Position: Sixth Grade Teacher

Education: B.S. Elementary Education, Psychology minor, Houghton College, Houghton, NY

Start Date at CCCS: August 21, 2007

Favorite Scripture:  Jeremiah 29:11

Favorite Food:  Chocolate, strawberries

Most Frequently Visited Websites:  bettycrocker.com; scholastic.com

Email:  bweber@ccchristianschool.com

Exciting Things Happening in My Class This Year:

Sixth grade is an exciting year! Many new academic skills are learned as well as study skills and work habits that are needed for middle school.

Our most important class of the day is Bible.  During Bible class, we take an in depth look at the New Testament and see the practical ways that it applies to our lives today.  We then take what we have learned and encourage one another to put these lessons into practice.

Sixth grade math involves a lot of fractions and decimals.  The students enjoy practicing these skills by finding practical, everyday examples in which they need to use the skills they are learning.

During Language Arts, the students practice writing in different forms, such as personal narratives and newspaper articles.  We also read from our anthology, as well as three extra novels throughout the course of the year.  Each sixth grader also has the opportunity to compete in the ACSI spelling bee.

Science is an exciting class as we cover a wide variety of topics from earthquakes to genetics.  Many fun and interesting experiments accompany these lessons.

In Social Studies, we study the western world, both its history and geography.  A highlight of social studies is a class geography bee in the spring.