Rock, Paper, Scissors, Family Life and Ultimate Frisbee!

Today during our Open House we began a math lesson on probability using the game of Rock, Paper, Scissors. We played the game a number of times to determine if we could think of a strategy that would help us to win every time. Then we calculated the experimental probability of the actual outcomes and saw that there was no real strategy that works. We spent a little bit of time talking about the difference between experimental probability and theoretical probability.

We also began our first lesson in our Family LIfe unit, Created Sexual. We talked about human sexuality being more than just about our bodies, and more about our whole being. We talked about some of the things that we identify with as being male or female, and how as Christians we believe our sexuality should be cherished. As we go through this unit, I have asked students that if they are uncomfortable asking questions in class, to write down their questions on a piece of paper (with or without their name) and place it into a question basket. For questions that are age appropriate, we will discuss in class. For those questions that fall outside the scope of our unit, I will ask students to speak with their parents.

In our afternoon class for gym we began playing Ultimate Frisbee outside. The students first practiced throwing the frisbees, and then we played a game with the whole class. In our next sessions, we will play with proper seven person teams. In health we learned a little about reading nutrition labels. We will be comparing two nutrition labels in our next health lesson on Thursday. FInally, in music we learned about dotted half notes, and that they are held for three beats.

Thank you to all parents who attended our open house this morning. It was great to have you in our class, and I hope you had a chance to see how we approach learning math in grade 6. If you ever have any questions about our methods, please feel free to ask.

On Friday, the afternoon class will be participating in our Clean the Capital event. Our class will be going down one of our local streets to help pick up any trash that we can find. A few parents have volunteered to assist us. If there are any parents who would like to join us on our walk, please feel free to join us on Friday at 1:15 PM. Thank you!