After two years in sixth grade, I am moving back to third, where I have taught for most of my career.  I'll still be here at Broadmoore.  To follow my third grade blog, click here.

Broadmoore open from 10 to noon Thursday

I wanted to let my sixth graders and their families know that Broadmoore will be open on Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon.  This way you may pick up backpacks, say good-bye to teachers and classmates, and I get to see each of you!  I hope to see you there!

For more on Moore schools closing this week, click here.

All safe at Broadmoore following tornado

The good news from Broadmoore is that all of our children are safe.

I have been teaching for 29 years in Oklahoma, and today was the first time that my school was ever in imminent danger.  We took the safety precautions we have practiced, and our procedures worked like they are supposed to.

Our prayers go out, of course, to the two schools that were hit.  We hope that you and your family are safe.

For those friends of this blog around the nation and the world, here is a link to the tornado story.  Despite the awful devastation, Broadmoore was spared.

Sixth graders learn what it's like to work with younger children

Today was Super Kids Day. Our sixth graders manned the stations all day for the students at Broadmoore. Here were some interesting statements made by our 6^th graders that made me laugh.

 

“The little kids didn’t listen.”

 

“I had to repeat the directions several times. I am only saying them once for the older kids.”

 

“The kids wore me out.”

 

“My kids didn’t follow directions!”

Science students write alphabet book

For spelling we played Sparkle.

In language we worked on our 6^th grade books. We also added pictures to them today. I printed off 155 pictures yesterday!

In science we are making an ABC book about our year in science. There will be a book from each class. Each student chose a letter to write about and is responsible for a page in the book.

Students have "catch-up" day because of large classes.

Today there was no sub for Mrs. Cook again today, so we divided her class up.

We did a practice page in spelling.

In science we had a “Catch-up” day, as we couldn’t do what I wanted to do in science with such large classes. This was a perfect opportunity for any children to catch up on missing assignments, AR points, and any other work not done.

Below are some pictures of our poetry we did yesterday.  Students had fun arranging the spines of books so that the titles made a short poem.

 

 

Students experiment with poetry, science

We did another type of poem today.  It is called book spine poetry.  We aligned the spines of books and read from top to bottom.  I then took pictures  and will get them printed off.  I also had the children write them down so that we may match the pictures to the person.

In science we did more with chemical and physical changes.  We experimented with baking soda, Kool-Aid type mix, vinegar, milk, lemon juice, and water.  It was great entertainment, as well as educational!