Happy Tuesday April 30th
Reminders:
Wednesday is mental health day- Please wear a hat!
LA PAT NEXT WEDNESDAY MAY 8
Practice PAT all morning tomorrow
News article quiz Thursday!

Thats all for today!
Have a great evening!

Happy Monday April 29!

Hope everyone had a safe weekend with the wild snow storm that arose!

Reminders:
Basic Facts Quiz this week!
Wednesday is mental health day- Please wear a hat!
LA PAT NEXT WEDNESDAY MAY 8
Perimeter and Area sheet (First page) due tomorrow!

Today we began our day with a huge review of the news articles the students wrote on Friday.
I marked all of the articles over the weekend and gave each one personalized feedback and tips for improving their articles. Each student was given their peers work to review and fill out a large peer assessment sheet. They had to analyze their peers work for well written headlines, facts, lead paragraphs, quotes and literary terms. After having their article reviewed, each student read through all the feedback from the teacher and peers. Each student then had to select one area of their article to rewrite with the new feedback. Students did an excellent job working to improve their own work and others!

After LA we moved into Math, We have begun to explore the concept of Area=Length x Width.
This concept is a review of grade 5 but with some grade 6 numbers.
I sent home a sheet today that I expect the students to finish the first page of by tomorrow. These questions are a review of grade 5 and we will be moving on with concepts and the rest of the sheet tomorrow!

Below are some links to help with learning area and perimeter:

Math antics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCdxURXMdFY

Math is fun: https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/area.html

In grade 6 we work primarily with rectangular polygons.

After lunch we moved into social!

Today we learned about the courts of Ancient Athens.
We learned about the roles of magistrates, jury's, defendants and plaintiffs!

We finished off our day with reading some articles about the roles of Athenian men, women, children and slaves. We will finish the workbook that is paired with the article in the next few days!

Have a great evening everyone.

Happy Friday April 26 WOOT!

Reminders:
-First LA PAT part A Wednesday May 8th!
-PAT prep for LA all next week

Today the students began their day with our monthly pillars of care assembly!

Congrats to:
Finn for Care for Learning
Eliza for Care for Self
Kelvin for Care for Place
Alexa for Care for Others

Also... Goner for Patroller of the Month award

and.... Alexa for winning first place in the Students Against Drunk Driving Liquor Bag Contest.

Way to go all you room 14 winners!

After the assembly students were given a large chunk of time to write their second PAT practice article. We will be writing another one on Monday!

Have a great weekend everyone! Next week will be very busy!
Mr Lancee

Happy Thursday April 25
Reminders:
Pillars of Care Assembly tomorrow at 8:15 am
First PAT May 8 LA part 1

Today the students began their day with a trip to music followed by dance in gym. We have a specialist in every Thursday teaching the students a super hip dance routine!

After gym we had a guest presenter in to inform the students of the amazing resources that can be found at calgarylibrary.ca. Students can use the website to research for projects and even get extra help in school.

We spent a large chunk of time today reviewing the tips for for writing a news article. We explored how to use the information on the fact sheet to create an article that had a clear lead paragraph and supporting facts with quotes built in. I am excited to see all the amazing improvements from the first article to the one they write tomorrow.

We finished up our day by exploring the Council of 500, otherwise known as the Boule, in Ancient Athens. Did you know that, the Council of 500 had one leader for a total of 24 hours! Short term leadership!

Have a great evening everyone!
Mr Lancee

Happy Monday April 23

Reminders:
Superhero day tomorrow
Guest Presentation Thursday 9:30-10:30
Pillars of Care Assembly this Friday 8:15-9:15

I cannot believe how fast this year has flown by! We are officially two weeks out from our first Provincial Achievement Test. On May 8th we will be writing our LA part A in which the students will be writing a narrative story based off a picture prompt and an article based off an event in the past. We have been practicing story writing all year and we are wrapping up our news articles this week. Next week we will be practicing writing both a story and article in one go at least twice.
I will be giving feedback to the students to help them write their next articles before the end of the week!

In math we began one of my favorite units! PERIMETER AREA VOLUME!

Today we began with perimeter, Students need to understand that perimeter is a one dimensional measurement of the distance around an object or shape.

Math antics: Perimeter explained!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAY1bsazcgM

Practice:


In Social this week we are exploring the structure of government within Ancient Athens!
Today we explored the assembly and how Athens began as a direct democracy. 6000 Athenian born men meeting to discuss war, laws and religion. Can you imagine if we had all the students come together to discuss and vote on a huge decision? Wow! It would be a site to see!

Have a great evening everyone!
Mr Lancee

Happy Thursday April 18!

Reminders:
Super hero day April 24
No school Friday or Monday

Today the students had a very busy day with several assessments!

We started our day with our biweekly word problem centered around equations.

Next the students went off to Mr Muellers class for science before heading out for lunch.

In the afternoon the students wrote their first news article which I will be marking over the long weekend. HOORAY!

