6th Grade Highlights By: Joey

These are some highlights from each subject. The best thing we did in science was the volcanoes The best thing we did in social studies was the forum bath. I did the forum bath with J.B. The best thing we did in math is the casino project. The casino project is where we make a game and people get money to spend. I think the best thing we did in Writers was making our own books. In reading was making our own face book page. The book that I did was Sammy Keyes and the hotel thief. My best memory would have to be everything new did this year. I will miss being in J.Bs class

6th Grade Highlights By: Ally

Language Arts My highlights for language arts are the days we used the skill book because I liked searching for the correct pages and using them as references. I also liked the times we read the plays in the skill book because the plays were interesting and the questions were even more interesting. Science My highlights for science would be the space unit because I really liked the board games we made and how we answered certain questions at certain times in the packet we got. I also liked the Earth, Sun, and Moon Dance we did where we had to make up a dance using the seasons and the way the Earth turns on an axis. I think science was my favorite subject beside Social Studies with projects. Social Studies My highlights for social studies would have to be the days we made projects, like the volcanoes and mountains or earthquakes, and what the continents would look like together before continental drift happened. I really liked building a building to with stand an earthquake and almost every group’s building didn’t fall over, including ours. Math My highlights in math are playing the games like 24 and having math-chats because in math-chats we can get help without getting in trouble and in 24 we can win candy and it’s fun playing it because of the expressions everyone makes when they get it right or wrong. I also like the projects because we get groups and it’s a break from ALEKS. Best Memory The best memory of the school year would probably be the trench-ball tournament because we got second out of all the teams in 6th grade and we had fun playing the other teams and playing with the high schoolers on our team. It was also hard when we played a couple really good teams like the team that got first. It was still fun even though we lost. I’ll Miss I think I’ll miss seeing my friends everyday because I don’t think we have any of the same classes and I’ll also miss having a very simple schedule and being used to having the same schedule all year not just one semester.

6th Grade Highlights By: Jenni

L.A. Reading The highlight for me in L.A. reading was the reading groups we got to pick them and it was really fun working together. I don’t really like reading and don’t do it often but it was truly fun to read together in a group. And I hope that we get to do that next year in middle school too. Science In science it was really fun to make a volcano and watch others explode. My partner was Annika the day before we accidently made it explode with the help from Emma and salt. And we used the salt the next day and it worked again. It was really fun to do the volcanoes. Math Math too many kids math was boring and sometimes hard but the last week of school was the best because we played different math practice games and math was finally fun. I tried games such as, Diffy, real world problems and sink or swim. It was really fun and I wish we could do that the whole year. Social Studies My favorite part of social studies was planning for the Medieval Faire. I thought that it was even more fun to work it and plan than actually going to it as a 4th or 5th grader. I wish that I could help next year too. I made a lot of the crowns and a few of the small shields. Favorite memory My favorite memory was boating and helping restore the pond. It was fun lifting rocks. Our class painted fences, moved gravel to restore the path again and after that we went boating. It was really fun and I wish we could go boating again or even canoeing. And that was my favorite memory from this year. What I’m going to miss the most I’m going to miss going to Horizon school and even more going t miss the awesome teachers here. This year our class was beast and awesome; the best class I have ever had. And I love Horizon and I don’t want to move on to middle school. And that’s what I’m going to miss the most this year.

6th Grade Highlights By: Matt & Noah

Science: in science we learned about earth. We learned about the earth’s layers and the tectonic plates. We learned about volcanoes and earthquakes. We built our own volcanoes and a model building to face an earthquake. It was really fun building and learning about this stuff. Social studies: we just learned about medieval ages. We had a guy come in and teach us about knights, weapons, and kingdoms. We even had a medieval faire it was awesome we made crowns, shields and whole bunch of other medieval stuff to sell. It has been really fun learning about medieval times. Languages Arts: in language arts we created a Greek god and wrote a story about him or her. The story actually ended up being pretty good there was a lot to write about too because we could us our imagination. We also just finished our spring DWA that wasn’t very fun but it’s something we have to do. Matt and I both improved a lot. Math: Math is coming to an end so our teacher let us do something fun for a change. We split the class in to groups and pairs and each group made a game we called it the casino project. We each got 10 dollars to our self and 10 to our game. We gambled on other people’s games and the people that got the most amount of money won matt is still working on it but I ended up getting in 2nd place in my math class. It was a lot of fun.

Highlights from 6th Grade By: Annika

Highlights from Subjects Science- My favorite part in science was when me and Jenny made our volcano explode in the class room when a sub was here. It was hilarious. We just poured in some salt, and suddenly the red lava came flying out. Thank you Emma, for pouring in too much salt. Social Studies- When we hosted the Medieval Faire, which was so much fun to prepare for, yet seemed small afterwards. All in all it was fun, especially as a class. L.A. probably the Poetry Packet, which we spent time on outside by the pond, along with my Creative writing piece about laptops which I got a 99% on. Math- When I finished Pre-Alegebra and got more than 75% of the way done with Alegebra… Math may be boring, but it felt good when I finished the majority of topics in Alegebra. End of the Year Rap up Probably one of the best memories of the class that I will have would be our group discussions. People would always have random and funny comments, and it took everything for Mrs. Fulfer to keep the conversation on the topic. I will miss the discussions and activity’s we used to do as a class, most of which failed… ☺

6th Grade Highlights By: Emily

Social Studies: The highlight of Social Studies has definitely been the Medieval Faire. The Medieval Faire was a lot of fun. Although the quality of the products went down with our class, it was still very enjoyable. Science: Science’s highlight of the year was definitely all the projects. Making volcanoes was entertaining, and watching them all explode was very amusing. L.A.: The highlight of LA was probably doing the book clubs because I was with my friends, and the book we read was really good. I also liked writing all different kinds of stories in Writer’s Workshop. Math: The highlight in Math was being able to be with all of my friends and work at the same time, but then we switched math classes, so now I’m not with the same people. I guess now the highlight is being able to work at your own pace. What I’ll miss about 6th grade: I’ll miss being able to wake up later. Waking up earlier will be torture! One thing that I won’t miss is school lunches. Best Memories: One of the best memories is the bowling field trip. It was awesome, and I’ll definitely remember it, even though I suck at bowling. I’ll also remember all the funny class discussions that we had.

6th Grade Highlights By: Greg & Seth

L.A. - One of our good memories from language arts was reading our book club books. We read Half-moon Investigations, which was a mystery book, and it was really fun trying to predict what was going to happen next. It was also pretty fun to make a claymation for Half-moon. We did a scene where one guy beat up the main character, Fletcher, with a curl bat… At night. We both greatly enjoyed making claymations. Science - We both agree making the volcanoes was the most fun in science all year. We made our volcano together using Mentos and Diet Coke to make it erupt, but we also made a pulley system and used an remote control car to set the Mentos in the bottle. Sadly though, when we went outside to make it explode the wind kept messing up the angle of the volcano, so the Mentos wouldn’t land in the bottle, but it was still fun all the same. Math - Once every quarter, in math, we do a project. In the third quarter, we had to invest in a car. We were given a yearly salary, and we had to figure in all the taxes, gas, tune ups, and insurance. For our project, we got a 1960’s white Corvette. We had extra money in the end, so we got a cool black and red paint job. We also got 5 star rims. If only we could have this car in real life. Social Studies - At the very end of the Mesopotamia unit we made plays in groups, and we were in the same group. We were given about 5 topics, and we had to do different scenes that showed our knowledge of Ancient Mesopotamia. The plays were fun and comical, and I believe that everyone had fun. Review - We are not sure what we will miss the most this year. There were a lot of fun activities, funny moments, and interesting comments. What we’ll probably miss most, is the mixture of different kids I our class that all became friends, some in a different way than others. What we’ll miss the most is all the funny moments we’ve had.

6th Grade Highlights By: Cali and Maggie (aka Pemble and Rose McButton from the Real NOT Housewives of Great Britain)

Highlights from LA- We’ve never been to LA….but you know our web show will get us there soon enough. But, if you are talking about Language Arts well then we can help you with that. In reading we read books, read papers and listened to Mrs. Fulfer read “I’d tell you I Love but Then I’d have to Kill You”. In writing we did our DWA’s where we had to write about either about a lion hunting men or a kid’s first day at school. In science we studied volcanoes and mountains. While studying volcanoes we, along with everyone else in our class, had to create our own volcano. Now I know what you’re thinking: “Ohhh a volcano, that’s sounds hard!” And yes it was… very hard. We did not just have to create a volcano this volcano had erupt, but we could not just use vinegar and baking soda, we had to find other ways to make this volcano erupt. We searched on the World Wide Internet for alternative ways to make this volcano explode….. We ended up using baking soda, lemon juice, red dye, and dish soap. And we got a hundred! In social studies we were studying Medieval Europe. Then we had our Medieval Faire. Cali had to chase little kids and give them passports. When they said “no” we followed them until they took it. Maggie had to help Cali in the first half hour and then Cali left so I had to pass out passports to about four different classrooms. But anyway after that I was selling bracelets, mask, and ring-pops, last half hour I was a face painter, but they were full, so Mrs. Fulfer said I could just walk around, so altogether it was a pretty good medieval faire. IN math for ALEKS we had to have some kids finish up pre-algebra. I finished though, so I was ok. Anyways, we had a game day where we all played computer games. But, I had to get my braces off, so I missed it. In expressions math we are starting pre-algebra so we finished up starting; I guess, but for the last week of school we have been playing math related games and then we had a packet to get us ready for next year’s math, but today (Thursday) is our last day of math….. We have 3 highlights: 1) The creation of the Quadricorn Tacos Original Founders Club. Or the QTOFC, you pronounce it as “Quatoafic.” This includes Maggie, Cali, and Emily. 2) The creation of the Real Not Housewives of Great Britain web show which is founded by Maggie, Cali, and Emily. Annika has also been accepted into. We plan to air in the end of June. 3) All of our field trips. Our favorites include: The Museum of Science and Industry, Row Boat and Restoration, The Alvin Ailey 2 Dance Company, and Bowling A special note from the Real Not Housewives of Great Britain: Pemble McButton (Cali) - Oh my god, did you see Jasmine’s hair? It was definitely bottom notch. Have a top notch summer!!! Rose (Maggie) – Have a Splendid summer and remember to always love your right thumb, not your left thumb I mean it’s just backwards. Well I’m off for tea Pip – Pip Cherrio. Jasmine (Emily) - Pemble can’t talk about hair, because her’s is absolutely horrid. It’s probably not even real. Have a brilliant summer. Elizabeth (Annika) – If toothpicks could fly, then they could rule the world, and life would be so much better… Have a wonderful summer, filled with blue toothpicks, not green.

