Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Business Day:  CONGRATULATIONS: We look forward to seeing all of you taking on a leadership role throughout this venture, as you were participating in a dual role: Young Entrepreneur and Philanthropist.
PAST DUE:
*Visit Google Classroom and complete tasks listed in Business Day Introduction
**Pre-Project Reflections template
***Complete the Company Start-Up Ideas template
****Join your family for a Community Walk (template) or shopping and note local or neighbouring businesses (product/services).

**SCIENCE: concept green home design package in-class and at-home time needed to work on the planning for effective group contributions

**SOCIAL STUDIES: independent summary presentation using 4 Google Slides planning package for tomorrow

MATH: Data Management Project: students were introduced to Google Spreadsheet to create & bump up graphs and analysis based on peer feedback and class samples


WRITING: over the next two weeks, students will write their final draft of their mystery story, referring to feedback from author A.Misri and discussions during writers workshop Google Classroom Mystery Writing 


Monday, January 30, 2017

Business Day:  CONGRATULATIONS: We look forward to seeing all of you taking on a leadership role throughout this venture, as you were participating in a dual role: Young Entrepreneur and Philanthropist.
*Visit Google Classroom and complete tasks listed in Business Day Introduction
**Pre-Project Reflections template
***Complete the Company Start-Up Ideas template
****Join your family for a Community Walk (template) or shopping and note local or neighbouring businesses (product/services).

**SCIENCE: Students were introduced to infographic posters, be ready to share your data suggestion for your expert group poster tomorrow. Class time provided and at-home will be useful to support group members.

**SOCIAL STUDIES: jot note responses to each of the questions in group page Social Studies Wiki at-home will be useful to support group members.

POETRY: Write a poem, about a journey an animal embarks upon as they try to survive in a natural environment that has been negatively impacted by a local or global issue.  (This is to be written from the perspective of the animal).  Open assignment in Google Classroom. 

MATH: Data Management Project: students were introduced to Google Spreadsheet to create & bump up graphs and analysis based on peer feedback and class samples


WRITING: over the next two weeks, students will write their final draft of their mystery story, referring to feedback from author A.Misri and discussions during writers workshop Google Classroom Mystery Writing 


Friday, January 27, 2017

Business Day:  CONGRATULATIONS: We look forward to seeing all of you taking on a leadership role throughout this venture, as you were participating in a dual role: Young Entrepreneur and Philanthropist.
*Visit Google Classroom and complete tasks listed in Business Day Introduction
**Pre-Project Reflections template
***Complete the Company Start-Up Ideas template
****Join your family for a Community Walk (template) or shopping and note local or neighbouring businesses (product/services).

**SCIENCE: Students were introduced to infographic posters, be ready to share your data suggestion for your expert group poster tomorrow. Class time provided and at-home will be useful to support group members.

**SOCIAL STUDIES: jot note responses to each of the questions in group page Social Studies Wiki at-home will be useful to support group members.

POETRY: Write a poem, about a journey an animal embarks upon as they try to survive in a natural environment that has been negatively impacted by a local or global issue.  (This is to be written from the perspective of the animal).  Open assignment in Google Classroom. 

MATH: Data Management Project: students were introduced to Google Spreadsheet to create & bump up graphs and analysis based on peer feedback and class samples


WRITING: over the next two weeks, students will write their final draft of their mystery story, referring to feedback from author A.Misri and discussions during writers workshop Google Classroom Mystery Writing 

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Business Day:  CONGRATULATIONS: We look forward to seeing all of you taking on a leadership role throughout this venture, as you were participating in a dual role: Young Entrepreneur and Philanthropist.
*Visit Google Classroom and complete tasks listed in Business Day Introduction
**Pre-Project Reflections template
***Complete the Company Start-Up Ideas template
****Join your family for a Community Walk (template) or shopping and note local or neighbouring businesses (product/services).

**SCIENCE: Students were introduced to infographic posters, be ready to share your data suggestion for your expert group poster tomorrow. Class time provided and at-home will be useful to support group members.

**SOCIAL STUDIES: jot note responses to each of the questions in group page Social Studies Wiki at-home will be useful to support group members.

POETRY: Write a poem, about a journey an animal embarks upon as they try to survive in a natural environment that has been negatively impacted by a local or global issue.  (This is to be written from the perspective of the animal).  Open assignment in Google Classroom. 

MATH: Data Management Project: students were introduced to Google Spreadsheet to create & bump up graphs and analysis based on peer feedback and class samples


WRITING: over the next two weeks, students will write their final draft of their mystery story, referring to feedback from author A.Misri and discussions during writers workshop Google Classroom Mystery Writing 

Wednesday, January 25, 2017

**SCIENCE: Students were introduced to infographic posters, be ready to share your data suggestion for your expert group poster tomorrow. Class time provided and at-home will be useful to support group members.

**SOCIAL STUDIES: jot note responses to each of the questions in group page Social Studies Wiki at-home will be useful to support group members.

