Collin+M.



=Personal Interests:= -Baseball -Dirt Bike riding -hanging out with my friends -playing basketball with friends -drumming =School:= Macs - I loved the Macs but we should have been able to bring our own mouse! It is so annoying sometimes to have to use the Trac Pad.

Reading - I liked the literature circles a lot. Our choice of books was pretty good and the ones I got I loved. I would have also liked to do at least 2 more lit circles with the other class, like we did with Gary Paulsen and the Christmas Carol.

English - I didn't really like vocab that much. It was kind of unfair that other classes got really easy words and we got the super hard ones. I knew i could handle it, but other kids should be able to also. I liked how we didn't go over the basic grammar/parts of speech, since we already knew most of them

Writing - Persuasive/Informational - Writing persuasive paragraphs wasn't a big deal to me. I have done them before in 5th and 4th grade, and don't see why we would need to do them again. D.A.R.E. - Dare was pretty cool. I liked having a real officer teach us instead of a health teacher. I learned a lot about my health and how i should make good choices for myself. Grammar Workshops - Those were good. I didn't really see a point in it since I already knew most of the stuff we researched.

Math - I am loving the Math Connections project. I really learned a lot I have never knew before this year in math. The way we learned things together instead of doing it for homework was less stress and allowed me learn easier. 3, 2, 1's were a big help, i liked writing them to clarify my understandings. Partner Investigations - These were a lot more fun to do with a partner than by ourselves. It would have been so much more boring if we were by ourselves. My favorite of all of them was Galileo. Social Studies: I loved the parties at the end of every unit!

China - China was my favorite ancient city out of them all. I really learned a lot about Ancient China. I liked how we brought in chinese foods that they ate during that time period. Greece - Greece is going pretty well right now. My favorite part to research is Sparta. I researched Alexander The Great and had an awesome time creating him life-size. I am very excited to have our Greek party at the end of the unit. Mesopotamia - Mesopo' was my first experience so I didn't really know what to expect. Anyway, it was an awesome new experience to start off 6th grade. Voyage of the Mimi - I liked this one because we watched videos to learn about the topic.

Science - Science is probably my least favorite subject, but the activities we got to do made it fun.

Birds of Prey - It was awesome to be able to investigate birds of prey on a real bird watch mountain at Bake Oven Knob. Forces of Motion - I loved making the videos on Forces Of Motion. It was something i did not expect that we would be doing and it was fun to get away from powerpoint and keynotes. Oceanography -