Highlights of the Year By: Charlene

Language arts: my favorite writing assignment was the creative piece. This is because when I was little I used to try to write creative pieces. (Of course at the time I didn’t know what they were called) anyway that assignment made me finish a creative piece. Science: my favorite thing in science was when we exploded the volcanoes not to long ago. I really didn’t expect that to be homework! I also didn’t know there was so many ways to make a volcano explode. My favorite volcano eruption was Elly and Janie’s. I thought it was cool how they did the confetti. Social studies: I enjoyed making the coliseum for social studies. It was also my first time using prezi so that was fun too. I liked seeing everybody else’s projects too. My favorite project was Janie and megan’s. Math: this year I really liked math. Mr. Finn is an awesome teacher. However my favorite thing about math has to be when we did the “casino” project. In my group were the two shyest people in the world, (or at least in the class), which I had to be the outgoing one. (In case you don’t know me well that’s a near impossibility!) Best memory: the first five minutes on the first day of school when our class was actually quiet. Then Mrs. Fulfer asked us to talk to each other and the room was silent. I don’t think the room was ever as silent as that ever again! What I will miss: I will miss everything!!! I just can’t believe this year slipped by already!

Highlights from 6th Grade By: Jacob

My highlight for L.A. is just my progress. I have improved as a reader, writer, and student. My grades have improved so much I’m surprised. I am so happy where I am reading wise I can’t stand it. My science highlight is all the hands on stuff we did. Like making the strange substance that was water and corn starch. Also we made a board game for involving space. We went to Chicago and went to a very cool museum. We also when to the prairie too. We have done a lot of cool hands on stuff. My favorite social studies memory is the midlevel fair. We planed and studied and it was just a lot of fun. My memory for math is NO HOMEWORK. We had barely any homework. It was so cool. I loved it. That is why my memory for math is NO HOMEWORK. My memory for in class is the happiness and joy. There was a little too much joy, because people where blurting out and being disrespectful, but is was still fun. One thing I will miss is Mrs. Fulfer. She was one of the best teachers I have ever had. I will surly miss her.

Highlights from this Year By: Celina

I didn’t like LA this year because it was boring. It would be a lot better if we had more projects. Like the creative writing piece, that was fun, but a lot of other stuff was boring Science was a lot more fun than LA. In the beging of the year we got to go to the prairie and then we got to go on a row boating trip. S.S was ok but I would’ve liked it better if there were more projects other than the game board. Math was so much fun because Mrs. Roben made me laugh. And she made it easy to learn. The best memory I remember was the whole year. I will miss my friends and Mrs. Fulfer.

Highlights from 6th Grade By: Alex

Science highlight: my favorite thing we did was when we made the volcano. But mine didn’t explode but the other ones were cool. Social studies highlight: the best thing in social studies is the medieval faire. The games were fun and so was the stuff. Math highlight: my highlight was the casinos we made. Reader’s workshop: the best thing we did in my book club was making the Claymation. I’ll miss having recess every day. My best memory is when on the bus there was a tick on someone and the whole bus was yelling.

School Memories By: Carlos

It’s the end of the year! It’s both a happy and sad time. It is a happy time because it’s summer and I can do whatever I want, sad because I don’t get to see my friends every day. For 180 days we have all seen each other, now it’s time to say goodbye. Now it’s time to look back on the highlights of this year. In L.A the highlight was when Matt lost his chips in 30 seconds. It was really funny. A highlight from science is when we were working on our volcanoes and Jennies exploded and I started clapping, then everyone started clapping. It was awesome. Next a highlight from Social Studies was when Matt threw a ruler and almost hit Jack in the head. Finally a highlight from Math, honestly math was horrible. I just don’t like it but the best highlight was when I jumped from a 229 in my math score to a 251. Thank you Mrs. Roben! The best memory of our class I think, Ok before I say this I just want to say I know it’s going to be cheesy but I think it was the whole year. It was probably the best year that I have ever had. It was so fun. I think I will miss everyone. Ugh that sounds so cheesy but you know haters gonna hate. Bye!

Highlights from 6th Grade By: Emma

L.A. in language arts I had a lot of fun stuff we learned about prefixes and other stuff. We made a claymation on a book we had I had wolf brother. Lastly in it we read a lot of books like I read at least 5 books and they were pretty good. Science, science is always been my favorite class and this year was the best science. We made this weird green slimy stuff called obleak. But some of my favorite projects where the volcanoes making posters about earthquakes and prairies and lastly going to the river and cleaning it up. Social studies, in socials we did all of the places like India, Italy, china, roam, and other stuff and my favorite was Italy because I have always wanted to go there and when I go there I will know stuff about it. Math, math is almost always boring no matter what grade. But what we did in math was learn how to solve long problems with letters and fractions. Also i learned how to divide and multiply fractions The best memory in the class was when I accidentally exploded a volcano with salt and soda who would of new it would explode. What would be recess.

Highlights from 6th Grade By: JB

In Language Arts we got to make a claymation in Reader’s Workshop. In Writer’s Workshop we made a book that got published like in a hard cover. In science we made a rap that was funny. We also made a volcano and got to explode it one day. Another fun thing was making the presentations like the biomes and the types of boundaries. Another fun thing was going to Chicago and seeing The Science and Industry museum and seeing an omnimax show named Tornado Valley. In social studies we made a forum bath for Ancient Greece that was really cool. We also made a game board for Ancient Egypt. I also liked the map we made of a town in Ancient India. In math I liked the casino project we just did where you get fake money and try to win money from games. I also liked all the things we learned that I didn’t know. Last I liked how I was challenged all the time. My best memory was the rowboat trip, were we restored a part of the path along the Pewaukee River in the morning. Then in the afternoon we got to row in a rowboat down the river, and there was this part was you had to lie in the boat. I didn’t row much because the other person in my boat liked to row it. I will miss having a good teacher unlike 5th grade were me would take 2 and a half hours on math, one hour to correct homework other part for lesson. I will also miss not have a recess anymore.

Highlights of this school year By: Kathryn & Mikayla

Lang. Arts- Everyone enjoyed reading multiple books with different reading groups. Making real, published books was an awesome project that everyone really liked working on. At the end of the year, we learned how to write business letters. We all wrote letters to Mrs. Pugh asking if she would download the apps we picked that we thought would be a good idea to put onto all of the school iPod’s. Science- Our #1 favorite project in science for our class was making volcanoes that actually exploded. It was a challenge to come up with our own ways to create the volcanoes, then make them erupt. Everyone’s worked in different ways. Also, we made Biome presentations at the beginning of the year. We chose a biome to work with, then had to learn all of its aspects and present them. Social Studies- The class was split into groups to make Egyptian board games. Everyone put their own touch on their game so none of them were the same. They were a different way to learn about Egypt that got us involved. In May, we could pair up with one other person to choose from a list of possible project topics. Emma and I made a model of Mt. Vesuvius and it’s neighboring city, Pompeii. We re-created the mountain and city along with a Prezi on the topic. Math- This year I really improved in math. I learned a lot of new things that I will be able to use in Middle School. I really excelled in Factor Tables and in percentages. I caught on really quickly, which made it easy and fun. *Best Memory of Our Class I think the best memories of our class would have to be the random singing. The boys would just start singing a song while we were working on something and everyone would join in. *What I Will Miss Most I’ll miss all my friends being in one class with me. I’ll miss everyone, I think next year when we are all split up. We had a lot of fun together.

6th Grade Highlights By: Ben

The highlights in language arts is the business letter about the app we wanted to download. Mine was math and the subject was math, and math is the name it can help you with everything in math. Also in this subject it was also the spelling test I might not be the best speller but I get a 65%-100% in grading. The highlight in science was the volcano project, because it was exciting to watch other people’s volcano explode. During my volcano I got a little wet. The highlight for math was the casino project. My project had a 4%-39% of winning for mine people lost their fake money like 1 dollar- 3 bucks of money. Jbs’ project had a 40%-80% chance of winning so I played it. The highlight in social studies was the Egyptian board game that ever group made was different. I learned some stuff about Egyptians that day. The best memory of this year in this class was the homework because I learned a whole lot of stuff this year that’s what is one of the best things about school. You get to learn a lot. The one thing I will miss the most is the teachers I had, because they were all very nice. All of my friends to because I had most of them in 4th- 6th grade in one class.

