Vacation

Roving Reporter will be on vacation until January:)

December 16, 2010 by Mary

I woke up with a little light coming into my half closed eyes. Suddenly the shout of my dad’s loud deep voice awakened me. I got out of my bed and was shivering like a Chihuahua with no fur. I crammed my face with cereal then bundled up to take my dog out. I headed into a cherry red van then bounded off to school. We walked in the armory for fifteen minutes then raced into the warm classrooms. We took lunch count which was General Tso Chicken. Everyone went to reading after that.

Checking vocabulary pictures was fun to see what other people wrote and drew. After that we did a spelling test on our vocabulary words. I got a one hundred! When we were done with that we read Nothing Ever Happens on 90th Street. I was very surprised that we didn’t have reasoning and writing, so we went straight to science.

While checking our papers we had to figure out what element we were. I was magnesium (12). When we were checking our papers, Mrs. Hudson showed us how heat can make things move. She called us by rows and dismissed us to go to spelling.

L-J is what we did in spelling. Some of the words were integers, pillage, and negative space. Once we were done checking that, we played a spelling game called sparkle. It was down to Michelle and me. The word was deceived. She said I instead of E. I spelled the word d-e-c-e-i-v-e-d. I got it right, and I won! I got a chocolate kiss. Then we abruptly went to social studies.


Looking at pictures of China was so beautiful like the one of a lit up boat. We also watched videos. My favorite one was one where she went under a river and saw a light show in a subway. We smelled lunch, and everyone glanced at the clock. Bring went the bell to go to lunch.

For lunch we had General Tso Chicken, and we gobbled that down. Then went to recess, and I played shark. Then we met our guest teacher, Mr. Edson. After that, we headed off to music.

During music we played a name game. I didn’t do so great. Once that was over, we went to P.E. where we played a rousing game of basketball. I think I did pretty well.


Test! Yippee a test in math. It was easy at first, but then it got harder. In the middle of our test something peculiar happened. We didn’t have page four. Wow! After math was done, we went to the high school to watch a storyteller.

We spent most of our study hall at the high school. His message was “Don’t get mad get Rad.” When we got back we had a fifteen minute study hall. I got my work done.

We all enjoyed a day at school, but we’re still excited to get out of school. We packed our book bags and lined up by the doors. Once the bell rang we all bombarded out the doors to get home.

December 15, 2010 by Kianna

I started my day by walking in the armory for about 10-15 minutes. After that Mrs. McAllister’s 6th grade class took lunch count and said the pledge. Then we headed off to reading class.

In reading we did acrostic poems which are when you put the letters of your name and describe things about your self. We had 5 minutes to work on it. Next it was time to head to Reasoning and Writing.

When I got there, we had to take out lesson 42 and correct it. Afterwards we started a new lesson, and we did part A,B,C, and D. Then we had to leave for social studies, but I didn’t have to leave since I was already in the classroom.

Mrs. Dux, the teacher, gave us fake passports to go to China. (She Google Earthed it). She showed us all the places where she has been. We ran out of time, and then we left for spelling.


I slowly walked down the hall to go to spelling. We just went over lesson 38 and that was it. As we all sat there with our stomachs growling for lunch, the bell finally rang to go to lunch.

When we finally got to the lunch room, the smell of a Fiestada, which is Spanish for a small pizza or something like that, filled the air. After everybody completed their lunch, we went outside for lunch recess!


At recess I played dodge ball for 30 minutes which was the whole recess time, and then the bell rang as we all marched inside with our small cold and bitter little fingers. Now it was time for math.

During math we graded our work sheet buy using a marker board, and that was it. Once again we went into over time with math, and we skipped art. Then it was time for P.E.

In P.E. we played snake tag for warm up, and then we played a vigorous game of basketball! Next it was time for science.


In science we learned what a neutron and what a proton are. Then we had a work sheet over what we learned. Finally it was time for study hall.

In study hall I worked on my Roving Reporter. So that is our 6th grade day at Jefferson Intermediate school.

December 13, 2010 by Lilibeth

It all started out this morning when it was time to go to school. I was so exhausted I could barely get off my bed. My alarm was beeping and screaming at me, "GET UP, GET UP!" It was another day of school, another part of life just like I always say. I quickly got up, got changed and off I went to school. Like always my mom and dad drop me off at school. Then I went to the Armory to walk instead of in the track cause it was cold.

Then the bell rang and we all went back inside to our homeroom. I got my coat off and hung it up on a hook. After that I quickly packed up for reading, lang. arts, and spelling. Mrs. Hudson was doing lunch count. I got crispy chicken on a bun. After she was done doing lunch count she told us to stand up for the Pledge of Allegiance. We then went off for reading.

