaphor , onomatopoeia, alliteration, hyperbole, imagery, personification, and some more. We also read a book together in class. The book we read was 15 minutes. It was a great book. We also take AR test in reading. AR test are when you read a book and take a test on the book and you have an AR goal which is when you take a AR test the book is worth an that is how many points you have to get. We also are doing book talk things. We did learn a lot mare than that.
The great teacher that taught me science is Mr. Berg. In science we learn about how you have brown or blue eyes or brown or blond hair. An example would be if your parents were both heterozygous (two different example Bb) brown eyes and they have four children two would be have heterozygous brown. One would have homozygous ( the same example BB) brown eyes and one would have homozygous blue eyes. So now we would know if what our off springs would look like if we had one. Some vocabulary words that we in genetics are chromosomes, genes, recessive genes, purebred, and hybrid. A tool that we used in genetics is the punnett square. Some people that we learned about are Gregor Mendel and Barbara McClintock. We also learned about mitosis. The stages in mitosis are first Prophase. Then Metaphase and Anaphase. Next is Telophase. Lastly is to daughter cells. Also we have learned about food chains.
In social studies we learned about the stone age. My great teacher who taught me social studies is Mr. Klumper. In the stone age we learned that it is basically how humans became humans. Then we learned about Mesopotamia. Then we learned about Greece. Next we learned about Egypt. Also we learned about china. We learned about India with our student teacher Mr. Harding. Before we did Rome. Now we are doing medieval times. We have been doing International Connections with like Russia, Egypt, Australia, and others. We have also done A LOT of blogging. We also have been doing some joust battles like when I went against Halle by doing rock paper scissors. The joust champion will win a t-shirt made by Mr. Klumper and get our picture put in the newspaper. We have done a lot of fun activities in social studies and it was a lot of fun because we don’t have to read out of a text book we get to take notes from a power point.
The last main subject that I have is English. In English we have learned about adjectives . We also learned about all the things that deal with adjectives like the articles and demonstratives and a lot of other stuff. Right now we are doing fairy tales. There are two different fairy tales there are a real fairy tale and a fractured fairy tale. An example of a real fairy tale is The Egyptian Cinderella. An example of a fractured fairy tale is The stinky cheese man. In a fairy tale there needs to be a quest or a journey. Then you need evil and good characters. Next you need to have magic In it. Special place or places. In a fairy tale you also need a rule of three or seven. In the fairy tale the good needs to win over the evil. We have learned A LOT more in English.
We also have the wheel courses that we did learn things in like in music we learned about the people who started music. We get to have fun by exercising in gym by playing a game like Deckert ball. We learned a lot of new words in spelling that we will use in the future. In adolescent skills we learned how to be more of an young adult and how to control your moods and actions. We also learned in adolescent skills not to take drugs or do alcohol. In computer I learned how to type well and fast.
Not only in my five main classes have I learned a lot have learned a lot by just being in the meddle school. You have to be organized and prepared. You also have to have your stuff done on time and not turned in late. Then you have to be responsible for what you do and what you have not to expect the teachers to take care of it for you. It is great being in the middle school you make new friends that did not go to your school last year and you meet very kind and nice teachers. All of my teachers have helped me be ready for the rest of my school life and I thank my teachers for that.. I had one of the best school years ever. I hope I continue to have one of the best years in 7th and 8th grade and on up in high school. Thank you teachers who have taught me A LOT so I will be ready for 7th grade.
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We are at 529 words right now. I want by saying a shout out to all the people that have already made it to the title of MASTER BLOGGER. Plus an even bigger shout out to all the MASTER BLOGGERS that made the title all in one run. Here it is AWSOME JOB YOU GUYS!!!!!!!!!!!!! In English we are reading fairy tales today I read (with Nicole) The Egyptian Cinderella, Licken Chicken, and Something and the three Blaires. The Egyptian Cinderella is about this girl who is taken from Greece to Egypt and is a slave she gets bossed around by THREE house servants. When she is seen dancing on her bare delicate feet her master decides to give her a pair of golden slippers. When the pharaoh has a ball the servant girls get dressed up and goes to the ball meanwhile a hawk carries one of her golden shoes to the pharaoh when she tries it on and it fits he marries her. The next book is about Licken Chicken and something falls down from the sky he cries out “The sky is falling the sky is falling!” He runs to Goosey Loosey and tells her then they run to other animals then they all say “We need to tell the president” so they all run to the airport to get on the plane to D.C. and they run into Foxy Loxy. Foxy Loxy tells them he knows a short cut and leads them into a hole when the narrator Jack said that he had forgotten the table of contents and… Then Licken Chicken said “Who cares the sky is falling!” “But…” Began the narrator but he only got that far when while they had been talking and Foxy Loxy had been sceaming something happened you see Licken Chicken was sort of right but it wasn’t the sky that was falling it was the Table Of Contents! The third story book was just Goldilocks and the Three Bears backwards.
