Ms. Whitfield and I set up the lab with nine different stations including: River, Glacier, Lake, Ocean, Groundwater, Animal, Plant, Soil, and Clouds.  Of course each student started with a yellow bead to represent the sun because afterall, it is the driving force of the water cycle. At each station the students would string a colored bead onto a piece of twine to remind them of their time there. As the students traveled from station-to-station, they had to record a reason as to why they went from say a cloud to a river, or maybe from a glacier to the ocean. Not all students would make it to the nine stations…..why? Some students would have to stay at cloud several times in a row. Why? Well, clouds are the result of evaporation of water condensing to form a cloud. When there is so much water vapor in the air, we will have some form of precipitation. However, if there is no precipitation, water vapor is remaining in the cloud. This explains why some students had to stay at certain stations longer than others.

Below I have posted my PowerPoint that I used to introduce the Water Cycle. If you were absent on the day we discussed this in depth, please refer to the slideshow below. I will be posting pictures soon of our “Incredible Journey” and will also post pics of our examples of transpiration.  Please wear your water cycle bracelets to school tomorrow. They may help you on your test!

Hope you all enjoyed this experience as much as I enjoyed watching you journey through the water cycle. I loved seeing you make connections and understanding why your water molecule took the path that it did. Keep it up 6th graders. YOU are our future scientists!

Rachael Abrams

Lakin Aycock

Kelly Chandler

Caycie Coyle

Makenzie Crysel

Ayla Dennen

Brooklyn Dodds

Erin Funk

Dasha Gubarev

Hannah Henderson

Desi Spring

Michelle Massey

Alana Nelson

Makenzie Walls

XEROX IS DOING SOMETHING COOL

If you go to this web site, http://letssaythanks.com/Home1024.html you can pick out a thank you card and Xerox will print it and it will be sent to a soldier that is currently serving in Iraq . You can’t pick out who gets it, but it will go to a member of the armed services.

How AMAZING it would be if we could get everyone we know to send one!!!

It is FREE and it only takes a second.

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the soldiers received a bunch of these? Whether you are for or against the war, our soldiers over there need to know we are behind them.

This takes just 10 seconds and it’s a wonderful way to say thank you. Please take the time and please take the time to pass it on for others to do. We can never say enough thank you’s.

Thanks for taking to time to support our military!

Be sure to comment and view all threads.

Ms. Hyche

Hey This is Kathy!!!!!!!!!!

We just learned about demonstrative adjectives (this, that, these, those). Ms. Hyche came up with an awesome exercise for us. She divided us into groups and each group got a digital camera. Then she let us go into the hallway and take pictures. We wrote sentences telling about the picture. After that we got to do voicethreads. Voicethreads is when we got to record what we said so you can hear are wonderful voices !!!  Make sure to listen for me and Olivia’s ( the other blogger) voicethreads. Make sure to listen AND COMMENT to some voicethreads and visit Ms. Hyches’ blog!!!

~ Kathy

These past few weeks we have been learning about demonstratives adjectives. It was cool AWESOME! We did bunches of cool activities from taking pictures in the hall, to just sitting in the classroom and working on the active board. When we went out in the hall to take pictures we had an ah – mazing time. We took turns taking pictures with the schools cameras and then we wrote a sentence to go along with it. The sentence had to have at least one demonstrative adjective and one describing word. It was fun to go into the computer lab and the library to do voicethreads to go along with our sentences. Right now the voicethreads are on Ms. Hyche’s website/blog. It was cool to hear our voices on the voicethread. Make sure to check out me and Kathy’s [ shes writing another blog on the computer next to me] voicethreads :]

Yupper Doodles.

– Oliviaaa :]

Anna Baginski

Desi Spring

Sara Byrd

Hannah Henderson

Dasha Gubarev

Erin Funk

Alana Nelson

Makenzie Walls

Bethany Henry

Emily Milligan

Taylor Suvarow

Maekala Williams

Caroline Lowell

Emily Wade

 Today, all students were asked to wear red to show their support for a drug free lifestyle. I took a picture of each class sporting their red outfits and they are posted below. I hope all of you have a great weekend. Oh and ROLL TIDE!  

                                             Drug-Free Writing Pieces:              

Drug Free           By: Mia Matt, 5th period                                   

I am drug free, it’s the way to be. It gave me a chill to realize that drugs can kill.