In reading today Mrs. Mac gave us back our worksheet from last weekend. We went over it and redid the one's we missed. She then gave us the Weekly Assessment that we didn't have time to do last weekend, so we got it finished. I didn't get homework in reading. Wow that went really fast, and it was time for lang. arts.

In lang. arts Mrs. Dux asked for our character sketches. Then she told us to get out our lang. arts book. We went over part A. lesson 42. We started part B. but it was time to go so we had to finish the whole lesson 42 and Ind. work. I had homework but not alot. Next it was off for spelling with Mrs. Mac.

In spelling we did a coloring worksheet. They were supposed to be for Mrs. Cerny who just had a knee surgery and one for Isaac who has bone cancer. Were supposed to cut them out and write something like Get well or Merry Christmas Well look at that. It was already time to go to science class. That was so fast.

Today in science we checked over last week’s homework pg.387 vocab. Then we opened up our books to page 389 on comparing Boron and Nitrogen. I was doing my homework, but it was already time for lunch.


At lunch we had crispy chicken on a bun. I had crispy chicken salad and apple sauce YUMMY!!!!. Then it was recess time, but we couldn't go outside cause it was too cold. Instead we had indoor recess.


I played battleship with Evelyn, and I got her many times. Luckily she only hit me 4 times. Then recess was over and Mrs. Hudson gave us back our leather rounds that we made in art. We put on something that looked like Vaseline. She punched holes in it and we went to hang it up on the Christmas tree by the office.

Then she read Peppermints in the Parlor just for a little bit. We then headed to library. Mrs. Johnson read us the book called The little Red Hen. Once she was done she handed us a paper compare and contrast with The little Red Hen and Cockle - Doodle - Doo.

We headed out to music. In music we had to get markers and marker boards. Mr. Roby told us to put our phone number or make up one. I made one up. He told us to go to the piano keys and practice for tomorrow.

Mrs. Hudson picked us up from music and we headed to math. We checked over last week’s homework and got marker boards with markers. We wrote our answers on the boards. Then we had pg. 120 numbers 7-15 even.

In social studies she gave us sour patch kids because she had difficult problems with the clickers, so we had to click them in all over again.

With less day and lot of homework the day was over. I don't go to band so I stay and do homework. I didn't have a lot, so I'd get it done. Good day my fellow citizens.

December 9, 2010 by Kadin

Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep said my blaring alarm clock. I couldn’t believe it was already time to get up, so I got up, jumped in some clothes, and ate warp crisp bacon along with delightful eggs. Then I got in the car and headed for school. When I got there, I walked on the track with my friends on a pleasant fall morning. When the bell finally told us to go inside, we sat and did lunch count, and then we stood for the pledge.

First in reading, we did a graphic organizer on Juan Verdades, the man who couldn’t tell a lie. After that, Mrs. Dux told us about how low the class scored on summarizing, and then she threw some words in there that nobody knew, as she was in front of the class making our dendrites grow. After she planted some dendrites in our heads, the bell rang, and it was time for language arts.

Second, during language arts we typed are final drafts on our character sketches. Mine was about this kid who was an amazing athlete and beat the Los Angeles Lakers with one hand. After he did beat the Lakers, it was time to stop typing and go to science.

Next, in science class we would usually have Dave where we have a lot of fun and do wacky experiments and stuff like that, but instead we had an exciting science test. It seemed like the time went by so fast that she passed them out and then bam, she picked them up again and said to go line up for social studies.


After that, we got into social studies and found out about another “exciting’’ test. Can you believe what these teachers put us through? When we heard everybody’s stomach growling with hunger, we knew to put our pencils down start for the cafeteria.

When our stomachs were finally stuffed with delicious mouth- watering chicken nuggets, we went outside for an adrenaline pumping recess. I caught a game winning catch in dodge ball with my fingertips. After it felt like I hit the jackpot in the lottery, the bell rang and everyone went inside for music.

When we went to music Mr. Roby, our music teacher, clapped rhythms and we had to write that rhythm on little marker boards he gave to us for the class. When he stopped clapping and looked at the clock, we knew it was time to go to P.E. As we all scrambled to get to the armory to do layups in basketball, I found out that I’m not a good basketball player. As my bad luck in shooting continued, we lined up to go to math and the humiliation finally stopped.

Next, in math we went over an easy worksheet on inverse operations. Then she gave us yet another easy worksheet on the same thing. And as soon as she gave us the worksheet, it was time to transition to spelling.


In spelling we did L to J and got a better percentage than all of the other classes, as usual. To top it all, I finally got another all-time high of seven. After I was done doing my little happy dance, it was already time for study hall.

After that in study hall, I worked on the easy worksheet that we got in math, and of course, I got done with it and looked at the clock and realized it was already time to leave and go home.

