Recently the students participated in the annual Terry Fox walk. It was a great event and the students actively participated in the event and showed their support in the fight against cancer.
As a part of one of the number of initiatives at St. Gabriel, the school will be asking for students to donate canned food for the Food Bank. The collection of canned food will begin Tuesday Oct. 11th and continue for the rest of the month. The initiative is called We Scare Hunger and the grade 6's have been asked to bring in rice and tuna as a part of the collection. If you can spare any canned goods that would be much appreciated and will certainly go to good use.
The AM group has had plenty to discuss during the current unit of study. We continue to read the book, Iqbal. The students are enjoying the story but also learning about some of the other World issues that exist in other countries. The issue of child labour is a very real problem in some areas of the world and the students recognize this. They had the chance to collaborate in groups and discuss children's rights and differentiate between the terms "rights" and "wants". In addition, the students have discussed the topic of Global Goals. The class came up with their own list of Global Goals and compared them to the 17 Global Goals created by the United Nations. The novel of Iqbal directly ties into a number of these Global Goals and sends an important message to its readers.
In Math, the group continues to work in the Number Sense and Numeration strand. They have have continued to work with whole numbers as well as decimals. In grade the expectation is for the students to become familiar working with numbers to the thousandths. The class has been rounding decimals as well as adding and subtracting numbers with three digits after the decimal place.
In Religion the AM group continues to discuss the importance of being God's light. We have also been introduced to the concept of moral conscience and what it means to act as God would.
In the afternoon group, the Science class has there share of hands on time building circuits. They have learned the difference between series and parallel circuits as well how to draw proper circuit diagrams. The students will be quizzed on the first few lessons of the Electricity unit and have started a group assignment on an Renewable/Non-Renewable energy source. In the upcoming weeks the students will have the opportunity to build more circuits as well as other projects before moving onto the next Science unit.
In Art, the PM group has been working on re-creating an animated movie poster. The focus of this project was colour and proportion. Some of the final pieces were truly excellent and show off some great skill we have among the group.
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