Hannah+M. 

Hello everyone!! My name is Hannah and I attend Salisbury Middle School. I just finished sixth grade, so I would like to tell you a little bit about it.
==== I had a great time in sixth grade. I learned a lot, had a bunch of fun field trips, and had some awesome teachers. I had 5 main subjects and learned a lot in all of them. I thought everything this year was really interesting and fun. Plus I made an immense amount of new friends from the other elementary school. ====

==== In english we did grammar projects. You were broken up into groups and each group has a certain part of whether it is verbs, adjectives, nouns, adverbs, and more. You could make a slideshow, show movies, and use pretty much any technology you wanted. You also had to do an activity. You could make a game, have the students answer questions, or use Senteo. Then you made a foldable and had to write what you learned from each groups project and part of speech. It a fun project. You also get English books in class. Every once in a while you go over a lesson in there. You won't spend a lot of time learning from the English book except when it is getting close to the PSSAs. Then you do some reviewing from there to help with the reading PSSAs. ====

==== In reading you do literary circles and have vocabulary words and tests. You have vocab words and tests every week. In the literary circles you read greek books and Gary Paulsen books. You do have a choice though what book you want to read and then your group is based on that. It is a lot of work and a lot of reading, but when you finish it will feel like a big accomplishment. Also in reading do a non-fiction project where you have to read a non-fiction book and fill out some papers. You have to read theme books too. Some examples are picture books, Gary Paulsen books, and non-fiction. I liked reading the picture books the best because it was very different for a teacher to ask you to read a picture book and then find something literary in the book. If you like to read, you will have a great time in reading class. ====

==== In math Mrs. Yurconic created math chants for you to memorize certain math terms. They are really fun and she makes you sing them all the time. Trust me you will memorize it. I really liked them too. They were catchy and got stuck in my head a lot. Even if you don't like them, they will still get stuck in your head. We also make math connection with anything we want. You make a math connection with an object, or sport, or anything in nature. It is really fun, but a lot of work. The best part is that you get to be creative. In math you also have pedro. Pedro is a man that Mrs. Yurconic made to put practice problems into. Then every once in a while she picks a question out of his hat and the whole class has to answer the question on a whiteboard. Its a great way to be creative by creating your own questions, but at the same time you are practicing you math. ====

====I learned a lot about ancient civilizations in social studies. The theme of the whole year was what makes a civilization, a civilization. You learn about Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, and Ancient Greece. That is just 3 of them. In Egypt you make mummies, have a funeral, and have a mourning contest. For China you make Chinese New Year projects and then present them to your class. For Greece you make famous people the size of YOU on paper. The best part though about the ancient countries is that you get to have a feast for each one!! You get to eat all sorts of food eaten in the ancient times. You also get to dress up for each civilization in outfits that the people would wear at that time. There is some work though, for each civilization you have a packet to fill out. In the packets there is a map, a Q.O.D which are a bunch of questions about the civilization, and there is a W.O.D. which is a vocabulary sheet. Its seems like a lot of work, but it the content that you learn is extremely interesting. ====

====In science class I learned many things. I also had the outdoor program. The outdoor program was really fun. You had a different teacher each day and it went on for about 2 weeks. You also were in a different group of kids than what kids you are normally with when you have your regular classes. In the program you learned about leaves, trees, and macroinvertebres. To learn about macroinvertebres, you go to Little Lehigh and use nets to get them out. You will also learn about other things. You will discover things about forces and motion, birds of prey, and the coral reef and oceanography. For the forces and motion unit, you do and activity where you use a triple beam balance to measure the mass of gum. For the birds of prey unit, you investigate different types of birds and then you learn how you can identify. You also go on a field trip to Bake Oven Knob to go bird watching. I really enjoyed the coral reef because I got to research an ocean animal of my choice. Plus then I got to create the animal out of anything, but it was life size!!! Overall science was very interesting this year. ====

====Some field trips that you get to go on are Bake Oven Knob, Philadelphia and Camden Nj, The Lehigh Valley Zoo, and Bethlehem Community Center. They were all very fun. For Bake Oven Knob you go on a hike and go bird watching for birds of prey. I know it doesn't seem fun at first just sitting and watching birds, but trust me its fun. In Philadelphia I went to the Franklin Institute. You will have fun there because there is an Imax, but be careful you may get dizzy from watching it. In Camden which was part of the Philadelphia trip, you go to the aquarium and see a 4-D show. It is really fun. The zoo was also fun. You will first see a presentation and then you get to take a self tour of the zoo. The community center is awesome. You can swim, play basketball, and buy subway there for lunch. Plus you get to hang out with your friends all day!! You will have awesome field trips!!   ==== ====I really enjoyed sixth grade at Salisbury Middle School. It was a great year with great teachers, fun activities, and some really interesting things to learn!!!!  ====