First three days complete!

Well we have completed the first three days of 6th grade! I have noticed how quickly the students are acclimating to middle school and how quickly they are getting organized and ready for their next class. It has been such a wonderful few days getting to know both of the 6th grade classes.

We have accomplished many things in three days. The students have learned many new procedures and rules that they will need to follow to be successful in middle school. We talked about the skills they will need to use as well as the self control they will need to demonstrate while we have the "read to self" time during ELA. We talked about how important it is to bring a book to class everyday to read.

During Social Studies class we began talking about by people migrate, the way the world's population grew since 1A.D., and the students even wrote their names in Cuneiform. The students had time to participate in a gallery walk where they had to decided what natural resource, out of the ones posted, is the most important resource and one they would migrate to.

Here is a link we watched today that the students found very interested about the population of the Earth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khFjdmp9sZk