Happy Spring!
It was wonderful to connect with so many families at school this week. Thank you for coming in to see what we are up to in Grade 6. Please feel free to contact us if you were not able to check in and have any questions or concerns.
Homework over the break
As promised, I have added a few reading questions for students to think about and complete over the break. Yay!! Students did not take notebooks home so typing it in drive and printing it at school or writing on any paper you have and gluing or copying it in next week is fine.
The questions are divided by the novel and added to our running 'Dystopian Novel Study Chapt Questions' in the 6-1 & 6-2 Class Templates folder (students know where to find this).
I know many families are away or just need some downtime. I have made these three questions due on Tuesday (the second day back) after the break to allow for last minute catching up.
Enjoy the sunshine and soggy feet!
See you back on Monday, April 1.
Sunday, March 24, 2019
Monday, March 18, 2019
Science Test on Thursday
Your unit test for Aerodynamics and Flight is on Thursday, March 21st
- Parts of an airplane
- Functions of each airplane part
- What creates lift, yaw, roll, thrust, pitch?
- Forces involved in flight
- Bernoulli's Principle
- Properties of air
- Hot air balloons
- Airfoil
- Drag, aerodynamics, streamline, surface area
Here are some helpful links to use, along with your Science Visual Journal, Science Notebook and GS Presentation on Propulsion:
Friday, March 15, 2019
Friday, March 15th
Looking Back:
Math:
- Order of Operations
- Algebra puzzles using the letters of the alphabet (each worth a specific value) to form words worth a certain value
Humanities:
- Novel Study:
- Students reading the Giver or City of Ember have completed reading Chapters 9 and are to read Chpt 10 independently over the weekend (please don't read ahead). Chapter questions have been added to your 6-1&6-2 Class Templates folder in Google Docs.
- Students reading Among The Hidden, please read chapters 16, 17, and 18 and write the "Perspective Paragraph" as discussed in class. Details in Google drive folder.
- We have discussed what makes a strong campaign and practiced how to communicate a clear platform on posters and in a speech.
- Students decided to divide our city into "Wards" and to have a councillor from each ward and a Mayor from each city to provide leadership and support the organization of our new city. Several students have submitted their application for nomination and are preparing a speech for Wednesday. Students who are successful candidates are permitted to post two campaign posters on Monday morning. Candidates for Mayor are to prepare a two minute speech and those running for Councillor are to prepare a one minute speech stating their name, position they are running for and campaign platform priorities.
- Vocabulary- Council, Councillor, Mayor, Premier, Infrastructure, Ward, Constituency
- See below for homework details.
Science:
- Trip to the Hanger
- Forces involved in flight: lift, gravity, thrust, drag
- Parts of an airplane
- Movements in flight: roll (bank), yaw, pitch
For Homework - Due Monday, March 18. 2019
1 ~In your Home Journal reflect on your week in the usual format. Please include a paragraph that lists three departments you feel should be a priority as we continue building and organizing the services and infrastructure in our city?
2 ~ Finish Novel Study Chapter Questions
In your Google Drive folder called "6-1 & 6-2 2019 Templates," see the document called Dystopian Novel Study Chpt Questions.
3 ~ Bring in any supplies like small boxes, stickers, popsicle sticks, plasticine, etc that you think would help you with the next steps of your 'City Planning' and building.
Looking Forward:
Math:
- Integers
- Algebra
Humanities:
- Novel Study, fluency focus on 'Stress and Emphasis'. Together we will check-in on Questions, and responses so far (Writing notebooks, upside-down and backwards pgs 1-8)
- Campaigns begin and departments are decided upon for new city. Electoral Speeches are on Wednesday for those who have decided to run for office
- Begin building and creating infrastructure
- Vocabulary - Nominate, Nominee, Campaign, Platform, Department, Civil Servant, Advisory Committee, Forum, Budget
Science:
- Hot air balloons
- Rockets
- Jet engines
- History of flight
- Unit test
Important Reminders:
Math:
- Order of Operations
- Algebra puzzles using the letters of the alphabet (each worth a specific value) to form words worth a certain value
Humanities:
- Novel Study:
- Students reading the Giver or City of Ember have completed reading Chapters 9 and are to read Chpt 10 independently over the weekend (please don't read ahead). Chapter questions have been added to your 6-1&6-2 Class Templates folder in Google Docs.
- Students reading Among The Hidden, please read chapters 16, 17, and 18 and write the "Perspective Paragraph" as discussed in class. Details in Google drive folder.
- We have discussed what makes a strong campaign and practiced how to communicate a clear platform on posters and in a speech.
- Students decided to divide our city into "Wards" and to have a councillor from each ward and a Mayor from each city to provide leadership and support the organization of our new city. Several students have submitted their application for nomination and are preparing a speech for Wednesday. Students who are successful candidates are permitted to post two campaign posters on Monday morning. Candidates for Mayor are to prepare a two minute speech and those running for Councillor are to prepare a one minute speech stating their name, position they are running for and campaign platform priorities.