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I have learned a lot this year. In math I have learned how to covert fractions into decimals and I learned how to use customary system and other stuff in math. In science I have learned about how traits are passed in genetics. And I have learned about cells and how they work. They have a nucleus that controls the cell. And I have learned about chromosomes. Humans have 26 chromosomes in the human body and I learned about Granger Mendel. He worked with pea plants. In computers I have learned how to use Microsoft power point and type fast. In English I learned about personification, similes, onomatopoeia, nouns, and verbs. In social studies I learned about the Stone Age, India, Mesopotamia and Egypt. In China they have a Great Wall to protect them. It is very, very, very long. The big river there is the Yellow River. In Ancient China there were four dynasties. One was the Zhou Dynasty. In Egypt they had three pyramids. They put dead kings in the pyramids. One of the big rivers there is the Nile River. The faros were bared in a temple with there pets and treasure and other passions. In Rome the people would wear Togas and for entertainment they would go to the Coliseum and they had Olympics like we do to day but the woman couldn’t go to them and instead of gold medals they would give them a crown made of vines. In India there food was some what like ours to day they had chicane and rice the men wear Turbines there kind of like hats.
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In English I am learning about fairy tales, and fractured fairy tales. A real fairy tale has good and evil characters, a quest or a mission, some type of magic that happens in the story, special places, rule of 3 or 7, and good has to win over evil. Fractured fairy tales are fairy tales that have some events or things that are originally found in true fairy tales.
In social studies, I am learning about Medieval Times. There were knights in shiny armor, who stuck to a code of honor called chivalry.
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Hi Mr. Klumper. In social studies I learned about ancient china. In ancient china there more people in that area than anywhere else. They built the Great Wall to keep the people that were fighting against them out. When someone died they would bury them in the great wall. It is many miles long. We also learned about Europe there are fewer people there than in China. We learned about Ancient Egypt. They built a lot of pyramids for their kings. When they would bury their kings they would bury their slaves along with them. Other worker slaves built the pyramids. The queen that was with the king before he died would go on to the next king. One of the pyramids has gold stuff on the top of it. And there is only one pyramid that is larger than all of the others. We learned about Ancient Greece. They had different handwriting called Sanskrit. Greek mythology is about gods and goddesses.
We are now learning about medieval times or the middle ages. They would have jousting which is where two people would get on horses and be on one side of a wall or rug and try to knock the other person down off their horses. Whoever knocked off a person would go on to the next round. Sometimes it leads to death. Sometimes they would do this in front of the kings and queens and whoever won the jousting tournaments would either be a duke or the next king.
In reading we learned about onomatopoeia, personification, and alliteration. Onomatopoeia is when the word sounds like a sound. Personification is giving something that is not living personality affects like talking. Alliteration is a sentence or four or five words that begin with the same letter.
In English we learned how to write poems. We wrote personification poems, similes and metaphors, haikus. We learned about nouns, adjectives, verbs, and other parts of speech.
In math, we learned fractions, decimals, liquid ounces, gallons, shapes, geometry pictures, and multiplying and dividing, adding and subtracting.
So far I have 343 words. I might add more.
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We are at 866 words right now. Today may be my last blog… will be my last. Today in Social Studies we played a game I can’t wait to see who won for fastest time. In reading my circle group came together to decide the jobs my groups book is The Face On The Milk Carton. In Art we are doing name templates. In homeroom wars my class Nammany Nerds lost in musical chairs to Sky Klumper, kids said you cheat I don’t think you did, also congrats. Today in science we learnt that we will in about 2 days be dissecting owl pellets we also learnt more about ecosystems. I liked the Brain Pop video. In math we are doing crafts I got my hands covered in glue when I accidentally leaned on my paper. (1000 words exactly bye!)
