Thursday, September 27, 2012

Weekly Update 9/28/12

This week's bloggers are having fun!

Emilia, Nathan W., Cassy, Jack B., Ziran


Here we are again!  Ziran, Emilia, Nathan W., Jack B., Cassy

Community Projects:
For our community projects we have been brainstorming ideas on how to do things to help others.  We started researching ideas for our topics and answering questions on our Wikipages.  We also learned how to search more effectively by using things like quotation marks to get exact words and using "and" or "or" to limit our searches. 
 Check back to follow our progress on our projects!

Mrs. Ziegenfuss showing the Wikipage.

ADVISORY:
In homeroom we made Bystander/Paw PRIDE bumper stickers with slogans to get people to not bully and to be positive.  They will be displayed above our lockers in the hallways.  We voted for our favorites from each homeroom.  Then we will vote for the best one in the whole sixth grade to be made into a poster that will hang in the commons.

Here are the winning bumper stickers from our Sigma homerooms:
by Cecelia, 6-12

by Veronica, 6-12


by Lorie, 6-11

Isabel, 6-11

MONUMENT PROJECTS!!
We finally finished building our monuments and started presenting our research.  Jack B. thinks it is exciting to present to the class and answer their questions.

THE TAJ MAHAL 
Keatyn, Rhea, Ziran, and their Taj Mahal
The towers and the dome were the highlights of the project.

Patrycja, Trey, Jack
They liked the beauty of the details of their Taj Mahal.

THE GREAT PYRAMID OF GIZA
Michael P., Morgan, and Devin
They added creative details like their names written in hieroglyphics and a tour bus parked in front of the pyramid.


Annie, Michael K., and Tyler
Their pyramid was hard to make because they glued all of the their cardboard pieces to a small base.
Their favorite part is the opening they made out of an egg carton.

THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA
Jack, Isabel, Tyler.  
They built just three sections of the tower.  The hardest part was that people kept knocking into it!


They built a huge model.  Our favorite parts are the walls and the towers.


THE HANGING GARDENS OF BABYLON
Alex S., Sean, and Owen. 
They added the water pumps and lots of plants for the garden.


       Cassy, William, and Emilia
They worked hard on the chain pump that brought water to the plants!

THE COLOSSEUM
Charlie, Alex Y., Connor
They created the stage where the battles took place, and they even created seats for the spectators, too.

Om, Matt, Michael B.
Their model shows the remains of the monument today.

CHARTES CATHEDRAL
Carol, Jackie, Henry
They used bottles to create the cathedral's towers.


Rocco, Paul, Nathan W.  
Paul had a great idea to use egg cartons to make the cross on the roof.

THE PARTHENON
Kayce, Lorie, Veronica
This group was very creative and used straws for columns.

Cecelia and Emma 
They made two different versions of the Parthenon and then decided on this one with detailed drawings.


MATH EXCEL PROJECT:
We learned how to use Microsoft Excel.  We watched a tutorial on YouTube and then we played around on Excel.  Emilia liked that she learned how to average all numbers together.  Pressing the SIGMA sign ∑ helps to sum up numbers!!  (Thanks to Keatyn for showing us how to type the Sigma sign by pressing "control" and "w.")

Connor and Michael P.


Sean

WONDER:
In Wonder, Auggie's teacher talks about precepts in school.  When we hear a precept, we think about what it means and how to use it and to respect people.
This is a picture of the precepts from Wonder that we think can be our precepts, too.  We are adding to the list as they come up in the book.

In Wonder one of the character's special songs is Beautiful.  We listened to Christina Aguilera sing it and some of us sang along in the video below.  This song represents Auggie's friend Summer because she doesn't think people should say mean things to Auggie.
She also thinks he shouldn't let mean comments affect him. 


ART:
Some of us are in art for our Creative Arts hexter right now.  We are designing logos in Fireworks.  Cassy learned how to use the tools in the program, including creating different layers.
Here is Connor's "chain link" logo.



Sigma Celebrations!


Patrycja  wearing her Sigma shirt to school!


This month's T-Wolf Pride award winners.  Congratulations to Henry and Carol!

Annie's birthday was Wednesday, and Patrycja's was last Sunday, so our Polish-speaking students decided to sing "Happy Birthday" in Polish.  We recorded on the video below:

Veronica, Patrycja, Annie, Henry, Emilia (and Jackie)

15 comments:

  1. My niece, Cecelia, directed me to this web page to check out her construction of the Parthenon. It's nice to be able to check out [her] projects from Colorado!
    --"Uncle Brett"

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  2. Great Blog! I love the polish birthday song!!!!!!!! -Patrycja

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  3. The monuments look great! I can't wait to share them! :)

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  4. This week was so cool! I liked everyone's monument! Can not wait to share them!
    Carol H.

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  5. The polish song sounds awesome! - Rhea

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  6. Cool post, guys! The monument pictures are great!
    I LOVE watching us sing along to "Beautiful"!

    -Tyler :)

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  7. I love all the people you included and the song.-Emilia

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  8. Looking great guys. Love the pictures! -Annie

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  9. like the song-Michael

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  10. I liked the monument pictures. They all turned out great!
    -Morgan

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  11. It looks good I hope my book mark got voted.

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  12. I look forward to reading every week and I'm most proud of the way you encourage one another. What a great team. Keep it up!

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  13. Those bumper stickers look great! Way to make a positive statement against bullying!
    -Eric

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  14. Wonderful work everyone. The monuments look great. I'm very impressed how you created models out of recyclables. The Polish "Sto Lat" song is a plus! -Mrs. Gunty

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