Health Assignment

Healthy Eating Unit Follow-Up Assignment: Master Chef Junior

As part of our Healthy Eating Unit, the grade 6 students have been asked to create a menu that includes one breakfast meal, one lunch meal, one dinner meal and one snack. As an extension of creating the menu, they will also be asked to cook or at least help prepare one of the meals on their menu for your family! The meal can be modified in any way (ie. if the menu calls for raspberries and you do not have raspberries, please feel free to replace them with anything you wish). Parents are asked to be an active part of the preparation, cooking and cleaning up process. You can assist them in any way that you see fit. They have been told to take into consideration any dietary needs or restrictions, and to make the meal as healthy as they possibly can. You have until January 15th, 2018 to complete this task. 

Reminder

Good Evening Everyone,

Just a reminder that we will be doing our Secret Santa gift exchange tomorrow in the morning. Please make sure your gift is here :)

Have a great night!

Mrs. Breau

Agenda Update

Hi Everyone,
I am so impressed how everyone is handling the “Secret Santa” activity. The random acts of kindness are so impressive and are spreading throughout our room. Remember, it doesn’t have to be something tangible. It might be some sort of encouragement, a note, including someone at recess or just saying or doing something kind. I am so proud of the acts I have seen so far, we have such kind and caring students in our classroom.

Here is a quick agenda update to help you organize your time.

Literacy:
Writing: Santa Manual- draft copy due Wednesday - Editing and conferencing will take place Thursday and Friday - Good copy will be due on Friday, December 22nd.

Math:
Measurement Math Test - Tuesday, December 19th
Measurement Review- due Monday, December 18th
Dream House Assignment- Room sketch to be completed at home - Due on Friday, December 22nd. Students will be giving much more time in class both this week and next

Social Studies-
Mini inquiry project on organization - due Thursday, December 14th- will be completed in class with a partner
-Social studies test on Wednesday, December 20th


Health-
Healthy eating menu -good copy will be due on Friday, December 22nd

AGENDA ITEMS:
-Secret Santa gift exchange will take place in the morning on Wednesday, December 20th
- Hand- Me -Down Day - This FRIDAY, we are having a Green Team Day to encourage and celebrate the reuse of clothing! Wear your hand-me-downs or thrift shop clothing and earn eco-points for your class!  
-Primary Holiday Performance (Dress rehearsal for school)- Wednesday, December 13th
- Christmas for Kids- Our annual food, toiletries and toy drive (new items only please) is underway and we will continue collecting items until December 22nd . Christmas for kids is a registered charity in Innisfil that helps families at Christmas

Measurement Review

Hi Everyone,

Here is a measurement review for you to work through. We will also being doing some review in class. Please complete review for Monday, December 18th. Our math test is rescheduled for Tuesday, December 19th, 2017.

Helpful Hints

Perimeter= add up all the sides of a shape

Area of a rectangle= Length x Width               

Area of a triangle= Base x Height ÷2

Area of a parallelogram= Base x Height

Volume of a rectangular prism= Length x Width x height

Volume of a triangular prism= Length x Width x Height ÷2

Surface area is the total area of all of the faces or surfaces - Remember this will be done in 3 different steps 

1. Select the most appropriate unit to measure each length or distance.

a) the thickness of a math text book

b) the thickness of your finger nail

c) the height of a maple tree

d) the lengths of the leaves of the tress 

2. Louise is in a video store. What items in the store, might be measured in these units?

a) millimetres         b) centimetres           c) metres           

3. Rename each measurement using the new unit. (mm, cm, dm, m, dam, hm. km)

a) 45.4 cm= ___________ m

b) 32 mm= ____________ dm

c) 453.2 g= ____________kg

d) 54 km= _____________cm

e) 2.145 cm=____________km

f) 321. 2 l= ___________kl 

g)32.2 mg= ___________g

4,  Find the area and perimeter of the irregular figures below. Show all your calculations and any formulas that you used.