I'm back, let’s see… where was I? In Rome they had a very powerful army and they were feared by everyone. Rome had many great public facilities and they invented many things we still use today. One thing they built were public bath houses which consisted of a bath, a library and a gym area and also a snack bar. Sounds like a good place to relax!
The Romans were very good at building roads. The built many roads, some are still existing today. Today we have a phrase “All roads lead to Rome”, which was mostly true back in Roman days. The Romans also built aqueducts that carried water to the people in far away lands and City’s. Some aqueducts were 50 miles long. Building aqueducts allowed large numbers of people to live in one City and still have fresh water.
Some of the best things the Romans built were very large buildings. The most famous building was the Coliseum. At the Coliseum the gladiators would fight other gladiators and sometimes animals. The Coliseum was a very advanced building for it’s time, it had hidden areas and tunnels. Gladiators would get ready for “show time”.
Now it is time for spelling in unit 1, part 1, we learned these words revoke, advocates, eloquent, persuasive, audible, response, refrain, volume, resounded, and oration. In unit 1, part 2, the words we learned are convocation, auditions, elocution, evoke, colloquial, auditory, provokes, invoke, audio, and vocation. In unit 1, part 3, we learned these words uttered, renounced, mute, discourse, fluent, verbose, verbalize, inquired, exaggerate, and lucid. Unit 1, part 4, is a review.
In unit 2, part 1, the words we learned were physiology, respiration, sensitive, symptoms, benign, potent, constitution, rejuvenate, and inflammation. In unit 2, part 2, we learned these words sensory, sensation, corset, corporal, expire, aspirate, corpse, desensitizes, and perspire. In unit2 part3 we learned these words fracture, physical, stamina, posture, afflictions, vigor, invalid, nausea, exhale, and complexion. Unit 2, part 4, is review.
Unit 3, part 1, the words we learned were forte, audacity, authentic, exude, bizarre, exotic, tenacious, captivating, stately and visionary. In unit 3, part 2, our words were contented, conceited, staid, contentious, deceitful, impertinent, incapable, steadfast, receptive, and obstinate. In unit 3, part 3, the words we learned were indignant, condescending, impulsive, sullen, notorious, pretentious, immodest, timid, despicable and defensive. Unit 3, part 4, is review.
Unit 4, part 1, words are microbes, biosphere, interaction, solar, artificial, hydroelectric, ecosystems, terrain, savanna and viable. Unit 4, part 2, words are hydraulics, hydrophobia, territory, subterranean, inter, hydrogen, terrestrial, solstices, solarium, and terrace. Unit 4, part 3, are words were cyclones, petrified, gravitated, molecules, crevasses, liquefied, nautical, summit, and cosmic. Unit 4, par 4, was review.
In Unit 5, part 1, we learned the words surmounted, initiated, impede, paralyzed, proceed, gradual, marshaled, resumed, flexible and relinquished. Unit 5, part 2 included the words graduated, exceed, reflects, succeed, reflex, regress, proceed, deflect, digress and progress. Unit 5, part 3 included the words amble, diffuses, deter, fluctuate, cascade, evolved, compress, eject, deploy and evacuate. Unit 5, part 4 was review.
