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