Saturday, May 23, 2009

Sari's Open House

In our area there is a camp that all 6th graders get to go to for one week. It is called Scicon which stands for Science and Conservation. It is sort of like an outdoors school where they get to learn a lot about science and, yep you guessed it, conservation. Sari's class went there a couple of weeks ago and it happened to land on the same week as Open House. So Sari's Open House was postponed until this week. I will post more later on Sari's Scicon adventures. It also just so happened that the night her open house was rescheduled for was Sari's first temple trip with her church youth group. So Sari went to church, Craig & Tyler went to baseball, and Ashlie & I headed off to Sari's Open House. It was very fun and Sari's teacher, Mrs. Hofer, helped us out quite a bit. She had made a scavenger hunt for everyone so that helped us know what we should be looking for in the room. Here are a few of things we were able to see.



This is Sari's Scicon journal. Each day they had to spend time writing in it about the trails/hikes they went on and some of the things they learned. Her favorite was the Quartz Trail where she was able to find a piece of quartz and bring it back. Sorry the picture is sideways.

This is from their studies on the Greek. They were able to make Greek masks. I remember the day she made this in school because they smeared vaseline all over her face and so when she came home her face was all greasy :)

This is the reading counts chart. After reading a book they have to take a short quiz on it to confirm they actually read it and understood it. Depending on the length of the book and the difficulty each book is awarded a point value. For her reading grade, she had to earn a minimum of 20 points a month. So for example, Sari read Twilight and took the quiz which was worth 25 points. However, there are some books which are only worth 1 or 2 points. It just depends on the difficulty level of the book. Sari is definitely taking after her dad and his love for reading. You can only pass a quiz one time per book and after that the computer won't allow you to earn any more points for that specific book. Sari's teacher kept track of their reading counts points by putting stars on the chart. Sari's stars filled the entire chart and Mrs. Hofer said that if the chart was long enough to fit all of Sari's stars it would have to be about 2 feet longer. Sari ended with about 750 reading counts points and read over 3.5 million words this school year. And that was just in the books she read the first time. As many of you know, Sari is a lover of the Twilight series and has read the entire series about 9 times since Christmas :) If we actually counted every word she has read this school year I'm sure she would be closer to the 10 million mark :)


This is Sari's name written in the greek alphabet. Can you tell which one is hers?

We had lots of fun looking at all of the different things Sari has done throughout the year. Her teacher also had a slideshow going of the students and said that at the end of the school year she will give each person a disk with all of the pictures on it. After we get the disk I will post more about Sari's trip to Scicon.

1 comment:

Jenny and Chris Dixon said...

It sounds like the girls did a lot of hard work at school, but hopefully had fun doing it!