Augusta

Hi, I'm Augusta and this is my digital portfolio. Here, you can browse through the paragraphs and observe what my section and I accomplished this year.
 * __Welcome to My Wikispace!!!__**

When I began 6th grade, I was scared of making new friends. Everyday when I went to school, I recieved a compliment or someone was friendly to me and my shyness faded away. When 6th grade started, I didn't know a thing about exponents, I had little practice in identifying angles, and I had no experience in algebra. When I began 6th grade, I was still unsure of how to write higher level thinking sticky notes, and I was still a little clueless on sentence formations. Now that 6th grade is over, I can accomplish all of the ideas I had trouble working with. Now that 6th grade is over, I've found it easier to make friends.
 * __How I've changed over the year-__**

In Social Studies,our class has learned and studied about the ancient Mesopotamia, China, Maya, Egypt, and Greece. These studies have helped us in vocabulary and an understanding of carbon dating. We have made maps showing these civilizations, including the elevations, complete with the ancient cities. We have made KWL charts which show how much we've learned about the topic. For each place, we have answered vocabulary questions and gone on scavanger hunts in our social studies textbook to find the information. While studying the Chinese, we had a Chinese week complete with projects and food. While studying the Maya, we scrutinized and summerized The Voyage of the Mimi. My favorite Social Studies unit was Egypt. Egyptian Day: Social Studies On April 5, 2007 our class celebrated Egyptian Day. We had been preparing almost all month long for this special day! Our fruity pharoahs now where wrapped and in possesion of a sarcophagaus. We all dressed up as ancient egyptians, and each contributed little food to make a great feast! During Egyptian Day, I learned about the ceremonies the dead Pharoahs went through before entering the afterlife such as the opening of the mouth or the funeral procession. Also, I learned what kind of food the Egyptians ate during our great feast. Additionally, our class watched an educational video on ancient [|Egypt].
 * __Social Studies__- 2006- 2007**



A civilization is made from devolpment of agriculture, a trade company, permanent settlements (towns, cities), some kind of government, an organized education, and religion system. My favorite civilization is Rome because of the large growth, power, and organized form of government they possessed. Also, Rome had such a distinct documenting system that we are able to determine what life was like 3,000 years ago in Rome.

This year, I had Mrs. Yurconic for math class. During the year, I devolped the concepts of exponents, area of irregular shapes, area of a circle, area and perimeter of a triangle, algebra, and applying our math knowledge to real world situations. Our class made math projects which display our learning from this year in real life situations. A real life situation could be a sport or hobby, and I based my project on cooking. My project shows the area and circumference of a circle, area and perimeter of a rectangle, measuring angles, finding the volume or regular prisims, and adding fractions.
 * __Math-__**

In English, I learned the defenitions of many vocabulary words. We worked in the Sadlier Oxford book and completed 15 units. We took a test on each unit to show that we have a thourough understanding of these words. Every three units, our class took a mastery test on those three units. In English, we learned about simple things like the rules of [|prepostions] and adjectives, and we took weekly tests with our student teacher, Miss Brown. Soon, our class moved on to more complicated things like working deligently out of our book, learning about breaking sentences into parts. This year I have become a better writer from being introduced to new skills and diferent forms of writing. With Mrs. Fuini Hetten, our class got plenty of prompts where we could practice persuasive writing. When I reread my papers from the beginning of this year, I want to go back and correct my mistakes or improve the sentence structure. Thanks, Mrs. Fuini Hetten!
 * __English and Vocabulary-__ 2006-2007**

In Science class with Mrs. Fuini Hetten, we not just learned facts, but were able to connect with the knowledge. While we learned about Newton's three laws I was able to connect with some of the vocabulary that my father uses around the house, or when he is explaining something to me. While our class worked on making oceanography webpages, Emily and I integrated technology by learning how to use Excel and discovering new search engines like [|United Streaming] to assist us in our project! Here is a finished product of our educational website about [|ocean pollution].
 * __Science__**



Something that I enjoyed most about science was the experiments and how they enabled our group to work together as a team. Some experiments that I enjoyed the most were the floating clay boats, and the paper airplanes. On a field trip, our class traveled to the Adventure Aquarium in Camden, NJ. There, we investigated sealife and their habitats and behavior. I enjoyed the field trip because it was an entertaining and eductaional experience. In the beginning of the year, our class took a field trip to Bake Oven Knobb. There, we observed the different types of birds and we recorded all bird sightings. Mostly we saw Bueteos. I liked our trip to Bake Oven Knobb because our class was exposed to learning about things we usually never look twice upon. Now that I have learned for another year about science, I view the world in... well a scientific manner. Never again will I look upon a large boat and scrutinize it for details how it floats. Now, I think about surface mass when I throw a frisbee or basketball. Science is around us every day, all the time. In late May, our class participated in the outdoor program. During the outdoor program, we went in the LIttle Lehigh, learned about the history of tombstones, took nature hikes, and learned about nature's animals.

-Using [|think.com] to communicate with my classmates online -Using wikispaces to create a digital portfolio -Working with Reading Counts to prove I read a book with a series of digital quizzes -Studying on [|Study Island] (hence the name) to prepare us for our PSSA testing
 * __This Year I Integrated Technology By...__[[image:computer.jpg width="308" height="236" align="right"]]**

__**Reading -**__ This year I was exposed to new types of thinking while reading. Also, I was able to discuss what I read in a literature circle and everyone who participated shared their think alouds and questioning so we could discuss it. While I was in my literature circle, I learned that I didn't have to be in a literary circle to ask questions and think aloud. Now when I'm at home, I am able to apply many more reading strategies to my reading. Here is the latest book reaction I wrote. __**Some of my Favorites**__

Keturah and Lord Death- Keturah made a deal with Lord Death one day in the woods. Now she must find her true love in a few days, or she and many others will perish.

Pretties, Uglies, and Specials- This is a triology about Tally in the future. See the hardships she goes through, using new technology yet old customs like friendship.

Dial L for Loser- Dial L for Loser is a suprising cluique novel that really shows the meaning of true friendship. Even if it is cruel and mean.

Bread and Roses, Too- A novel about factory strikes. How will Rosa and Jake survive when they are shipped away to Vermont to be in custody of an elderly couple until the strike is over?

Teacher: K- Train (Mr. Wetherhold) Did What: Debate, Break out sessions, and learn about how city states operate. Why: Debate- oral skills Why: Break out sessions: Learn a little extra about topics we will learn about in the future Why: City States- So we could create our own city state and play the city state game*.
 * __Seminar__**

city state game*= we all created a city state with natural land forms and placed them in an outline of a square. Then we attacked each other's city states with dice, and depending on what elements your city state included, you were invaded or you conquered.

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 * __Thanks for visiting!__**