Grad photos for our class will happen on February 28th. For these photos, the photography company will provide the cap and gown for the pictures. Boys will need a white collared shirt or golf shirt, and girls will need to wear a white blouse. Please remember to send your child with a white shirt or blouse on February 28th for their grad photo.
It is important that students try not to miss this day. There is a retake day this year, but it is good to have more than one attempt at this picture if required.
Proofs will be sent to parents for photos soon after the pictures are done, along with order packages.
Monday 26 February 2018
Friday 16 February 2018
Ryan Herljac from the Ryan's Well Foundation & Spirit Week!
We are very lucky to be having Ryan Herljak visit our school today to talk about the importance of clean water to our students. In grade 6, we read a book called "Ryan and Jimmy and the Well in Africa that brought them Together". It is the story of Ryan, who at the age of 6 decided to raise money to build a well in Africa. He was told he needed $70. When he actually went to donate the money, he was told it wouldn't build an entire well, just a part, so he raised the rest - $2000.
Later, he went to visit his well in Africa and met his pen pal, Jimmy. They became friends. A few years later, Jimmy was captured by the Ugandan rebel forces, where he would have been forced to be a child soldier, or killed. He managed to escape, and Ryan's family brought him to Canada to keep him safe. In the end, they adapted Jimmy and now they are truly brothers.
Ryan started the Ryan's Well Foundation and has now brought clean water to more than 500,000 people all over the world.
Next week, we will be having a Spirit Week to raise money for the Ryan's Well Foundation as part of our Lenten Project. Please donate what you can and have your child participate in the following activities:
Later, he went to visit his well in Africa and met his pen pal, Jimmy. They became friends. A few years later, Jimmy was captured by the Ugandan rebel forces, where he would have been forced to be a child soldier, or killed. He managed to escape, and Ryan's family brought him to Canada to keep him safe. In the end, they adapted Jimmy and now they are truly brothers.
Ryan started the Ryan's Well Foundation and has now brought clean water to more than 500,000 people all over the world.
Next week, we will be having a Spirit Week to raise money for the Ryan's Well Foundation as part of our Lenten Project. Please donate what you can and have your child participate in the following activities:
- Tuesday - Jersey Day
- Wednesday - Favourite character day
- Thursday - Crazy hat/Hair day
- Friday - Tacky tourist day
Wednesday 14 February 2018
Math test delayed until next Wednesday
I am going to postpone the math test until next Wednesday because I feel that students need a little more time to practice before I test them. I want them to be a successful as possible. Please encourage your child to study for the test by doing as much mathletics as possible or going to websites I referenced in the last post.
Sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for your support.
Sorry for the inconvenience, and thank you for your support.
Monday 12 February 2018
Measurement Math test this Thursday!
We have been practicing our measurement skills since coming back from the Christmas Holidays and now it is time to test our knowledge! On Thursday, we will be having a test that will cover all of the following:
- metric conversions (including length (M), capacity (L) and mass (G) - many students use the "staircase" method for this.
- perimeter of regular and irregular shapes
- area of rectangles, parallelograms, and triangles (including finding the value of a missing side when given the area - eg. "the area of a triangle is 8cm squared. The base is 4 cm. What is the height?)
- Surface area of rectangular and triangular prisms (including missing sides)
- Volume of rectangular and triangular prisms
- understanding that 1 square meter = 10,000 square cm
- understanding that 1 cubic meter = 1,000,000 cubic cm
I sent home a measurement review sheet for homework that covers most of these. Also, here are some links to some other websites and units I have put together in the past to help students study:
Thursday 8 February 2018
Celebrating Olympic Fever Tomorrow!
On Friday, we will be celebrating our Olympic athletes by wearing Canadian colours! Go Team Canada!
Sunday 4 February 2018
News Articles, Social Media Safety & Volume
This past week was busy! On Monday, we celebrated Family Literacy Day by learning about News Article writing. Thank you to all parents and family members who were able to join us for the lesson. I hope you enjoyed it. We continued writing our News Articles throughout the week and on Friday did an EQAO practice sample in which students had to write a news article with the headline "New Creature Discovered by Students". We will look at examples of levels 1 through 4 this week and students will self-assess their work. As part of our guided and independent work time, I will ask students to try to re-write their news articles to "bump it up" to the next level by looking at the exemplars to help them.
We have also been learning a little bit about Social Media Safety over the last couple of weeks, and this week we did a short online quiz about what we learned. In the quiz, I asked for students to write their name, and many thought this was a trick question, because we have learned not to give personal information (including your first and last name) out over the internet. I was happy to see that they were able to apply their learning so well!
Next, we will be moving on to learning the reading skill of "Making Connections". We will learn that when we read, it help us to understand if we can make connections to the text we are reading, such as connecting it to ourselves, the world, or other texts we have read (or perhaps seen - like a movie). We will be reading a book called "Ryan and Jimmy and the Well in Africa that Brought Them Together". This is a story about Ryan Herljack, a young man who began raising money to build wells in Africa when he was only in Grade 1. We are lucky this year because Ryan is coming to visit our school soon to speak to our students about his Foundation. This is an excellent story, and I am sure students will greatly enjoy it and be able to make many connections to it after meeting Ryan in person.
In math, we have been learning about surface area of both rectangular and triangular prisms. Students generally seem to be getting this, but we will be continuing to practice this week, along with finding the volume of both these shapes. This week we will be finding the optimal amount of packaging for a chocolate bar, and later finding out how many cubic centimeters will fit in a cubic meter. See this blog post for some examples of how to find surface area.
Finally, in science we have just begun learning about Space for the grade 6's and Conservation of Energy for the grade 5's. We have started with students preparing a google slide about the parts of the solar system and the forms of energy, which they will then import in to a program called peardeck, so they can create some questions and other activities in order for their presentations to be more interactive.
We have also been learning a little bit about Social Media Safety over the last couple of weeks, and this week we did a short online quiz about what we learned. In the quiz, I asked for students to write their name, and many thought this was a trick question, because we have learned not to give personal information (including your first and last name) out over the internet. I was happy to see that they were able to apply their learning so well!
Next, we will be moving on to learning the reading skill of "Making Connections". We will learn that when we read, it help us to understand if we can make connections to the text we are reading, such as connecting it to ourselves, the world, or other texts we have read (or perhaps seen - like a movie). We will be reading a book called "Ryan and Jimmy and the Well in Africa that Brought Them Together". This is a story about Ryan Herljack, a young man who began raising money to build wells in Africa when he was only in Grade 1. We are lucky this year because Ryan is coming to visit our school soon to speak to our students about his Foundation. This is an excellent story, and I am sure students will greatly enjoy it and be able to make many connections to it after meeting Ryan in person.
In math, we have been learning about surface area of both rectangular and triangular prisms. Students generally seem to be getting this, but we will be continuing to practice this week, along with finding the volume of both these shapes. This week we will be finding the optimal amount of packaging for a chocolate bar, and later finding out how many cubic centimeters will fit in a cubic meter. See this blog post for some examples of how to find surface area.
Finally, in science we have just begun learning about Space for the grade 6's and Conservation of Energy for the grade 5's. We have started with students preparing a google slide about the parts of the solar system and the forms of energy, which they will then import in to a program called peardeck, so they can create some questions and other activities in order for their presentations to be more interactive.
Thursday 1 February 2018
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)