I have learn a lot of stuff this year but I did not like all of it like the drug I know not to use them and to be smart and not drink and drive anyway my favorite thing to learn this year was learning about the middle ages and the joust , knights, lords, monarchs, serfs, guilds, monks, nuns, how the Vikings invaded, the black death and how so many people died it was a sad time in history the crusade was a adventure into the desert to take the holy city but it failed all 3 times but they got a lot of money for the church through trade. Another thing I enjoyed learning was Rome and about their mighty legions gladiator battles, chariot races of Christianity and how it started has a hated religion is Rome and then was its main religion. Greece was also a great unit with its culture and kings, battles like troy and Thermopile where 300 Spartans held for 3 days against 3 to 1 odds 1 being them. Few people know this but 1000 Athenians where also there and stood there with the Spartans to the end. Stone Age was also kind of fun learning about your roots in the family tree is cool and how they learned to keep fire burning in wet areas so there could scare the thing there hunting off the cliff how they would use herbs to heal there wounded. Now Egypt a unit that was very fun I learned so much stuff like mummification, Ra there sun god they had many gods for almost everything like death, sun, water … They had Pharaohs instead of kings they had a ok army ok to good tech. Now I would like to go off history and into science like genetic traits, genes, sex cells, all that stuff the passing of traits from parents to offspring. Gregor Mendel the Austrian monk who use bean plants to study genetics by cross breading bean plant and discovered Recessive and Dominate traits. Recessive traits are traits that are covered if paired with a Dominate trait. Another person who studied genetics was Barbra McClintock who studied at Cold Spring Harbor Research Center in Long Island, New York where she use Indian corn because it was like human cells with this she discover that a gene does not stay in place but jumps she called this Jumping Genes at first no one believed it but after further study they found out she was right Barbra got the Noble Peace Prize in 1983 in medicine Barbra learned this by radio because she chose not to own a phone she believed that if anyone wants to contact her they could write her a letter. Her research helped us understand cancer. She was the seventh woman in history to receive a science Nobel, the third woman not to have to share it with another scientist, and the first woman awarded an unshared Nobel in Medicine. And that is it.
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Also I learned about the different types of poems. We made a lot in class. One type of poem is alliteration. Alliteration is when you repeat the first letter of some words. Ha ha ha I am done. This end maybe. But probably. I have more than 500 words.
This year in English we learned about prepositions, verbs, adverbs, nouns, simple subjects, predicates, conjunctions, complex sentences, and a whole lot more. English was challenging for me. It was not a subject that came easy to me. I still learned a lot in English this year. It was hard work for me. I thought the poems and free writing were a lot of fun.
I enjoyed math this year. It comes easier to me than other subjects, I just think it is fun. I think word problems are fun to solve. I feel that math is challenging and I like a challenge. My dad is an engineer and uses math every day. He was able to help me with some of the tough problems. Dad says you can use math to solve almost any problem. My dad uses math when he designs airports and bridges. This really helped me solve problems. If I am going to be a mechanical engineer some day, I will need to be good at math.
Science was another subject I enjoyed. It seemed to come to me easier than most subjects. We started the class by learning about the elements in the periodic table. I thought it was interesting that everything is made of just the elements. We also learned about physical and chemical changes. Physical changes are normally reversible, like bending your arm. A chemical change is usually not reversible. Like burning wood, you can’t put at all back into it’s original form. We also learned about microscopes and all it’s different parts. We looked at many things in a microscope like rat tails, saliva, and even bugs. Our next unit was on cells. There are two types of cells, animal cells and plant cells. One difference between them is that a plant cell has a protective cell wall and an animal cell does not. Our next section was on genes. Genes control what you look like and almost everything about a person. Genes come from your parents, so you can’t change it. You can make changes by what you eat, by exercising, by what you learn, and what you decide to do. Your environment can change almost everything about you over time. One more thing we learned was about ecosystems and animals that live in ecosystems. There are many different ecosystems, some on land, some in the water, and some up in the trees or anywhere else.
This year in Physical Education we did a lot of hard work but we had a lot of fun too. We ran, did push ups, wall sits, and pull ups. We played a lot of games too, like basketball, football, kick ball, floor hockey. We also played tennis, baseball, and dodge ball. We even learned to dance. It seemed a little strange at first, dancing with girls, but I guess I actually didn’t mind it too bad.
I learned a lot during my 6th grade year. At first middle school seemed a little intimidating. But we all learned fast that it was not so bad, and even fun most of the time. You do have to study more in middle school.
I also learned how to blog this year. I am now a master blogger!
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In our Ancient India unit in social studies, I learned that the Aryans came to Ancient India from Europe. They also spoke a language called Sanskrit. Ancient Indians had a way of organizing the people in society by using something called the Caste system. At the top of the Caste system were the Brahmins, who were the priests and teachers. Then came the Kyshtrias, who were the warriors and kings. The Vaishyas came next, and they were the farmers and traders. After the Vaishyas came the Shudras, and they were the slaves. At the bottom of the Caste system came the untouchables(usually criminals), but they didn’t have a Caste. The untouchables did the dirty work, like cleaning out stalls, garbage collecting, and working in the underground sewers. If someone touched shadows with an untouchable, they had to go to the temple and pray for six hours, and the untouchable would be killed (I think).
