Statistics and Lies

We have a couple of quizzes tomorrow: First off, we will have the spelling test. Extra copies of the list were available today, so hopefully your child grabbed one if it you didn't have one at home. Secondly, we have the continents and oceans quiz tomorrow. The four major oceans and the seven continents will all be expected of them.

Our next region of the country for states and capitals, the Southwest, is going to be our next quiz. There are only four states: Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. The quiz is officially Monday, but a few brave souls are going to take it tomorrow, saying that it's too easy to wait that long. I told them I would make it available to take either tomorrow or Monday.

Ms. Mellinger read a story with the kids today called Gram's Declaration, where a girl finds an old old copy of the Declaration of Independence. Ms. Mellinger also did an inferring exercise with the kids by showing them a wordless picture book. I enjoyed sitting back and listening as they did that one. They really had some great ideas and pointed out nice details.

The students are hard at work on their state project. I gave them their rubrics today for their oral reports, which will be given next Friday. I told them that if one person wants to talk a lot more than the other person, I'm fine with that for this first one, but that everyone needs to have contributed to it.

Lastly, MY Math class (the sixth grade level) has a quiz tomorrow on means, medians, modes, minimums, maximums, and range. Today was kind of fun because I showed them how to recognize and make misleading graphs. Statistics and lies, you know!