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.