End of Week 3

It is the end of another week in the Grade 6 class and plenty to share. It was very nice meeting many of the parents who attended the Open House on Thursday night. I hope you had a chance to look around the classroom and see where your children spend time during their day. Hopefully you had a chance to look at some of the work they have completed so far as well.

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Next week, on Friday September 30th, the students will be taking part in the annual Terry Fox run from 9-11am. We are asking that each student contribute $1 or $2 to the cause. In addition, each student is asked to get the permission form that was sent home in homeroom, to be signed and returned by Thursday September 29th. The Terry Fox run will be taking place off of school property (around the Beaver Pond area) so each student needs parental permission to take part. If you wish to donate to the Terry Fox fundraiser, you can also do it through the following link: https://goo.gl/SJrkdf

This week, the AM group started a book called "Iqbal". The book is based on the true story of Iqbal Massih who was an advocate against child labour in the early 1990's. This Language unit focuses on the students' ability to infer and build upon these important skills while reading/listening to an author's text. They are also practicing predicting upcoming events in the story. The group has been writing in their red notebooks and are filling them up with key vocabulary, character sketches, and answers from the book. So far, the students seem to be really enjoying the story.

In Math, the group continues to work with the place value chart, larger numbers (in the millions) as well as determining multiples and common multiples of numbers. They were quizzed on Friday and will be begin working with numbers on the right side of the decimal next week.

In Religion this past week, we continued discussing the theme of "light". As the symbol of grade 6, the lantern was the focus of discussion and the centerpiece of a visual representation of an important message; "every person can be a light".

The PM group continued to learn about electricity in Science class. We finished off the week learning about static electricity as the students got to be hands on with some balloons and learned about positive and negative electric charges. We also demonstrated how static charge can bend a stream of water!

In visual arts, the group is working on replicating an animated movie- movie poster. We are focusing on proportion and colouring technique. So far, the posters look great. Hopefully there will be some finished posters to post in next week's blog.