Did you guys enjoy the challenge? Did your mindset change?
The first thing we have learned in homeroom is about mindsets! We learned the difference between a fixed and a growth mindset. We also learned about how some of us have a fixed mindset (which is totally OK for now) and some of us have a growth mindset. Ms. Bad gave us an activity to try and change our mindsets. You are probably wondering what? Well, on day 1 she gave everyone a sheet of paper and a picture of instructions and 15 minutes on Big Red (our timer). So as we were going, we got frustrated and started saying things like "There are so any steps!", "I quit!", and "UGGGGHHH!!!!" So that showed we had a fixed mindset. The next day we tried the origami instructions again, but we have a tutorial and a lot of help from Ms. Bad and other kids in the class. We were saying things like "I understand now" and "Do you need help?" That proved we are changing from fixed to growth mindset. Did you guys enjoy the challenge? Did your mindset change?
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These last few weeks we have been working on the wax museum project. A wax museum is where you learn and research EVERYTHING about a person. Then you dress up like your person and have a "museum." Other students and parents came to our classroom during the museum day. If they push a button on the backdrops we made, then you recite a practiced speech about your person. After your speech, you go back into your wax museum 'frozen' pose. Our amazing class did a wax museum on American figures! We chose any person who was important to American history. The figures went all the way from Lewis and Clark expedition, to the Civil Rights Movement, to car makers and presidents, but they were all good.The people we chose to study were: Helen Keller, Babe Ruth, Milton Hershey, Amelia Earhart, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Sojourner Truth, Martin Luther King Jr., Sacajawea, Ulysses S. Grant, Benjamin Franklin, Theodore Roosevelt, Walt Disney, Alexander Hamilton, Harriet Tubman, Betsy Ross, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson, Rosa Parks, Steve Jobs, Jackie Robinson, and Abigail Adams. Overall, it was amazing! What did you guys like about the Wax Museum? In science, we've been learning about changes in the Earth's surface, mostly about volcanoes and earthquakes. We did an assignment where we grouped up with somebody to study and build a model of a certain famous volcano. We first made a poster with a bunch of information on the volcano, such as its latest eruptions and its type. Then we based how tall our model would be using the volcanoes height and type of volcano to make a model out of salt dough. We could use a toilet paper roll or a water bottle as the vent of the volcano. When we picked which vent we wanted, we surrounded it with salt dough and let it dry. Next, we painted and decorated them. Finally, we got to erupt them! Using baking soda and vinegar reaction, we made eruptions that was unique like the volcano. Some fizzed and bubbled outward, completely covering their volcano with lava, and others exploded spraying lava everywhere! Welp, that's all! Bye! Building the VolcanoesThe Final Models!Eruption Time!Oh hi! It's me again. This time around we've been learning all about electricity. I think it was very fun. We learned about electricity and did fun experiments. First we learned about how atoms have protons, neutrons, and electrons, then made models of what different elements on the periodic table of the elements would look like inside their atoms. We learned about AC/DC, which is a band...er...I mean, it stands for alternating current and direct current. We learned about how electrons moving creates current electricity, about static electricity and lightning, and even how a light bulb works. As I said before, we did experiments too. For example, we used wires, batteries, metal switches, and a tiny light bulb to create a complete circuit to light up the light bulb! Welp, that's all we did. Bye! We the People of Ms. Bad's homeroom class have been doing a simulation about the American Revolutionary War. In the simulation, we have been doing many things like learning about what happened and also reenacting what happened using our class economy money and a little help from our rivals! Our Rivals: Our rivals are Mrs. Tabery's 6th grade class - AKA Queen Tabery and the Parliament of the 6th. The Parliament of the 6th put taxes on us, like the Stamp Act to make us pay for the paper we use, and passed the Quartering act when they took our desks and supplies. We had to pay $10 a day for the Stamp Act and also $10 for the British soldiers protecting us, even though they didn't even protect us. But with George Washington (Ms. Bad) as our faithful leader, we beat Queen Tabery and the Parliament of the 6th in battle (AKA 2 battles of Doctor Snow Ball)! The Protest: We tried to talk to Queen Tabery to stop taxing us but it did not work. So we decided to do a spontaneous protest. We went into the room and started chanting, "No Taxation Without Representation!" and showed them the signs we made. The 6th graders got mad or annoyed, including Rhett who stood up and slammed his hands on the desk. The Learning: While all of this was going on, we were learning a lot about the Revolutionary War. We learned about the French and Indian War; the acts passed by the British that angered the colonists; Patriots, Loyalists, and Neutralists; the Boston Massacre; and the Declaration of Independence. But we did not reenact the Boston Massacre because people died. Check out the videos and pictures below for a look at what we did during our simulation! Comment on this post talking about what your favorite part of the simulation was. In science, we are learning about magnets.Magnets have a north and a south poe. We learned about many kinds of magnets. Some examples are cow, horse shoe, ring, and bar magnets. Same poles repel. An example would be a north pole touching a north pole would repel. Opposites attract, so a north pole and a south pole would attract. We've done lots of experiments involving magnets and iron filings, like magnetizing a nail to pick up staples and creating magnetic fields with iron filings. Well, that's all we are doing in science. Tune in next time fore more science!