Finally, every one stampeded out the doors like a herd of buffalo wanting to get home and enjoy the beautiful fall day in the rainbow colored leaves.

December 8, 2010 by Evelyn

Today the day greeted us with a howl of whistling wind. When I got to school, we walked on the coldness and the blackness of the track . Everybody rushed in the building like a herd of cattle. When we got in the building, we all hung up our backpacks and did our normal routine of the Pledge of Allegiance and lunch count. As everyone left the classroom for reading, we gathered our stuff and rushed out the door like rush hour in New York, New York. Of course we didn’t want to be late to class.

In reading with Mrs. Dux, we learned about affixes with a power point. She also taught us about literary devices, like for example homonym. Two words are homonyms if they are pronounced or spelled the same way but have different meanings. Another example of a literary device is a homograph. A homograph means two or more words that are spelled the same way but are different in meaning. For example the word fair can mean a light color or you can go to a fair to see animals.

Off we transitioned into Reasoning and Writing. In Reasoning and Writing we had been given an assignment to write a character sketch about a person, animal or thing. My character sketch was about my best friend. My narrative described her characteristics, physical features, and what she is like. Mrs. Dux gave us the, not so challenging, assignment to make a web and do a sloppy copy of all our fantastic ideas. (I hope anyways.) We all ran to our next class like an angry mob as the bell screamed it’s loudness into our ears.

My next class happened to be spelling class with Mrs. McAllister. In spelling class we did lesson 36 in our spelling book. As I was going to close my book because I was finished, Mrs. McAllister said one more thing. There was a handwriting assignment. Groans were heard everywhere.

My next class was science with Mrs. Hudson who is my homeroom teacher. During science class we went over our assignment, and then Mrs. Hudson broke the news that we were going to take a science test. As I was getting ready to write an answer on the last page, the bell made its presence made known when it rang to tell us that lunch was finally here at last.

In lunch I had crispy mini corndogs, cold chocolate milk, delicious salad with crunchy croutons and ranch dressing. Just as I was dumping my tray, I heard the bell so I got my coat, gloves, scarf, and hat.

As I got outside, a whiff of spine shaking cold ran up my skin with the wind that was blowing. All my time at recess I was on the swings, and recess was over faster than I could blink. As everyone ran inside joyfully, we hurried to our class because it was so freezing cold. There ended my recess with a blink of an eye.


When everyone was inside and ready to go, Mrs. Hudson read from Peppermints in the Parlor which, of course, gets more and more exciting each day. Every Tuesday through Thursday we have P.E., so Miss Seibolt appeared like a ghost not heard through the door way. In P.E. we practiced shooting hoops until P.E. was over with a loud blow from Miss Seibolt’s whistle. As we left the armory, we headed back to our classroom because we didn’t have music. Instead we had writing.

In writing class Mrs. Hudson assigned an essay about why I am proud to be an American. She gave us time to work on it for half an hour. Once the half an hour was over, we eagerly got out our math books to begin with math.

Once math began, we started our math assignment. Our math assignment was to do 1-16 which was to predict which number was next in line, like to subtract, add, divide, or multiply. After we were done with that, everyone read or worked on other assignments until social studies made its approach.


Social studies was with Mrs. Dux. In social studies we played a review game to help us remember things for the test tomorrow. Somebody picked out a category and how many points they wanted. After that everyone put in the answer they thought was the correct one with a clicker. Social studies went by like a tornado whizzing around the room.

Some went to band, and others went to study hall. I happened to go to study hall. During study hall I went to the library to check out a new book for the weekend. When I got back to the classroom, the clock was ticking for minutes for the bell to ring its loud tune. As we all gathered our stuff to finally leave school, the bell rang once again telling everyone that school was out, but only for the day. It was an exciting day of school, but it has to end sometime. I hope to see you again in 18 or 19 days.

December 7, 2010 by Shane

When I woke up, I was greeted by the unpleasant ray from my lamp in my eyes. So I got dressed, brushed my teeth, and hopped on the bus.

When I arrived at school, I went up to the track to walk. The bone-chilling air made my cheeks as red as a delicate rose.

Ring, Ring, the bell rang. We all rushed off the track and into the school. When we got into the classroom, we did the usual lunch count and flag salute. After that we sauntered over to reading.

In reading, we clicked in our answers on clickers and Mrs. Dux talked about a man playing an Asian instrument that she saw in China and how she wouldn’t have seen that if she didn’t take the path less traveled by.

Holy smokes! Time flies. It was already time for Reasoning and Writing. . We did a character sketch of a person or fictional character.

I glanced at the clock and it was time for spelling. We did a spelling test, and we played a little bit of Sparkle.
In math, we did a quick check. We wrote rules for number patterns.


