Happy Monday Nov 12!

Reminders:
Spelling Test Friday
Spelling Sentences due Friday

Student involved conferences Nov 22 & 23

Book Fair Nov 20-23

Dress as your Favourite Book Character Day Nov 29

Today the students began their day by being introduced to the story mountain for story writing!

Cool video on the story mountain:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpWHZJZQDSE



In math this week we will be applying what we have learned in basic facts to word problems. The skill of solving word problems is essential for life problems and PAT's at the end of the year!

In Social, Students worked out of the textbook researching key terms and reading the pages related to our new unit: Decision Making!

The students were fortunate to see a first nations presentation in the gym today that displayed some traditional artifacts and displayed a dance. Students had a blast experiencing this mini presentation.

Below is the spelling words for this week!

Have a nice evening!

Spelling Words Week 5 Science: Trees and Forests

Must

1)                  energy

2)                  oxygen

3)                  glucose

4)                  photosynthesis

5)                  lumber

6)                  sustainable

7)                  recreation

8)                  abiotic

9)                  forestry

10)             conservation

Extra

11)             carbon dioxide

12)             natural resource

13)             environmentalist

14)             xylem

15)             phloem

Use the word in a sentence and underline it!

Happy Thursday Nov 8!

Apologies for the lack of blogs on Tuesday and Wednesday...I was away from school due to illness.

Reminders:

Remembrance Day assembly at 10:30 (Time was adjusted) Nov 9

Social local gov test tomorrow! Friday Nov 9

Student involved conferences Nov 22 & 23

Book Fair Nov 20-23

Dress as your Favourite Book Character Day Nov 29

Today the students began their day with music. It is always nice to see the students working together playing their instruments each time I pick them up from music.

After music we completed our bi-weekly basic facts math quiz. I am very happy to report our class average was 75%. Some practice is still needed with multiplication and division of decimals but that is why we practice!

After math we spent some time finishing our poppies for the Remembrance Day assembly tomorrow at 10:30. The remainder of the block was spent practicing Kahoot quizzes for our Social Quiz tomorrow. Remember, its never too late to study! Kahoot.com Search local government.

In the afternoon students were introduced to the first elements of story writing! We focused on the six types of conflict that can be found within stories and made small comic strips to showcase these.

The end of the day was rounded off with some additional Kahoot quizzes for some last minute studying for the quiz tomorrow.

Have a nice evening
Mr Lancee

Happy Monday Nov 5

Reminders:

Remembrance Day assembly at 10:45 Nov 9

Social local gov test Friday Nov 9

Student involved conferences Nov 22 & 23

Book Fair Nov 20-23

Dress as your Favourite Book Character Day Nov 29

Hope everyone had a nice weekend!

Looking forward to reading and marking all of the poetry anthologies this week!

Today the students began their day with creating our documentation of learning boards. This board is outside of our classroom and will be viewable at student led conferences night.

In the middle part of the day the students began to practice decimal division! Believe it or not, it is the same as normal division with a trick to solve using decimals. Below is a sheet we were working through today!

We will be having a basic fact data test this week to see the students progress!

Check out math antics for some helpful videos and tips!

In the afternoon the students were able experience the wonders of Kahoot! This online quiz site is free and accessible from any computer. It is our main and fun way to study for tests in social and science!

Kahoot.com

Special Note:

The majority of our BHS male staff members are participating in our traditional Movember

fundraiser. For a $1 donation students can buy one vote for the teacher with the worst or best mustache this month.

The donations will be going to the Canadian Movember Foundation. Movember is an annual event involving

the growing of moustaches during the month of November to raise awareness of men's health issues, 

such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and men's suicide

Happy Friday Nov 2! I cannot believe it is already November!

Reminders:
Pillars of Care Assembly Friday at 8:15 am
Poetry Anthology due Monday (Extended Date)
Social local gov test next Friday Nov 9
One Journal topic due next Wednesday!
Student involved conferences Nov 22 & 23
Remembrance day assembly Nov 9
Book Fair Nov 20-23
Dress as your Favourite Book Character Day Nov 29

Critical thinking question for Social:

In what way is local government part of a democracy?

