April 24, 2008
by Anna
This will be my last roving reporter of this year of school. I want to make it the best I can. But the only thing I need for a great story is a great day and something to write with, and I have both of those things!
Science was a great way to start the day. L to J is now just an ordinary part of our Thursdays and it has been for quite some time now, but we had great words like potential energy (energy that is being stored) biodiversity (living life) and open circuit (a circuit that doesn’t have a flow of energy through it). We were very lucky to have open circuit as one of our words because it just so happens that we are learning about circuits this week. We reviewed parallel circuits, series circuits, open circuit, and closed circuits. To help us we had Christine and Anna make a parallel circuit and Grayson and Trey make a series circuit. A parallel circuit is a circuit in which electricity has two paths to flow through. A series circuit is a circuit that has one path for electricity to flow through. We went over our worksheet and new that time was almost up. Since, we couldn’t leave without our assignment, she handed it to us right before we left. It was time for reading.
Walking in the dark room with only one light, we took our seats. That light was coming from the projector at the back of the room. It was on ready to show us about volcanoes and shining on the wall. When everyone was in the room, she pushed play. The movie taught me all types of things I didn’t know about volcanoes. Such as the fact that volcanoes are mountains of lava made over time. There are three types of volcanoes, but all have at least one thing in common, they all have a vent. This vent is sort of like a hole straight to the ground filled with magma. Magma is lava in the ground. I also learned that this magma can be all over the world, and when this magma gets close to water, without touching it, it heats the water up making a hot spring. When the movie was over we were defiantly thinking about volcanoes, which was absolutely great because we still hadn’t finished our story in our text book and we were doing that next. The story was called “The Dog of Pompeii.” It was about a boy name Tito and a dog named Bimbo. This dog and boy had a very special relationship, and it was very important in the story. Bimbo has such a love for his comrade, Tito, he did anything to get his friend out of the city and away from the erupting volcano.
We would have normally had spelling at this time, but instead we had guidance. Mrs. McDowell, the Jr. High science teacher, comes down once a month and teaches guidance. We all moaned and groaned as she told us it was our last guidance class for this year. We mostly talked about our coming to Jr. High next year and our block schedules. She was also nice enough to talk about our lunch and ask us any of our questions.
By the end of our guidance class the room was filled with more groans because we were very hungry! Popcorn chicken, tator tots, pumpkin pie, coffee cake, fruit, salad, and juice where almost just able to be smelled from the cafeteria. Recess wasn’t all that great because it was sprinkling outside and the grass was all muddy. But we all managed to get by and ignore it.
Ratio’s happened to find us in math and it was easy yet hard. Hard because it was all new stuff and we hadn’t done anything on it, and easy because for about half the time it was pretty much easy to understand. Ratios are a comparison of two things, but they are always numbers. Ratios can be written thee ways. If I were to compare the number of boys and girls in my class it would be 8 to 9. That is one way to right a ratio (8 to 9), but you can also write it like this: 8:9 or 8/9. Notice that the 8 was always first and the 9 last, you have to right it the same way that it is written. When Mrs. Mac thought we had ratios down she moved on to proportions. Proportions are a lot like finding equivalent fractions. 4:8, 2:4, 1:2 are all proportions because they are equal. Mrs. Mac must have trusted us quite a lot because whether we got it or not she gave us a worksheet on it.
Mr. Z stood at the door and waited to take us to music class. I personally was very excited to go to music because we were making power points on a composer or singer that we choose. I chose Jordin Sparks, the 2007 American Idol winner. We were to find information about our singer or composer and make a power point to present to the class at the end of the year.
We all shivered as we walked on to the track. We ran awhile to get warm and then stretched. Mrs. Seibolt told the people in the relay teams to stay back because we were going to work on our tags. On the girls relay team are Jordan, Rachel, Sydnie and Anna, and the alternate is Jessa Schultis. On the boys team is Trey, Grayson, Zach, and Tyler, Chris is the alternate. We practiced once and then had to practice our field events. Our choices are shot put, high jump, and long jump.
“Come in and sit down. It’s time for the test,” Mrs. Welsch told us as we walked into our class room. (Mrs. Welsch is our substitute for Mrs. Dux) We were taking a test in social studies on our vocabulary for this year and ancient Rome. It was about Rome’s beginnings to its end, and about the empire and its religions. Although we had one hundred two vocabulary words, plus the questions about Rome, we had an hour to work on it.
That is my last Roving Reporter of the year and you will soon have a new sixth grade to listen to. Keep listen and watching. This is Anna with sobs signing off. Good-Bye and don’t forget, keep listening and watching for more news.
