Math Challenge

Hi Everyone,

Please remember to give your parents the letter regarding the 40 book challenge. 
I am looking for 30 minutes of reading over the weekend. Please write your reading time in your agenda and get your parents to sign it. This will be worth signatures.
Happy Reading,
Mrs. Breau


MATH CHALLENGE- Solve the 4 riddles below. Put your answers into your agenda. Signatures will be rewarded :)

Use the digits below to answer each number in the riddle. You cannot repeat digits within a number

1                 2                 3                  4                5              6            7              8               9


a) I am the largest four digit odd number you can make. What number am I?  

b) I am the smallest 5 digit even number you can make. What number am I?

c) I am the largest 5 digit even number you can make that has a 3 in the thousands place.  What number am I?

d) I am the smallest 5 digit number you can make that has all odd digits. What number am I?



THINGS TO REMEMBER:
ODD NUMBERS END IN 1, 3, 5, 7, 9
EVEN NUMBERS END IN 0, 2, 4, 6, 8 

Daily Challenge

Hello grade six students,
Tomorrow please bring an artifact that represents you or something that you love. (e.g. could be a book if you like to read, a metal from a sports competition, a picture of your family etc.) You will get a chance tomorrow to share your artifact. Be creative!
Have a wonderful night! Thanks for a wonderful two days :)
Mrs. Breau

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

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

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

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!

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