5. Find the area of each of the 2-D shapes below.

 


 6. Nina made a sun catcher from a parallelogram with a base of 10 cm and a height of 5 cm. She wants to make another one with twice the area. What base and height could she use for the new parallelogram. List two possibilities.


7. Maria's family built a rink in their backyard last year. The rink was a 6 m by 7 m rectangle. This year they are helping build a rink at the school. This rink will be four times the area of their backyard rink. What are two possible dimensions of the new rink?

3-D Measurement

8. Calculate the volume and surface area of the prism below. Show all your work.

Social Studies Checklist

Students will be receiving the hard copy of the review tomorrow (This will include the map).  Test is scheduled for Wednesday, December 20th, 2017. 

Social Studies Unit Test Review

    Define the terms import and export

              An import is a good or service brought into one country from another.

              An export is a good or service that is sold to another

Define the terms good and service

       Goods are items that are tangible, such as books, pens, salt, shoes, hats and folders.

      Services are activities provided by other people, such as doctors, lawn care workers,           dentists, barbers, waiters, or online servers.

Identify reasons to why a country would trade with another countries –In              social studies folder

-Describe ways in which Canada is connected to USA –Note taken from video (posted on the blog) (We will also talk about this more throughout the week)

 - Name and define the four lenses (Social studies folder)

-Give examples of world issues that would fall under each lenses (Social studies folder)

-Identify and describe two different organizations that support with different world issues (e.g. World Health Organization, Doctor's without boarders etc.)

-Locate the top 11 trading partners on a World map (see study sheet)

Agenda Items: -Please measure one room in your house tonight and roughly sketch the dimensions 

-Christmas for Kids 2017 Our annual food, toiletries and toy drive (new items only please) is underway and we will continue collecting items until December 22nd . Christmas for kids is a registered charity in Innisfil that helps families at Christmas

Dream House Project

As we begin our measurement unit, one of the concepts we will be focusing on is area and perimeter. You will now have the opportunity to apply your learning to a real life situation (well sort of); you will design your dream house! If you have more than one level in your house be sure to sketch a rough floor plan for each. The assignment has been split into 4 parts with specific minimum requirements on each part.  Please read the assignment completely before you begin.

Part 1: Room Sketch

·        To practice making a floor plan measure the dimensions of a room in your house or the classroom. Record all the measurements and then sketch the room (from a bird’s eye view)

·         Label all the dimensions

·         Use the following scale 1 cm= 1 m or 1 unit square= 1 m square 

Part 2:  Your dream house requirements:

·         At least 6 different rooms (bath, bed, kitchen, living room, dining room, family room, den, craft room, play room, etc.)

·         You may have more than one of each room (ex. 3 bedrooms)

·         Be sure to label each room on the floor plan

·         You must have a garage (size of your choice)

·         Each square on your graph represents one square meter

·         You must have a least 3 different types of angles and at least 3 types of geometric shapes in your house

·         Bedrooms should have closets

Part 3:  Decorating:

·         Choose at least one room to decorate

·         Draw the floor plan of that room- all furniture and appliances are included and drawn to scale

·         Calculate the cost of flooring for your room – calculate the area 

·         Calculate the cost of paint- calculate the surface area of your room – don’t forget to minus windows and doors

·         Each can of paint will cover 36 m2

·         Average cost of carpet is $10.00/ m2

·         Average cost for hardwood flooring is $17.50/m2 

·         Average cost of high quality paint is $33.50 / can

·         Determine how much money you will spend on decorating your room

Part 4:  Demonstration of math skills:

·         On separate paper, all math will be shown

·         Area and perimeter of each room

·         Calculations of flooring and paint for your room

·         Included the total area and perimeter of your house

Me to We Bracelets

The bracelets will be on sale Wednesday, Thursday and Friday all during 2nd nutrition break outside of the library. Cash will be accepted and it is also available through School Cash.