- Vocabulary- Council, Councillor, Mayor, Premier, Infrastructure, Ward, Constituency
- See below for homework details.
Science:
- Trip to the Hanger
- Forces involved in flight: lift, gravity, thrust, drag
- Parts of an airplane
- Movements in flight: roll (bank), yaw, pitch
For Homework - Due Monday, March 18. 2019
1 ~In your Home Journal reflect on your week in the usual format. Please include a paragraph that lists three departments you feel should be a priority as we continue building and organizing the services and infrastructure in our city?
2 ~ Finish Novel Study Chapter Questions
In your Google Drive folder called "6-1 & 6-2 2019 Templates," see the document called Dystopian Novel Study Chpt Questions.
3 ~ Bring in any supplies like small boxes, stickers, popsicle sticks, plasticine, etc that you think would help you with the next steps of your 'City Planning' and building.
Looking Forward:
Math:
- Integers
- Algebra
Humanities:
- Novel Study, fluency focus on 'Stress and Emphasis'. Together we will check-in on Questions, and responses so far (Writing notebooks, upside-down and backwards pgs 1-8)
- Campaigns begin and departments are decided upon for new city. Electoral Speeches are on Wednesday for those who have decided to run for office
- Begin building and creating infrastructure
- Vocabulary - Nominate, Nominee, Campaign, Platform, Department, Civil Servant, Advisory Committee, Forum, Budget
Science:
- Hot air balloons
- Rockets
- Jet engines
- History of flight
- Unit test
Important Reminders:
- Mondays - open gym for Grade 6
- Wednesdays at lunch - Just Dance club
- March 20th - Spring Fling Dance (periods 5&6)
- March 21st - Science test on Aerodynamics and Flight
- March 21st - early dismissal for students
- March 22nd - no school for students
- March 21st (1:00pm-8:00pm) and March 22 (8:30am - 2:00pm) - Student Led Conferences
- sign-up through MyCBE / PowerSchool
- March 23rd - March 31st - Spring Break
- April 1st - First day back after Spring Break
- April 11th - Heritage Park field trip
Friday, March 8, 2019
Friday March 8, 2019
Math:
- Factors
- Prime Factorization
- Greatest Common Factor (GCF)
- Multiples
- Lowest Common Multiple (LCM)
- Using GCF to find LCM
- Algebra puzzles: what number does each picture represent?
Humanities:
- Continued reading dystopian novels to practice our Fluency Focus on "Pausing", practice in small groups. See Homework below.
- Added to T-chart with 'Vocab' on one side 'Unusual Rules' on the other
- Began Local Government, all students built a house and joined a 'neighbourhood', then added 3 'Features' to make their group's ideal neighbourhood.
- Vocabulary: Municipal Government, Provincial Government, Services, Urban, Rural
Science:
- Aerodynamics and Propulsion of birds and Insects presentation - Due Monday, March 11: students should have brought home the assignment description and rubric to ensure they are ready for Monday. They are working on these on Google Slides so they can access their work from anywhere.
- Flight Museum and Hanger, field trip preparation
Looking Forward:
Math:
- Order of Operations
- Algebra
Humanities:
What a busy week! Thank you for all the hard work and creativity this week!
- Novel Study:
- Students reading the Giver or City of Ember should complete reading Chapters 6 and 7 over the weekend (please don't read ahead).
- Students reading Among The Hidden, please read chapters 11, 12 and 13 and write the two paragraphs explaining two possible solutions to the main problem that your group discussed.
- Examining how decisions are made at the community and municipal level as well as the Services provided by local government. Students were asked to bring in a sticky note with a list of ten Services they use almost every day.
- Students are revisiting the three highlighted purposes of government (fulfil needs through access to services, lead and organize, protect all rights and freedoms)
- Home Journals - This week's home journal will be a little different, as they do not have to follow the usual criteria. They have been asked to research a city comparable to the one they have been constructing in class. See below for homework details.
-Vocabulary- Council, Councillor, Mayor, Premier, Infrastructure, Ward, Constituency
For Homework
- Reflect on the process of building your house, neighbourhood and deciding on features. In your Home Journals, please list the five or six steps they have gone through so far in this task. Start with: #1.) we were all given the same amount of land (green paper)
1 ~What 'comparable' Canadian city did your group choose to research and how is the Local Government organized?
2 ~ What should we name it? Why?
- Sticky note with ten services
- Complete the $1 sentence that summarizes all 5 chapters. This is one sentence that included all chapters, NOT one sentence for each (think 'theme' not retelling specific details).
- Bring in any supplies like small boxes, stickers, popsicle sticks, plasticine, etc that you think would help you with the next steps of your 'City Planning' and building.