6th Grade Highlights By: Elly

L.A. The highlight of L.A. for me was probably the Facebook project. I did the book Love, Stargirl By: Jerry spinelli and it was really fun. And I loved looking at everyone else’s project. I learned a lot about the hunger games. Science The highlight of science was the projects. Not just one project, all. From the Alien Hat, to the Volcanoes. Everything was fun! Social Studies I love social studies; it’s probably my favorite subject. So I love everything, I even liked the tests. I love the projects the most in this subject, because their usually interesting topics. Such as people, illnesses, or even just the history of a palace. Math The highlight of math…… Hmmmmmmm……. Well, I don’t know yet because I am going to take my assessment in like an hour. So I don’t know yet. Memory of Our Class I think this is an easy one, our class is so weird. (So is our teacher) But everyone has some comment or something to blurt out or whisper to someone, and it starts a weird conversation. But I like my class and I’ll miss it. What I’ll Miss the Most The class and our teacher. I have nothing bad or wonderful to say about them.

6th Grade Highlights By: Drew

I’ve had a wonderful year and these are all my highlights! My highlight in spelling was getting an easy packet the last week. It was fun to do it and not have to use dictionary.com for it. My highlight from science was making a model volcano and erupting it outside. I made it with Jacob out of homemade clay and then we painted it. It was also fun to see everyone’s erupt. My highlight from L.A. was reading Half Moon Investigations. It was a good and exciting book. Unfortunately, I was not here to make a clay-mation video. My definite highlight of Social Studies was the Medieval Faire. I got to make mini catapults, but they all turned out bad so we didn’t sell them. I dressed up in a homemade knight costume on the day of the Faire, and that was fun too. My highlight of math was finishing Pre-Algebra. I did over 100 topics in just a few days, and I got 100% on my final test. My favorite memory of my class was all the funny jokes that happened through the year, even though I have to admit that it was at inappropriate. I’m definitely going to miss having the same teacher all the time but now I have to move around. I guess I still kind of get that in Academy 21. I hope next year will be just as good as this one, because I had a great year!

6th Grade Overview By: Janie

In L.A. (Language Arts), I think the highlight was the reading groups. Not the homework part, but the book part. The reading groups helped me find a good book (The Girl Who Could Fly), and I really enjoyed it. Also, in addition to the book part, I liked making those claymations. In Science, there were multiple things that could be considered highlights. Some of my favorite activities include making volcanoes explode (part of a project), making oobleck, and making the earthquake resistant structure. In Social Studies, I enjoyed hosting the Medieval Faire. I also liked making those replicas of Roman structures (Coliseum, Pantheon, Roman Temple, Roman Garden, etc.). In math, there wasn’t really a special activity that I liked, but I felt pretty proud when my group won the garden designing contest (project) and when I finished Pre-Algebra. The best memory of this class was probably the Medieval Faire and how we all had to work together (kind of), or whenever we do a giant class activity. If there’s anything I’ll miss in 6th grade, I think it would be Mrs. Fulfer and, in short, the whole class (however weird and crazy it was).

6th Grade Overview By: Megan

Science- My highlight from science this year is the space unit. I liked this unit because we learned almost the entire book ourselves in project form. I think our game board could have turned out much better, but the group put a lot of effort into it. Language Arts- The best thing about L.A. this year is when we learned about figurative language. I think I improved a lot in that category, especially because I wasn’t very good to start. Social Studies- My favorite time during Social Studies is when we learned about Ancient China. It was a lot of fun because I really understood what happened, when in the other units I didn’t really know what was going on half the time. I still really liked it, and it made me appreciate Social Studies a lot more. Math- The thing I will remember most about math this year is the School Dance Project. It was fun because we could go out and add anything that we wanted, like Disco Balls, streamers, DJ’s, and more. Also, we had to add revenue. My group of Janie and Annika made $2,465.15. Everyone else made around $500, so we blew them out of the water. The best memory about our class is when we went to Chicago. We went to the Museum of Science and Industry, and we were able to go wherever we wanted throughout the building. The coolest thing that my group did was making key chains. We used a computer program to decorate the plastic, and then we saved it to the computer. Then, Matt (person who ran the station) printed it onto plastic. Mine is hanging from my backpack, and it looks really cool. I know that I am going to miss this class’s sense of humor. We can always make someone laugh. Sure, it might not be at the right time, but we still tend to do it every 45 seconds. And yes, the joke might not be as adults would refer to as ‘appropriate’, but it still gets a kick out of everyone.

We are Published Authors!!

Students put a ton of effort into their student books this year. They were very excited when the books finally arrived! We took some time to celebrate and check out everyone's stories.

Science By: Zach & Seth

This month we are learning about space in science. We have learned about how the earth is on a tilt and that this is what causes the seasons, how the moon orbits earth, and how galaxies and stars are classified. We thought that one of the most interesting topics was how the surface of the moon came to be. We learned that the dark spots on the moon were called mare, because it was originally thought to be water on the moon, but we learned it was actually a dark lava rock called basalt. We also learned that the craters are called impact craters, which are little explosions that happen when a small body from space hits a larger body at fast speeds.
We are taking our test today. The unit test will include everything we have learned this month. This is anything from the phases of the moon to the stage our sun is in for the star cycle. We finished our study on Tuesday, and hopefully we have all been studying hard. Wish us luck.

Math (ALEKS): By: Drew & Jacob

The ALEKS math program is an outstanding program. Students are learning better and faster than ever. Students can learn at own pace. For example, if a student doesn’t understand a problem, there is no set schedule to move on to something else, so they are allowed time to learn it. Another example is if a student already knows the problem, no class time is wasted on teaching it to them again.
Most people are currently wrapping up their pre-algebra course. Currently, I, (Drew,) am finishing my Algebra 1 course. Jacob is almost done with his Pre-Algebra.
If students are ever stuck on a question, they can always ask their teacher for help. We also take progress assessments to see which topics we have truly mastered. If we didn’t truly master them, we are required to do them again.
Jacob and I are enjoying our math class for the first time and are excited to continue it next year!

Math (Expressions) By: Jenni

Hi, my name is Jenni. I’m in Mrs.Robens expressions math class. We are working on different types of graphs right now. Our last unit was converting customary units of liquid volume and finding a percent of number. We had to figure out the answer to complicated math problems.
We just took our test and did very well. Our next unit is different types of graphs. Such as dot plots and histographs. Next we will work on drawing models to unlevel data. The graph unit right now is easy but I’m sure that it will get harder. And that’s what we are doing in the math expressions class right now.

Language Arts By: Annika & Celina

Writers Workshop
Recently we took a trip into the (sometimes) creative minds of the class. We were allowed to pair up, and create a Greek god/goddess, along with a myth involving them. Emily and Annika paired up, while Celina seeked out Mikayla in her partnership. After editing and revising the pieces, we drew a picture of a scene in the story. The pictures are now posted in the back of the classroom on the bulletin board. Currently we have been learning about poems, and created a poem about what we have learned. From the fact that that punting a soccer ball at the ceiling can break the lights, to the fact that broccoli is better than brussels sprouts, the ideas were funny, and thought-provoking.

Readers Workshop
After writers workshop, we have been creating a power-point that resembles facebook. After presenting we are back on track, learning about more tactics, to help you connect with the books you read.

Allieds By: Noah & Matt

This quarter we are in health and we have been learning new things every time we go. Like to how to take care of your body and not to get into bad habits. It has been very interesting learning about how to take care and not do bad things like drugs, smoking, alcohol, and balancing our health pyramid. Although we haven’t learned much because we have only done 4 classes so far.
Surprisingly we have made our first project though we will present it soon. Although we haven’t learned much yet we are excited to learn more and get help balancing our health pyramids.

Jokes By: Matt & Noah

• How did the duck buy a Ferrari? Put it on my bill.
• What kind of dance do you do on a trampoline? Hip-Hop
• Why don’t teddy bears ever eat? because their stuffed
• Why are ghosts bad liars you can see right through them
• What did the fire say to the wall? you just got burned
• Why did bob throw the butter out of the window? he wanted to see butterfly
• What do you call cheese that’s not yours? nacho cheese
• Why did the nose cross the road? he was being picked on
• What’s the difference between a school teacher and a train ?the school teacher says spit the gum out the train says Choo Choo
• Why did the football coach go to the bank? to get his quarterback
• What has 3 feet but can’t walk? a yardstick.

Girls Sports/Activities By: Emily & Cali

Soccer-
So far the girl’s soccer team has won 2 of their games. Since their original coach, Tim Jones, had to leave because of family reasons, Coach Seib has decided to coach us. Megan, Annika, Cali, Maggie, Emily and Celina are all on the soccer team. We are in a tournament in Madison over Spring Break, so hopefully we’ll bring back a trophy!

Basketball- In rec, the Gators won the championship against the Golden Eagles. They got first place in the Opie tournament. Celina was the only girl from our class on the Gators team. For select, the Girl’s Select Black team got 17th in State. The Select Red team won 4 of their games.


Volleyball-Jenny and Cali are on the Pewaukee 6th Grade Black Team. We entered a tournament and came in third place which is super good with how many teams joined in. We hope to have good luck in our next tournaments. Emma practices with the Brookfield Central Lancers. “They are doing well.” Emma states.


