Grade 6 Blog

April 21

April 21, 2025

I never knew the story behind the label of “soft skills” until I heard it t...

April 7

April 7, 2025

I have always been a “rule-follower.” A quick Google search, AI definition ...

March 24

March 23, 2025

Daylight saving time had not yet come to pass. It was dark. It was cold. The buses bega...

March 3

February 28, 2025

I love to read. Not a single day goes by without my spending time reading. Current r...

February 17

February 18, 2025

I like this list about what happens when adults look for and start finding good things ...

February 3

February 3, 2025

Last week was the Snow Daze celebration. At the middle school, it is an opportunity to ...

January 20

January 21, 2025

Events from last week have me considering when someone receives a “No”...

January 6

January 6, 2025

To start the new calendar year: two stories and a lyric. One A senior monk and...

December 16

December 16, 2024

I am not very good at waiting. Is that a skill? (A quick search informed me that it is,...

December 2

December 2, 2024

As an educator who deals routinely with cell phones, whenever I see an article with pho...

November 18

November 15, 2024

Another trip around the sun. No, not a birthday but a Thanksgiving celebration is here ...

November 4

November 4, 2024

Working with preteens and teens, a constant area in development is boundaries as kids l...

October 21

October 21, 2024

For twenty years I was a high school basketball coach. I mainly coached girls but had a...

October 7

October 4, 2024

Many of you know that I am a Minnesota Twins baseball fan. I have written about them in...

September 23

September 23, 2024

Part of an educational degree is the requirement of completing a course on educational ...

September 9

September 6, 2024

The last Heinecke started college classes this week: my niece is now a college freshman...