It’s hard to imagine how busy we are in 6th grade. I’ll tell you about a normal day starting at the beginning, and by the end, I’ll bet you’ll be as tired as I was.
After being dropped off at school at 8:10 and walking around the track in what felt like 100 F weather, I rushed inside to thaw my toes. Since Mrs. Dux was busy, she picked me to do the lunch count. We said the Pledge of Allegiance and hurried to our reading class.
In reading, we took the Reading Classics test, and then we learned what a haiku is. A haiku is a Japanese poem with three lines. The first line usually has five syllables, the second line has seven syllables, and the third line has five again. Haikus do not have to rhyme. Here is an example:
Reading can be fun,
When you have your haikus done.
Off to language arts.
During language arts, we read each others’ roving reporter essays, except mine of course. (‘Y’ am I always last?)
Changing from language arts to science was like a solid changing to a liquid. The students were molecules getting up and moving to the science classroom. We learned that one way matter changes state is through heat. When I looked up at the clock, it was time for social studies.
As I walked into social studies class, I was thrilled to see we were watching a video on ancient Egypt. It transported us back to a time when pharaohs ruled and mummies walked the earth. No, that was some horror movie I watched. Our video didn’t have walking mummies, but it did have blood and guts. It showed us how Egyptians mummified bodies.
Next was lunch, and I could hear my stomach growling. I answered it with turkey gravy and mashed potatoes. There were a variety of flavors from sweet pumpkin pudding and corn, to tart cranberry Jell-o. After lunch, we usually go outside to recess, but since it was so cold, we stayed inside and played Twister.
When the recess bell rang, we went to our seats, ready for our teacher, Mrs. Dux, to read to us. We’ve been listening to a book about a Jewish girl in World War II. Just when Mrs. Dux got to the good part of the story, we had to stop, line up, and go to music.
After music, we went to PE. In PE, we started “Hoops for Heart”, a program to raise money for the American Heart Association. We found out that we would be starting a section on basketball.
When we came back from PE, we sat down for math. Math was the same as always – numbers, numbers, and more numbers. The only good thing was that Mrs. Dux let us redo the questions we had gotten wrong on our tests.
Spelling was the next subject, and it meant the school day was almost over. We did some fun Thanksgiving puzzles, and we were assigned a handwriting worksheet.
Finally, study hall gave us a chance to do some homework before marching off to band. We’re only just beginning to learn how to play our instruments, so there was no actual marching yet. But, we sure made a lot of noise with the whole band together.
Whew! I told you it was going to be a long day. After sitting through nine subjects, changing classrooms four times, and doing all the assignments, I could barely stay a…ZZZZZZZ.
