Thursday, April 11, 2019

Math Challenge

Complete the following riddles below. Use the digits in the box to answer each number in the riddle. These ones are more complicated....remember to show GRIT!!  
1         2           3              4             5           6            7            8                 9
a) I am a 4 digit number greater than 9 000. My ones digit is 3 and my hundreds digit is the smallest prime number that is greater than 5. The sum of my digits is 20. What number am I?
Remember A Prime Number can be divided evenly only by 1, or itself.

b) I am a 5 digit number greater than 30 000 and less than 40 000. My first and last digits are the same. The sum of thousands, hundreds, and tens digits is 15. My tens digit is 4 times as great as my hundreds digit. What number am I?
c) I am a number greater than 40 000 and less than 60 000. My ones digit and tens digit are the same. My ten thousands digit is 1 less than 3 times the sum of my ones digit and tens digit. My thousands digit is half my hundreds digit and the sum of those two digits is 9. What number am I?

Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Word Nerd Challenge

See if you can figure out the name of our next chapter in our book using the letters below. Each letter must be used and can only be used once.


E       H       O     D    B      E     A     N


Good luck!

P.S. I am looking for the top 5 readers tonight!! Signatures will be rewarded :)

Tuesday, April 9, 2019

BEDMAS Questions




Here a few BEDMAS questions for you to try! Be sure to show all your work. Keep logging those reading minutes.

Monday, April 8, 2019

Calling All Word Nerds

Hello grade 6s,
To celebrate the beginning of our new book "Word Nerd" we are going to do a scrabble challenge.
How many words can you make from the letters of the word "Three Stooges". Write them in your agenda and bring them tomorrow.
Have a great night!
Mrs. Breau

There were quite a few of you away on Monday, so I posted the graphing data. Please complete both the double line and broken line graph and submit it.



Double Bar Graph Data

Line Graph Data

Friday, April 5, 2019

The Week Ahead

  Hi Everyone,
Just a reminder that the blog is a great way for not only you, but your parents to keep up to date on what is happening in our classroom. Your daily challenge for tonight is to show your parents the blog and have them leave a comment (doesn't have to be complicated) or a note in your agenda that they saw it.
 Week Ahead:
Literacy- We have started our new novel Word Nerd and will be working on reading response in the APE format 
Writing - We will be reviewing the forms of writing with a focus particularly on narratives

Math- We have started our data management unit 
- This week we will focus on scatter plot graphs and interpreting data
Social Studies 
- We will be beginning our new unit  "Communities in Canada Past and Present"
Math Challenge- Remember, these are suppose to make you think! Remember, to show GRIT :)

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

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a) I am the largest 6 digit number you can make that has a 1 in the thousands place and a 5 in the ten-thousands place. What number am I?

b) I am the smallest 6 digit even number you can make that has a a 6 in the hundreds place. What number am I?

c) I am a 4 digit number. My ones digit is 2. My tens digit is 4 greater than my ones digit. My hundreds and thousands digits are both 3 greater than my ones digit. What number am I?

Thursday, April 4, 2019

I am back!!!

I am SO happy to be back! Thank you for such a great first day!  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 awarded. Have a WONDERFUL night! Looking forward to seeing you tomorrow:)

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 

Tuesday, June 12, 2018

Some reminders for this week

Hi everyone,

Here are a few reminders related to important events, projects, and activities we have coming up over the next couple of days and weeks:

  • Tomorrow, June 13, there is a Grade 7 Kandalore trip information meeting at the school at 7 p.m. All parents of grade 6s are encouraged to attend in order to be aware of details for next year's trip.
  • Please bring newspapers to school for our math building project.
  • Please collect empty plastic bottles and other recyclable materials that you could use for our flight STEAM activities.
Have a great night!

Mrs. Matheson