Finally we ended the day with a math retest for equations.

I hope everyone has a safe and fun long weekend!
Mr Lancee

Happy Tuesday April 16!
No school April 19 or 22

April 23 spring photo day

Superhero day April 24!

Happy Election Day!
Yesterday the students took part in student vote and the results will be posted at 8:00 pm tonight once the polls are closed!
Visit https://calgary.ctvnews.ca/alberta-election-2019
or watch CTV to find out the results of student vote!

Today the students visited the polling station within our school to see the provincial election voting process in person!

Today the students wrote their Equations test in math. The test was difficult, but nothing was unfamiliar. I have instructed the students to take their tests home and have it returned and signed. I will be giving a retest for all students that scored below 70%. ?If you failed, the test is mandatory.

Have a nice evening!
Mr Lancee

Happy Monday April 15
No school April 19

April 23 spring photo day

Superhero day April 24!
Equations quiz tomorrow
Basic facts quiz this week!

Today the students began their day with the final review of equations before their quiz tomorrow.
Students will be expected to solve several questions which use a combination of two operations. 
Questions such as 35 + 7a =49 & 87- a= 15 are some of the examples of questions they may see.

After Math, during social, students were given a chance to participate in the student vote! We gave them some time to research the candidates and then use a voting screen, ballots and an actual ballot box to collect the votes. I will be totaling and submitting all the votes tonight after school!

After social students joined Mr Mueller for a detailed lesson on how to write news articles. We will be using information from some mock article fairy tale stories to create our articles! Today Mr Mueller showed the students how to write an article using proper language and tomorrow students will put this into practice! 

After lunch the students were able to visit library to take out new chapter books!

In the afternoon we gave the students time to research for their planetary descriptions booklets. Students visited the site: Nasaspaceplace for all the spacey facts!

We ended the day by marking our social test from Friday!

I recommend doing some practice for the test tomorrow!
Have a great evening :)

Happy Friday April 12!
Reminders: 

No school April 19

April 23 spring photo day

Superhero day April 24!

Just a reminder that on Monday we will be doing our Student Vote for the upcoming election!

Today the students began their day by participating in our ignite program! All of the div 2 teachers hosted different games, activities and learning tasks in their rooms for all of the students to freely join. In my room the students played board games while in Mr Muellers class they learned german!

After ignite the students wrote their social tests. Since there were so many kids away we will be marking it on Monday!

Next week we will be having our Equations quiz on Tuesday! I am hoping students will practice over the weekend to prepare for the quiz! Today we did a review of several types of questions but practice makes perfect!

We also explored some details about news articles including how to write an engaging headline.

Have a great weekend!
Mr Lancee

Happy Thursday April 11!
Reminders: 

Social Charter of Rights and Freedoms Test Friday

No school April 19

Math night Thursday 5:30-7:30

April 23 spring photo day

Superhero day April 24!


Cannot wait to see everyone tonight at math night!
Today the students began their day by heading off to Music!
After music we put our equation skills to the test with several questions. Below are the questions from today and yesterday for extra practice!




After math students put on several presentations showcasing their articles that they read for homework! Great work guys and gals, we will be writing articles next week!

In the afternoon we prepped for our social test on the charter of rights and freedoms tomorrow!

Have a nice evening!
Mr Lancee

Happy Wednesday April 10!

Reminders: 

Social Charter of Rights and Freedoms Test Friday

Presentation Friday

Newspaper articles presentations THURSDAY!

No school April 19

Math night Thursday 5:30-7:30

April 23 spring photo day

Superhero day April 24!

Today in math we began to solve two step equations using either x and / or + and - !
I sent home a practice sheet which I would like to go over on Friday! Get your work done and you will not only feel the pride of completing a task but also get stronger in your math tasks!
If you're stuck please see the math websites I posted on the blogs.

I also sent home the students article sheets in which they will be reporting on an article they read on the computer. They are presenting tomorrow :)

Next week we will be participating in the student vote in which students will be doing a mock vote for the upcoming provincial election!

Info about upcoming election:

Candidates

https://www.elections.ab.ca/current-election-information/candidates/Animated

videos: For a quick review of provincial government and the electoral process in Alberta, you can use our animated videos: http://studentvote.ca/ab2019/tools-and-videos/

Leader Q&A Videos: If you are looking for ways to inform your students about the leaders and their vision for Alberta, check out our video ‘Q&A’: http://studentvote.ca/ab2019/the-leaders/

Have a nice evening!

Happy Tuesday April 9!

Reminders: 
Social Charter of Rights and Freedoms Test Friday
Presentation Friday
Newspaper articles presentations THURSDAY!
No school April 19
Math night Thursday 5:30-7:30
April 23 spring photo day
Superhero day April 24

Huge reminder that the test in social is Friday. I handed out a study guide and I hope everyone uses it and their notes to study!

Have a great Tuesday!

Happy Monday April 8!