Jazz Lab-Save the Drama for Your Llama! Jazz lab members are raking in the llama points and playing musically very well. Our two songs are In the Mode and Let’s Go Band! (Or in Jazz Lab, Let’s Go Llamas!) We can’t wait to open for the 6th grade spring concert.


Musical Instruments-
1) Piano- Janie auditioned for a State Competition and has been accepted for the completion in May. Janie played Fantasia in D Minor, Spinning Song, and 3 Part Invention. Good luck Janie!
2) Honors Band- Jenny, Megan, Elly, and Charlene are auditioning for Honors Band. Megan is playing Simple Gifts; Annika, Jenny, and Ellly are playing Nocturne; and Charlene Steal Away. They also have to play G, C, and E Major scales as well as play the chromatic scale.

Boys Activities/Sports By: Celina & Ally

Basketball

The boys in our class that play basketball are Joey, Carlos, Jack, Colin, Matt, Zach, Jacob, Ben, Alex, and Seth. They are on the red and black teams. Joey is on red, Carlos is on black, Jack is on black, and Seth is on the black, too. The black team is going to state on April 14th, 2012. The black team is the higher division and the red is the lower division. The other boys that are on the red team are Nathan Burke, Jack Doubeck, John Sandlass, Michael Miossi, Bryce Howard, Alex Kraussel, Jake Schlitt, and Colin McGowan. The other boys on the black team are David Young, David Collins, Josh Swanson, Jaeger Hong, Matt Magennis, Ryan Wagner, and Grant Basile. Carlos missed the game winning free-throw against Franklin. Jack had surgery on his right leg and was out for 6 weeks and on crutches for a week. The boys black team got 9th place in the State Tournament.


Soccer

Joey, Greg, Ben, Jacob, J.B, and Alex all play soccer. Greg, Joey, J.B, Ben, and Jacob all play indoor soccer. Joey’s team doesn’t have a very good soccer team (he said) because they always lose. J.B. says that he has a good soccer team because they won three and lost two. Greg says that his team is somewhat good. They play indoor soccer at Indoor Soccer in Brookfield. The indoor soccer games are almost over then it’s time to play outdoor soccer.


Baseball
Joey, Seth, Carlos, Noah, Ben, Zach, Jacob, Colin, and Drew all play baseball. But only Colin and Zach play select baseball. On Zach and Colin’s baseball team are Nathan Burke, Jacob Sklenar, Bayne Basche, Jack Doubeck, Ricky Glowe, Ian Patowski, Ryan Wagner, and Josh Swanson. Zach and Colin say that their team is somewhat good. Their team plays at Balmer Park.

Editorial By: Janie & Mikayla

A lot of students think that 12:53 is too late to have lunch. We did a survey, with answers ranging from 11:30 – 12:30. Most responses were either 11:30 or 12:00. Most students are very hungry when lunch time comes around. This can be a good thing, but many of the students do not like this arrangement. Also, students would like recess after the lunch time, similar to how it is now.
Allieds-FACE, Tech-Ed, Art, and Health-often let students go between 12:50 -12:55 to go to lunch. Some students think the teachers should let us go to lunch sooner, and some students think that we should move allieds after lunch and recess.
Specials (Spanish, Gym) are usually near the end of the day. For example, Gym is at either 3:00 - 3:30 or 2:30 – 3:00. But, we want time for extra recess or resource. We think we should move the 3:00 – 3:00 times to 2:30 – 3:00. This way, we can have resource to do homework and possibly an extra recess.

Pennies For Patients By: Elly & Jenni

Our School has been doing a fundraiser, it just ended, so the results are in. Our school total was $2497.77. That was way more than our goal, $1500.00. The total for 4th grade was $734.75, 5th grade was $905.69, and the 6th grade got $875.33. We all did a great job! The prize for the top class in the school was a pizza party. The top in 5th grade was Mrs. Ward’s class, with $179.49. The next top grade was 6th grade, Mrs. Fulfer’s, with $228.84. And the winning grade was 4th grade, Mr. Coddington’s class, with $274.51. We all did great. There was also a pennet award, if you got more than $100 than you get a Bronze pennet. That’s Mrs. Ward’s class. If you get $200 or more, you get a silver pennet, which would be Mrs. Fulfer’s class and Mr. Coddington’s class. If you reach $300, (which no one did) then you get gold. All the money goes to Pennies for Patients. The three top classes did also get the traveling trophy in honor as their hard work. The whole school did a nice job and hope we can beat what we got this year for next year.

Birthdays By: Ben

The people who had birthdays where Ben, Carlos, and Ally.
This is what Carlos did on his birthday on March, 17th, 2012. Lost the opie tournament. The score was 38-36. 2 seconds left Carlos shots and he missed by 3 inches, and the other team wins the tournament. He got a smashed trophy.
This is what I did on my birthday on March, 20th, 2012. Ben woke up at 6:30 am. Then opened up presents. The presents were a phone, cash, pokepark2 wonders beyond, and 6 honey buns. A honey bun was my cake. Next I went to school. Then at 11:49 am my class had cupcakes. Next we went to dinner at Apple Bees. Finally I got home and did my homework.
This is Ally’s birthday on March, 23rd, 2012. She went to school. Then had her birthday party. Got presents. The presents were a basketball, shirts, and cash. Used her phone to call her Aunt.

Celebrities By: Maggie & Alex

Hunger Games- The Hunger Games is critiqued as “Better than Twilight and Harry Potter”. When people saw the movie they were expecting more; therefore they were let down and liked the book better. The Hunger Games book/ movie are all about a girl named Katniss Everdeen. She lives in District 12, a poor district that relies on trading to survive. Katniss is a very brave young woman who illegally hunts; she kills animals for meat then sells them and “The Hob” or the market. When the reaping finally arrives she is trying to hide her fear for her little sister Prim who is practically shaking with fear afraid her name will get picked. She does. Katniss volunteers as tribute to go fight for her life in the Hunger Games. Her and her secret “lover boy” Peeta Mellark was the man chosen as tribute. The two travel to the capital by train. Once in the capital they meet all of the other tributes chosen to either win or die. Everything is going fine until they meet the tributes from district 2. District 2 is the wealthiest district next the capital. District 2 trains their kids how to become great warriors in case they were chosen as tribute (which is illegal). They vow to kill each other and that sparks some very juicy rivalry. You’ll have to read the book to find out what happens when they finally meet up inside the Hunger Games.

TV Shows By: Megan and Emma

Dancing with the Stars: On the first week of the season, Donald and Peta scored a total of 21: 7,7, and 7. On week 2, he did much better, and moved up with a total score of 24 on the quickstep. Len Goodman, judge, apologized for his poor scoring on the cha cha. On the current week, Donald and Peta did the rumba, scoring a 26.
American Idol: Last week, we said goodbye to Heejun Han. We are at our top 8, and tonight we find out the contestants’ fate. Last night, all of the singers sang hit songs from the 80’s, and for the first night this week, they started to do duets. Some pairings were Colton and Skylar, Hollie and DeAndre, Joshua and Jessica, and Phillip and Elise.
Modern Family: Recently on Modern Family, a new episode “Election Day” is airing on April 11 from 9-9:31 PM on ABC. The entire family is doing a last minute campaigning for Claire which includes Mitch and Cam riding around in a ‘Vote for Claire’ mobile, and Claire does some last-minute interviews but has some technical difficulties.

March Madness By: Charlene

You might’ve thought this was about the actual United States March Madness. You were wrong. This is about the student vs. teacher March madness at our school. Not in our country.

The two players in our class were Kathryn and Ben. The person that would’ve played for Ben if he was not at school was matt. As for Kathryn, Ally was going to play for if she was not at school. Each of them did a very good job in the game.

For that day, there was also a pep band. The total amount of players in the band was 88. Some the songs we played were Louie Louie, let’s go band 2 and victory march. I personally think that the whole pep band did a great job with it.

Altogether, the pep band and the actual basketball players did a great job. The students won against the teachers so, that’s all that matters! :)

NBA By: Jack & Carlos

Around the NBA
After the NBA lockout this offseason, the NBA got off to a great start. Now teams in the Western and Eastern conferences are fighting playoffs spots. The Bucks are in the 9th spot trailing the Knicks in the East and there are 8 playoff teams from each conference. In the West Phoenix is in the 9th spot behind Denver Nuggets. With about 15 games left for most of the teams every team is fighting to get into the playoffs.

The Players
There have been many players excelling this season. In the West he Clippers, Blake Griffin has had many standout dunks. Alongside him Chris Paul who was acquired from the Hornets directly after the offseason and Chauncey Billups tore his ACL. On the Thunder Kevin Durant has been having a great season along with Russsel Westbrook. Durantula and Russel have had two games this season were both of them had 40+ points in a game. Even though the Spurs are old they are playing well. Finally Ricky Rubio had an ACL injury that sidelined him for the rest of the year.
In the East the Bulls and D-Rose have the best record in the league at 42-13. Also the Heat are having a good year but Jack has a feeling that they will not get their championship ring this year either while that’s what Carlos predicts. The Celtics have had a good run since the all-star break and are currently in the 3rd seed in the east. The Bucks have acquired Monta Ellis in a trade for Andrew Bogut, and the first pick in the draft Kyrie Irving is making a case for the ROY trophy.

