Weekly Update & Daily Challenge

Hi Everyone,

Here is a quick overview of the week ahead.

Math:
-Focusing on wrapping up Data Management
- Data Management Test on Thursday, April 18th
-Review will be Wednesday (check blog)

Literacy:
- Good copy of paragraphs will be submitted on Wednesday
 -Focusing on preparing and reviewing for EQAO

Social Studies:
-We will be continuing focusing on immigration in Canada both in the past and present day
-"Your Family Story" is due Tuesday, April  23rd

  

DAILY CHALLENGE

Read the clues, then write the words.


Start with the word   VEGETABLE


A piece of furniture to eat on.
take away 4 letters from the word above.       _______   ________  ________ _________  ________
                                                                                                    (5 letters)




A place to keep horses. Or steady.   ________   _______  _________ ________ _______ ______
Add one letter from the word above                                              (6 letters)
.


To wound or pierce with a pointed weapon.                       _________ _________ _______   _______
Take away two letters from the word above .                                                    (4 letters)





A large, flat, often thick piece of something.               __________ __________ _________ ________
Change one letter from the word above.                                                                   (4 letters)




A very messy or slovenly person.
Change one letter from the word above.                     __________ __________ _________ ________
                                                                                                           (4 letters)



To splash a liquid about.
Take away the last letter, then add two from the     ________ ________ _________ ______ _______
word above.                                                                                        (5 letters)




To cut with big sweeping strokes.                         _______ _________ ________ ________ ______
                                                                                                     (5 letters)

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?

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 :)

BEDMAS Questions

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

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

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

1         2          3           4           5           6           7           8           9

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?

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