Next it was time for science. We checked some questions and did 1 through 11 on a chapter review test.

Rumble, Rumble, our stomachs growled. The tantalizing and mouthwatering scent of the breaded beef stick was like a class to our stomachs.

After we gobbled down our food, we went to recess.

After recess, we read Peppermints in the Parlor for a little while. Then we headed to PE. We ran six laps, stretched, practiced our free throwing, and played some knock-out.



In social studies, we played a fun vocabulary review game.

It was time for band. Man, social studies went by fast. In band, we went over eighth notes. Then I went back to the classroom. I packed up and was ready to leave. When the final bell rang, it was like getting lost in a herd of bison, but I made it out alive.

December 6, 2010 by Morgan

I awakened to the sound of my alarm clock beeping repeatedly in my ears. I groaned with exhaust and lazily dragged one foot and then the other out of my bed. I then headed towards the bathroom to get ready for school. Once finished, I quickly locked up and was on my way to Jefferson.

The wind began to bite me as I approached the school building, though I couldn’t feel it, for my face was numbed from its previous bites. Once I got to the entrance, I saw that there was a crowd of children at the school doors. All were waiting anxiously to get out of this freezing weather. I joined in with the crowd; I too wanted to get out of this weather.

Almost immediately the crowd began to lessen. Waves of people spilled threw the doors of Jefferson. Sighs of relief began to fill the air once warmth was reunited with everybody’s bodies. As I looked around, I saw everyone’s faces glowing with redness from the wind biting them so hard.

I walked in to my classroom and unloaded the bolder I call my back pack, putting all of the heavy weighed text books back into my desk. After I finished unloading, I hung my back pack on a hook and sat at my desk, preparing for my first class of the day… reading.


Reading was the same as it always is on a Monday. We checked vocabulary, took some A.R. tests, and we read a short story. This one was about a girl named Maria who moved and was put into a different school. She was very shy at first, but in the end she made some new friends and ended up being very happy.

Language Arts was just as remote as reading. The only difference of my day so far was that Ms. Dux, my teacher, handed me a camera and a hard drive and told me I was roving reporter. No words could express the joy I was feeling once I was handed that hard drive. I was about to cry, but my mind said, “No! Don’t let them see you cry! Control your happiness! Be strong and hold back your tears!” I did what I was told.

Suddenly science came, and it was time to go to Ms. Hudson’s room. We checked over the graphs we had made last week with an experiment we did using different temperatures of water and red dye. We then shared our answers to questions we answered about our experiment. Afterwards it was time to leave. We were given a homework assignment to answer five questions on page 331 in our text books.

We played Egypt games on the computer for social studies. Although there were many different games, everybody was playing the one game where you went through the process of mummifying a pharaoh. I kind of grossed out when you removed the brains, even though it was digital. Everybody was sucked into the game until the lunch bell rang.

I got up to get my heavy purple jacket and started towards the cafeteria. The smell of chicken strips filled the air which I was happy to inhale. I got my tray and sat at a lunch table with a few of my friends. After we finished, I grabbed my coat and ran for the swings. I swung back and forth, high, and low. I swung so high that I was flying with the birds!

The bell eventually spoiled my fun and rang its lousy ring telling everybody to go inside. Similar to this morning, there was a crowd of 12 year olds waiting at the entrance of the school, dying to get out of this freezing weather.

After everybody was inside and warm, Ms. Dux began to read out of The Endless Steppe. The book was getting really exciting, but she had to stop because it was time to leave for library.

As we walked into the library, the teacher had us drop off our books and head into the computer lab. We then sat in our assigned seats and began working on our keyboarding practice. I tried to going really fast so I could get done early, but that didn’t work out cause I kept on getting my fingers in a bundle. Two minutes before our class had to leave; we were told that we could check out some books, if we need to.


When our class came back, Ms. Dux told us to get out last week’s homework so we could check over it. Later on in math, we began to learn about algebra. Some people understood it right away, others - it took them awhile. (I was one of the others.) Eventually, we got the hang of it.

Our last subject of the day was spelling. We checked over a lesson that we were supposed to finish for homework last week. Then we started on a new lesson that we had to finish for homework.

Nothing was left except for study hall. I couldn’t believe school was almost over. It seemed like I was saying good morning to everyone not even 30 minutes ago. I worked on nothing but the homework I had that was assigned for me, and even after spending a whole hour on it, I didn’t even put a dent in the amount of assignments I had.


Packing up the rest of my homework kind of ruined my whole day, not because of how much I had to do, but because of the fact that I had to carry all of it on the way home. When I zipped up my book bag, it looked like I had two huge rocks in there.

Even though today wasn’t very exciting, it was still a pretty good day. I just hope tomorrow will be a little more adventurous.