The Lockout
During the Lockout many veterans relaxed because they could finally have a long offseason, but the younger players such as Kevin Durant and Kevin Love worked hard in the offseason to stay in shape. The NBAPA (NBA players association) and the NBA owners disagreed on the revenue split. The previous deal was in favor of the players 57% to 43% now after this lockout the split is 51-49 in favor of the players. The lockout affected the rookies the most because they hadn’t gotten paid yet and didn’t have a job.

Playoff Preview

We predict that the Eastern Conference Finals will be Chicago v Miami. Jack says it’ll be the Bulls in 7 games and Carlos says it’ll be the Heat in 6 games. In the west we predict the Conference Finals will be OKC v Dallas. Carlos thinks it’ll be the Thunder in 7 and Jack thinks it’ll be the Thunder in 5. Jack’s NBA finals is Bulls v Thunder and the Thunder in 6 games. Carlos’ finals is the Heat against the Thunder. He says the Heat will win in 5 games.




EASTERN W
L
PCT
GB
HOME
ROAD
DIV
CONF
PF
PA
DIFF STRK
L10
1 x - Chicago
42 13 .764 - 21-6 21-7 10-1 31-7 96.8 88.8 +8.0 Lost 2 6-4
2 x - Miami
39 14 .736 2 23-2 16-12 8-3 29-8 100.6 93.5 +7.1 Won 2 7-3
3 Indiana
33 21 .611 8 ½ 17-7 16-14 4-3 22-16 96.9 94.0 +2.9 Won 3 7-3
4 Boston
30 23 .566 11 19-9 11-14 6-4 23-12 91.5 89.8 +1.7 Lost 1 7-3
5 Orlando
32 22 .593 9 ½ 18-10 14-12 7-5 25-14 94.3 92.7 +1.6 Lost 4 4-6
6 Atlanta
32 23 .582 10 18-8 14-15 9-3 25-14 95.1 93.1 +2.0 Won 1 6-4
7 Philadelphia
29 25 .537 12 ½ 19-11 10-14 4-4 22-14 93.3 88.2 +5.1 Lost 2 4-6
8 New York
27 27 .500 14 ½ 18-10 9-17 6-6 20-17 97.2 94.7 +2.5 Lost 1 7-3


Milwaukee
26 28 .481 15 ½ 13-12 13-16 6-6 20-18 98.9 98.4 +0.4 Won 2 6-4
Detroit
20 33 .377 21 14-12 6-21 3-8 15-21 90.1 95.4 -5.3 Won 2 4-6
Toronto
20 35 .364 22 11-17 9-18 5-7 12-26 91.9 95.1 -3.1 Won 3 5-5
New Jersey
19 37 .339 23 ½ 7-19 12-18 4-4 13-25 92.9 98.6 -5.6 Lost 2 4-6
Cleveland
17 35 .327 23 ½ 9-18 8-17 3-8 9-27 93.3 99.9 -6.6 Lost 9 1-9
Washington
12 42 .222 29 ½ 7-21 5-21 2-7 8-28 93.2 100.2 -7.0 Lost 3 2-8
Charlotte
7 45 .135 33 ½ 4-20 3-25 1-9 5-32 88.0 100.8 -12.8 Lost 9 1-9
Western Conference
WESTERN W
L
PCT
GB
HOME
ROAD
DIV
CONF
PF
PA
DIFF STRK
L10
1 x - Oklahoma City
40 14 .741 - 23-5 17-9 9-2 29-10 103.0 96.7 +6.3 Lost 2 7-3
2 San Antonio
38 14 .731 1 21-4 17-10 10-4 24-11 101.6 96.2 +5.4 Won 9 9-1
3 LA Lakers
35 20 .636 5 ½ 23-5 12-15 8-3 26-11 96.5 94.0 +2.5 Won 4 7-3
4 LA Clippers
32 22 .593 8 20-9 12-13 4-6 21-17 97.3 95.1 +2.2 Lost 1 6-4
5 Memphis
30 23 .566 9 ½ 18-7 12-16 5-6 19-20 95.0 93.8 +1.2 Lost 1 5-5
6 Dallas
31 24 .564 9 ½ 20-9 11-15 7-4 21-18 94.5 93.3 +1.2 Won 1 6-4
7 Houston
29 25 .537 11 20-8 9-17 5-6 18-19 98.1 97.5 +0.7 Won 1 5-5
8 Denver
29 25 .537 11 15-12 14-13 3-7 14-23 103.3 101.9 +1.4 Lost 1 5-5


Phoenix
28 26 .519 12 16-11 12-15 7-5 18-18 97.1 97.4 -0.3 Won 3 6-4
Utah
28 27 .509 12 ½ 19-8 9-19 7-4 18-20 99.0 99.1 -0.1 Lost 1 5-5
Portland
26 29 .473 14 ½ 19-10 7-19 4-8 18-20 97.2 96.1 +1.1 Won 1 5-5
Minnesota
25 31 .446 16 13-14 12-17 4-6 19-21 98.8 99.4 -0.6 Lost 4 3-7
Golden State
21 32 .396 18 ½ 11-16 10-16 7-6 14-21 97.9 100.2 -2.3 Won 1 3-7
Sacramento
19 35 .352 21 14-13 5-22 2-8 14-23 98.7 104.1 -5.4 Lost 1 4-6
New Orleans
14 40 .259 26 6-21 8-19 1-8 8-29 89.0 93.6 -4.6 Won 1 4-6
z - Clinched Conference
y - Clinched Division
x - Clinched Playoff Berth

MLB Update By: J.B.

Milwaukee Brewers
The MLB season will start for the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday. On Friday the Brewers play St. Louis. Yovani Gallardo will be the starting pitcher for the Brewers and for the Cardinals Jaime Garcia. The Brewers are expecting to have Ryan Braun in 2012. Prince Fielder has been traded to the Detroit Tigers.

Miami Marlins
The Marlins have got a new stadium in Miami and they have an aquarium with real fish in it. The Miami Marlins added a few players that I know of and they are Jose Reyes and a new coach his name is Ozzy Guillen.

L.A. Dodgers
They won 4-1 over the Angels on Tuesday. They are under new ownership to a part owner Magic Johnson. They have recently had their 50th anniversary Kershaw has a 2.45 ERA in five spring starts, 19 hits allowed, 16 strikeouts and eight walks in 22 innings.

Claymations

Claymations

Language Arts By: Emily & Megan

Writer’s Workshop: Lately, we have been doing our Creative Writing pieces. You could write about anything that you wanted, as long as it was in the first person. Everyone’s pieces are different, and it’s fun to read them, and see their ideas that they came up with. People’s stories have varied from pieces about laptop delinquents to magic leprechauns dancing and unicorn stories.


Reader’s Workshop: We have just finished our book clubs, and we made claymations within our groups. Claymations are videos when you make everything out of clay, then move them slightly and take a picture. After 30 pictures or so, you put them on a PowerPoint and play them really fast. Then, it looks like they’re moving. Before we did the claymations, we were responding to individual sections of our book club books that we got to choose. We also just finished The Schwa was Here, our read aloud book. He wasn’t there, he was here. It was an interesting story, and also very funny. (stop here) LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OMG GIRL! I CAN’T BELIEVE HE WOULD DO THAT! SOMEONE CALL 9-1-1! BRB! TTYL GIRLFRIEND! ;)

Science By: Janie & J.B.

This month in Science, we finished our Matter and Energy unit. We just started our Space unit. We are now making a game board mission that includes all the stuff we learned. Some of us are including the information in the game, and some of us are writing the information on index cards to use during the game. All the while, we are still learning more things about space and writing them down in a packet that’s 8 pages long (!). For example, did you know that Jupiter is gas planet? Or that Uranus spins on its side? At the end of next week, we will be finished with our game board mission.

Social Studies By: Emma &Charlene

For social studies, the three chapters which is ancient china, mapping, and Greece. For china we learned about Huang river valley, Anyang, Xianyang and Changan, in the whole unit we learned the religion and daily life in china. For projects we painted a Chinese adjective describing us. At the end of the unit we took one big test. The next unit was mapping. Even though it was a short lesson we learned what are longitude and latitude, Political and physical. Instead of a test we made a map of whatever we wanted. Lastly we just started ancient Greece. Even though we just finished lesson 2, we already had a quiz on the map of Greece. Lastly we are just finishing the big cities Athens and Sparta.

Math (Expressions) By: Mikayla

February math 6th grade has done a lot of different math. We have been working on cross division. We also did factor puzzles and the answer ended up being a fraction not just a number.

In math we have also been working with charts, then graphing the information on the chart. We have also been doing algebra. Algebra is equations with variables.

Example: 4+6y=24

What I think about what we have been learning. I thought it was pretty average for me. I hope to learn more about equations with variables. I think that the equations are the easiest for me.

Math (ALEKS) By: Greg

ALEKS Math - In Mrs.Fulfer's math class, we are doing a program called aleks. It is online and you get to work at your own pace. I like that feature, because some people are faster learners than other people, and it allows them to be at their level own level. Most people are either done with Pre-Algebra and moved on to Algebra, or almost done with Pre-Algebra. Only three people have completed Algebra. Once Every Quarter, we do a math project that is not aleks related.We haven't had a project this quarter yet.

Allieds By: Elly Tiger and Calista Bubcan

Explosive news has erupted from the secret agent art room. Clay castles are piling up in the storage room. Mrs. Cormany has come back and now she’s on a mission to make us strive for the best projects EVER!
Sadly, Mrs. McCune has left the building. We thank her for helping with Mission: Clay Castle, Mission: Cave Drawing, and Mission: Egyptian Hieroglyphics.

