6th Grade Adds Exploratory Class
By Ron Evans
September 09, 2010
In Mrs. Well’s class, students are looking closely at maps and the many different ways to use them. They have a stuffed animal named Frederick who travels around the world. Different clues are given to try to discover where Frederick is in the world. Students are using the Smartboards to practice quickness at naming the states, countries, etc. Hopefully, students will be map geniuses when they are through!!
In Mr. Hudson’s class, students are learning the skills of writing, forms of writing, along with other elements involved in the writing process. Students are developing a foundation for writing. After they have mastered the writing skills and elements, they will be able to apply what they have learned to independent creative writing projects.
In Mr. Evans’s class, students are reviewing and learning computer keyboarding skills that will help students become masterful at using a computer. Students review and learn the proper ergonomics, the proper positioning of the hands, and the proper technique for the fingers and hands. Students make improvement at their own progression. Students will also apply keyboarding skills to some of the written work they do in creative writing. This is being part of an interdisciplinary process.
In Mrs. Schneider’s exploratory class, she is reading a number of different novels. Students work on the skills of listening, questioning, predicting, and making inferences. The students enjoyed the first novel “ Mick Harte was Here ”. In this novel, a sister tells her story of her brother who was killed in a bike accident. Many of the sixth-graders shared past experiences of deaths in their family or even accidents they had been involved in.
The teachers enjoy teaching alternative courses to the sixth grade students widening their knowledge basis, becoming better thinkers and problem solvers now and in the future.