You should be too. Drugs will hurt you!

Drugs make you become someone else, anyone but yourself.

Drugs can do many things, but most of all they hurt your brain.

They make you dizzy and drowsy, but also make you feel lousy.

There are many reasons this is the way to be, and they are why I am drug free!

My list of things to do instead of drugs:            By: CJ Millington, 5th period         

Play with friends

Play at the park

Play a video game

Play with my pet

Watch T.V.

Listen to music

Play on the computer

RECYCLE

Do homework

Help old people

Study

Exercise

And remember, drug free way to be!

By Nathan Franklin, 5th period

D- Doing drugs is bad

R- Reality is that drugs kill you

U- Ugliness can be caused by drugs

G- Good drugs don’t exist

F- Friends that do drugs aren’t true friends

R- Real friends don’t do drugs

E- Everything is better than drugs

E- Everybody is dangerous who does drugs    

Drug Free is the Way to Be                               By: Carter Williams, 4th period

                     Drug free is the way to be because alot of people that are on drugs couldn’t even write this paragraph I am about to write. If you do drugs it will affect your school work, alot of your friends won’t like you anymore, you might get cancer, and you will be very confused if you take drugs. Smoking can ruin your face. Our school watched a video yesterday and it showed a picture of a man who didn’t have a chin. The bottom part of his mouth was in the middle part of his chin. So that’s why you shouldn’t do drugs. DRUG FREE IS THE WAY TO BE!

Drug Free is the Way to Be!                                     By:Lindsay Hagler, 3rd period

    I love being drug free because when you are on drugs you do lots of bad things. For example, drug addicts sometimes drive while they are on drugs and they get in wrecks most of the time. Sometimes drug addicts try to stop but to them it is so hard to quit drugs. When people do drugs and they want to get a job they have to take a drug test. I want to have a good life when I grow up and I want to go to Auburn University and become a vet. If I was tempted to do drugs I would not fulfill my dream. That is why drug free is the way to be!

By: Animesh Mahapatra, 4th period

         Here is my advice to you: DON’T DO DRUGS!!! Drugs can seriously mess up your life and your life will never be the same. Drugs can create social problems for people, and you can become addicted. You start to spend too much money. Drugs can make you do bad things just to get them like stealing. Drugs can also cause physical problems. Alcohol kills brain cells. Cigarettes and tobacco products can give you lung or mouth cancer. Drugs are especially bad for kids who are still growing and less immune to them like adults. Please just say NO to drugs.

Thanks to all my classes for your participation. See you all on Monday.

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Last week, my English classes had the pleasure of using the traveling laptop classroom to review pronouns. It is an amazing sight to see 28-30 students staring into their own computer screen and working with their own personal computer. How lucky we are.

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Today all of my Science classes had the pleasure of playing Jeopardy to review for tomorrow’s test. I wish I got to play Jeopardy with controllers, a life size screen, and the actual Jeopardy music when I was in school. The scoreboard we used today was electronic and kept up with all of the teams’ points. Although I couldn’t be the game show host and photographer all-in-one today, I did take some pictures of the screen and the game module. Next time I will grab some students in action with Jeopardy. Students, share these pictures with your parents. Did they have this kind of fun while preparing for a test?

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Technology is not only fun for the students, but it allows the teacher to use a different style of teaching. So, can technology teach? Of course it can!! This wonderful blog would not be in existence without today’s technology. Technology allows us to email and communicate effectively with others. Cameras allow me to share these fabulous pictures with you. Computers allow you to research, design, and even view your grades! It provides us with a free and quick flow of information to benefit higher learning. Computers even assisted me with getting the job at CMS. I filled out the application for HSV City Schools online! Thank goodness for technology

We have technology present in our classroom that we may take for granted. For example, the projector in our classroom allows all students to view the board and provides us with opportunities to watch presentations and educational movies. It’s not just for your daily starters students. So what do you guys think? Can technology teach? Does technology keep you interested? Let me know your thoughts.

Technology does not and will not replace the teacher. It just enhances our ability to inspire the learner and stimulate young minds! Have a great Monday and brainstorm ways technology has impacted your educational experiences. Share them on the blog, or tomorrow in class.