This week, sixth graders finished reading A Long Walk to Water! Salva Dut, the main character in the text, is a real person who founded Water for South Sudan. Wonderfully, the minute the sixth graders heard the organization was real, they wanted to host a fundraiser to support it. You can all expect a bake sale sometime next week! We also studied the development of theme over the course of the novel, and sixth graders were introduced to the five paragraph essay structure that will be due next week. Since A Long Walk to Water is one of the books for the Global Read Aloud, a goal is to connect with other classes around the country (and world) who are reading it. Thursday, we 'skyped' (Google Hangouts) with a class in Virginia! Students on both ends first had to complete a geography challenge by trying to figure out which state the other was in. They asked questions such as "Are you east of the Mississippi?" and "Is your state landlocked?" and crossed out options on maps in their groups. We then moved on to discussing the book with the other class. In History Class this week, sixth graders worked in teams to write skits about life in the different levels of the social pyramid. While no group got to be the Pharaoh, we enjoyed presentations from Government Officials, Priests, Scribes, Artisans, and Peasants. On Wednesday, sixth graders read about and watched a series of clips on ancient Egyptian religion, mummies, tombs, and the afterlife. They also received an introduction to hieroglyphics, which we'll work more with next week. In Math class this week, we focused on multiplying and dividing decimals.
In Science, students worked to maintain the robust school garden, and began the new Muscles unit. In Art, the students have made calaveras (skulls) for Dia de los Muertos, and those are currently being exhibited in the library. They are just starting a project about American sculptor, Alexander Calder. The kids are making assemblages base on Calder's piece, "The Circus"; mini kinetic sculptures base on the circus. They may be asking to bring material from home ie. wire, wood, fabric, corks, etc.
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