Weekly Review. Friday, April 28th. Written entirely by the 6th graders.
This is the first week back from vacation and it has been busy. Some of us went away and some of us stayed home. It has also been a very disjointed week because we had D-Day activities on Tuesday and student-led conferences on Thursday.
Student-led conferences are meetings with our parents and advisers. Many schools have parent-teacher conferences but in our middle school we have conferences led by the students. We prepared first by reading through our reports and writing down our strengths and weaknesses. We also found examples to show our positive learning experiences and work that was challenging. Our final task was to create an agenda with strengths, weaknesses and two goals. The third goal was made collaboratively in the classroom by our parents, teachers and us. For some of us it was very nerve wracking and for those who did it last year it was easier.
We are starting our end of the year reports on Ancient Greek topics and we have just finished our main question with smaller sub questions. Our next step is to complete a full set of notes on an online tool that is called NoodleBib. Our report has to be 6-12 pages in length including pictures, maps, time lines and a bibliography. Today we are going over all the guidelines for our reports which are due at the end of May. In addition to the written part, we are going to use a Web 2.0 tool to help us present an important topic from our report.
Tonight is a special movie night for middle schoolers. We are showing the James Bond Goldfinger movie. We are also having a raffle to make money for our student council.
We are beginning our study of the Persian Empire… Keep reading for more.