Think...FREJ

Freedom Representation Equity Justice

We will be covering this question Monday!


Today...

Congrats to the winners of the Pillars of care awards! Amazing assembly today!

The students in room 14 had their first buddies today! We went down to the kindergarten room and showed the little buddies how to log into mathletics and solve some kindergarten level mathletics problems.


Have a great weekend!
Looking forward to seeing everyones poetry anthologies due Monday!

Happy Thursday Nov 1

Reminders:
Pillars of Care Assembly Friday at 8:15 am
Poetry Anthology due Monday (Extended Date)
Social local gov test next Friday Nov 9
One Journal topic due next Wednesday!
Student involved conferences Nov 22 & 23
Remembrance day assembly Nov 9
Book Fair Nov 20-23
Dress as your Favourite Book Character Day Nov 29


Today the students had a visit from Constable Kovacs to discuss the problems of bullying and digital citizenship.
Extremely powerful videos from Constable Kovacs presentation

Anti Bullying Video

http://time.com/4993403/burger-king-anti-bullying-psa/

Digital Citizenship Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7pYHN9iC9I

Have a great evening!

Happy Halloween Wednesday!

Reminders:
Pillars of Care Assembly Friday at 8:15 am
Cyber bullying presentation Thursday
Poetry Anthology due Friday
Swimming for two more days.
Social local gov test next Friday Nov 9

Tomorrow officer Kovacs will be attending our school to do a presentation on cyber bullying for all grade six students.

Staff are raising awareness for men's prostate cancer by joining the Movemeber cause.  It costs $1 to vote for your favourite or worst moustache.  All proceeds will be donated on behalf of Beddington Heights School to the Movemeber foundation.  The teacher with the most votes for best-stache and worst will be dressing up and dying their hair for the November assembly at the end of the month.  We thank you for your donations! 

Happy Halloween everyone!

Happy Tuesday Oct 30 (Halloween eve! OoOoO Spooky!)

Reminders:
Pillars of Care Assembly Friday at 8:15 am
Cyber bullying presentation Thursday
Poetry Anthology due Friday
Swimming for two more days.
Social local gov test next Friday Nov 9
Orange and black shirt day Wednesday

LA:
Students have been hard at work for the last week creating poems for their Poetry Anthology.
The Anthology good copy is due on Friday. I am expecting 6-8 typed/hand written poems submitted in a book/magazine/catalogue. The poems should have a theme and an illustration to go with them. I recommend students do a title page and table of contents to keep their work looking neat and organized. In keeping with grade six writing there is also an expectation for students to use literary devices wherever possible in their poems. Below are some examples:



Math:
In Math students are developing their understanding of multiplication of decimals. We build up computation skills to assist with word problems solving skills. Below are some examples of questions we will see.


Also, visit Math Antics or Mathletics for helpful tips and practice!


Social:
We will be covering three essential questions about government that the students must know for their exam. These will be posted to the blog tomorrow.

Science:
Students are currently learning about the nutrient cycle and the importance of photosynthesis. These concepts are the building blocks for their upcoming project!

Happy Monday Oct 29!
Hope everyone had a nice weekend!

Reminders:
Poetry Anthology due Friday
Swimming for two more days.
Social local gov test next Friday Nov 9
Orange and black shirt day Wednesday


Today the students began their day a bit different then our usual schedule. Due to swimming and when we have our EA we chose to do Social first.

In social we learned about the importance and function of a school board within a local government. This discussion lead us into the discussion of democracy! Democracy is the core of all our units in social this year. Government for the people!
Think FREJ Freedom, Representation, Equity, Justice.

After social, students were given time to work on their poetry anthologies! The expectation is for students to be done 6-8 poems by the end of today so that they could begin working on good copies tomorrow. I hope to see all poems finished when students come into school tomorrow.

After LA, students applied their knowledge of computation to decimals with some decimal multiplication! The nice thing is...There is no difference in the computation. The decimal shifting is the only part that changes! Remember: shift the decimal right until the number becomes whole...then shift it back the same number of times in the final product.

