Melissa

[[image:Dragons.jpg width="293" height="248"]]This picture has to do with the book I read __Dragon's Blood__
=__Great year__= This year I had the time of my school life.I had so much fun with my friends and cool teachers. You would have walked into my classroom and saw chalk flying, teachers standing on desks being queens, a gaint fly swater, and think is this a classroom or a jungle. I thought that too when I first walked in to that classroom in the beginning of the year. It has changed alot, I love my teachers and don't want to leave so soon. I was scared in the beginning of the year, because I was new to Salisbury and did not know anyone in my grade. Who would have thought that I would have this many friends and getting more each day.

__MATH with Mrs.Yourconic__
Mrs.Yourconic makes every thing fun like dance to mathn chants. Also, I am very good at math so I have fun learning new math concepts. We did a math conections papper that we did at the end of the year. We picked a subject we liked{ I picked tennis}. We picked math concepts to tie into our subject.I picked area, angels of hittting, angles on the court, perimeter, bar graphs to tie into tennis. My project is really neat, because it has colrofull colors and cool pictures you can read all my words too. Also, we had to make examples and and pictures that were about our consepts.

__READING__
Reading with Mrs.Fuini-Hetten is really fun we get to read what we wnat and do fun projects with them. In reading we have reading groups that we can talk about what we like and what we dislike. Which is great so I can see if other peoploe like the same books as me or hear about what they like. Also I can see how to make the story my own, and tie my thoughts into the book. So that it becomes intresting to me. After we read a book we have book parties were we come into groups that have diffrent books and tell our projects toothem about our book and they talk about their book, and what we like about them. Also we do things independent like making projects and writing a summary about the book. WE also take reading counts so we don't always have to make a summary about the book. I know that I became a better reader because, I know how to infer back to other subjects and books. ==

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English is the best I love to hear about the diffrent ways to write. Sometimes we get to do group project and then we work by ourselves. Mrs.Fuini-Hetten really knows what she is doing in the classroom. She always makes it fun to learn we never have a boring class period. I discovered that I have more oral presentation skills now than ever. I can now talk in front of a crowd without getting butterflies in my stomach. Also, I can talk with a loud voice so everyone can hear me. This is an essay I did this year with Miss.Funi-Hetten.

=__SOCIAL STUDIES__= In social studies we make maps of where the places and located and whats surrounds them. We talk about what the people in the past used to eat, write, if they had math, and what they invented.Do you know what make a civilazation? Well I learned alot about what makes a civilazation here are some things that help a civilazation education, a good goverment, science, and health. My favorite civilazation is the acient Egyptions because they had a lot of things we can look at to see what they were up to back then. My favorite part about egyptions was that they saved up their life saving just to be put in a tomb and to have a good after life. It was amazing that these people that had no science had these amazing tombs, gold coffins and some mummies are still in one piece today.This is a picture of king Tut's body.

__Science__
[|Click here to see my Ocean web page.] In science class we get to do alot of experiments. Mrs. Fuini-Hetten makes Science really fun and cool to learn. We have group test that are open booked which really helps alot. Also, I was not really into Science alot before 6th grade but now I am really into it all because of Mrs.Fuini-Hetten. We do alot of things with Science every day that you don't think about. You don't know it but Mostly everything you do has to do with science. Like driving a car that is called inrista bet you did'n know that. We went to Bake Oven Knob to look at the birds of prey there. I learned alot during that trip even though it was freezeing,I still learned a great deal about birds of prey. Something I learned was how to tell which bird is which when it is flying through the sky by it's wing spand or it's tail shape. We went to the Adventure aquarium this year to look at the diffrent animals. It was so cool I had the best time, because my mom went and she told us about most of the animals. At the end of the year we had an outdoor program that we did. We went with diffrent teachers on diffrent days to learn about diffrent things. I learned about intresting flowers I never knew about. Also, I looked at things that make a river healthy and not healthy.This is my favorite flower I saw when I was doing the Outdoor ProgramThis was my favorite part the hippos! They were awsome! This is a picture of what the shark tank looks like!

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=__Seminar__= Seminar is only for selected students that do well in all the classes. We do high class work in seminar. Sometimes we have break out sessions were we sign up for the things to do that sound intresting to us. Also we talk about how to speak infront of a class of kids or if we are doing a project.

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__Mrs.Fuini-Hetten__
Mrs.Fuini-Hetten has alot to do with me getting better at every subject. She is a very good teacher and loves doing what she does. I would not have it any other way. She makes every thing fun and we are not just sitting here reading out of the book, we are having fun. Other teachers are not like that they make you read out of the book which is very boring.Poor teahcers!

**__Mrs.Yourconic__**
Mrs.Yourconic always is doing something crazy to entertain us. She loves doing he job like teaching us Math and Social studies. She has great math chants that help us remeber math properties. She also makes social studies real fun with the Texas flyswater.

=__I will miss this__=

I will truly miss sixth grade at lot next year. Even thought I am going to be in the same school I will not have the same crazy but awsome teachers I had this year. I will go home at the end of each day of seventh grade and remember those crazy and remarkable days I had in sixth grade. Mrs.Fuini-Hetten and Mrs.Yourconic have made my sixth grade life amazing, now it is time to leave and grow smarter {even thought it won't be as much fun}.I know they will be proud of me! Bye! ==

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