Reminder

No School on Monday!

Update: Math & Art

Here are the finished tessellation art projects, filled with geometric transformations!

Colour Me Kind Day

Double the Kindness Twin Day

Homework Alert!

Journal Response #4 is due tomorrow!

Tip Your Hat to Kindness Day!

Dream of Kindness Pyjama Day

Team Kindness

Homework Alert!

Journal Response #3 is due tomorrow!

GG Great Kindness Challenge!

Golden Gate Great Kindness Challenge – January 26-30, 2015

‘Tin for the Kindness Bin’ Challenge and Spirit Week!

All week long bring a tin for the Kindness Bin. 

The Homeroom that brings in the most tins of food will win a pizza party!!!

Monday​

‘Team Kindness’ – Dress in sports gear, your favourite team sport or Gator gear.

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Tuesday​

 ‘Dream of Kindness’ - Pyjama Day​

Wednesday​

 ‘Tip your hat to Kindness’ - Hat Day

Thursday

‘Double The Kindness’ Twin Day

Friday​​

‘Colour Me Kind’ Day

 Homeroom can choose their colour.

At Lunch: Warm Your Belly with Kindness- Bake sale

Science

How can we visualize the distance between the planets?

With toilet paper!

Using the actual distances between planets, reduced down to toilet paper square size, we created a model of our solar system with Mr. Quackers representing the sun.

Homework Alert!

Journal Response #2 due tomorrow!

Math & Art!

Today students started with a shape, then made translations and rotations to create an art project.
So far they look pretty spiffy!

Homework Alert!

CFOO presentations are tomorrow!

Novel Study This Week

Monday
Journal Response #1 due
Time to read Part 2

Tuesday
Discussion of Part 2

Thursday
Journal Response #2 due
Time to read Part 3

Friday
Discussion of Part 3

Homework Alert!

Journal Response #1 is due Monday!

From the Math Department...

We are now learning about geometric transformations: translations, rotations and reflections.

Today, students practiced transforming letters of the alphabet.

Tonight!

Band Concert at 7 p.m.

Holocaust Novel Study

In English Language Arts, we have begun a novel study centered around the theme of the Holocaust. Each student will be responsible for reading one of the novels, participating in discussions and completing written journal responses.
More information and a calendar of due dates will be sent home soon.

Karaté des verbes

In grade 6, students should be comfortable conjugating different types of verbs. In an effort to practice this skill, we have begun Verb Karate!
Each student has a ninja animal on the bulletin board. To pass a level (and obtain that belt), students have to practice conjugating a verb, write a pre-test and then successfully complete a test with 80% or better accuracy.
There are ten belts, from grey to black. Hopefully all students will master their verbs and achieve the rank of Black Belt!

New for 2015

There are two new additions to room 19 for 2015.

The first is the Prison. If a student wants to borrow a pencil, they have to put one of their shoes in the prison. When they return the pencil, they can retrieve their shoe from the prison. Hopefully students will remember to bring their own pencils to class and won't have to surrender their shoe to prison!

The second is the Commonality Chart.
Students meet in partners and find something they have in common. Some recent examples: "we both have a brother with brown eyes" and "we both have a birthday in May". These findings are recorded on the Commonality Chart. Hopefully by the end of the year, each student would have found something in common with each member of the class!