Good afternoon, Gym: We continued our indigenous dancing using regalia, with Shirley Hill. As a reminder we will be having a performance, Friday February 28 at 11:00 am. French: We continued working on our projects focusing on Carnaval du Quebec (Grade 6) and Festival de Voyageur (Grade 5). Students will be researching these festivals and displaying their work through different project styles. Math: We have started our unit around fractions, decimals (both grades), percentages and ratios (grade 6). We started looking at this unit through the lens of a SEEI models. Students needed to state, elaborate, exemplify and illustrate their understanding of fractions! Tomorrow we will be doing another SEEI model looking at decimals! Science: Grade 6: All experiment write-ups for Is Air Everywhere?, Air Mass, Walking Balloons and Adjust the Volume are due this week. Students will be looking into aerodynamics and how air affects how object move in the Cutting through Air centre work. This week we will also be looking at what happens when air is compressed. Grade 5: Please have your Classroom Chemistry tests signed and returned by Thursday this week. We have begun our Electricity and Magnetism inquiry by delving into the vocabulary. This week we will be learning about atoms, protons, electrons and neutrons. We will also be exploring our electricity and magnetism kits. Literacy support: Spelling test Thursday on list 5 Grade 5 list: measure, mixture, solution. suspension, crystallization, solute, solvent, supersaturated, evaporation, leavening Grade 6 list: aerodynamics, gravity, mass, exist, weight, expand, contract, oxygen, nitrogen, carbon dioxide Reading: Read 2 books on Razkids each weekend. Be sure to complete the comprehension questions! Humanties: Literacy: All students worked this week to analyze previous PAT stories to help them understand students work from a different perspective. Students assessed 3 different stories based on a picture prompt. It was great for the students to view work from a assessors viewpoint. Humanities: Grade 5: Students have picked a new indigenous artists to study based on their location within Canada. The new Canadian artists students are studying are: Jordan Bennet a Mi'kmaq artist, Robert Charles Davidson a Haida artist and Delree Dumont Cree artist. Students will be creating art pieces and biographies based on these 3 artists. Grade 6: Students created a flow chart based on the structure of the government in ancient Athens. Students needed to include the roles of men, women, slaves, metics and citizens. They also needed to incorporate how the court, council and assembly affect democracy. Pink Shirt Day This year, Pink Shirt Day, or Anti-Bullying Day, is on February 26. It is a day when people come together by wearing pink shirts to school or work to show they are against bullying. The focus for 2020 is "lift each other up." North Haven Leadership students will be back on the 'kindness patrol' all week, looking for evidence of students making kind choices to lift each other up. Please talk as a family about the huge positive impact that choosing kindness can have on the life of another person. Residency Next Week: For the next two weeks we will be welcoming Shirley Hill for a residency. Please see below for further information on Shirley and her work with Indigenous dancing and regalia making. https://www.prancingdeerarts.com/landscapes
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