Let's Get It Started!
This year’s sixth grade class has gotten off to a successful start. We spent the first weeks of school focusing on team-building and acceptance of each other’s unique abilities. Since then, we’ve studied early humans and turned our own desks into caves as we explored ancient cave paintings, built lego creations to represent our personal interests, and tried eating rabbit like the characters from our novel, FISH by L. S. Matthews, which is a story about a boy and his family escaping from a war-torn village and becoming refugees trying to seek a safe place. We’ve also started a new science program on Fridays called “Friology.” For the Friology labs every Friday, we look at different aspects of science and different careers in science-related fields. For the first Friology, we had a drawing competition for our mascot, “Fri the Scientist, Head Friologist.” The winning mascot drawing was drawn by Julian Rodriguez. On the following Friology event days, we looked at robotics engineering and built small robots, experienced HS Biology with the high school class and looked at pond scum under their microscopes, used pop bottles to explore a variety of scientific principles with household items, and extracted DNA from fruits.
If you’d like to see more about the happenings in 6th Grade, you can:
Follow Mrs. Paxson’s Class (@paxsonedu or #359sixth) and The Friology Lab (@friology or #friologylab) on Twitter. There you’ll find weekly updates and pictures of projects and experiences throughout the year.
Read our student blogs and see what students have to say about what they’re learning during Friology and classroom activities.