Hola! Nosotros somos bonitas, intelligentes, delgadas, y jovenes. Enough of that, let’s talk about Spanish! We just finished our Spanish tests and are ready for our next project. Also our next mission is going to the crazed little kids. Wish us good luck!

Presidential fitness tests (sigh) are now in action. So far, we’ve done our sit-ups test. We both passed though. Next up, the dreaded shuttle run. (Dun, dun, dun)

School Lunch Editorial By: Kathryn & Jenni

I think I’m not the only one questioning the school lunches. There are lots of complaints about the food going around amongst the kids. Most of the time it’s not hot and sometimes it’s not even warm. The lunches are very average. I think we need more variety. There are only 10 or so lunches that we rotate through. More options would be better. The students definitely get tired of constantly eating the same foods over and over. The objective of school lunch should be to make sure we are eating healthy, but still getting what we want at the same time.
In February, a chef came to our school and made us some new food. Our girl classmates think the chef should come more often. She made us good food that was good for us, too. It was different from what we usually eat. They also think we should have back the popcorn chicken that the school took off the menu.
The boys think the food should not be burnt. They also said they should use fresh and natural ingredients. For example; the cheese tastes artificial or fake. (the boys actually said it tastes like plastic) Also, the few lunches they actually like should be cooked and served more often.
We all agree the lunches should be healthier all together. Students want better quality food that is delicious, hot, and healthy.

NCAA Bracketology By: Jack & Seth

Best Team that is “On the Bubble”
UCONN is the best team that is “On the Bubble”. With the best strength of schedule in the nation even though they were 17-10 they played the best schedule in the nation. With Jeremy Lamb and Shabazz Napier on the perimeter and Andre Drummond in the middle they have a chance to make a run in the tournament.

Best Cinderella Team
Long Beach State as a 13 seed has a good chance of making a deep run into the tournament, Led by senior point guard Casper Ware the 49ers are a team to beat.

Player with the Best Chance of Being Awarded Final Four MVPhttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif
Terrence Jones, Kentucky. Terrence has the best chance because, http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifhe is on the best team in the nation and also he is the best player on his team. Scoop Jardine from Syracuse is the other candidate for Final Four MVP.

Best At-Large team
Ohio State is the best At-Large team. With Michigan State and Michigan in the conference it is unlikely that the Buckeyes will win the conference tournament. With William Buford and Jared Sullinger in the driver’s seat they have a chance to surprise at the big dance.

Check out our bracket here
Bracketology

Girls Activities/Sports By: Ally & Annika

Girls Select Soccer

When playing a classic game of soccer, nearly all of the work is done by the players. Yet who is there, to criticize and evaluate? Who is there to congratulate on a job well done? Who is there to scream at the referee’s, and possibly at players as well? The answer; coaches.
The actual truth is, a lot of effort behind the scenes of a typical game comes from the coaches. And who is better suited to coach, than one who has coached other coaches, as well as players? Bryan Seib, who has trained previous coaches for the select soccer team, is taking the roll as current coach. The team sadly says goodbye to previous instructor Tim Jones, and says hello to Bryan.
The first meeting with the coach took place at Queen of Apostles Church, on a typical Saturday morning; promptly at 9:30 a.m. Players who met the lively instructor included Emily Wagner, Cali Bulacan, Madison Sterling, Jess Fonte, Maggie Spankowski, Celina Schwantes, Annika Wille, Izzy DeAnglis, Megan Kading, and Sydney Rogowski. Players that are out of our district involve May, Matty, Sarah, and Kaylee.

Girls Select Volleyball

After a shocking disappointment in a tournament only weeks before, the girls’ volleyball team is determined to do better. They’ve defeated other teams multiple times but this time it was different. They got second in the silver division because they lost to the Penguins black team. They also lost against Eclipse, and neither team got a medal.
“We lost to the Penguins but we still got second even though we didn’t win a medal. The Penguins proved to be advanced in the tournament, but Eclipse was a team that we should have beaten.” Says a disappointed Jenni.
Yet this tournament was one of many, and still more to come. On the 10th and 11th they have an upcoming tournament in Whitewater, and they are set to demolish every team in their way.


Basketball

Recreation and Select basketball are the two types of teams that girls in 6th grade play at our school. Some 5th graders play Select too, but 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th all play recreation basketball, just not in the same level. Recreation is still going on and we only have the Opi Tournament left. There are 8 teams total for 6th, 7th, and 8th grade. The team names are Huskies, Ducks, Rainbow Warriors, Gators, Badgers, and there’s more but I just can’t remember.
There is the red team (lower ranking) and the black team (higher ranking) in select. Kathryn V, Sydney R, Celina S, Riley S, Emma B, Lauren B, Jena H, Jinda G, Azia R, and Jess F are all on the black team. Sammy P, Gracie B, Alison Z, Ally Z, Brooke B, Hannah A, Maddie M, Jenni M, Emily H, and Jamie K are all on the red team. Select basketball is now over, yet we were scheduled to play games on most Sundays and possibly Saturdays. We’ve survived through most painstaking tournaments.

Boys Activities/Sports By: Carlos & Colin

Basketball- A lot of kids in our class play basketball. Three of them play Rec and 4 of them are on select. The four in Rec are Joey, Matt, Colin and Zach. Joey’s team has won one game and lost six. Matt’s team has won three and lost 4. Colin’s team has won 7 and hasn’t lost. They are expected to win the Opie tournament. Zach’s unfortunately went 2 and 5 for the season. The four kids that play select are Seth, Jack and me (Carlos). We have won 3 out of 4 tournaments. We are going to state and most likely going to win. Joey is on the Red team. His team is doing very well.

Baseball- Not a lot of kids in our class play baseball. Only 4 people play. Joey and Seth are on the Horizon Hawks. They are only practicing indoor at the moment. Our sources say that Seth is doing well in batting and Joey is doing well in the outfield. Colin is on the Pewaukee Pirates. Colin is pitching, hitting and fielding well. Drew plays for the Rockies his team only lost 3 games last season

Soccer- J.B.’s indoor team did very well. They were 500 which means they won as many games as they lost. Jacob said his team is doing pretty good. Ben is on Jacob’s team and they both are good at it.

Hockey- Noah’s hockey team unfortunately didn’t get to state. Colin’s team is really good. He goes to different states to play. He is expected to go to the NHL and be the number one pick in the 1st round. He is probably going to go to the Red Wings and score the winning goal for the Stanley Cup.

Football-Jacob, Seth and I are on the Football team. We went 7 and 1. WE ARE BOSS‼‼‼!

Golf- I (Carlos) am the only one that plays golf. I am lonely. I can play pretty good.

Class Survey By: Ben & Jacob

Ben and Jacob survey people
From the survey of to see which color they like the most or both red or green. 10 voted for red, 4 voted for both, and 11 voted for green. So I can see they like green the most. Out of these 2 colors.

From the survey of vanilla and chocolate, or both. 12 voted for vanilla, 8 voted for chocolate, and 6 voted for both. So from this data I can tell my class likes vanilla the most.

So the winner for red or green is green in second came red, and in third came both. Now for the other survey for ice cream, vanilla is the winner, and in second place is chocolate, and in third last but not least is both.

Weather Report By: Matt & Noah

Today will mostly clear with a high of 53 and a low of 42 degrees fare height. Tomorrow’s prediction is rainy with a high of 56 and a low of 43.
On Thursday we have a prediction of. High 54 and a low of 4. We will have a slight breeze winds up to 4 ½ miles per hour it will be fairly nice to get out the house. And our final prediction on Friday high of 27 a low of 11.
The winds will be about 10 miles per hour and there will be a chance of 2 inches. It will snow over night and when you wake up there will probably be 5-7 inches. In the south there has been some very bad weather which has caused tornados. They have destroyed many homes and towns. That is today’s weather for you from your weather men Noah and Matt.

http://fox6now.com/weather/maps-and-radar/interactive-radfar/.

Comic By: Maggie & Celina

Once there was a trigicorn (or a unicorn with 3 horns). His name was Carl. He was innocently walking through the woods when a sweet (maybe) chupacabra came up and gave Carl a pear. “Oh no thank you I don’t take food from strangers.” “It’ll will be fine little trigicorn it’s fresh and ripe.” “I don’t care; I don’t take food from strangers.” “If you eat it I’ll give this nice $100$ bill right here.” “Oh that makes a difference now I want the money; I need a new pair of horn caps. My far left horn has broken off. “Ohh then you would love to have this lovely pear.” And so Carl decided to take a bite of the pear and go on with his day.



It wasn’t until the next night that he figured out that he was having stomach issues due to the pear. He figured out that the chupacabra had poisoned him, and that he was going to die.



The next day he went back into the woods to beat up the chupacabra. He was about a mile into the woods when he had the feeling that someone was watching him from a distance. He turned around but nothing was there. So he started to hum his favorite song by Tiny Tim (Tiptoe).

He kept walking, and he heard a large crunch behind him. He turned around but again nothing was there. He got the sudden urge to run, so he did. He kept running until he thought it was safe. He found a broken down old shack about a mile away. He sat down outside because he wasn’t able to open the door because he didn’t have opposable thumbs. He didn’t think anything was wrong until the same chupacabra came and started circling the house. But what Carl noticed was not the same chupacabra was coming around the shack. He got really scared and started to make a plan.

