October has been busy.  We have been working on Ancient Civilizations and Space as well as Gravity and Exponents.  We also spent a lot of time finishing up our One and Only Ivan Book Study and Began learning about different abilities and started Reading OUT OF MY MIND by Sharon M. Draper about a girl with Cerebral Palsy.  

We also spent several hours doing a readers theatre with about The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving.  We even learned a dance.  Part of our Theatre and dance link are below for you to enjoy... (

Part I The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Link

Legend of Sleep Hollow Party Dance Link (thanks to Taylor Willson are Choreographer)

Part II The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Link

We will soon begin a New term with lots of new and exciting subjects, Ancient Greece and Rome, More Algebra and Energy and Matter... We are looking forward to it....

It's Finally Fall

 It's Already Fall and we have been working hard.  We have been learning so much geometry.  We have learned area of a rectangle and triangle, surface area and volume.  Next, we will be moving on to Algebra and Algebraic equations...WE ARE GETTING VERY SMART!!!!  So glad we are  here together!!!  We have also been learning all about Mesopotamia, the class systems, Cuneiform writing and drawing our own Ziggurats from the city of UR.   We are almost done reading our Novel study on THE ONE AND ONLY IVAN and with your permission we WOULD love to watch the movie from the Disney+ which I have access to so that we can make comparisons to the different texts of writings and how the screenplay and book are.

We are so Thankful for our time together and are trying to stay safe and healthy!!!  Keep checking Icampus for grades and missing work.  If you need your student to stay after school for any ONE on ONE help PLEASE PLEASE let me know.  I WOULD LOVE IT and NEED IT!!!!! 

It's a bit chilly

 It's been a bit chilly and we've had to wear some sweaters around here... But even though we've been a bit cold our hearts our warm and we as a 6th grade team absolutely love these 6th graders!!!!  They are the BEST!!!!

Happenings:

We have been busy studying about early Mesopotamia and learning about the Fertile Crescent, making a map of the area and the people of that time.  We continue learning about the moon and it's phases.  Don't forget to continue working on the moon monthly project.  You may look at the moon phase calendar by linking to it from this blog (the smoke and the clouds have prevented us from looking at it for a few days).

We learned why we have a Solar and Lunar Eclipse and made diagrams as to why they happen.  

We have been practicing our paragraph writing and trying to become better writers.  We have also learned all the formulas for finding AREA of a Triangle, rectangle, parallelogram, and trapezoid.  

WOW WE are SMART!!!!

We also began our NOVA course with Officer Wolfgram and have been learning how to be good Citizens and responsible people.  We are grateful he can come teach us Every Tuesday!!!!

Aim for the Moon...

 We had a fabulous week and a half and made it through with with all us healthy!!!  Our class had a great time creating abstract art by learning how to follow directions and also creating FaceMask Self Portraits.  We have been studying about the moon and its many phase and how it reflects the sun's light.  We recreated those phases with some Oreos.  

We were also able to partner up a bit and do some math activities on area and measurement.  We kept our physical distance but were able to support each other in our math thinking.

We have such a great supportive and kind class!  Keep up the good work and remember to keep checking your health and wash your hands so we can continue to learn together.  I love having you all in my class!!!!

Our First Week of School

Our First week of school was Awesome...it was so great to have the students back!!!!  They were loved and missed!

We were so brave and tough wearing our masks and worked real hard all week.  We enjoyed a wonderful week of literacy, Science and Social Studies.  We Started our Novel Study on The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate.  We also had a science activity where we saw how many licks it took to get to the center of a Tootsie pop.  The class average was 229.  Ask your student how many licks it took them?  We also made self portrait glyphs (see Mrs. Andersen's sample)  We are in the middle of making "Mask" art and have already done some beautiful abstract following direction art.  We have a most wonderful and talented class.  I am very impressed.  This is going to be a fabulous year.  I am so grateful to be with each of your children and very blessed.  Thank you for allowing me to be their teacher!

 

A New Year 2020-21

 

ABOUT MRS. ANDERSEN: I love teaching at Maple Ridge Elementary! I grew up in Provo and come from a family of educators.  I am recently widowed and have three sons and a daughter in-law ages 31, 28, 27 and 25.  I have two dogs named Meg and Freddy.  I love it here in Utah where there are beautiful mountains and wonderful people. I love to watch the JAZZ (Rudy Gobert is my Favorite!)-sad I cannot watch them play… and follow PGA golf, travel, do art, crochet and work in my garden.  I have been to almost all 50 States (-Alaska & Hawaii) as well as Africa, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Mexico, Austria and Germany. I adore Pistachios, Almonds and Diet Coke!  I never get tired of READING, board games, puzzles, painting, drawing, gardening, crocheting, and NCAA March Madness. This Summer I traveled to see my kids in California as well as to 4 National Parks GLACIER, YELLOWSTONE, THE TETONS and MT. RAINIER, where I hiked , swam in glacier rivers, did a river run,  ate cherries, had wild huckleberry treats and ice cream.  I even hiked a glacier, saw elk, buffalo, mountain goats and a black bear.

I can’t wait to get to know all about you!   There are sure to be some great times ahead!  Enjoy your last week of summer. See you soon!

If you have any questions or concerns throughout the year, please call me at school (801)489-1800, or

E-mail me at jeanmarie.andersen@nebo.edu .     Sincerely,   Mrs. Andersen

It’s Already Fall

Fall is here and a chill is in the air.  We have been busy with space activities,  studying the moon and finishing our Egypt projects.  We have learned dividing fractions, LCM/GCF, positive and negative numbers and absolute value.  We are learning about heat and heat transfer and all sorts of writing skills from Mrs. Olson.  We had a blast at the Christa Mcaulliffe space center solving our missions. Please feel free to use the link on this page to help with this months moon project!