In math, I learned the formulas that someone would use to find the area of a circle, square, rectangle, triangle, or trapezoid. To find the area of a circle, you have to take pi(3.14) times the radius of the circle squared. To find the area of a square, all you have to do is take the length of one side squared. To find the area of a rectangle, you have to take the length times the width. To find the area of a triangle, you have to take one half times the height times the base. To find the area of a trapezoid, you have to take one half times the height times base one plus base two (sorry if some of you are confused by all of these area formulas, but it’s something I learned in math class. Seventh grade math class).
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This is my last post to the one thousand word challenge. In Science, I learned about cell division, a little bit on genetics, and I learned about Punnett squares. There are six phases to cell division. The process of cell division is also called mitosis. The first phase is interphase, which is when the chromosomes are duplicating themselves, but you can’t see the chromosomes. The second phase is prophase, and this is when the chromosomes are visible. The third phase is metaphase, and this is when all of the chromosomes line up in the center of the cell, getting ready for the next phase. The fourth phase is anaphase, and this is when the chromosomes start to pull apart from each other. The fifth phase is telophase, and this is when two new cells start to form, by pulling apart from the original cell. The final phase is called daughter cells, and the result is two cells. After the sixth phase, mitosis starts all over again. Genetics is the study of genes. If someone wanted to find out what features an organism is likely to pass on to its offspring, they would use a Punnett square.
Overall, I learned lots of stuff this year in Math, English, Reading, Science, Social Studies, and the wheel courses.
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sorry late but to continue i will talk about gym we do alot things there like play deckert ball and that is what i like to do in gym but also i like to run. in band ms gooch keeps us on task so that we dont go wild. we do alot of music in that class but that is ok because it is all easy. in channel one we watch tv of course but you also get to talk to your friends during comericals if you are in mrs.sayeds class you get to anyway. i am going to talk to you about lunch. lunch is my favorite like subject just put it that way because you get to talk to your friends and you cant during classes well that is all that i have to say byee
What I learned this year is alot. I learned that India had underground pipes. Plus, they holes to get to the pipes and the coliseum has gone through alot. There is alot to learn. I learned about Gods. Zeus is the the ruler of the Gods. He is the one with the lightning bolt. I learned that Posedien is the God of the Sea. He is the one with the staff tever. I learned that Hermes is Zeus's kid and Gods messenger. He has wings on his shoes. He also has a helmet with wings on it. I learned that the people in Rome were mostly against the Christians. The Romans killed the Christians. I also learned that Romans had a bath house where people would go to get clean and socialize. There was a mountain names MT. Vesuvious that was really a volcano. It erupted and killed a lot of people. Back to the Gods, Ares was the God of war. Egypt was amazing in. They had many steps in making a mummy. There was an announcement of death. It was a real long process. The body was first washed. Then they removed the organs and put them in jars. The brain was then removed through the nose. They were placed on a slanted table and covered in salt. This step took the longest. The head and the body were then stuffed with packing so the body wouldn't be flat. The bosy was then wrapped in guaze. I almost forgot about China! The Chinese invented fireworks. I learned that they invented silk also. They had something called the Silk Road for trading. They also invented gun powder and the compass. That was my subject for an assignment.
Now science, I learned that there is much to study. I learned how to make pun set squares and how to use them. I learned that brown is a doninat trait in eye color and that blue is a recessive trait. I learned that blond hair is a recessive color trait. I learned that cells divide. 1 cell divides into 2 cells, 2 cells divide into 4 cells and so on and so on. Plus, they die. I learned that there are many famous scientists. One of them is Barbara McClintock. She studied Indian Corn and is the person that discovered the jumping bean.
Now English. I learned that English is my hardest subject. I learned that there is alot to learn in English. Unlike what I thought, I thought there wasn't much to learn. I also thought it would be easy. I learned about adjectives, pronouns and stuff like that.
In reading I learned about different types of writing. I learned about fact and opinion. I also learned about similes and metaphors.