His plan was to when the evil chupacabras weren’t looking to run as fast and as far as the chupacabras could. Let’s just say that they caught him and ate him. I really don’t want to talk about it.

Celebrity News By: Joey & Alex

Nick cannon has autoimmune disease
Nick cannon the host of teen nick has been diagnosed recently with a rare disease that makes your own white blood cells attack your body.

Nicholas prugo was accused of breaking into Lindsey Lohan’s house.
He is also said to have broken into Paris Hilton, Orlando bloom. He has 7 counts of first degree burglary.

In other news Adele has won 6 awards at the grammys in one day.
Celebrity birthdays
Justin Bieber birthday was on March 1 and he got a 300,000 thousand dollar car.
Lamar Odom Dallas Mavericks star got dropped down to the D-league

February By: Zach

Math: In math I am learning about how to cross divide fractions. Like n/35=65/74. It is kind of hard. We are also learning about How to find the surface area that was the easy part.

Social studies:
In social studies we made a map. It could be a map of anything it could even be a map of your room. I made a map a map on Africa. It was a political map.

Science:
In science we started on the universe. All of the planets and stuff like that. We had to make a game board, and we also had a packet to fill out going through all of the chapters. So we could get information for the game board.

Language Arts:
In language Arts we learned about Dialog. Dialog is what the person says different that don’t think sounds right. It is also is a word that you don’t use on a daily bases. Finally it is where you think they are.

Alien Hats!

Fun with Oobleck!

Fun with Oobleck!

We had a great time observing the physical properties of a few unknown substances (water and corn starch) in order to create oobleck.

January By: Charlene

Math: in math we are still on unit 5. And by the way it is anything but a review unit! Honestly, once you get the concept, it is super easy again. Unfortunately, I don’t have the concept stuck in my head quite yet. I’m guessing the test is going to be Wednesday the 8th. Then we are going to start working on volume. Grrrr!

Science: in science we are working on energy. We have learned mostly about potential and kinetic energy. Potential energy is when you’re not moving and you are saving up energy. Kinetic energy is when you are moving and using up the potential energy.

Writing: in writing we are still writing MY BOOK. We are not even writing for that anymore. We are drawing pictures for it. I only have 2 pictures left. Also in writing, we are writing something that has never happened to us before. I’m writing a fantasy. My character isn’t myself it’s actually a dog [as of right now anyway]. I have actually tried to get this kind of book done in the past, but I never did. Now that it’s an assignment, I’m pretty sure it’s going to get done.

Reading: In reading my group is Maggie, Elly, Megan and myself. We are reading the book school of fear. At first I didn’t think I’d like the book but, now I’m really starting to like the book. Even though I only read six pages. My favorite part about the book is on every chapter there’s a word that’s some kind of phobia and it even tells what the phobia means!

Social studies: we are done with the china unit. At the end of it we picked out an adjective to describe ourselves. Then we painted in Chinese. My adjective was musical. We now started the mapping unit. I don’t like mapping very much. I used to like it but, when you do it for whole year it’s not as appealing.

Allieds: we finished up tech ed. We are now doing art. We finished our cave paintings and, now we are doing hieroglyphs.

January By: Janie & Annika

Reader’s Workshop- We started reading groups again! This time, we are in the same group: The Girl That Could Fly. Of course, we aren’t the only ones in this group (These are the other people in our group: Cali, Kathryn, Ally, & Emily). While all the other groups found the perfect book, we were still searching for it. We came on bended knee to Mrs. Geldnich, who was glad to help in the treacherous task of finding a book that was interesting, and something that none of us had read. It took another day, however before the books were in our hands, for Mrs. Geldnich only had one copy, and the rest were located in P.L.E.

Social Studies (S.S) - In social studies we have concluded the Ancient China unit. Yet before saying good bye, we wrapped up the unit with a big bang. Our class took a turn, choosing and learning adjectives in Chinese. We were filled with knowledge, pronunciation, and symbols. Annika chose the words Crazy, and Fanatical while Janie taught the class.

Math (a.k.a Mental Abuse To Humans) - Recently we have been given, in ALEKS, a new report card. This is the final change of conferencing reports, and they will be carried with us throughout middle school and high school. The report is on Google Docs, and will be the final change of conferencing reports. Exponential 24 is now the new type of 24, a game that most of us play about half way through the class. Exponential 24 has us squaring, cubing, finding square roots, and finding cube roots.

Science – We have been extremely crafty in this class, inventing toys, alien repelling hats, and mixing up mysterious concoctions. We were partners in the alien repelling hat business, and our alien hat was quite the success. Covered in aluminum foil, pencils, and elastics, we topped it off with our amazing colored paperclips.

January By: Emma & Jenni

January blog
Math: although our math teacher was not here for three weeks we still learned how to solve really long equations. Also we did put fractions in to problems. Lastly we are we are comparing long problems and waiting` for Mrs. Robin to come back.

Language Arts: In writers workshop we started our illustrations for our books. Also in readers workshop we are in our book clubs and me and Jennifer are reading wolf brother. Lastly in spelling we are learning how to spell new words correctly.

Science: this month science was very fun because we did a lot of projects that were really fun. Like we made this green gooey stuff called ooblec it was really fun because we dipped our hands in it and stuff. Also made a toy that had to move a ping pong ball at least 5 inches and we had to explain the kinetic and potential energy. Lastly we made an alien hat to repel aliens and we had to explain our hypothesis, experiment and conclusion.

Social studies: we learned about ancient China. First we learned about Shinguandi and how he forced the people to build the Great Wall of China and if the people died they would be buried in the wall. It was interesting to learn about.

January By: Maggie & Cali

Language Arts- In language arts we got the final print of our books and we started illustrating all of our stories. We have to get completely illustrated in the next 2 weeks!!!!! We all have different stories and ideas some more random then others (mainly Emily). Aside from illustrating our books we are starting a creative writing piece that is our choice. You could write about a unicorn named Steve who eats flowers (Celina thanks to all of her hours watching Barbie…. and yes Celina we know). A dog who lives on the street( Thanks to my good friend Emma).

Math-
Maggie- In math we are starting of Pre Algebra. We are learning how to solve for x, or z, or any variable.We are also coming up on our test I think....... Yay I think.At least I think we're doing Pre Algebra that's what Mr. Fish told us.
Cali- We’re working on ALEKS…like always. But, we created a new conferencing report! This report we’ll use through high school. Also, I’m almost done with ALEKS!!!!

Social Studies-
We finished our Ancient China unit. We learned about the different dynasties, great emperors, and not so great emperors. Then, we made brochures to visit Shang Dynasty. We learned about confucius sayings and then interpreted what we thought it meant. Finally, we took the test and Maggie and I scored great!

Science-
Maggie- I’m learning about different forms of matter and energy. Also, the different kinds including mechanical, sound, light, ect. Two big ones we are learning about are potential and kinetic. Potential energy is when you have the potential to run, jump, or even fall. Kinetic energy is energy of motion. So, that is when you are actually running, jumping or falling.
Cali-I’m making a Photo Story and a Smart Board Notebook with Janie about sound energy. We asked questions about it and then got them answered. Based on the answers we made a Smart Board notebook about how sound energy works. Then, our Photo Story is what introduces them to in depth details about this energy and also about how you hear, why you can’t hear in space, how microphones work, and much more!
Together- We made oobleck to study chemical and physical reactions. Then we wrote about what we recorded.

Spelling-
We just ended our packet about numbers 5-10. (Now I know what nonagenarian means!) Also, we took our test and I got a good grade. In spelling we played Hangman to find out what our new spelling words are. We had words like SHARP, and some more that I can’t think of any more at this instant. We also did a spelling packet. Inside the contents of this packet is a whole page of commonly confused words that we have to write ourselves.

January By: Zach & Drew

Math:
In math we are learning about algebra. In algebra we are learning about variables and how to put them in equations.
In Drew’s math he is learning about Algebra 1 and finding slopes of a line with parallel and perpendicular lines. He is also learning about how solve a linear equation with several occurrences of the variable.

Language arts:
We were working on our response log. We were reading our library books to fill it out. We had to read our group book too. I read Phantoms in the Snow. Drew read The Son of Neptune. In writer’s workshop we’re making books about our lives, and are just finishing them.

Social Studies:
In social studies we were learning about ancient China. We also learned about Shihuangdi. He was a cruel emperor and only cared about himself. Another person we learned about was Confucius. He was a very wise man and you probably no a lot more of his sayings than you think.

Science:
In science we are learning about matter and energy. We made oobleck and learned how it changes from liquid state to solid state. We also had to make a toy machine that could move a ping pong ball five inches. We also learned about changes of state.

January By: Carlos & Noah

Math: In math Noah and I are learning about algebra and how to find the value of variable. In Noah’s math class Mr. Finn is the teacher. In my class Mr. Fish is our teacher because Mrs. Roben got surgery. I went to Hawaii and missed a week, but I got the missing work done.

Science: In science we are learned about energy and compounds. For compounds we made a green substance that was gooey and stuck to our hands. We got to keep some of it in a plastic bag. While we were learning about energy we had to make a toy car move a ball 5 inches with other items. My invention could make a ball move 5 yards and it hit Colin.

L.A.: In LA we got new book clubs. Our group members are Jack, Greg, Noah, Seth, Drew and Carlos (that’s me). We are reading a book called Half Moon Investigations. We have to read the whole book in 2 weeks.