I have recently written about the New World (the Americas) and the Old World (England, Spain, and Portugal). Let’s skip ahead a few years to when Spain and Portugal hear about the New World so they head over and conquer what is now South America and Central America. A few years later, English settlers start to go to what is known as the 13 colonies. The settlers did not think that they could venture any farther, so the settlers settle. They split the land up in to regions. A region is a group of colonies with mostly the same attributes. New England, Middle, and Southern were the three regions (see how they were divided on this map http://media.web.britannica.com/eb-media/29/180929-004-E633429B.jpg).
In Ms. Bad’s class we had multiple discussions, read many texts, and researched a lot about the settlement of the colonies and about the regions. Each person got to write a brochure about one of the regions. Here are some fact I collected from different brochures made by scholars in Ms. Bad’s social studies class: New England Region:
So guys, what do you like about the region you researched, and what cool facts do you know about the 3 regions? In the comments, tell us what you think the difference between a colony and a country is. If you want to know more about the thirteen colonies, just go to the homeroom page, click on the social studies tab, then go to all of the resourceful sites under American colonial life. Oh! Hi! I'm happy you could make it. In science, we are learning about physical and chemical changes. We've done many experiments to test out physical and chemical changes and the law of conservation of mass. We used yeast and water to create gas and blow up a balloon, we added together some reactants to create a substance that overflowed out of a bottle (it was called elephant toothpaste), we added vinegar and soda to explode a bag, and added water and Alka-Seltzer to create a gas and weigh it to show that there was no change in mass before and after the reaction. I liked the Alka-Seltzer experiment, but my favorite was either the elephant toothpaste or the exploding bags. Which one was your favorite? Write in the comments below about which experiment was your favorite! The last couple of weeks have learned about explorers. At first, we read stories about explorers that came to the New World, the Americas. It made it fun that we learned about an explorer in literacy on the same day. Here's a link to the online bulletin board we made on the explorers (Explorers of the New World Padlet). Next, we studies the Columbian Exchange, or the things that came from the Old World to the New World and from the New World to the Old World. Some things that came were good, like horses to the New World and potatoes to the Old World, and some were bad, like diseases. We also did a simulation where in teams we made our own colonies.We had to name our colonies first. There was KEJAKE, The Republic of Pink Bananas, Pickle Wickle Island, and Miss Bad's Bad Country. We used paper to create food, shelter, luxuries, and clothes that our colonies would need. They had to be exact measurements and cut out of bigger pieces of paper. The supplies you needed were a ruler, scissors, glue, and certain colors of paper, but no colony had everything they needed. So each colony had to exchange or trade with the other colonies for supplies. The colony of KEJAKE had a lot of supplies, so they finished first. Everyone got a job. There was a leader, 2 ambassadors, and 3 workers. These two weeks helped us learn about how America was started. I did not know America is named after an explorer, Amerigo Vespucci. What is something new you learned the past few weeks in social studies? |
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May 2018
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