Happy LONG weekend and happy Halloween!
Congratulations to our Grade 6 class council:
Will, Nicole, Regan, Isaac and Kalyna! Job well done by everyone!
Next week: math test, ELA figures of speech quiz, Novel study and Religion Social justice projects.
This [short] week in learning:
FLA: les 5 au Quotidien. This is a reading program done in class whereby students are grouped at the same level and they work together to improve their reading comprehension and vocabulary.
ELA: News articles. Learning how to write a great lead.
MATH: finishing coordinates and beginning equality in equations. I am anticipating the test for this module on Nov. 8th, next Thursday.
SCIENCE: looking at the night sky. Students are bringing home a sheet to note the phases of the moon over a month. They are also asked to look at constellations and the position of the sun, moon and stars.
SOCIAL: today we had speeches by the candidates and tomorrow we vote! For the rest of the week we will finish chapter two and have a quiz on it next week.
RELIGION: social justice research. I have booked the Chromebooks and students will research a non-profit organization and talk about how it helps the community. We will work on this next week as well.
HEALTH: quiz on studying this Wednesday
Wear orange and black on Wednesday!
Student Council candidats: Congratulations to everyone who put their name forth. Great job on the speeches. Good luck in the election.
Learning buddies today: Grade 6 students gave instructions to 2/3 on making a pumpkin
Coming soon!
Elections 2018 for class council
Tuesday October 29th
This week in Learning:
ELA; finishing Vermeer and working on a news article and putting the novel study together to hand in next week.
FLA: working on speeches for Social Studies. If students are running for candidacy, they will write a speech as to why we should vote for them. If students are not running for election, they will write a speech about what democracy means to them and how it affects their life.
SOCIAL: fundamental rights, democratic rights and speeches.
SCIENCE: looking at the sky, objects that reflect and emit light. Every night students will be asked to observe the sky and note it in their notebooks.
MATH: finishing algebra and moving onto coordinates and how to place them on a grid.
Coming up this week:
Youthlink Tuesday. Please be on time. The bus will leave @9am and return @ 2h30
YOUTHLINK Tuesday October 23rd
What to Bring:
(Indoor shoes ONLY in case of inclement weather.)
Please have each student bring a peanut-free lunch and a pencil.
Pens and gum are not permitted.
Note: there is NO microwave available.
Please have students bring a water bottle as there are no water fountains available in the Centre.
Schools may follow their own cell phone policy while at the Centre; however we ask that if cell phones are present, they be placed on silent and out of site while programming is being delivered.
Pictures are allowed to be taken with cameras or cell phone cameras.
Student Supervision is the Responsibility of volunteers and teachers:
Recommended ratio is 1 adult : 10 students. Classes must have a minimum of three adults present with each class.
We expect the adult supervisors to take an active part in the program by helping the students stay focused on the program but not doing the activities for the students or leading or directing
discussions.
In addition, teachers and parents will be solely responsible for supervising students during a half-hour lunch break.
Teachers and parents are expected to help manage
students and be positive role models.
St Luke feast day with our learning buddies:
We made artist palettes with oreo cookies and smarties and pretzels.
This week in learning:
Science: Test tomorrow on Evidence and investigation.
Today we began our new unit on Astronomie. this is super website that is interactive and helps students with some concepts such as rotation and revolution.
http://nineplanets.org/tour/
FLA: we will finish our our crime scene today and present Wednesday. All groups should be ready to go.
ELA: Continuing Vermeer.
Phys Ed: none this week as they are dancing every day
Social Studies: Debate teams should be ready to go on Wednesday and Thursday this week. Reminder that it is a mini-debate, not university level.
MATH: we continue working on patterns in value tables. Today we learned a trick to figure out the operations needed for the pattern.
Religion: we will begin looking at Moses' life. In pairs, students will be assigned a part of his life to illustrate and present to the class. We will also have an in-class celebration for our Patron St. on Thursday.
THIS WEEK:
Dance Kreations latin dance every day @ 2h45-3h15. Students will need to be organized and ready to go.
Final Performance Friday @1:00pm in the gym
Thursday pizza day and Crazy hair day
Homework for those who didn't finish:
Vermeer chapters 9-12 + questions
Math p 8 numbers 1,2,4,5,6,9
Demain quiz en français: expressions avec "avoir" et "être".
Mme Wozny said the students were AMAZING in helping sort the clothes for "Pass it on Clothing" Merci les amis.
Si vous voulez filmer votre scénette demain en français, apportez vos costumes. Les iPads seront disponibles.
Start studying in Science: Unit test on Oct. 16th.
English letter due Friday
This week in Learning:
Math: unit test tomorrow am. We will be starting our next unit on patterns and equality in equations. There are still some students struggling with multiplication and division skills. Today we had a mini pratice of Part A of the math PAT. 5 simple math equations using decimals and whole numbers. Students are asked to take these, switch up the numbers and practice, practice, practice.
FLA: We continue to work on our Fairy Tale forensic crime scenes. Quiz on expressions using "avoir" and "être" this Thursday.
ELA: We will continue reading the novel "Chasing Vermeer". Personal letters will now be for homework due Friday the 12th.
Science: We are pretty much done our unit on forensics and the date for the test is October 16th. Permission slips for Youthlink have gone home today and should be returned asap.
Social Studies: We are busy working on our debate topics and students are compiling lists of 5 pros and cons for each topic. Thursday they will be assigned their side and be asked to put together their arguments.
Religion: Our symbol this year is a lantern and students are asked to think about how they can be a light to others. This week we look at the bible and some stories of how God is a light for us.
ART/Health: I will incoporate the two subjects and have students think about what they really want in life. They will then put together a collage on a silhouette to show their goals/dreams/desires.
Coming up:
Sorting clothes for the "Pass it on clothing" Wednesday a.m.
School pictures Friday
SPARK/Brain breaks: we will have one student per week to set up a routine brain break and try to reach so many minutes per week. When we add the minutes we want to reach so many kms to reach a destination by a certain date. (1 min = 1km) If we achieve that goal, we will celebrate with a party/reward.
Class council rules
This week in Learning:
FLA: Bande Dessinée is due tomorrow. I have yet to see the signatures of parents on some quizzes. Please sign them and have your child show them to me. It is our way of communicating results on the students' progress and let's me know that you are aware of results. Thank you.
This week we begin an oral presentation that ties in with Science. Students will create a crime scene based on a Fairy Tale, including a crime, evidence, suspects and investigation. Should be fun.
ELA: we began reading chapter 5 last week and up to chapter 8 will be assigned today, including questions and decoding. Due tomorrow. We will also work on leter writing, beginning with a personal letter.
Social Studies: today students were given the 411 on how to run for class council. I have included the info in the next BLOG. Students NOT running will still have to do a speech on democracy.
We have also decided on the topics for our debates and students will be working on them this week and next.
SCIENCE: Today we look at chromatography, and try to forge someone else's writing (goes with graphology).
MATH: We have 2 more lessons before the unit test. I anticipate it next week, so start studying and reviewing.
Coming up this week:
Lockdown Wednesday
Liturgy for Thanksgiving Wednesday at 1pm
Farm to school orders arrive Wednesday
Friday PD day no school for students and
Monday thanksgiving...Have a great weekend!
math homework due tomorrow
