June 25, 2018- Grade six winners!

Agenda: 

• Save the dates! 
• Tuesday June 26- Green team pizza party, Grade 6 farewell in the afternoon
• Wednesday June 27- Last day of school, report cards go home
• Check the lost and found for any of your child's items at the front of the school

What We Did Today:

We are finishing up our City of Shapes tasks in math, our Ukraine tasks in social and are making our Nose Hill stories into books.

June 22, 2018- Sports Day!!

Agenda: 

• Read 20 min - library books are to be returned back to school asap
• Save the dates! 
• June 25- Year end assembly in the morning, Grade 6 vs teacher basketball game in afternoon 
• June 26- Green team pizza party, Grade 6 farewell in the afternoon
• June 27- Last day of school, report cards go home
• Check the lost and found for any of your child's items at the front of the school

June 18, 2018- The Memory of Ms. Kestner Will Stay in our Hearts Forever.

Agenda: 

• Read 20 min - library books are to be returned back to school asap
• Swimming Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday this week! Please bring your swimming suits, towels, flip flops, goggles and extra snack those days. On Thursday you can bring $2.50 for the vending machine.
• Grade 4 form for health curriculum due tomorrow
• Treat day tomorrow- bring 50¢
• Save the dates! 
• June 20- Grade transition day  
• June 22- Sports Day   

What We Did and Learned Today:

• In social, we learned where Ukraine is in the world.  We learned the names of the neighbouring countries: Romania, Hungary and Russia.  We also learned that a part of the Ukraine called Crimea has been annexed by Russia.
• We had a bench dedication for Ms. Kestner.  She used to teach the grade 2/3 class.  Some of the grade 5/6 students shared memories about her since they were in her class.
• In science, we learned about the different parts of a flower.  They are called the sepal, the pistil and the stamen.  We went into the Whispering Woods and found a flower to draw and dissect, looking for each part of the flower.

June 15, 2018- The Hunger Games

Agenda: 

• Read 20 min - library books are to be returned back to school asap
• Swimming Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday next week! Please bring your swimming suits, towels, flip flops, goggles those days.
• Grade 4 form for health curriculum sent home today
• Save the dates! June 18- bench dedication for Ms. Kestner @3:00pm                                 June 22- sports day

What We Did and Learned Today:

• We played the game predator and prey today.  We learned that it is hard to survive as a herbivore, they do a lot of running.  We learned that carnivores eat herbivores and the humans effect both.  When you are a carnivore, you have to use all your senses to find your prey.  Herbivores had a hard time finding different food sources, and they were competing with other herbivores.

June 14, 2018- Are there any germinating plants in the fire station?

Agenda: 

• Read 20 min - library books are to be returned back to school by tomorrow
• Swimming Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday! Please bring your swimming suits, towels, flip flops, goggles those days
• Fresh Air Friday tomorrow- PLEASE make sure you are dressed to go outside.
• Save the dates! June 18- bench dedication for Ms. Kestner @3:00pm                                 June 22- sports day

Top Three Things We Did and Learned Today:

• In science, we checked on our bean plants.  Most of our plants have germinated and are growing true leaves.  The tallest plant is 31 cm.
• In math, we worked to finish our math checklists.  If we finished we started to plan the insides of the fire station, the police station and the hospital for our city of shapes.
• In Daily 5, we worked hard to finish our stories. Lots are being edited and shared before they are handed in to the editor, Ms. Jones.

June 13, 2018- Generating a Pysanky

Agenda: 

• Read 20 min - library books are to be returned back to school
• Fun lunch tomorrow
• Swimming tomorrow! Please bring your swimming suits, towels, flip flops, goggles those days
• Spelling has been sent home

Top Three Things We Did and Learned Today:

• In music, we made a idea generator fortune teller.  Mr. O'Reilly had a chart on the whiteboard with ideas to choose from.  Our idea generators needed to have a setting, character and event.
• In social studies, we learned about pysanky eggs, otherwise known as Ukrainian Easter Eggs.  Using symbols, we had to design a pysanky egg with three or more symbols that represented something about our families.  Ms. Jones was very impressed with our egg designs!
• In Daily 5, we are working hard to finish our stories. If we finished, we started to work on a story cover and a picture for each of our four events.

June 12, 2018- Is their a pool in our city of shapes?

Agenda: 

• Read 20 min - library books are to be returned back to school
• Beach Day is tomorrow- come to school wearing t-shirts, shorts, sunglasses, floaties, flip flops
• Fun lunch Thursday
• Swimming Thursday! Please bring your swimming suits, towels, flip flops, goggles those days

Top Three Things We Did and Learned Today:

• In math, we worked on completing all of our area tasks.  If we finished, we started the city of shapes project and we had to figure out the area and perimeter of city buildings
• Today for Daily 5 we had to write our fourth event in our journal.  We had to highlight the events for actions, five descriptions, a character's thoughts or feelings and dialogue (which was optional).  Ms. Jones wants these stories done by Friday.
• We had our second day of swimming lessons today.

June 11, 2018 - The area of our story.