Reminders: 
Social Charter of Rights and Freedoms Test Friday
Presentation Friday
Newspaper articles presentations Wednesday
No school April 19
Math night Thursday 5:30-7:30
April 23 spring photo day
Superhero day April 24

This Week in room 14:
LA: Analyzing News Articles
Math: Algebra
Social: Studying for unit test
Science: Identifying differences in planets and stars

Today we began our day by relearning the basics of algebra.
Here is a link to math antics for some helpful tips!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NybHckSEQBI

We are learning to balance equations specifically focusing on addition and subtraction today.
Attached is another video we watched to support the basics.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l3XzepN03KQ

After math students were given some time read several articles which they will be doing a presentation on Wednesday! 
https://teachingkidsnews.com/
Below is the graphic organizer and task!

Article Presentation – Teaching Kids News

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Name(s): __________________________________________________________________

	Level 1	Level 2	Level 3	Level 4
Identifies main features of the article (headline/ byline / dateline)	Not mentioned	All mentioned during duration of presentation Not necessarily in order	All mentioned in correct order at the beginning of presentation	All mentioned in correct order at the beginning of presentation using news language (e.g. published on)
Summarizes the 5WQs & How	Limited details / incorrect information	Adequate details basic understanding	Good understanding and proficient amount of relevant details	Excellent understanding very informative includes many relevant details
Identifies facts and opinions* (if present)	None / irrelevant facts	Basic supportive facts	Many, supportive and relevant facts,	Many supportive and relevant facts in logical order
Identifies quotations and experts (if applicable)	None mentioned	Few mentioned Source not provided	Mentioned Some sources provided	Many mentioned All sources provided
Critical Thinking (author’s message / intention /personal comments/ thoughts)	No extra information given little / no critical thinking evident	Information given after reminders Some critical thinking evident	Information was provided and demonstrates critical thinking / connections	Great amount of information provided that clearly demonstrates critical thinking
Analyzing news language	Very few words and phrases were provided Not all may be relevant	Some relevant information was provided (basic amount)	Good amount of relevant words and phrases were provided (most are relevant)	Great amount of relevant and exemplary news article language was presented.

Name:

Newspaper Article
Author:		Date:
Source:		Picture:
Headline:
Who/What? -       is this story about? -       does this story affect?
What? -       is the topic of the article? -       is the author’s point of view about the topic?
When did this story take place?	Where did this story take place?
Why? -       is this story important? -       does it matter to you/ community/ world?
List 4 important facts:

In the afternoon, students were given time to review their study guide and do a kahoot to prepare for their test Friday.

Study Guide for Test:

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Study Guide

As a part of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms we have a right to:

• Fundamental Freedoms🡪express (state) your opinions
• Fundamental Freedoms🡪join (belong) to any group
• Democratic rights🡪 Parliament needs to have a meeting at least one time per year
• Mobility Rights🡪 As a Canadian citizen, you have the right to stay, leave or enter Canada as you wish as long as you do not have a criminal record
• Minority Language Education Rights🡪 as Canadian citizens, we have a right to receive schooling in both English and French
• Legal Rights🡪 you have the right to a fair trial and are assumed to be innocent until proven guilty
• Fundamental Freedoms🡪 right to practice whatever religion you choose (wish to practice)
• Charter can only be amended by the government🡪 people vote against or for changes and then a decision is made
• Charter falls underneath our constitution

Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms:

• A document that outlines the rights and freedoms guaranteed to Canadians

Principles of Democracy: think of the acronym JEFR

1. Equity
2. Justice
3. Representation
4. Freedoms

Fundamental Freedoms:

• Right to practice whatever religion you choose
• Right to express (state) your opinions
• Right to belong to any group
• Right to organize peaceful meetings

Democratic Rights:

• Right to vote in elections
• To participate in an election (if you are a Canadian Citizen and are 18 years of age or older)
• To run for an election
• To have legislatures and Parliament meet at least once a year
• To have elections at least every 5 years

Representative Democracy:

• Where citizens elect people to represent them (elected officials)

Collective Rights:

• Rights that help to protect a certain group (Aboriginal people, Francophones, Anglophones)

Mobility Rights:

• Canadian citizens (permanent residents) have the right to enter, stay or leave Canada as they wish🡪 these rights can be taken away if you are convicted of a crime
• Move to another province and can earn a living in any province

Legal Rights:

• To feel free and safe
• To have a fair and quick public trial
• In a trial to be assumed innocent until proven guilty

Official Languages of Canada Rights:

• Right to communicate with and receive services from the federal government in French and English

Minority Language Education Rights:

• To have publicly funded schools for Francophones in provinces where most people speak English and for Anglophones in provinces (Quebec) where most people speak French

General Rights:

• To uphold existing Aboriginal and treaty rights
• To uphold the multicultural heritage of Canadians

Enforcement Rights:

• Right to go to court if any of your other rights are denied🡪 often times will go to the Supreme Court of Canada