Ms. Hyche’s Class Blog

My 5th period English class loves hand-gel. Not only because it is lunch time and we all want clean hands, but because hand gels apparently now come in very pleasant scents. I have decided to dedicate today’s blog to my 5th period class.

Currently, we are studying word derivatives and looking over vocabulary. So guys, find your vocabulary words in context in my passage about hand-gel: (Remember we talked about italics too)

My 5th period class starts off with a few minutes in the classroom, then lining up for lunch. As we leave, everyone grabs a dab of hand gel. We all want clean hands, not the antonym of clean, which is dirty. Thus far, we have found our hand-gel to be very effective in killing 99.9% of germs.

We have decided whoever came up with the concept of hand gel is an absolute genius! Yes, we understand that hand gel was derived from soap, but using the gel saves us a lot of time because we don’t have to wait in line to wash our hands.

Our brand of choice in the classroom happens to be Germ-X. Those people at Germ-X definitely know what they are doing and have specialized in making the perfect and ultimate hand-gel. Not only does it kill harmful germs and bacteria, but the gel also helps us retain the moisture in our hands. It’s a two-in-one package. The words hand-gel and clean are synonymous in this class!

Now, we aren’t so sure that the term Germ-X can be found in our book’s glossary, but we do know that the term Germ-X is well understood in Ms. Hyche’s 5th period English class!

This passage wasn’t written because I want you to learn more about hand-gel,but I want you all to realize how important it is to be able to read your vocabulary words in context, and understand their meaning. Hope this passage helped. Students, good luck on your spelling and definitions test! Make sure you study hard.

The past two days in science, the students have been working on a storms poster to present to their classmates. We have been getting to the bottom of how, where, and why storms occur.

Students, impress your parents with your knowledge! Explain to them the difference in a funnel cloud and tornado. Maybe you want to tell them why a vortex will shrink horizontally and stretch out vertically. If you loved the talk about hurricanes today, tell your parents about the eye and eye wall of a hurricane. Or really challenge your parents! Do they know the scale we use to measure the intensity of a hurricane? What about a tornado?

Pictures are posted below of group posters and presentations. Enjoy! Thanks for the multitude of comments so far. Keep it up guys. You are making your science teacher proud! Tomorrow be ready to go to the lab and find out which heats and cools faster…..soil or water?

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Hello and welcome to my blog for the 2007-2008 school year. I hope you will utilize this site throughout your sixth grade year to assist you in finding my assignments, my expectations, and of course reading about the excitement that occurs each week! I will do my best to post pictures and summarize our weekly happenings in Science and English class.

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What a great day it was in Science! My 1st, 2nd, and 6th period classes had the pleasure of creating storms in a bottle. They did an amazing job. I am posting some of the pictures to share with everyone. Check out the vortices that were created. Parents, hopefully after today’s class you will no longer get the “nothing” response when you ask your students what they did in school today. Get em thinking! Ask them to explain to you what a vortex is. Below are some pictures for you to enjoy!
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