Abbie+Reporter+June+8th

Welcome to another brilliant day in Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Moline’s classroom. It has been another jam-packed day of work and learning as we quickly near the end of school. Time truly does fly; in fact we only have 2 weeks and 1 1/2 days left of school!!! (1/2 because of the last day of school is a half-day). When we got to school we unpacked and went straight to Band and Orchestra, which has always been a perfect way to wake everyone up in the morning and a great way for us kids to start our day. After that we did math and Constitution work. We also had a work time (a lot of people worked on state maps or big projects like that) and sometime in the afternoon we took a break from everything for Music. I can’t exactly tell you about everything at the same time, so I will tell you about this wonderful day piece by piece, and I might as well begin with the start of our day. Today is a Wednesday and that means it is Band and Orchestra day. I am so very sorry for the inconvenience, but I am in Band not Orchestra so I am only able to give info on what happened in Band. First we talked about 6th grade and their concerts and teams. Then we played some songs from the book like #83 and #96. Have you ever heard a Clarinet play its high notes??? Well you are mighty lucky if you haven’t because it can hurt your ears, not that it always does, I mean if you master it then the outcome may be better. In Band we had just the luck to have the Clarinets show us high notes. I guess we’ll just get used to it and it will all improve in the end. Anyways, I wouldn’t say Clarinets are bad at all; in fact they are quite fantastic. That’s about all that happened in Band on this warm but cloudy day. We also did a bit of math today. I wouldn’t say it was a lot, but it was enjoyable and we did learn something from it or relearned what we may have forgotten. Our class did 1.3 Rectangular Prisms (which is part on our Filling and Wrapping book). The lesson had us fold up boxes and find their dimensions, get the area and amount of cubes that would fit in the box, and then designed a similar box to one we had folded. I guess that is just about it. We have mostly been focusing on Social Studies like things lately. Speaking of Social Studies, we did some of it today, Constitution related things to be more specific. The class was given a Constitution guide packet for a test we are going to have soon on what we have been learning on the Constitution. By the way, we should all thank Mrs. Brown for teaching us so much about this crucial document. THANK YOU MRS. BROWN FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION AND KINDNESS!!! Now the packet explained about and helped us study the Bill of Rights, all the amendments, Congress, and the three branches of government (Judicial, Legislative, and Executive). I would have to say that I’m pretty prepared for this upcoming test. Another thing our class did today was have a big work time. During this work time many of us worked on our state maps. In class we all picked states and learned about them. The state maps are detailed maps of our states, meaning it has major landmarks, landforms, cities, the capital of the state, it has to be colored, it needs to have state emblems, and so on. I am learning about and making a map of Oregon. We have worked very hard on this and I must thank Mrs. Moline for helping us with this part of our learning. THANK YOU MRS. MOLINE FOR YOUR NICENESS AND GREAT TEACHING!!! Well anyways, I’ve got to say, this is a really exciting project. Music, you can't forget Music especially today. We learned to our greatest disappointment that a college student who has been helping our normal music teacher for a teaching program she is doing is now graduating, which is good for her, but it also means that she has to leave us. So today has been her last day of teaching us. When everybody there had finished testing on the ukuleles the majority of the girls did a goodbye song for the graduate called You Are My Sunshine (which you probably have heard of before) and she was all happy. Then a lot of the boys came up and we ended up having a contest on This Land is Your Land in which our college student teacher recorded it on her phone. I don't really know what the contest was truly about (I'm guessing the boys thought they better at the ukuleles than us or something silly like that) but whatever, it ended up being pretty epic and everything good like that. Well that's just about all that happened in this day. I would just like to say that you should try to use the word rambunctious because it is an excellent and rambunctious word. It has been quite an exuberant day, don't you think??? This is Abbie G. speaking on Wednesday, June 8, 2011 and please do enjoy yourself!!!