Monday, September 4, 2017

Welcome to Grade 6!

Happy first day of  school everyone! Hope you had a great day, I know I did :) Welcome to our classroom blog! This is a great way for you to stay up to date on what is happening in our classroom. Here I will post weekly updates, daily challenges, test reviews, as well as agenda notes. You should be checking the blog regularly.
Tonight, is your first challenge. See if you can figure out how to post a comment to this blog post, signatures will be rewarded. Have a WONDERFUL night! Looking forward to a great year :)
Mrs. Breau

Tuesday, June 27, 2017

End of the Year Celebrations

Hi Everyone,

Hard to believe we just have two DAYS left. Here are a few of the activities we will be doing over the next couple of days.

Tuesday- class baseball game

Wednesday- walk to Tim Hortons during the first block 

Thursday- End of Year Assembly @ 11:35 am - Remember to dress in your Canada Gear
-Class awards



Friday, June 23, 2017

THANK YOU!!




Good Evening Everyone,
I cannot even begin to express how much this video means to me. I was moved to tears and deeply touched by the thoughtfulness that went into making this. It will be a treasured keepsake. It has been my pleasure teaching such an extraordinary group of kids. Throughout this year, it has become evident time and time again, that these extraordinary students are the product of EXTRAORDINARY parents. I have never felt so much love, kindness and support from a group of students or parents.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart!  
 Mrs. Breau

Tuesday, June 20, 2017

When I Grow Up Budget

Budget for "When I Grow Up" Assignment

Remember to use your monthly income

Savings  - 10%
Housing -25%
Transportation -5%
Food- 15%
Utilities- 20%
clothing -5%
Entertainment-3%
Personal Expenses- 3%
Extra 2%

a) What % of your money is left? How much money is it? What would you do with the money left?

b) How much would you save in a year? How much would you save over 5 years?

c) How much disposable income would you have left for the entire year?



Agenda note:
-Math and media presentations start on Thursday
-Book party Friday morning :)
-Read!


Tuesday, June 13, 2017

Weekly Update

Good morning everyone,

Once again, I was SO impressed by the sportsmanship and perseverance that I saw last week during track and field. Congratulations to everyone who participated and good luck to all the athletes that will be representing our school at the area track and field meet on Thursday.

Math- Today we started the research component to our "When I Grow Up" assignment - students will be researching a career of interest and investigating the salary and pros and cons. The second component of this project will be creating a monthly budget. We are also working on long division and multiplication.

Literacy- Media - Students are working on their ad campaign  for their mock product. They will be preparing two advertisements for two different target audiences

Gym- We will be continuing with baseball and soccer for the remainder of the year. We will also be practicing high jump.

Dance- Students have been divided into dance groups and will be choreographing a dance routine

Science- We are starting are flight unit -We will be working through a series of experiments to investigate the properties of air. Next  week, students will be creating a flying device to enter into our class air show.



Math Challenge


Tuesday, June 6, 2017

Track & Field Schedule

Track and Field Schedule

A.M.
P.M.
Boys
Track
Field
Girls
Field
Track



                                                                            Running Events
100 M         Grade 4                                                    200 M       Grade 4                                     400 M       Grade 4
                  Grade 5                                                                    Grade 5                                                     Grade 5
                 Grade 6                                                                    Grade 6                                                     Grade 6




Field Rotation (Approximately 50 minutes rotations)
Event
Long Jump
Triple Jump
Shot-put

Rotation 1

Grade 4

Grade 6

Grade 5


Rotation 2


Grade 6

Grade 4

Grade 6

Rotation 3


Grade 5

Grade 5

Grade 4





Monday, June 5, 2017

Week of June 5th

Good Morning,
We have yet another BUSY week in our classroom. I just wanted to take the opportunity to say how proud I am of each and everyone of my students for showing so much grit and such a positive growth mindset during the EQAO assessment last week.

Monday: Dance workshop #2

Tuesday- Dance workshop #3&4

Wednesday- Track and Field- ALL DAY- bring extra water, sunscreen and hat

Thursday-Coding Activity- Middle Block

Friday-PA Day

Literacy- We have started a media project and will be working on this over the next couple of weeks

Math-We will be focusing on multiplication and division - We will start times 4 race track tomorrow. We will also be starting a math project focusing on budgeting and career planning

Health- We will starting to look at relationships this week and how they can affect a person's self image

Dance- We will be completing our dance program this week.


Gym-Track and Field planning