The students continued to have a wonderful time in swimming. Two more days left!

Finally we finished off the day with a big long awaited desk clean! Hooray!

Have a nice evening!
Mr Lancee

Happy Wednesday Oct 24

Reminders:
Swimming starts Wednesday Oct 24 and continues until Oct 31 from 12:40-1:50.
No School Friday
One journal topic due Oct 31. See topics below.
Swim forms due Tuesday
Halloween Dance Thursday
Orange and black shirt day Oct 31
+ - and place value of decimals quiz Thursday
Local Government unit test Friday Nov 9 (Official)

Today the students began their day by sharing some of the poems they have been working on for their final poetry anthology. Several students were excited to share limericks, acrostic, concrete, shape and ballad poems! With our new document camera students are able to see other students work and highlight examples of literary terms and comment of areas of improvement.

After LA we continued into morning math working on place value and + - of decimal problems. Tomorrow we will be having our quiz that reviews these concepts and pushes the students to solve tricky problems. Tomorrow I will be sending home our basics facts quiz from yesterday that should be signed and returned tomorrow. This test was a measure of the concepts learned within grade 5 moving into grade 6. It is my recommendation that if your child scored below 11/15 on the test they should be asking for extra help, going on mathletics, and practicing to improve their computation skills.

After math, the students were able to learn about the process of how people get elected to be mayors and councillors. We learned about the importance of the election, the election process and did a mock vote for which grade 6 teacher would make the best councillor for ward 4. Mr Lancee won :)

Probably the most exciting part of the day (other then math class of course!) was having the students take part in swimming lessons! Students were split into small groups based off their ability level and had a splash in the pool! Laps were swam, fun was had, overall a great day!

Reminders:
Swimming starts Wednesday Oct 24 and continues until Oct 31 from 12:40-1:50.
No School Friday
One journal topic due Oct 31. See topics below.
Swim forms due Tuesday
Halloween Dance Thursday
Orange and black shirt day Oct 31
+ - and place value of decimals quiz Thursday
Local Government unit test Friday Nov 9 (Official)

Quick message!
Today the students wrote their second basic facts test which will be sent out tomorrow to be signed.

Have a nice evening!

Happy Monday Oct 22

Hope everyone had a nice weekend!

Reminders:
Swimming starts Wednesday Oct 24 and continues until Oct 31 from 12:40-1:50.
No School Friday
One journal topic due Oct 31. See topics below.
Swim forms due Tuesday
Halloween Dance Thursday
Orange and black shirt day Oct 31
Basic Facts quiz tomorrow
+ - and place value of decimals quiz Thursday
Local Government unit test next Thursday Nov 2 (Tentative)


Today the students began their day with our Social Studies spelling test. 15 words related to social government and the sentences that students created were due.

After spelling the students were given some time to review the math work from the weekend. This will not be taken for marks but is great practice that builds student knowledge for the quiz at the end of the week.

After math, room 14 reviewed some the important literary terms needed for the poetry anthology and in depth explored the Haiku!

POETRY PROJECT

After, we started working on our poetry project.
Over the next two weeks, we are writing a minimum of 8 different types of poems to create a personal poetry anthology (= A collection of poems with title page, table of contents, overarching theme).

Here is a list of poems we discussed and practiced in class:

The Basic Poems:

Acrostic
Haiku (Senryu) =>  Japanese syllable count poems
Rhyming Couplet (2 lines)
Tercet (3 lines)
Quatrain (4 line stanza)
Cinquain (5 lines)  => syllable count poem
Limerick (5 lines)
Diamante (7 lines)
Biopoem (autobiographic / follows a pattern)
Concrete / Shape Poem (A poem written in the shape of its subject)
Free Verse (Imagery is key)

More advanced forms (level 3 & 4)
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Ballad  (6-8 stanzas á 4 lines)
Ode   (3 stanzas á 4 lines + a final rhyming couplet )

After lunch the students had a very busy afternoon learning the basics of how a local government is organized and the elected officials/councillor responsibilities.

No spelling this week as it is a short week!

Below are the instructions for the journal entry due next week.