Eric

Intro
Hi i am Eric and this is my wiki. Here you will see the fun adventures that i had over the school year. When i began the year there was my worries mainly lockers and changing for gym both I later found were no big deal and my year kept going on.

We did many things this school year and had alot of fun. we did great projects and sang fun songs. We hade to unforgetable teachers that taught in a fun way. It was a great year. Mrs. fuini-hetten and Mrs. Yurconic were a great team and did a good job of having the groups work together and learn multiple subjects in one project.

Teachers
This year we had a great team of teachers. Mrs. fuini hetten and Mrs. Yurconic both worked very well together kept a good balance of nonesense and learning and made ti interesting and fun to learn. Many times they would bring both classes over to discuss a project, situation, or upcoming event. They were great teachers and I wish I could have them again next year.

Math
I will never forget this year of math. Mrs. Yurconic was a great teacher, she did a magnificent job of teaching and using songs to help us with memorizing math terms. I liked the use of whiteboards to show our work, and answer questions. I also liked that Mrs. Yurconic didn't do everything by the book she showed us things that weren't in the textbook, but we might use next year. Sometimes she would show us what we need to do and then show it in algebraic form. Mrs. Yurconic was a great teacher that i will never forget. We are doing a math progect now finding different times we use math in normal activities. Mine is about something I love to do, swim, and with it I am finding the area, perimeter, and volume of a pool, showing parallel lines in the lanes, angles that are in drills, multiplication of sets, and fractions of laps.

Social Studies
Social studies was amazing, we learned about many places and did some cool projects. This was also taught by Mrs. Yurconic. She did a very good job at teaching in a fun way. We learned what makes a civilazation things like science, religeon, trade, social class, and education. We learned about the Fertile Crescent, the Chinese, the Maya, the Egyptions, and now we are doing the Greek. When we were learning about the Chinese, we formed groups to do a big project on a certain topic. Then, each person would do a sub-topic that has something to do with the main topic. Tommy, Casey, and I did beliefs of Ancient China. My sub-topic was Buddhism, Casey was Confusionism, Tommy was Taoism. We each made a report. This is mine, For the final presentation, we did a slide show presentation with a turning point quiz. We also had a skit describing a life of a person without religion deciding to follow Taoism, Buddhism, or Confusism. In the end he chose... (duh dadadadadada duh dadadadadadada duh a duh duh dadadadadadaaaaaaaaaaaaaa) he chose ........................ Christianity (yeh i know so much buildup for nothin) any way, the class really enjoyed it and it was really fun. For the Mayans, we watched a video about some people discovering Mayan artifacts. It covered many subjects with it.(such as Science, Reading, English, and Social Studies). Egypt was awesome! We created mummy models, sarcophigi, and canopic jars. we also had an authentic Egyption party with food. It was a ton of fun! Solitary Confinement (see below) also played. We have now finished greek week which was alot of fun Casey, Tommy, and I re-did Chinese New Year with a skit and a turning point presentation again. It was cool. Our topic was //The Iliad//. Casey did the story, I did the Setting, and Tommy did the author. //The Iliad// is about the trojan war so we did our own skit about the trojan war when the horse did not work it was fun and funny.My favorite Civilazation that we learned about was the Egyptians they had a cool religeon and how they prepared for the afterlife was interesting to see how they belived that it needed to be done. there government wasn't really that big they top was Pharoah.They had a war with another country expanding there empire they captured the hebrews but they were freed i really liked to learn about Egypt.

Science
Science was fun. It was taught by Mrs. Fuini-Hetten. She was great. We did many fun expirements; which was a lot of help to develop my scientific knowledge. What was really cool about science, is that what we were learning seemed to overlap with another subject like social studies. When we were learning about the Maya in social studies, in science we learned about the coral reefs because they were close to the Maya and in the video (see above). We watched the characters scuba dive into the coral reef. Anyway, what was really cool was that we each picked a plant or animal from the coral reef and made a 3-D model. I got to make a lobster out of model magic. It was so cool. Later in that subject, we spread into all oceanography. we did a project that covered a specific sub-topic and made an actual web page. I did ocean water properties and was able to see it on the internet! this is the page http://www.stsd.org/sms/staff/lfuinihetten/ocean/waterproperties.html.also we also did populations and ecosystems and and created teams to creat a presentation using a sliode show this is my section of the presentation. We also had a field trip to bake oven knob to birdwatch. it was cool, i still try to find out some birds, but i usually can't. We also learned about Newtons three laws. they seemed to make sence the first is like when you suddenly stop in the car but you still go this is inertia. the second law explains pinball and why the ball keeps moving accelerating and changing direction. The third law was a little confusing it says for every action there is a reaction like pushing your arm backward in water to go forward. We went to a field trip at adventure aquarium in new jersey and got to see fish like we did learning about the ocean i myself saw a spiny lobster there so it was cool to see how similar it was to my model. we also had an outdoor program where we spent a week of classes outside, we took a hike and learned about plants, we went to the Fish Hatchery and learned about fish, and we did a few excpirement learning about many things in science. Science was alot of fun.