Below is a photograph of the 5 different colour choices and their respected pillars, education, food, water, opportunity and health. The bracelet's are $10 each, $5 goes to the woman who made it (these women are from 3rd world countries) and $5 goes to the pillar chosen (education etc.) in the most neediest countries.  The bracelets will arrive before the holiday.

Thanks for your continued support.

Weekly Update & Math Challenge

Agenda Items:

Literacy: We are currently working through our novel "Ghost Ride" focusing on a variety of reading strategies
Writing- We have started our procedural writing unit and are planning out our Santa Manuals

Math: We are working on 2-D measurement- focusing on perimeter of irregular polygons and area of rectangles, triangles and parallelograms

Science: Biodiversity tests were handed back today- please sign and return. We will be beginning our space unit after Christmas

Social Studies : We will be returning to social studies for the next three weeks- We will be focusing on World Issues under the four lenses of economical, political, social, environmental. A test review will be coming home near the end of the week


The Arts: We will be doing two visual art pieces
-Tableau presentations will be tomorrow


1. Complete the following metric conversions.

Secret Santa

Shhhhhh!

Secret Santa!

Dear Parents, 

To celebrate classroom community, our classroom has chosen to participate in a Secret Santa gift exchange. This is a fun and exciting way to bring holiday cheer into the classroom and provide opportunities to encourage one another this holiday season.

Each student will draw a classmate’s name and will be responsible for providing “random acts of kindness” for this friend leading up to Christmas Break. In addition, a $10 to $15 gift will be wrapped and exchanged at our Christmas party the last week of school. Please let me know ASAP if this will be a problem. Remember, the gift should be wrapped and should only have the receiver’s name on it. We are planning on having the gift exchange on Wednesday, December 20th, 2016.

Please send me an email or encourage your child to speak with me directly if there are any questions or concerns. Thank you for your help with this special initiative. It is my hope that this activity will be a valuable lesson in generosity and outward thinking for each student involved.

As always, thank you for your ongoing support.

Happy Holidays,

Sincerely,

Kerry Breau

Agenda Update

Agenda Items:
Wonder movie reflection -Friday, December 1st
Wonder precept reflection- Friday, December 1st
Remembrance Day Letter- Friday, December 1st
Patterning Test- Monday, November 27th
Biodiversity Test- Tuesday, November 28th

Book Vs. Movie Guiding Questions

·      Think about the setting of the book. Did the setting in the movie look like you had imagined it? If not, how was it different?

·      Think about the main character. How was he/she different than you had imagined? How was he/she the same?

·      Were there any changes in characters between the book and the movie? Why do you think the people who made the movie would leave out or add a character?

·      What parts were in the book but were not in the movie? Why do you think the people who made the movie left out those parts?

·      Were there any parts that were in the movie that were not in the book? Why do you think the people that made the movie added those parts?

·      Do you think the people who made the movie did a good job of portraying the book? Why or why not?

·      Which did you enjoy more: the book or the movie? Why?

Wonder Precepts & Quotes

• When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind." —Dr. Wayne Dyer

• "Your deeds are your monuments." —Inscription on ancient Egyptian tomb

• "Have no friends not equal to yourself." —Confucius

• "Fortune favors the bold." —Virgil

• "No man is an island, entire of itself." —John Donne

• "It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers." —James Thurber

• "Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much." —Blaise Pascal

• "What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful." —Sappho

• "Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can." —John Wesley

• "Just follow the day and reach for the sun." —The Polyphonic Spree

• "Everyone deserves a standing ovation because we all overcometh the world." —Auggie Pullman

• “Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness.” —Mr. Tushman

• “Now that I look back, I don't know why I was so stressed about it all this time. Funny how sometimes you worry a lot about something and it turns out to be nothing.” —Auggie Pullman

• “Sometimes you don't have to mean to hurt someone to hurt someone.” —Wonder

• "Don't try too hard to be cool. It always shows, and that's uncool.” —Amos Conti