In math I learned about decimals. I also learned how to devide decimals. I have learned how to convert fractions.
So that is what I have learned this year.
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Hi Mr.Klumper I am going to tell you about how fun this year has been. In math we have been taking the Dakota step test. It has been really easy so far. In reading we are doing this packet thingy about pastures and forest… it is really boring. We also are doing jeopardy in reading… its still boring. In English we are learning about adjectives. That is okay but we have a test tomorrow. I am going to fail the test. Than I am going to get in trouble for bad grades. In social studies we are learning about medieval times it looks very cool. We have learned about Mesopotamia, stone age, Rome, Greece, mideviltimes and currently Mesoamerica. In math we did a project on anything Denton and I are doing golf. It is very hard to get it in to the hole. Mrs. Nammany was the only one to make it in to the hole. But it shouldn’t count because it bounced out of the hole. But when all the other kids tried to make it but they didn’t. So it was very funny to watch them try to get it into the hole but couldn’t. in science we are learning about ecosystems. It is very fun but I don’t like it because science is hard to me so I don’t do very well in that class. In reading we are doing our circle thingy it isn’t very fun because we have to read and nobody likes reading. But the book I am reading is very good because it is about this guy that likes to shoot things with guns so he gets a guide and the guide takes him out hunting for a big horn sheep and when he thinks he sees one he shoots and hits a guy in the lungs and the guys lungs come out. So I think its really good I would recommend it if you like weird things. In gym we are learning to play floor hockey it is very fun but hard because if you put your stick above your head you have to do five push ups and if you so it a lot you have to do a lot of push ups. So that’s why I don’t like to play because you have to do a lot of push ups if you don’t follow the rules. In spelling we are learning about syllables but its boring because I don’t like spelling I like gym better. I think we should have gym every day because it is fun and every body likes it. Nobody likes spelling because we have to learn how do stuff. As in gym you just demonstrate it and than you play. The game we usually play is dekert ball it is very fun but walker Denton and I never get to kick because we are so good its not even funny. In computer we are learning how to type I am getting really good and it and I have gotten faster. But on every other day we test on skills and that’s not fun because we always get yelled at because we always talk when she is taking our grades so than we get points taken away because we were talking.
Hi mr.klumper i want to become a master blogger like you and I am doing this on my iPod so it will be kinda hard so here go's. So far i have learned alot this year and some of my favorite subjects are reading, social studies, math, and English. So first I will start with reading in readin we are learning about plot structures and that kind of stuff, we are also doing bookshares where we have to tell about four characters in the book and alittle about them and you have to write a six sentance about the book and tell about three objects and why they are important to the story. Next, Im going to talk about Is English. So far in English we have learned about prepositions and prepositional phrases and descriptive words. The next subject I'm going to talk about is math. So far this year in math we have learned about mean,median,mode,and range. Mean is when you have
you have four numbers or more or even less and then you add all the numbers up and then divide that number by however many numbers you had for example 20,23,45,12 add them all up for 100 then divide by four and then you get 25 for your mean. Next i will tell you about median. Median is i you have an odd number of numbers you put them in numerical order and then you figure out what number is in the middle and that number is the median. Next I am going to be telling you about mode. Mode is the number that occurs more than once or the number that occurs the most. Now I'm going to talk about range. Range is the biggest number minus the smallest number and what ever that equals that is your range. And we are also learned about exponents. Next I'm going to talk about social studies. So far my favorite part in social studies is Mesopotamia and that I think that the ziggarats and the code of Hammurabi, and that the way mesopotamia means the land between the rivers and mesopotamia is between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates. That's all I got for now I don't know how many words I have tiped because this doesn't have a word count so,
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I learned about the different dynasties in China. Like the Qin dynasty. There were lots of Medieval weapons for torture. Monks lived in Monastery, Nuns lived the Convent. Things monks and nuns did at thier buildings include pray, study, maintain crops, and help the poor. Missionaries were people who go out to teach people thatare non-believers about a religion. Guilds were groups of people who had a common interest. Women had few right. Married women had fewer. The father or husband controlled what the lady would do in life. The monarch was the top of the hierachy. The knights were next. The lord lived in the manor house. Boiling oil was used to dump on top of the enemy.
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