The most recent event at the school was the Halloween dance and Haunted House. It took place on Friday night, October 28th. I hope those of you who went had a great time. I know there was a lot of work and preparation put into organizing the event by the Parent council as well as student volunteers.
During the school day on Friday October 28th, the Play 4 Change event also took place at the school. This was an opportunity for the grade 6 students to run a fundraising event that the younger students of the school could take part in. The grade 6 science classes have been working on the construction and final touches of their arcade games for the past 3 weeks and were finally able to showcase them to the school along with their recently acquired knowledge about electricity and circuitry. The games looked great and the feedback from the visitors was excellent. The grade 6's came up with some very creative and entertaining games for everyone to play. It was a long day in the Learning Commons and each class in the school visited the event and tried the games which was nice to see. In addition, the way the grade 6's treated and interacted with the younger students (especially the Kindergarten and Primary grade students) was something very special to see throughout the day. Here is a quick video and some pictures of the games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1UP2pGtjcs&feature=em-share_video_user
In mathematics the grade 6's have been learning about Prime and composite numbers. In order to fully understand the difference between these types of numbers the students have been practicing their multiplying and factoring. They have learned several methods of breaking down numbers into their prime factors with the use of factor trees and the ladder method. In addition, we have been finding common multiples comparing groups of numbers. The final stage of this unit has been solving expressions using Order of Operations. In grade 6 the students use BEDMAS to solve these problems, and all stages of the rule are practiced with the exception of exponents this year. The students have been challenged with various levels of questioning this Unit. See below for an example of a question the students worked on in small groups. With very little teacher direction, the students were able to find a variety of ways to create expressions using just the number 4.
In language arts, the students have been working on several things. We have recently completed reading the book, Iqbal. We have been reading and reflecting on the book since September. The students have been making predictions and inferring as well as comparing the story to the Global Goals initiated by the United Nations. The students seemed to really enjoy the book and learned about a very real issue in the world today; child labour.
As a part of a final writing piece for the book, the students have been writing a summary of the story. The focus of the task is for the students to ignore the events/information that are secondary to the main events of the book. The objective is to be concise, provide an overview of the story as if their audience has never read the story themselves.
Progress Reports will be distributed tomorrow for the first portion of the school year. Parent Teacher Interviews will take place on Thursday November 10th from 3:30-8:30pm.
Our next update will reflect the tasks revolving around Remembrance Day
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