Room 613 Talk

Listen up! This article is about our fun Social Studies class, so here we go! We do many fun things in this class, like the cartoon strips I had for homework. We also have fun things in our room like Mr. Bell and the giant puzzle of the world. We also studied map terms that [...]

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Horace W. Porter School Sports
by: Brianne C and Ryan J.
Horace Porter has many different exciting sports to choose from. The sports we play at our school consists of Baseball, Softball, Basketball, Soccer and Track.
All of our teams consist of great hard working team players who never give up even when they’re down. [...]

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The students of 6E, 6L, 6V and 6H worked very hard to complete the world map puzzle. Using free time prior to the start of class, the students carefully constructed the map of the world over a three week time period. You can go to the “Puzzle Progress” page to view the day by day [...]

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Thanks to all the parents who visited Room 613 on Thursday night. We had a great turnout and your support is deeply appreciated. For those of you who couldn’t make the open house , I’ve posted my open house slides to the site. To see the major talking points of the presentation just [...]

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As part of a recent homework assignment the students interviewed an older adult (parent or grandparent) about modern inventions that changed their lives. Yesterday in class the students read the interview reports and discussed their findings. As you can see, the list of life changing inventions completely filled our chalkboard. Many of the items [...]

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Last week the students continued with their study of geography, finishing our latitude, longitude, hemispheres mini-unit and moving on to oceans and continents. During one of our activities, students constructed their own latitude and longitude lines (including tropic lines, prime meridian and the international dateline) on white balloons representing the earth.

This week several of [...]

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The Story of Mr. Bell – by Brianna, Alex and Kim

Mr. Bell lives in Room 613, our homeroom. Our teacher, Mr. Hetherington will ask the class any type of question, someone will raise their hand, and he’ll call on someone. If you get the question right, you get to ring Mr. Bell how many [...]

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Hurricane Help
By Victoria, Kelley, Maya, Ali

On August 29, 2005 disaster stuck. Hurricane Katrina hit land as a category 4 hurricane. Hurricane Katrina surprised many people when it took a turn and didn’t hit New Orleans as bad as it was supposed to. Many lives were lost. The airports in New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Biloxi, [...]

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The 6th graders have been working hard in Social Studies, drawing globes and flat maps to learn map geography terms such as the Cardinal Directions, Latitude, Equator, Tropic of Cancer and Capricorn, the Arctic and Antarctic Circles, Hemispheres, Longitude and the Prime Meridian.
In Language Arts Extension -LAX - we are in the middle [...]

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If you could represent the world’s population in a “Sims” town of 100 people, what characteristics would those 50 men and 50 women possess? How many would be American, How many college graduates would there be? How many would be rich, and what would the groups racial mix? These are some of the questions the [...]

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