Advice from Kayle

Dear Future Sixth Grade Class,

I’m going to tell you what to expect and what you’re probably going to want to avoid in junior high.  

Sixth grade of course is gonna be a lot different from fifth grade because you’re gonna be able to have a lot of freedom.  Now I know what you’re thinking.  you are probably thinking that you’ll be able to get away with everything, but I wouldn’t count on that.  They have eyes everywhere!  I can’t really tell you or give hints about where those eyes might be because I don’t want to get in trouble for whatever might happen with you future sixth graders!  :)

Anyway, why don’t we go ahead and talk about your classes.  OK, Mrs.  Camden’s class is really fun.  If you’re quiet you can listen to music on your phone while you’re working!  Oh and I don’t know if she’ll still have this, but right now she is this thing called a “quiet day.”  All it is, is if she has a substitute or if while she’s there and she feels that the class is out of control, she won’t tell you anything the next day. There will just be instructions written on the board, a packet of papers in front of you, and the expectation that you’ll finish it by the end of her class period.  (And you don’t get to listen to music)

Now, Mrs. DeCamp...she’s a pretty good teacher, it’s just when it comes to doing paperwork...she does the work right, but she like, I don’t know….I just never really understood the way she explained it.  When she would explain it and then leave the rest of it for us to do on our own if I went up for help, it seemed like she explained it a totally different way.  Math is hard!

For Social Studies you’ll have either Coach Ramirez or Mr. Flores.  Now I don’t know what Coach Ramirez does, but I do know that in Mr. Flores’ class you will write a lot of notes and you never get to watch a movie in there.  Let’s just say you don’t get a lot of freedom in there unless you’re doing paperwork.

Mrs. Schauer teaching Reading and English, so you’ll have her for two periods.  At the beginning of the year, you don’t get to watch any movies, Mrs. Schauer is so awesome, the work she makes you do doesn’t even feel like work.  Her class doesn’t even feel like class, because she has a couch and lots of pillows and stuff.  Her classroom is really kind of more like a lounge.  

Seventh period is basically just time for you to hang with friends if you’re passing all your classes.  It’s kind of like recess, but for junior high. If you have mandatory tutorials then you have to go to them because if you dont then its a warning and then the second time it’s a write up and then the third I think you have detention or ISS.

Eighth period I had Band and all Mr.Flores expects  is just for you to get your theory done and to get your practice sheet done.Oh and if you’re gonna be in high school band I suggest that you start taking band seriously  because if you act childish in high school band you’ll either get chewed out or get kicked out.

And that’s everything that happens in your day.  There’s really nothing you should really avoid. Just don’t start drama because you can’t get rid of it and just stay out of high schoolers’ way or they get mad.

Sincerely,    

Kayle