Term one is behind us and we are now looking towards putting the same effort into second term.  Our focus over the next couple of weeks include...
Grade 6 (Blended):
Religion: Our focus is on Lent.  Please join us for our Ash Wednesday mass, this Wednesday at 1:00pm in our school gym. Looking even further ahead, Confirmation will take place the first week of June. More details to follow.
Math: We continue to work through our Data Management Unit.  Students will be explore the concepts of Mean, Median and Mode.  They continue to develop their skills on how to plot data using a variety of graphs (broken line, bar, scatter plot, pie, stem and leaf) and are learning how to choose the most efficient graph to represent given data.  We have a quiz on these concepts after we return from March Break on Thursday March 20.
Language:  Students recently finished reading Iqbal, a social justice story.  They were completely engaged in this book.  Students created a narrative piece from the perspective of one the children in the book.  Looking forward, we will be working on developing our informational writing skills.

Grade 5/6 (Extended):
Physical/Health Education: Basketball skills and continuing to develop our understanding of the importance of a healthy/active lifestyle is our focus.
The Arts:  Our focus is now directed to music.  Students will look forward to a special presenter joining us every Friday (last block) who will help us to develop our musical understanding.  We look forward to showing everyone what we will learn.
Science and Technology:  Students wrapped our current units of study this week (grade 5 - conservation of energy and resources; grade 6 - space).  After the march break, we will begin our new strands.  Grade 5's will continue to develop their understanding of Properties of and changes in matter and the Grade 6's will continue to develop their understanding of Electricity and electrical devices.  Both of these strands welcome a number of hands on inquiry activities that students will enjoy.

Happy New Year!!!

How quickly the Christmas holidays seem so far away.  We have all settled back into our routines.  The next couple of weeks will be jam packed as we approach the first term report cards.

In math, students are focusing on measurement expectations.  Students are developing skills on how to solve problems relating to area.  We can now solve for the area of rectangles, parallelograms, and triangles.  Our measurement text is next Monday, January 20.

In religion our focus has been on the Epiphany.  You are welcome to join us for our Epiphany mass this Wednesday, January 15 at 1:00pm in our gym.  

In language, students began today presenting their Christmas recount media presentations.  I am very impressed with both the quality and preparedness that students showed during class today.  These presentations will continue tomorrow.  I look forward to learning all about everyone's Christmas holidays.  

In Science, we continue to look at both forms of energy (grade 5) and planets (grade 6).  Students did a wonderful job last week presenting their group inquiry task (researching a particular energy form/planet).  They learnt key information from each other!

In Visual Arts/Physical Education, we are beginning this week our mixed media print artwork.  Thank you to everyone who brought in media print so that we could complete our masterpieces.  The subject of their artwork is active lifestyles.  Stay tuned to see how they turn out.  Also, our gym focus is currently badminton.

Please remember to regularly check your child's agenda for upcoming assignments/test or requested materials.