SS: In social studies. We learned about Ancient China. We made ads for China convincing people to come and visit. Did you know that Shihuangdi was the person who invented the Great Wall of China? Many people died while making it.

January By: Joey & Matt

Math: in math Matt and Joey are learning about algebra and we started learning about exponents and variables. We have also been preparing for our big test. Math has been really fun but hard at the same time.

Science: has been really fun doing all the experiments. Like making the toys and the oobleck it was really fun to do. We have started learning about kinetic and potential energy that has also been fun.

Social studies: we have learned about ancient china and all of the emperors. We have just stared our new unit mapping were we have to map different places by using latitude and longitude. It has been really hard but I still like it.

Language arts: we have just started our group reading books and just finished our response logs. We also have been illustrating our books. It has been really fun especially that Joey and I are in the same group. We have also just started are creative writing piece and we almost we are books.

January By: Ben

This is a new year but not a new school year because it’s January.

In math we did equations with variables to solve the value of the variables, finished P.E.M.D.A.S and had a few quizzes, and had to do a few tables with a flat rate, and the test will come in the 2nd week of February.

In writers work shop we finished our 7 writing prompts and I also finished all of my illustrations, and started on our creative writing piece mine is about Yusie, Yugi, Yuma, Joey, and Kaiba vs. Jaden Yugi. In readers work shop I read 3 bock car children, and did about 6-10 responses. In language arts we did stuff with sentences, and did different dialects.

In science we did a physical and a chemical change and made oobleck with water and corn syrup then we added green food coloring to get green oobleck.

In social studies we did a china test and made a brochure to make people come to ancient china.

January By: Alex

Math: in math were working with fractions. I hated this unit because; one we had a bunch of homework. Plus it was very difficult at many points. We also did work on variable problems. I been struggling with variable and need some help.

Social studies: we started learning about ancient china. The first thing we learned about was dynasties. Also we learned about shihuangdi who was the first powerful emperor. I really enjoyed learning about china and I think I got a good grade.

Science: in science we made oobleck it was gross. We also made a poster about the cycle of water when it turns into a solid, gas, and liquid.
We also watched a video on energy.

La: we did a lot in language arts, I’m surprised I finished all my work. We made a story that’s going to get made into a book. Now we’re doing creative writing. My stories about what I’m going to do in summer.

January By: Elly

Math: I’m in Pre- Algebra. Mrs. Fulfer is my math teacher and she knows her stuff. Mrs. Fulfer is really good at teaching and at motivating. I have a new goal; my goal is to finish Pre- Algebra by the end of the year. I think that is a pretty reasonable goal. So Math I am doing pretty good for me, but not up to date, so I will also try to catch up to everyone else.

Social Studies: In S.S. we just finished our test and I got a final score as 99%. I think that is a good score for the amount of studying, I barley studied at all! But, I did my best. This unit was fun, it really connected with peace and all of the calming things about the world. It really made me motivated when we learned about the Confucius quotes. Those quotes were really inspiring. One of them was ‘Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in getting back up when we do’. That meant to me that when in your life you get a big put down or something bad happens, then look at it in a good way or at least do something to make it work.

Reader’s Workshop: In readers workshop we started new reading groups there are 6 books. Al Capone, Point Blank, Wolf Brother’s, The Girl Who Could Fly, Half Moon Investigations, and my book, School of Fear. I’m in a group with Maggie, Megan, and Charlene. Our book is so far pretty good, it’s about 4 kids that all have fears and go to this mysterious school that helps them get rid of their fears. Except one of the kids is afraid of dying so I don’t know how he’ll get over it.

Writer’s Workshop: We are working on our books. Our books are just seven stories that we write and 8 pictures that we draw to go along with our pictures. I can’t wait to get them published and I can’t wait to see how good or bad my pictures are. Otherwise along the way we are having L.A. and we are learning about anything that we could add to our other stories. We also are starting our creative writing pieces. They are a made up fantasy story that we will grade and read. But, I can’t tell you what mine is about otherwise it wouldn’t be a secret.

Science: We made our oobleck and started our energy unit. Now we are learning about potential and kinetic energy. Potential is stored energy and Kinetic is moving energy. Otherwise it’s pretty boring, I have to admit it.

Tech Ed: We finished Tech. Ed. And we are all sad. Well, I am and I don’t know for sure that everybody did, but I miss it already.

Art: We started art and we just finish our final first piece. That show’s how quickly we are moving. Now we are on Hieroglyphics project. It’s pretty intense. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

January By: Celina

Math- Math in January was very difficult for me. I might have not been able to understand d as much was because of the substitute. I’m very use to Mrs. Roben teaching our math but she got surgery and she was out sick for 3 weeks! I’m looking forward to Mrs. Roben coming back and explaining what we did.

Science- I really liked science in January. We got to make alien hats, make toys, etc. My favorite part in science is when we do fun things like that. I wish we can do more fun things like that.

Social Studies- We were learning about Ancient China. Who we learned about was Shihuangdi, Wudi, Confusious, Fu Hao, and Han Gazoa. I very much enjoy Social Studies because of all the things we do in there like science.

Language Arts- We are doing illustrations and making a book. It’s about what your favorite stuff. Many different topics. In readers workshop we are just reading and doing our readers log

January By: J.B.

In math we have finished P.E.M.D.A.S and have took two quizzes. We finished algebra and we did graphs and equations and how to solve them. We have done tables with flat rate. We are going to take a test on these soon.

In spelling we have learned about compound words, commonly confused words. We have got 15 new and old words. We have still been doing fix it and add it. We have had to do combining to sentences to one.

In reader’s workshop we have finished our book the always war. Then we read independently for a while. Now we are starting group books again and our group is JB, Alex, Zach, and Jacob. Our book is Point Black.

In writer’s workshop we have finished typing and are almost done with illustrations. We have started a creative writing piece.

In science we did chemical and physical change. We made this mystery stuff at first, then Mrs. Fulfer told us what it was, it was corn starch and water, but we put in green food coloring. The stuff we made was called oobleck. We had to make an alien hat to repel aliens because Mrs. Carter is afraid of aliens. I made a hat with Joey. Our hat worked because with aluminum foil, flashlight, pencil, and spit balls. We killed them by making ourselves look like them with the alum. foil, then we blinded them with a strobe light flashlight. Then we poked them in the eye with the pencils. Then they screamed and we shot the spit ball down there throat to die. We have started energy and made a toy car move.

We have recently finished china and started the mapping unit. In China we made a pamphlet to encourage people to come to Ancient China. We took the test and now we are starting the mapping unit.

January By: Kathryn & Mikayla

Math-
We plugged in variables to represent #s. We also solved and simplified equations with and without variables. One other thing we worked on was order of operations. To help us remember the order of operations, we were taught an acronym. PEMDAS stands for:
Parenthesis
Exponents
Multiplication
Division
Addition
Subtraction

Social Studies-
To start the month, we moved on to our next section in S.S. which was Ancient China. We learned about the Great Wall, Dynasties, Rulers (Emperors), and quite a bit more. The entire class ended up agreeing that the first emperor of china was really mean! His name was Shihuangdi. Shihuangdi even killed his own son! Mikayla and I both did well on our SS tests on Ancient China.

Lang. Arts-
Throughout January we continued to work on our, “My Books.” We’ve finally finished up our writing, and have been able to move on to our illustrations. In Readers Workshop we’ve still been independently reading and answering prompts in our Reader’s Response Log. Now, in February we started new reading groups and books.

Science-
In science we made a type off slime. But Mrs. Fulfer gave it a name. So she named it ooblek . We mixed corn starch, water, and green food coloring to make the ooblek. We are still working on our matter and energy topic. But, we just started learning different types of energy at the end of January, we are still working on that though.

January By: Megan

In math during January, we were working on ALEKS. ALEKS is a program where we can work on our own at our own pace. We also play a game called 24. When we play it, it gets intense. If we get the answer right, we get CANDY! I know, pretty sweet. Anyways, in order to get the candy, we need to make the 4 numbers given to us equal 24. We can use multiplication, division, addition, and subtraction. Also, we learned a new version when we use square root, cubed root, squaring, and cubing.

In social studies, we just wrapped up our unit on Ancient China. We learned about the Shang, Qin, and Han dynasty. For the Shang dynasty, we made an advertisement to convince someone to come to Ancient Shang. Also, we did our unit on Ancient India and Mesopotamia. For Mesopotamia, we mapped out Mohenjo-Daro including paved roads, manholes(sewers), and a citadel.

In science, we are doing our Matter and Energy unit. It is pretty interesting, because we are learning about things that we wouldn’t learn watching TV. We also made oobleck, a ‘liquid’ that consisted of corn starch and water. It felt really weird, because it made almost a slime. But, then it hardened up a bit, and it was more like rubber.

In writers’ workshop, we are just finishing up our illustrations for our books. Now, we are starting our creative writing pieces. We had to do some prewriting before we started, and then we did our 5 senses throughout the piece. In readers’ workshop, we are just starting some new book clubs. I am reading the School of Fear with Maggie, Charlene, and Elly.

In art, we are just starting. We have already finished our Cave Paintings, when we draw bulls, horses, and reindeer with yellow, orange, and red crayons. Then, we colored the background. After that, we crumpled up the paper and then tore the edges. It turned out really cool! Now, we are starting our Egyptian Hieroglyphics when we write our names in Hieroglyphs. Then, we are supposed to color around our pictures with metallic colored pencils on black construction paper.