Room 613 Talk

The 6th grade students have started posting to our student social studies weblog. Our first reflections addressed the following question: If you could visit anyplace in the world, where would you go and why? You can read their latest writing at Room 613 Student Blogs.
All future posting will be at the new Room 613 Student [...]

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Dances and Activity nights By Kelley and Brianna
Music! dancing! eating! and just having fun! Those are just a couple of words that describe what goes on at the dances and activity nights at Porter school. Dances are when grades 6th through 8th go into our schools cafetorium, and while a DJ is [...]

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Class Representatives by Emelie V. and Heather R.
Ever since Monday when they announced on the loud speaker we were having class elections, it’s been the talk of the school. All around school, there are signs on lockers and buttons with vote for me written on them. In 6H, Brianne and Maya [...]

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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 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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