Ask Me About...- Grade 6s finished PATs and Grade 5s finished their Genius Hour presentations. - Health - human sexuality - we have learned about changes to our body during puberty and about both male and female reproductive systems. We also learned about the development of a fetus, how twins form and blood borne diseases. - Spheros - we finished coding our games, stories, or nursery rhymes and shared them. They were amazing! - We are starting to explore the art medium of watercolour. We are trying to replicate artworks of flowers or insects or some other natural image so that we can develop skill with the techniques of using a lot of water with a little bit of paint. We are looking at the effects that can be created by using washes and layers. Thank you Parent Council for the classroom donation that allowed the purchase of some amazing water colour sets. And a HUGE than you to Kensington Art Supplies for giving us a great discount so we could buy enough sets to share in pairs. - Penguin Pandemonium is our read aloud novel. The penguins have decided to have a talent show on Penguin Cam to try to draw people in so that the zoo won't close. We recognize some unlikeable character traits in Muriel, one of the fairy penguins. - We started Grad rehearsals... we are excited to perform for you! Upcoming...- Monday - Pyjama Day and if you choose, you could come with Crazy Hair, too.
- Tuesday - Grade 6 Farewell 12:30 to 2:30pm - Wednesday - Farewell Assembly 10:30. Dismissal at 12:15pm. Ask Me About... - We are programming Spheros to tell a story, a nursery rhyme or to play a game. - We finished our James Rizzi buildings - We started a new novel called "Penguin Pandemonium". The zoo is shutting down so the penguins are going to have a talent show to try to save it. - Our grade 5 Genius Hour time is to research something we want to know or something we want to be when grow up. We will be presenting them next week. - Grade 5s finished their Evidence and Investigation clue project. - Grade 6s ...PATs, PATs, and more PATs... (some of our time was review and we wrote the science and reading PATs...). Raw scores will be sent with report cards at the end of June, but we did amazing on both!. Upcoming...- Monday - Grade 6 Math PAT
- Tuesday - Grade 6 Social Studies PAT - Thursday is Aboriginal Day.. we will be having a Belfasty Day in the morning and Summerfest in the afternoon. - we will continue planning our Sphero projects, work on our food chain collage, and will also be starting the Human Sexuality part of our health program on Monday. We will be focusing on: body changes and how our moods and feelings change during puberty as well as the parts of the male and female reproductive systems. Ask Me About....French - we finished our zoo interviews and recorded them into IRIS. We played French Pictionary today. Book Clubs - we finished our Week 3 meeting and some groups have gotten into some fascinating conversations about their books. We need to finish the whole book by Wednesday so we can return them to other schools. Science - we went to the Weaselhead and learned to distinguish between coniferous and deciduous tress, between shrubs and trees, and to identify different trees based upon their leaf shapes, arrangements and margins, their bark, and colour. We continued to work on our food chain collage plan. Social - we finished our wampum belt presentations. Art/Math - we are almost finished making our James Rizzi buildings and are making a city for them. We will be calculating the area and volume next week. Grade 6 Review- we reminded ourselves how to determine main ideas when we read and to understand a variety of cartoons. We learned how to fill in the bubble answer sheets. We learned that there is a website Quest A+ that we could use to practice old exams, if we want. We also have been reviewing everything about government. Math - grade 6s are learning about balance, We used different types of balances to balance numbers and objects, now we are balancing equations. Zorgamazoo - its done, Katrina gets to keep her brain and live with Morty. Many of us have decided that rhymes aren't the best way to share our ideas. They are good in short doses to emphasize or entertain, but not in whole books. Upcoming.... We will continue to work on:
