October 17, 2007, by Kianna

Intruder Alert! Intruder Alert! Hey six graders, come closer, closer ,closer ok, stop. I bet you can't do this problem: 100-2+5-1=y. Now six graders, do that problem. Tick, tock, tick, tock, you people are slow. My fourth grade class is faster then you guys. In the meantime, I will be typing my student blog.

Today we started QR, MR. QR stands for Quick Review. Quick Review means the stuff we already know...but Mr Kootman would like us to remember the math. MR stands for Mixed Review. Mixed Review is almost like quick review but it has more problems than quick review,because quick review has five questions more than mixed review. Today's lesson is Analyze Graph and Data. Analyze Graph and Data is like two things 1. it's like a bar graph. 2.it's also like connect the dots, when you use a line graph.

When that was over, we finished our story board. A story board is an organizer the helps you understand social studies or whatever project you will be creating. My table (table six) is doing urban & rural. An urban area is a city. And a rural area is communities that usually have lots of open land & low population density. Each table in my class got to do a different term. One table did compass rose, so we combined it all together and put it on Photo Story three. Photo Story three is when you put anything together and turn it in like a movie. You get to create your own music, & a whole lot of stuff.

Once that was done, we did reading. The book we read was Starting A Business. Starting a Business discusses supplies or a list to start a business. Today, we are taking a test on the story. The questions are mainly going to ask you what you did to start a business, and so on.

Afterwards, we did CLAS (it's not spelled class) this CLAS stands for Comprehension and Language Arts Skills. Today's lesson is Sentence Combining. Sentence combining means when you have 2 sentence, and you try to put the together. Sometimes, when we do CLAS, our topic depends on what lesson we are doing, like Sentence Combining. We did sentence combining because it's in our homework packet.

Yesterday we did yoga. Only 4th graders do yoga. The reason why we do yoga is to relax our brains & and our body. At 9:30 we leave to go to yoga. Mrs. Swanland is the main teacher that does it. My teacher(Mr.Kootman) does yoga sometimes. The thing that Mr. Kootman is really good at is push-ups. He might be the fastest push-up champion in the whole school. At least I think so. I bet you a lot of people would like to see Mr.Kootman do a one hand push-up.

Finally,the worst thing happened to Mr.Kootman. When everybody came in, he lost his voice. So we had to get very quite to earn marbles and to help Mr. Kootman. The marbles are for H.O.T. HOT stands for Homework On Time. If we get over the red line then we get H.O.T. time. If we don't get over the red line then we have to do more work. I hoped you enjoyed reading my student blog. I won't forget the math problem six graders!