A weekend laugh

Science Quiz - Wed Oct 3rd

Things to study for our Biodiversity quiz

-animal adaptation
-autotroph and heterotroph
-the 5 kingdoms
-how we classify things
-warm vs cold blooded animals and some examples of
-locomotion vs movement
-role of Fungi
-who was the first person to study living things
-who is the Father of Taxonomy
-class with largest number of species
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My gift

We've been working on writing a piece about what our gift is to the world.  The students are having a fun time writing in cursive and have been awarded a trophy for thier gift.  Each of us make this world a better place.   

Terry Fox - paint the hair blue!

Our Terry Fox walk is this Thursday. As a final push to help surpass last years goal, we are having a raffle. The winning students will be called on stage to dye a teacher's hair blue. Ticket's cost $2.00 each and will be sold on Wednesday during the lunch hour. 

Please make sure to dress appropriately for the day of the walk.  Thank you to all who donated to such a great and worthy cause. 

Biodiversity

Fall is upon us.

Lifegiver Assignment

A lifegiver is someone who offers love and support in one or more of the many developmental aspects such as: emotional, social, intellectual, spiritual or physical.  The students are to choose someone who they believe is a lifegiver and provide evidence on how they have offered others love and support.  Please refer to the handout provided for more details on the written assignment.  All work will be completed in class, however, some research will be required at home.

Lifegiver assignment will be due October 4th. 

Menu

If anyone has any menus at home that we could use, please bring them in.

You guys are Fun - gi

Mold is something that we often take for granted....bet you never thought you'd hear that.  It is a fascinating organism that has many different uses.  The students have been given a task to perform an experiment that will give them an opportunity to investigate mold.  The experiment will take about 2 weeks to observe and the students are required to record everything they see and measure.  Each student received a booklet to complete and should be handed in on October 9th.

Due: October 9th

Math Test - this Wednesday!!

Our unit math test will be on Wednesday September 26th.

Things to review:
-Place value chart - know the VALUE of each number

-How to write a number three different ways: (a) standard form, (b) expanded form and (c) number/word form.

-Comparing and ordering numbers.  e.g. greater than, less than, from largest to smallest, from smallest to largest

-Order of operation - BEDMAS

-Adding, Subtracting, Multiplying and Dividing whole numbers by two digit numbers

What we are up to this week....

Language - Write traits - IDEA - we are doing lots of writing focusing on a main idea and making sure our writing has a variety of details and clarity. 

Math - We are looking at the value of numbers based on thier place value.  We are comparing, sorting, ordering, adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.  Stay tuned for the test date to be set soon. 

Science - We are investigating biodiversity.  We learned about the different kingdoms that species come from and are classifying them into thier groups. 

Religion - We have created our lanterns to represent our light of God and are talking about what it is like to be a true friend.  Thankfully we have so many wonderful positive role models to learn from. 

Upcoming Events - September

Some events that are coming our way....

Picture Day - Sept 24th - say cheese!

Terry Fox walk - Thursday Sept 27th.  Please bring in pledge forms.  Remember there is a draw for great prizes for all pledge forms that are full.

Gym Uniforms - please bring in all forms by Friday for the Titans Phys Ed uniforms.  $15 each for shirt or shorts, or $25 for both.

Trip - please bring in forms for our trip to Mountsberg.  Parents chosen to join us will be notified via the agenda once everyone's form is in.  Thanks to all who volunteered.

Websites to check out

Here are a few great websites for students.  Feel free to let me know if any of these are your favourite or if you have a site to add to the list. 

http://www.kidsites.com/   - guide to the best web sites for kids 

www.bitstripsforschools.com - student created comics 

http://www.spellingcity.com/ - games with key spelling words

http://www.wordle.net/ - you can create beautiful word clouds

www.storyplace.org - children's digital library

www.doodlestudio.com - art activities

www.cbc.ca/kids/ - after school page for fun educational games

www.creatingmusic.com/ - create your own music

www.funology.com - science of having fun

Books

We are the light of God.

Our lanterns represent our uniqueness and the light of God within each of us.

Be Brave

We have planned all units of study in accordance with The Ontario Curricula.  The rigorous and challenging classroom program will be highly integrated to ensure that all curriculum expectations are met.  As outlined in the Language curriculum: “Language is central to students’ intellectual, social and emotional growth, and must be seen as a key element of the curriculum”.   In like manner, the Mathematics curriculum states: “When students learn mathematics, they do more than master basic skills; they acquire a concise and powerful means of communication”.  In essence, our goal is to acquire the skills that are essential outside the classroom and in the workplace by meeting the ministry expectations.  Albeit intense, the program promises to bring enthusiasm and variety coupled with sound learning theories and a wide array of instructional strategies.

As the year progresses, I plan to be in constant communication with all the homes of the students in my class. The communication will be in a variety of formats, through your child’s agenda, a personal note, a phone call, or by you simply logging on our class  blog.

Welcome to a wonderful and exciting year in Grade 6.  

Life Lesson

In everything, do to others as you would have them do to you; for this is the law and the prophets.
Jesus ~ Matthew 7:12 ~Christianity