- review in grade 6 - towards completing a Genius Hour project in grade 5 - our food chain collage - more math patterns - check for any library books that need to be returned. Grade 6 - Science PAT - Thursday Grade 6 - Reading PAT - Friday Ask me about...Math: We learned about mixed numbers and improper fractions. Book Club: Worked for 15 minutes completing chapter reading. French: We will now record our questions about our zoo. Social: In Social we finished our Wampum belt and then some students presented. On Tuesday students will continue with presentations. Science: We prepared for our Weaselhead field trip on Monday and started a food chain collage. Grade 5s - - Genius Hour - Stars Grade 6 Review: Practice Tests at Quest A+ - Sky Science Jeopardy, Inquiry and Problem Solving - Social Studies - - Math - we worked on learning integers and order of operations this week. Zorgamazoo: Upcoming...Monday - Weaselhead field trip... be prepared:
- to be outside all day (depending on the weather, you will need layers, hat, sunscreen, raincoat, extra socks) - to walk up to 5 km (wear appropriate shoes/boots) - to have something small to sit on (i.e.- a folded newspaper inside a plastic grocery bag, taped shut insulates and protects from moisture) - to bring litterless snacks and lunch - to bring a water bottle Thursday - AMA Patrol Picnic - lunch is provided - be prepared for any weather (layers, sunscreen, hat, raincoat, footwear for walking) - bring a water bottle Grade 6 PATs Thurs. June 14 - Science Fri. June 15- LA (Reading) Mon. June 18- Math Tues. June 19- Social Studies Ask me about...French - We were working on our French zoos where we wrote down the names of our animals and translated the names into French. This task is homework if it is incomplete. Science - We were working on a four stage life cycle of one organism and one three stage life cycle of a wetland organism. We had a wetlands test on Thursday. Social - We are continuing to work on our Wampum belts and the deadline is next week. Math - We have continued to work with Input/Output machines, this time with two-step rules. We found Least Common Multiples and practiced finding factors of numbers. We played a factor game, which can be found on our links page. We also completed an assessment where we showed our problem solving skills and our mathematical reasoning. Art/Math - Our James Rizzi buildings are getting close to being finshed. Gym - We have been doing circuits and "Just Dance" to improve our cardio. We also played Bocce Ball outside. Talent Show - On Thursday, the students performed their talents for the school. Upcoming...-Read your Book Club chapters for the Book Club meeting on Tuesday
- Tuesday - Weaselhead field trips due - Patrol Picnic forms were handed out - due Thursday Ask Me About...- We had our grade team talent show and all of the 5/6s entries are going to perform in our whole school Talent Show on Thursday afternoon at 1:00. - We started a new novel, Zorgamazoo. It is a fantasy written in rhyme. - Math - we are practicing our computation skills in math and are also visualizing patterns. We are learning to write pattern rules and to determine functions (Input/Output Machines) - Writing - We all wrote stories and newspaper articles, to show our growth from the beginning of the year. The grade 6 PATs were completed and sent off to Edmonton for final marking. - Science - We completed our mural writing and have been investigating interactions. - Math/Art - we are continuing to paint our James Rizzi buildings and are beginning to make a city scene to put them in. Upcoming...- Wetlands - Unit quiz - Thurs. May 24
- Talent Show - Thurs. May 24 Ask me about....Marsh Madness - At Ralph Klein Park we found many interesting invertebrates, including leeches and side swimmers when we pond dipped. Some of us also saw water boatmen and water striders. Writing - Our Grade 6s wrote their Language Arts Writing PAT story and news article, and the Grade 5s, also wrote a news article and story. We were all able to show how much we have grown in our writing this year. Math - We started to create growing patterns that we are showing visually and trying to explain in words. We are telling what happens for each case so that we can easily find out what would happen for the 10th? 20th? 100th? x? case. We are solving some angle problems during our daily math time also. Science - we are almost finished our wetland writing. Social - We are learning about collective identity and how it is shown through wampum belts. Art/Math - we continued to paint/colour our James Rizzi buildings and those of us who are finished are starting to design the city grid that they will be placed on. Granted - we finally finished. Sam got a home, Kasarah got her bike and Ophelia got probation but she also was able to make both wishes happen. Art - we are continuing to work on our Zentangles. Upcoming...Book Fair - May 14-17 Bring back ballot form for $25 books!
