My 6th Grade Progress Report, by Hudson Edwards
My 6th grade year has been great. I did a lot of fun projects, read interesting books, did a lot of Dungeons and Dragons, challenged myself, and achieved my goals. I have read and completed seven books from the Wings of Fire series and have started on the eighth. From book one, the detail and emotion of the dragons really shows. With the five prophecy dragonets completing their goal in the fifth, it proved how much they cared about their destiny. This year I have played a lot of Dungeons & Dragon sessions. I love it so much that I am in four and a half hours of campaigns each week. My favorite D&D character is my white scaled Dragonborn Barbarian named Syrax. Syrax wields a greataxe with so much power and strength, that he can hack and slash through enemies as though he was golfing. He is part of the dragon slayers and is quite famous. Many plushies, magazines and toys were made for his fans. Most posters made about Syrax depict him riding on his hellhorse down a mountain with all his pets happily running after him. This year we started gymnastics again and we go twice a week. I challenged myself to new tricks. I landed a front 540 onto an eight incher mat, back half on the trampoline, front double full into the foam pit, and a J-step to a backflip on a spot block into the pit. I can now do them all without a spot.
This summer we are trying out a new curriculum for summer review, and it is great! The book keeps it simple and straightforward with many tips and pointers if you're stuck. It has many hard problems but it is really fun and challenging. We are learning how to be financially independent. We are reading the book First to a Million by Dan Sheeks. This book has been very inspirational ever since we started reading it as a family, and when I am sixteen I want to be financially independent and living my dream life. It talks about ways you can earn more money, make money in your sleep and have steady income through stocks. A lot of people fall into the standard American dream which is working a hard, boring job until you retire at 60. Do you know how much time you spent on this rather than your family or a skill? The book also talks about how to make money while doing your homework. All you need to do is get a night shift somewhere that pays by the hour, and do your homework while being paid!
If I could work on anything next year what would it be? I would like to study how a dog's body works and start reading Lord of the Rings after Wings of Fire. I want to learn about the vital organs and digestive system of a dog along with how the tail moves and works. I am also working on a game with my game studio in Java Script. The program I use is called Jippity and it is an AI coding tutor for Java Script, HTML and .CSS. I am working on improving my mindustry skills so I can make stronger units and turrets. From mindustry you learn engineering and problem solving, along with leadership and team building.
My favorite work this year was my D&D characters, the new summer math workbook and reading aloud the financial independence book. From my amazing chapter book, Dungeons and Dragons, fun math and language arts, this year has been awesome. Next year, I want to keep improving my mindustry and math along with my reading, writing, coding and reading aloud skills. It is cool being a 6th grader but I can't wait to be in 7th. Mom and Dad were the best teachers ever so I thank them!
6th Grade Progress Report (2023-2024)
Hudson completed the curriculum below and the standardized test. We focused on time management and autonomy in basic subjects and online classes. Attached is his report and work samples. He is ready for our summer review workbooks and Fall curriculum.
He is currently reading the Wings of Fire series; coding a Jippity game with a team; creating Dungeons & Dragons characters, Syrax being his favorite; making AI music, art and a Buymeacoffee blog; and studying early financial independence. He is good at creative writing, story development, and mental math. He improved his independent reading, collaboration, and teamwork. He loves working on Dungeon and Dragon character development and researching his interests. His goals are to reach early financial independence, design things for space, create landfill robots to make the environment cleaner, and use medicine advancement for pet longevity. He wants to make art, study dog anatomy and how their bodies work, medicine, space, and robotics to reach his goals.
He has excellent academic ability, high achievement, is organized, takes responsibility, uses his time wisely, is independent, participates, and works well with others. He has been recognized by Recess teachers for his encouraging leadership contribution and being a positive role model to the team and they are honored to work with him. He is a critical thinker, curious, creative, motivated, and determined. When learning something of interest he takes initiative with great confidence, effort, and attitude towards school. His strengths are his creativity, writing skills, critical thinking, and determination. Self confidence and regulation for his study habits and setbacks are areas to work on to improve his bad attitude when things are challenging, especially in his math.
Lang & Lit - Read chapter and series books, read aloud, audiobooks, podcasts; Recess Minecraft and Lore for role play, story building and writing; Recess and 2 Outschool Dungeon and Dragon classes for storytelling, critical thinking, problem solving, creativity, imagination, and teamwork.
Math - Saxon grade level math workbook and skills practice showing neat and organized work.
Writing - Brave Writer Greek Myth, Passion Project, Dream Big, Go Wild, and History class; Recess classes: Creative Genesis creative writing and Twinery for creating stories and text based games; copywork, creative projects, spelling, capitalization, punctuation, neat penmanship, paragraphs, stories, research, typing, and Painless Vocab Book.
History/Science - Mystery Science, documentaries, monthly magazines, zoology and 7th grade science workbooks; Recess classes: Kerbal Space, Tech and Rockets, Mindustry, and Poly bridge for engineering, Geoguessr for geography; Outschool aviation science and flight school; Dan Sheeks First to A Million FI book; Tuttle Twins Economics and American History books.
Specials - Colab team challenges, Apollo entrepreneur business, and Recess cohorts for collaboration, communication, and problem solving; Recess Jippity team coding and AI classes; Outschool game design and drawing classes; waterman ocean swim and body surf skills, swim team, gymnastics, fitness workouts; and Dulingo for Japanese, Chinese, and Welch.