Tom+Tom

This is the Tom-Tom wikipage of SMS. This is where I post thoughts ideas and much more about whats happening in my 6th Grade classes. My teachers Mrs.Fuini-hetten and Yurconic are awsome beyond compare!! Yeah, thats pretty awsome I know. Well, please enjoy.

Living the Egyptian Burial Experiance** In Social Studies this year we studied many subjects including the Egyptians. We had to make a mummy, a sarcophogus for him, take out his organs, and make canopic jars for them. We also had to create shabti to help the mummies in the afterlife. After that was said and done we had a funeral procession for all the mummies. In this project my partner was Dee. When we were coating the sarcophogus, I was the one that placed the towels and he got messy. Of couse I did too, but he was absolutly dripping with glue. That was a really sticky day. We were like, "Hi, Five!" And then your hads would get stuck together. That was funny, and then it got old.....very, very old. Well that was fun. This was my favorite civilization. We started the year with Mesopotamia. This was the first civilization. It included the Sumerians, the Assyrians, the Babyalonians and more. They were always at war with each other fighting for this part of the place or that part. The Babylonians were great and then the Assyrians were great. These people developed a writing system and a number system. This is amazing, as this was the first civilization. I liked learning about where the idea for civilization started, and where it is going. $$**Update**$$ We did Greek Week projects this week. My friends and I did a play. It was crazy, it was awsome, it was sweetness. It truly was a great Greek week. I loved my part as Ulysses, that was fun. I liked the other projects too, I learned a lot. By the way, the Greek civilization was one of the most succesful ancient civilizations. It had everything that a civilization needed. The Greeks had, economy, technology, government, enough food, arnmy to defend themselves, health and science, **EDUCATION**, and religeon, the main components of a civilization, all balanced out very well. In science this year we studied many things, these include Birds, Oceans, Forces and Motion, Popuations and Ecosystems, and The Nature of Matter. When we studied birds, Birds of Prey I mean, we took a feild trip to Bake Oven Knob. I learned a lot about the birds;things like how to identify them, what they eat, and how they are grouped. Enough about that, my favorite part was going up to the mountain and look for the different kinds of birds. We saw a lot of Sharpshin hawks. This was a cool trip because my dad has banded hawks before. He has a friend who has written a bunch of books on the subject. My brother and I went with them once, but that was when they were banding owls. We also studied different types of forces. I liked the part that we studied about gravity because I have recently read a book where there is no gravity. It would be kind of cool without gravity. You would just float along, you could have food fights without getting anything messy. It would just bounce off the walls, you could even eat it while it was flying at you, that what I call defense! We also studied the ocean. We each chose a topic and made our own website, here is mine, [|Marine Biology]. This page represents all I learned and did for my Marine Bio project. I was the only person without a partner, so it was me alone. In this unit we studied animals and their relationsships with each other. This kind of is like the web of life. You know like one animal helps another, like that. At the Adventure Aquarium in New Jersey, we saw some awsome things, we saw manta rays, sharks, we even went in a shark tunnel there was a gift shop with some awsome, **BUT INSANELY EXPENSIVE** things. There were penguins,(YAY!!!!!) and trained seals, and all types of aquatic life, (duh.) My favorite part was the penguins with the little holes to burrow in and there were so many of them. Oh yeah, **WE SAW SPONGEBOB IN 4-D HOW AWSOME IS THAT** Just incase you don't know that means that there is stuff phisically happening to you as you are watching, like if someone spits water would hit you in the face,(yeah I know ewww.) We had an awsome time there!! You have to go if you havn't already. $$Update$$__** Recently in Science class... You must be wondering what happend recently in Science class, I'll tell you, WE DID THE OUTDOORS PROGRAM!!! This is a program in which we go outside and learn facts about the nature and history of our area. WE DO THIS FOR AN ENTIRE WEEK!!! Outside for an entire week. The best part would have been going in a local stream and looking for macro-invertabrates, but we were slackers and had to leave early because some people weren't actually looking they were just playing in the stream, ok, most of us were. That was gonna be the best part **WAH WAH WAH!!!!!**, snifle snifle. Now go away and let me cry in peace! In resding this year we did things like... well... reading. We did Literature Circles which I enjoyed a lot because I like reading. We read books like Ulysses and all that other stuff like that. At the moment we are reading, or at least Amen and I are reading a bok called Wringer, a book where 5000 pigeons are killed every year, kind of wrong huh? We also do vocab tests, nobody really enjoys them. In this class we also used many reading strategies, to list a few they would be summarize, connect and predict. They helped me be more active when I read, think about things in the book more. See in my mind what used to be in the book. This was How these helped me. This year in Mrs.Fuini-hetten's class we did a lot of presenting. We had to do a lot of persuasive presentations like, "Are video games too violent?" or "Which is your favorite season?" I really am a lot better and more comfertable up at the podium than I used to be. I am also learning to adlib. This means that you make up lines on the spot. It's a lot of fun to do. Most of the things I adlib happen when the SMS live backround crew has a meltdown. And yes our school does have a TV Show, its short but is a show. In writing this year I learned a lot in the ways of Mrs.fuini-hetten. She taught me a whole lot about Ethos, Nomos, Pathos, and Logos, (these ar ways to help in persuasive writing.) When I am are writing persuasively I learned to be emotional, factual, beleiveable and lastly, tie together the situations of myself and the reader. __**Math!**__ In math this year I learned a lot. I didn't know how much math there was in the world before our math concept projects. I learned a lot about multiplying and divideing fractions, percentages, decimels, all of the things to learn about rational numbers, I was cluesless about them before this year in math. Mrs.Y was a great teacher to teach that class. The **Math Chants** helped a lot in learning these concepts. They are silly songs about all kinds of math that we had to memorize. The **final** math grade was aour math concept projects. My project was about math in sports. When I worked with the math concepts I decided that the most promenet were length, width, area, perimeter, volume, time, speed, distance, geometry, and fractions. All these concepts tie into sports in some way. We had to ad visuals, (for some reason this was my favorite part, I don't know why.) We used a lot of tec.in Mrs.Fuinihetten and Yurconics class. For one, this is technology. Next is powerpoint. We learned a lot about this when doing biomes, this was very helpful as a presenting tool because you could refer to it for ideas in case you ran out. Although I had used this resource before, I didn't know all about it. [|**blogmusik**] [|**Solitary Confinement**] **Sorry but I have to put this on [|Think.com] you should get a user [|SC Wiki] Check it out!!**
 * __Social Studies__
 * Mesopotamia- The Bible Times**
 * __Science__**
 * Bird Watching**
 * Forces and Motion**
 * Oceanography**
 * Populations and Ecosystems**
 * Adventure Aquarium**
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 * __Reading__**
 * Reading Strategies**
 * Oral Presenting**
 * Writing**
 * Techies**
 * Extras**

I hope you enjoyed looking at my 6th grade year. I had fun living it and I hope you had fun hearing about it. This year I learned a lot and started new things, like our band.