Grade 1/2 Group Talent Show - Tues. May 15 Grade 5/6 Group Talent Show - Wed. May. 16 Grade 3/4 Group Talent Show - Thurs. May 17 Non-instructional Day - Fri.May 18 Ask Me About...- Art/Math - we are making buildings in the style of James Rizzi's Happy House in Germany. We will be measuring the volume and are using congruent shapes in the design of our buildings. - We have been working on problems in our Daily Math time - we doubled the volume of a rectangular solid, found congruent shapes, and worked to determine which operation would help us to solve a problem. - Social Studies - Iroquois second info-graphics for our nations - Science - wrting - main idea sentence starters, leads - Math - We learned to measure angles using a protractor, to classify triangles as scalene, equilateral, isosceles (Check out the games for practice in our links) and learned how to find the measure of angles in a straight line and a triangle when given the measure of other angles. - We revised our Quest stories for dialogue and paragraphs and handed them in. - Literacy - the grade 5s are writing an Earth Day personal response using information gathered from more than one source. We have been using the Expository Pillar strategy for organizing our thinking and are using main idea sentence starters to write the middle paragraphs. Next week we will look at introductions with strong leads and conclusions that summarize our main idea. Grade 6s have revisited some planning techniques and organizational strategies for writing news articles in preparation for our Writing PAT next Thursday. - Gym - we have been learning to play flag football with Mr. Arron. - Granted - is getting repetitive; Ophelia still hasn't granted the wish. Upcoming ... - Marsh Madness (Ralph Klein Park) field trip is Monday - check the weather and be prepared to be outside for the day; dress in layers, bring a backpack, a water bottle, and a litter-less lunch.
- Tuesday - viewing for Talent Show - at lunch - Thursday - grade 6 Writing PAT Ask Me About....- Options Assembly - was great! We liked the sound the Movement group chose. It was interesting how they showed the actions figuratively. Having the four groups in the corners was interesting when all the people in the groups were doing the same thing at the same time. The animation took a lot of time... that was cool. It was good and they put a lot of hard work. It was cool to see how much research the Art Intervention group put into their work. Everyone had their own project and nothing overlapped which showed that we are doing a lot of things to the wetlands that we shouldn't. - Math - we have been learning about volume. We used architectural drawings (top, front, side) to make rectangular solids. We created a tower city and drew it in 3D using triangle dot paper. We know that volume is length x width x height and have used some of the volume games from our links page to practice calculating volume. After completing our Boxes in Boxes activity we will be looking at patterns and also measuring angles. - Science - we are researching adaptations, interactions, and the food chain of the animals and insects we put on our murals. We will be writing paragraphs for these next week. - Social - Ms. Huszar will be teaching us social for about a month while Mrs. Austman works with some grade 3/4 classes on math. We made infographics on a topic and now we will be researching and making an infographic about our nation - Writing - we watched videos of animals (without sound) and made up dialogue for what they might be saying. Next week we will make sure we know how to punctuate and add tag lines to our dialogue. - Literacy - after gathering feedback on our success criteria for "Satisfying Endings', in our Quest stories, we completed a final edit. Students who have not finished the main event will be finishing these stories on our own time, by next Friday. We began to gather information about Earth Day from multiple sources early in the week. Next week we will use the 'Stop List' strategy to organize our information for writing. - Granted - Ophelia is in a hawk's talons! She broke her wing, me ta dog named Sam, got hit by a truck and found donuts... her one weakness. Amazingly, she can still hear the wish> - Gym - we spent a lot of time playing games outside because of the great weather. We learned new games from Mr. Arron. Upcoming- Marsh Madness field trip forms due Monday
- Patrol Picnic - ride ticket forms/cash due Tuesday - Book orders due Friday - Quest stories due Friday Ask me about.. |
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