- Forces in flight
- Parts of an airplane
- Field trip to the Hanger: Tuesday, March 12
- History of flight
Important Reminders:
- Mondays - open gym for Grade 6
- Wednesdays at lunch - Just Dance club
- March 12th - Field trip to The Hanger, a few forms have not been handed in; 2 in 6-1 and 1 in 6-2. Please pay online through your MyCBE account
- Scholastic Book Orders are due Monday, March 11
- March 21st - early dismissal for students
- March 22nd - no school for students
- March 21st (1:00pm-8:00pm) and March 22 (8:00am - 2:00pm) - Student Led Conferences
- sign-up through MyCBE / PowerSchool
- March 23rd - March 31st - Spring Break
- April 1st - First day back after Spring Break
Pink Shirt Day - Be Kind/Anti-Bullying, Aerodynamics Art and Properties of Air Demos
Monday, March 4, 2019
Novel Study Response Pages 1-6
Some students were asking...
In writing notebooks (Up-side-down and Backwards)
Novel Study Title Page (blank)
Pg 1 - Utopian/Dystopian T-chart
Pg 2a - Predictions:
Pg 2b - What does a Fluent Reader Sound Like?
Pg 3 - Vocabulary list / Unusual Rules list
Pg 4 - Dystopian Story elements of Beginnings
Character: Protagonist,
Setting: Time, Place, Mood
Main Event: No problem yet
Pg 5 - Chapter Questions (Chpt 1 and 2)
Pg 6 - Group Jobs List (forthcoming)
Hope this helps!
In writing notebooks (Up-side-down and Backwards)
Novel Study Title Page (blank)
Pg 1 - Utopian/Dystopian T-chart
Pg 2a - Predictions:
Pg 2b - What does a Fluent Reader Sound Like?
Pg 3 - Vocabulary list / Unusual Rules list
Pg 4 - Dystopian Story elements of Beginnings
Character: Protagonist,
Setting: Time, Place, Mood
Main Event: No problem yet
Pg 5 - Chapter Questions (Chpt 1 and 2)
Pg 6 - Group Jobs List (forthcoming)
Hope this helps!
Sunday, March 3, 2019
February 28, 2019
Looking Back:
Math:
- Factors/Multiples
- Order of Operations
Humanities:
- 5 Sentence Stories using the key elements from our work on 'Story Boards'
- Searching the learning commons for story beginnings, Struggles and Endings
- How to use commas
- Pre-reading activities of dystopian novel study: City of Ember, The Giver, or Among the Hidden.
- T-chart of Utopian and Dystopian
- Predictions using evidence
Science:
- Forces: thrust, drag, gravity, lift
French:
- Alphabet, Numbers and Animals
Looking Forward:
Math:
- Factors/Multiples
- Order of Operation
Humanities:
- Sharing 5 Sentence Stories (*these should be done for homework if incomplete)
- Reading dystopian novel to practice our Fluency Focus on "Pausing", practice in small groups
- Add to T-chart with 'Vocab' on one side 'Unusual Rules' on the other (*this should be in notebook)
- Introduction to next Social Studies unit on Local Government, building houses
- Vocabulary: Municipal Government, Provincial Government, Services, Urban, Rural
Science:
- Flight
- Flight Museum and Hanger, field trip preparation
French:
- Animals and Regions of Alberta
- Review of alphabet and numbers
CTF:
Students have completed one module and will begin next module on Tuesday
Important Reminders:
Math:
- Factors/Multiples
- Order of Operations
Humanities:
- 5 Sentence Stories using the key elements from our work on 'Story Boards'
- Searching the learning commons for story beginnings, Struggles and Endings
- How to use commas
- Pre-reading activities of dystopian novel study: City of Ember, The Giver, or Among the Hidden.
- T-chart of Utopian and Dystopian
- Predictions using evidence
Science:
- Forces: thrust, drag, gravity, lift
French:
- Alphabet, Numbers and Animals
Looking Forward:
Math:
- Factors/Multiples
- Order of Operation
Humanities:
- Sharing 5 Sentence Stories (*these should be done for homework if incomplete)
- Reading dystopian novel to practice our Fluency Focus on "Pausing", practice in small groups
- Add to T-chart with 'Vocab' on one side 'Unusual Rules' on the other (*this should be in notebook)
- Introduction to next Social Studies unit on Local Government, building houses
- Vocabulary: Municipal Government, Provincial Government, Services, Urban, Rural
Science:
- Flight
- Flight Museum and Hanger, field trip preparation
French:
- Animals and Regions of Alberta
- Review of alphabet and numbers
CTF:
Students have completed one module and will begin next module on Tuesday
Important Reminders:
- Mondays - open gym for Grade 6
- Wednesdays at lunch - Just Dance club
- March 12th - Field trip to The Hanger, a few forms have not been handed in. Please pay online through your MyCBE account
- Friday, March 1 - No school/PD Day
A few quick Photos of the CTF snowshoe adventure to the coulee for hot chocolate and lunch.
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