6th Grade Toolbox

Reading and Writing Assignments:

When assigned a reading or writing as homework it may hard, but there are some techniques to do this homework/assignment. Some people annotate or write there ideas, some people collaborate and figure things out, some read through things and ask for guidance from others, but the one I will focus and write about is annotation! Annotation is a way to write notes, make connections to the text that you have read, understand the text better than just reading through it and reflect on what you have read.  An example is when you are reading something you can add notes to your self and connections by using sticky notes, a piece of paper and etc. to make the reading assignment not be so overwhelming. An example that we all know is our annotation homework and how we have to understand and make connections.

Memorizing Facts/Notes: You are in a situation where have test or quiz that you have to memorize facts an notes to pass the test, you need a quick an easy way out of this. Memorizing facts can be a hard thing to do, but there are was to memorize, like writing them on flash cards and quizzing yourself, record facts/notes on your on your phone or just saying them over and over and over again! The technique I am going to talk about is recording facts and notes on your phone. Most phones are are used for social media and entertainment in our world. Recording notes and facts can one thing that we use our phones to be a bit educational. Simply just record using voice memos and go over your notes while recording, then when you need to study and memorize something you can just hear it while you are going through notes. It is useful now because you have every where you go on your mobile deceive. 

Time Management: 

 There are different ways that people do time managing. People can use agendas to keep there schedule on check or maybe put a certain time on the clock and get there thing finished in that time period. The thing that I will focus on is a app called myHomework App. With the myHomework you can quickly put your homework, tests, projects and lessons. You can also but in your class time to keep track of when your classes are and how long. Another factor is that you can reminded when your assignments are due so you can be on top of that.

Math & Stem:
With Math and Stem there are some hard problems out there that can't be figured out by mental math(Just doing the math in the mind) sometimes it is necessary to draw and illustrate pictures to help understand the problem better. With pictures you draw you can understand the question/word problem and what it is trying to explain without the tricky vocabulary used to confuse you. Sometimes graphs and diagrams are provided for the understanding of the question. An example if you don't get what I am trying to say is integers, asking a question like 5+(-7) sometimes you can draw and color a picture of chips lined up to figure out the sum, that is what I mean by illustration to understand a question. With this concept of bring illustration to Math and Stem it will be an way easier way to analyze and understand through your on drawing!      

Note Taking:

Note Taking can be a little hard especially because we sometimes don't know what to write down. Some just write down everything with out even noticing some of the things they wrote are irreverent, but today I'm going to write about how to take notes called bullet points. Bullet Points are a way of taking notes in fragment/not full sentences and still getting information. These are the things to note taking,when you are note taking write down important notes in bullets, do NOT write down the notes that are not IMPORTANT and do NOT write notes in complete sentences it in because may take a lot of your space on our page and maybe unneeded notes. Remember to write down your notes to help you on homework , information of test or quiz, or some notes for class that you thinks is important and you won't remember. Note taking is really easy when you to keep in mind these basic things to write down the important things in bullets.    

Organizing Tools:

When organizing tools, people use different techniques.

• some people use sticky notes, 

• some use agendas,

• some use folders,

• and some even use phone alerts!

 But the one we are going to focus more on is folders. Folders help you by knowing what you are going things do you need to have done for the next day or if you need to keep something at home. It also keeps you organized because you know what to do with the things in your folder and it makes your life soooo much easier because you know where you put your things from your school/classroom. You can also write down and put important notes that are from class to have. If you forget there's a important paper that you have to look at and finish just open your folders to see whats going on in class and be organized! 

By: Sukeji Tombe and Allison Roaro