• “Learning who you are is what you're here to do.” —Mr. Browne

• “It’s not enough to be friendly. You have to be a friend.” —Charlotte

• “We carry with us, as human beings, not just the capacity to be kind, but the very choice of kindness.” —Mr. Tushman

• “What's cool about really little kids is that they don't say stuff to try to hurt your feelings. . . Big kids, though: they know what they're saying.” —Auggie

• "Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always try to be a little kinder than necessary." —J. M. Barrie

• "Don't judge a book boy by its cover his face." —Wonder

Science Review

Science Test is scheduled for Tuesday, November 28th -A hard copy of the review will be handed out in class on Monday

Biodiversity Review Sheet

Classification of Living Things: The purpose of most classification system is to organize members into similar groups

Characteristics of Life:

1. Cells- all living things have cells
2. Metabolism- all living things eat, drink, breath, excrete
3. Growth- all living things take material in to enlarge
4. Reproduction- all living things are able to produce copies of themselves
5. Irritability- all living things are able to react to change in their environment
6. Adaption – all living things are able to compete with each other for food and space to survive
7. Movement- all living things are able to move

Structural Adaptations: Is the way plants or animals look in their habitat. The plant/animal uses its structural adaption to survive. For example, speed, camouflage, teeth, eyes, fur, hair, paws claws, hoofs, legs, long necks, noses.

Behavioural Adaption: Is the way plants and animals act in their habitat. The plant or animal uses its behavioural adaption to survive. For example, protection of young, feeding young, building nest or den, finding a mate, hiding predators

Review characteristics of the animal kingdom (notes from kingdom presentation. This will be represented in multiple choice format, You do not need to memorize these )

Review five groups of the five kingdoms

Review the classification and the animal kingdom (vertebrates and invertebrates)

List and describe 2 benefits of biodiversity (will be covered next week)

List and describe 2 threats to biodiversity (will be covered next week)

List and describe 3 ways we can protect biodiversity (will be covered next week)

Agenda Items

Agenda Items


Literacy:

Reading Workshop- We will finish our book Wonder this week. Next week, we get to go view our movie. 

Writing Workshop- We are continuing to work with figurative language and description to create emotion and feeling through writing 
-Students will be submitting their good copies of their Halloween Narratives on Thursday



Math: 

We are continuing to work through our patterning unit. We are focusing on the explicit pattern rule as well as word problems 

Daily Challenge:
Here is some more practice with the explicit patterning rule. 


a) 550, 555, 560, 565, 570...


Find the 77th term


b) 485, 473, 461, 449 ....


Find the 37th term 


Science -We have wrapped up our gallery walks dealing with the animal kingdoms. We will now be focusing on the fungi and bacteria kingdom this week


Agenda Items:
-Please send in any late trip forms for Wonder
-Looking forward to meeting with many of you through our parent/teacher conference - I have sent a reminder of your date and time last week. If there is a conflict, please let me know ASAP.

Have a great week everyone :)

Mrs. Breau

Math Challenge Take 2

Math Challenge

These questions are very similar to what we did in math today. Each question involves an operation (multiplication, division, addition and subtraction) between columns 1 and 2 and then an additional step. So these are multi step questions.

25          5               3

36           6              4

49           7              5

77           11           5

Pattern Rule:  _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3              9              6

5              11           8

8              12           10

9              15           12

Pattern Rule: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Bonus – Come up with your own, to challenge our class tomorrow :) 

Math Challenge

Daily Challenge: Here are some 2 step input/output tables. Remember to give the expression. We will take them up tomorrow. Good Luck!