English
English is usually my least favorite subject, well it still is, but it was much better than other years of English. My knowledge of English greatly increased after this year. I got A's on most of my vocab tests which we had every week. I feel that my writing has been getting better and Mrs. Fuini hetten was a great teacher. this is my persuasive prompt. Not everything was done by the book and Mrs. fuini hetten seemed to get us off task every once in a while, but i think that is good to get small breaks from doing stuff. We had lit circle books what i think was good about this is there would be a number of and you choose the book you think you would like, so you weren't reading some book that you hate so much you would rather do anything but read it.

Technology
This year we did many things using the computer and got new skills on the computer. We did things like slideshows, internet programs, research, A web page on Publsher (see above), and of coarse what you are reading now.Some of the internet programs were [|www.studyisland.com] and [|www.think.com] Some of this i already used and know how to use but other things are completely new to me. if you look in social studies i metioned Turning Point wich is a softwhare that alows people to interact using a clicker to contral what they vote. also this right here what your reading is new to me and is interesting. We used alot of different technology this year.

What I took from 6th grade
This year in 6th grade i have learned many things as you can see but what i got from 6th grade. from social studies what i took is an understanding of civilizations and that all civilazations have the same basics Even civilazations today in many different ways like the Egyptians, Mayan, Greek, and Mesopotamians. In Math I took an understanding of many math terms and some algerbraic expressions. In english I took back reading stratagies like visualiving, summarizing, and predicting. I also found ways to become a better writer especially in my persuasive writing using ethos pathos and logos. In Science i got an understanding of the world in a whole new way a saw how animals survive on eachother and how sea creatures live under water how forces like gravity work and how even the most complex things are made of the most basic particles. Personally I got more than what the book teaches. Early on in the year i had an orginazational problem i would lose work and not hand in the work i completed and it was a gig problem on my grade so one day Mrs. fuini hetten and Mrs. Yurconic tried to help me so they gave me a bag to store my books in so i would have all of my stuff all the time. Of course that ment the bag was heavy also they gave me a list of things that i would need for each trip to my locker. Later in the year i was able to go without the help so i did. In this year i had a lot of orginazational help. Another skill i devolopedearly on this year was opening my locker this skill is one worried about a lot at the very beginning of the year i thought that i would forget or not open it. At the very beginning of the year i could not open my locker but after doing it alot it became easy and i never forget. I also devoloped an oral speaking skill i used to hate having to present in front of the group but this year we had to do that alot so you think that i would be very nervous alot, but what helps is a good presentation and good comments so probably the best presentation that helped was Chinese New Year because we got a lot of laughs that help build confidence. I got a lot from sixth grade.

Unforgetable Nonscense
You Need to Get Quiet song Many weird songs Taking a lap Going to our Assorted Nonsense Stoning the Jackle (Mrs. yurconic and Mrs. Fuini hetten) while embalming opening the chinese firecrackers Easter egg hunt The sacred pink starburst Commendable currency Standing on desk whle correcting tests All hail queen fuini- hetten Fuini- hetten eating chocolate during class Super guidence counsular

Finale
I guess this will be my final goodbye, the year was so short and i ask why, it must have been the fun that i had, the end of the year is a little bit sad. Now im off to another year, and this last words are really sincere. This grade is important to me, helped go on and gave me glee. i had my good and i had my bad but it made me ready for that im glad now im prepared for another year ill come in with confidence and without fear. now im off 7nth grade awaits me and i am ready as you can see. there is just on more thing to say next year is like another day.