Agenda: 

• Read 20 min - library books are to be returned back to school
• Swimming tomorrow and Thursday! Please bring your swimming suits, towels, flip flops, goggles those days
• Beach Day is Wednesday

Top Three Things We Did and Learned Today:

• Today in Science we learned different scientific terms regarding the life cycles of a seed! 
• Today for Daily 5 we had another day to finish our stories about being lost on Nose Hill. When we finish writing the events in our journals we will type it out for a good copy.
• In Math we finished items 1-4 on our task list and still have many more things to finish before the end of the year. 

June 7, 2018- Drowning seeds are a bad thing!

Agenda: 

• Read 20 min - library books are to be returned back to school
• Swimming Tuesday and Thursday next week! Please bring your swimming suits, towels, flip flops, goggles those days
• No school tomorrow
• Beach Day is next Wednesday

Top Three Things We Did and Learned Today:

• We had our first day of swimming lessons this afternoon.  We practiced skills such front crawl, pushing away from the pool wall, and treading water.
• We had time with our buddies today.  We helped them find the letters to type their name, their phone number and their address.
• In science, we checked on our beans again.  More of our plants have germinated and have stared to grow.  We had to jot down our wonders, observations and measure the length of our plants.  We also learned that germination is when a seed sprouts and starts to grow.

June 6, 2018- Get Ready for Swimming

Agenda: 

• Read 20 min - library books are to be returned tomorrow
• Swimming starts tomorrow! Please bring your swimming suits, towels, flip flops, goggles
• Homework: p.155 #3-6
• No school Friday

Top Three Things We Did and Learned Today:

• In music, a couple of classmates did some sharing.  We also worked on a fortune teller which will help us with different ideas for writing stories and songs.
• In social, we read some information about living in the city and in the villages in India.  We learned that the apartment buildings in India have twenty one room apartments on each floor and that each family had to share the one bathroom on every floor.  In the villages, people will sleep on the roofs of houses if they have no home.
• During computer lab, we continued to type out our second and third events to our stories.  We also looked at the endings of different stories and we identified them as a memory, hope/ wish, decision, or feeling.

June 5, 2018- Planting A Pass

Agenda: 

• Read 20 min - library books are to be returned by Thursday
• Volunteer forms have been sent home for swimming.  Please check your child's backpack.
• Swimming starts Thursday! Please email Ms. Jones at sacjones@cbe.ab.ca if you can volunteer.
• Homework: science bean journal, p.151-152 #1-6
• No school Friday

Top Three Things We Did and Learned Today:

• In music, we thought up of a word that could tell a story.  Then we added five more words to make a six word story.  Then we had to write a story using the alphabet.  For example: A big cat did eat food, greasy hog ignited juice ko 
• In science, we checked on our bean plants.  A few of them have now sprouted from the soil. We had to draw and write down our observations, as well as analyze what we should do to help our bean sprouts grow.
• Today in gym, we practiced our passing before playing a game.  We were allowed to take three steps before passing the ball to a teammate.  We had to have four passes before you could shoot on the net.

June 4, 2018- Length x Width = A Lacrosse Field

Agenda: 

• Read 20 min 
• Bike to School day tomorrow- bikes will be stored in the gym.  Make sure you have your helmet and your bike labeled.
• Swimming starts Thursday! Please email Ms. Jones at sacjones@cbe.ab.ca if you can volunteer.
• Homework: math- page 151-152 # 1-6 due tomorrow

Top Three Things We Did and Learned Today:

• In science/ art we finished sketching the seeds we found on Friday.  We labeled the type of seed they were and we wrote a couple of notes about each one.  The aspen trees have seeds that look like caterpillars.  
• In math we continued our study of area.  We learned how to break irregular shapes into rectangles so that we can use the l x w formula instead of counting all the squares.
• Today in gym, we played our first "game" of lacrosse.  As a class we passed the tennis ball to each other four types before trying to score on net.  We also tried having only one person from each team going after the ball.

June 1, 2018- Farewell, until next time Saa'kokoto

Agenda: 

• Read 20 min 
• Swimming forms due as soon as possible
• Volunteers needed for swimming, that starts next Thursday!  Three or four volunteers would be great! :) Please email Ms. Jones at sacjones@cbe.ab.ca if you can volunteer.

• Save the date!  This Sunday June 3rd, nine aspen trees will be planted in our Nature ground.  Volunteers are still needed to help with digging.  Please let the Environment Committee know if you can help! We would really appreciate as many hands as we can get!

Top Three Things We Did and Learned Today:

• We collected different seeds from the Whispering Woods.  Then we had to use our sketching skills to draw the seeds we found in our Fresh Air Friday journals.
• We did our Rocks and Minerals quiz today on the computer using Google Forms.  Once we submitted the answers we got our mark.  Please ask me what I got.
• Today we learned about how seeds get dispersed.  Some seeds use the wind and water, while many use animals.  We learned that coconuts are floater seeds because they are hollow.  Other seed types are: fruit, hitchhikers, catapulting pods, winged seeds, and seeds with hair.