Announcements and Reminders
This week at in Room 16/18 Gym: This week we have been wrapping up our basketball unit and moving into lacrosse! Wednesday and Thursday we will be welcoming ELEV8 Lacrosse to teach us the skills and fundamentals of lacrosse. French: Students finished their projects focusing on Carnaval du Quebec (Grade 6) and Festival de Voyageur (Grade 5). Students who have finished have started finger weaving bookmarks for our upcoming Agora. On Thursday we will also be painting kindness rocks as part of our Entrepreneurial inquiries. Health: Students looked at the Canada Food Guide and their lunch to determine if items in their lunch are a "less often, sometimes choice or most of the time choice." Then, they looked at the nutritional guide on their items to determine how much fat, sugar, fibre and protein are in their items. Math: We have started our unit around fractions, decimals (both grades), percentages and ratios (grade 6). We started by using pattern blocks to build different fractions to visually represent different fractions. We started looking at fractions as a set and fractions as a whole and the definitions for numerator, denominator and equivalent fractions. Grade 6 students have been determining improper fractions and their corresponding mixed numbers. Science: Grade 6: This week we have investigated what happens when air is compressed and how air can be used to lift water. Cutting Through Air Centre work should now be handed in. Grade 5: Students have now completed their Sticky Static investigations - this work should now be handed in. We have moved into working with our electricity kits which will use to complete hands-on experiments. Today we learned about what is inside of a dry cell battery, how a battery works and learned about Ohm's law. We also began to investigate how to light a light bulb using batteries and wire. Humanities: Literacy: We will begin our Functional Writing unit, News Articles, by learning about the News Article Triangle. This is an organizational tool that helps lay out your article. Over the next few weeks we will be looking at articles and the elements within them. We will then move to writing our own articles. Social Studies: 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 have finished their art pieces and are working to complete their biographies. 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. Students wrote a paragraph explaining how Athenian government is a direct democracy and explained to what extent democratic ideals of equity and fairness played a part of the structure of government and society in ancient Athens. These will both be due on Friday. Announcements and Reminders: Thank you to all community members that were able to attend our performance last Friday with Shirley Hill, Indigenous Elder and Artist. We are excited to have another week with her where we will focus on Indigenous ways of knowing through the buffalo and regalia making. This week, we will also be welcoming ELEV8 Lacrosse to teach us the skills and fundamentals of lacrosse. Our School Council and Parent Association Meeting is next week, Monday March 9th at 6pm in the North Haven learning commons. Everyone is welcome! Come join the conversation in regards to fundraisers, events, and residencies in our school. We are going to have a St. Patrick’s School Dance hosted by our Parent Council Association on March 19th from 5:30-7:30. Tickets will be $2.00 at the door.
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