| What's Happening in our Gifted Classrooms - Grade 6 Writing! Writing! Writing! Mrs. Garrison's students will be writing, writing and writing! Their focus this nine weeks will be Responding to Literature through writing in preparation for the countywide Mosaic literary competition. Check back soon for samples of their work! Moving toward Algebra... Mr. Dumler's math classes will start the year doing data analysis by constructing and reading many types of tables, graphs and charts. They then move into algebra skills, including writing and evaluating expressions, solving one-step equations using integers and decimals. If you like challenging problems, check out Mr. Dumler's Problem Solving Web Site! Scientific Processes In science classes, Mr. Dumler's students will begin by reviewing scientific procedures and measurement, then study hydrology. (hint: hydro = water). Last updated December 16, 2006 |
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Build-an-Island Workshop Mrs. Shaffer's and Mr. Brown's social studies students have designed their own islands and built three-dimensional models of them. The students must meet certain criteria with regard to water, transportation, food and other physical and cultural geographic concepts that they have studied. They created four different maps: political, physical, economic/land use and climate, as well as graphs about the temperature and rainfall on their island. They also created an encyclopedia entry that describes their island.
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