Update

Agenda Update

Literacy- 
Reading Workshop- we are continuing to read and discuss the novel Wonder
**Remember, to bring those permission forms for the movie***

Writing Workshop- Draft copies of the Halloween narrative are due on Monday -We are going to be self editing, peer editing and conferencing about them this week

Science- We will be doing part 1 of our gallery walk in science on Monday -There will be NO more work time given in class 

Math- We will be starting our patterning unit this week

Daily Challenge

a) I am the seventh number in the following sequence of numbers: 1,4, 9, 16.....
What number am I?

b) I am the sixth in the following sequence of numbers: 1, 3, 7, 15.......
What number am I?

c) Edgar does sit-ups daily. On Monday, he did 20 sit ups. On Tuesday, he did 30. He did 50 sit ups on Wednesday and 90 on Thursday. If he continues this pattern, Edgar will do an impressive number of sit ups on Saturday. What number of sit ups will he do?

Weekly Update

What an AMAZING  day we had yesterday at OELC. I was so proud of our class and how well they represented our school. Thank you to all our wonderful parent volunteers. 

Science: We are returning back to our biodiversity unit for a couple of weeks. Students will be doing a mini research activity about one of the classes of the animal kingdom. (See outline below)

Grade 6 Biodiversity Science Project

RESEARCH PROJECT:  Choose a class of the animal kingdom that you would be interested in researching (vertebrate or invertebrate)

Your project must include the following information  

1)     Common characteristics it shares with other animals in its class (e.g . identify whether it is a bird, fish, reptile, amphibian or mammal and list their characteristics)

2)     Choose two species within that class:  scientific name, habitat, food, appearance

3)     Identify at least 3 adaptations of your animal (special features or behaviour and how it helps that living thing survive in its habitat, e.g. webbed feet, fur)

4)     Biodiversity: How this species contributes to the diversity of life (positively or negatively)

5)     Human Activity: How does human activity impact on the survival of your animal?

6)     Your own choice:  Choose another aspect of your animal to research (e.g. position in a food chain, other interesting facts, etc.)

Starter Sites:

http://zoo.sandiegozoo.org/  
http://www.discoverlife.org/nh/tx/

http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/

http://www.kidsbiology.com/human_biology/index.php http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals

http://kids.yahoo.com/animals

www.biodiversity911.org    

www.hww.ca

http://canadianbiodiversity.mcgill.ca/english/index.htm

http://www.globalissues.org/issue/169/biodiversity

http://www.amnh.org/ology/?channel=biodiversity#

http://www.countdown2010.net/biodiversity

http://www.ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/biodiversity/index.cfm

Math-  We are continue with our data management unit - This week we will focus on mean, median and mode.  We will also explore drawing from conclusions from graphs..

Literacy- Reading - we are continuing working our way through our novel "Wonder"
 - We are working on variety of reading strategies as we progress

Writing- Students were asked to complete a writing on demand for our trip to OELC - due Wednesday 
We are continuing to draft our Halloween narratives throughout the remainder of this week

OELC

***** QSP Orders due on MONDAY *****

Hello Everyone:

We are very excited to visit OELC on Monday.  We have been given the opportunity to purchase ‘swag’. OELC will have the following items available however, it will be first come first serve as limited inventory is available.  They will be accepting cash only.  They have:

35 small light grey hoodies with maroon lettering ($45.00)

31 small salt and pepper Leadership sweatshirt ($65.00)

46 small dark grey zip hoodies ($45.00)

12 Medium salt and pepper hoodies ($45.00)  

Sweaters are also available in large, xl and xxl

Other items available for purchase:  sunglasses ($6.00), buffs ($12.00) and water bottles.  

OELC Schedule

Arrival approximately @ 10:15 a.m.

AM

PD Sessions- Students will be divided into 2 groups 

Session A: Mrs. Reynolds & Mrs. Breau - Mind field/ Sherpa 

Session B: Ms. Farrance & Mrs. Gilbert- Zipper/ Trust falls

Lunch 12:15-1:15

PM

Session A: Mrs. Reynolds & Ms. Farrance- Low ropes

Session B: Mrs. Gilbert & Mrs. Breau- Blanket Toss 

Load buses @  2:15 p.m.