POETRY: Write a poem, about a journey an animal embarks upon as they try to survive in a natural environment that has been negatively impacted by a local or global issue.  (This is to be written from the perspective of the animal).  Open assignment in Google Classroom. 

MATH: Data Management Project: students were introduced to Google Spreadsheet to create & bump up graphs and analysis based on peer feedback and class samples


WRITING: over the next two weeks, students will write their final draft of their mystery story, referring to feedback from author A.Misri and discussions during writers workshop Google Classroom Mystery Writing 

Tuesday, January 24, 2017

**SCIENCE: Expert group each member collect one statistics and powerful image for tomorrow. Save on your wiki page. Class time provided and at-home will be useful to support group members.

**SOCIAL STUDIES: jot note responses to each of the questions in group page Social Studies Wiki at-home will be useful to support group members.

POETRY: Write a poem, about a journey an animal embarks upon as they try to survive in a natural environment that has been negatively impacted by a local or global issue.  (This is to be written from the perspective of the animal).  Open assignment in Google Classroom. 

MATH: Data Management Project: Part 1 Sections A - D:  peer feedback will be provided, bump up graphs and analysis based on peer feedback


WRITING: over the next two weeks, students will write their final draft of their mystery story, referring to feedback from author A.Misri and discussions during writers workshop Google Classroom Mystery Writing 

Monday, January 23, 2017

**SCIENCE: students have been assigned a research topic for our Electricity Unit. REFER to the Big Idea questions Grade 6 OUTLINE; student generated guiding questions to research and describe the transformation from raw form to electricity. Groups will reorganized from their expert group and be jigsawed into home groups later this week. Class time provided and at-home will be useful to support group members.

**SOCIAL STUDIES: looking at continuity & change, cause & consequence in history, generate an inquiry question and share a relevant website in the Social Studies Wiki at-home will be useful to support group members.

HEALTH: If your magazine cover design and article write-up is not completed, please see me to arrange a time to get it done in-class


POETRY: Write a poem, about a journey an animal embarks upon as they try to survive in a natural environment that has been negatively impacted by a local or global issue.  (This is to be written from the perspective of the animal).  Open assignment in Google Classroom. 

MATH: Data Management Project: Part 1 Sections A - D:  peer feedback will be provided, bump up graphs and analysis based on peer feedback


WRITING: over the next two weeks, students will write their final draft of their mystery story, referring to feedback from author A.Misri and discussions during writers workshop Google Classroom Mystery Writing 

THE ARTS: 
***intro to one-point perspective drawing  

Thursday, January 19, 2017

**SCIENCE: students have been assigned a research topic for our Electricity Unit. REFER to the Big Idea questions Grade 6 OUTLINE; student generated guiding questions to research and describe the transformation from raw form to electricity. Groups will reorganized from their expert group and be jigsawed into home groups later this week. Class time provided and at-home will be useful to support group members.

**SOCIAL STUDIES: looking at continuity & change, cause & consequence in history, generate an inquiry question and share a relevant website in the Social Studies Wiki at-home will be useful to support group members.

HEALTH: You will be given a few days to collaborate online.  Next week, students will be provided a copy of their online work to them independently design an informative poster. (The poster will be presented to the class later in the week)


POETRY: Write a poem, about a journey an animal embarks upon as they try to survive in a natural environment that has been negatively impacted by a local or global issue.  (This is to be written from the perspective of the animal).  Open assignment in Google Classroom. 

MATH: Data Management Project: Part 1 Sections A - D:  peer feedback will be provided, bump up graphs and analysis based on peer feedback


WRITING: over the next two weeks, students will write their final draft of their mystery story, referring to feedback from author A.Misri and discussions during writers workshop Google Classroom Mystery Writing 

THE ARTS: 
***intro to one-point perspective drawing  

Wednesday, January 18, 2017

MATH: Data Management Project: Part 1 Sections A - D:  peer feedback will be provided, bump up graphs and analysis based on peer feedback

HEALTH: You will be given a few days to collaborate online.  Next week, students will be provided a copy of their online work to them independently design an informative poster. (The poster will be presented to the class later in the week)

SCIENCE: students have been assigned a research topic for our Electricity Unit. REFER to the Big Idea questions Grade 6 OUTLINE; student generated guiding questions to research and describe the transformation from raw form to electricity. Groups will reorganized from their expert group and be jigsawed into home groups later this week. Class time provided and at-home will be useful to support group members.

SOCIAL STUDIES: looking at continuity & change, cause & consequence in history, generate an inquiry question and share a relevant website in the Social Studies Wiki

POETRY: Write a poem, about a journey an animal embarks upon as they try to survive in a natural environment that has been negatively impacted by a local or global issue.  (This is to be written from the perspective of the animal).  Open assignment in Google Classroom. 

WRITING: over the next two weeks, students will write their final draft of their mystery story, referring to feedback from author A.Misri and discussions during writers workshop Google Classroom Mystery Writing 

THE ARTS: 
***intro to one-point perspective drawing 

Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Winona grade 6 to 7 Information Night Open House tonight at 6:15pm
Grade 6 to 7 packages and Extended French packages have been sent home today
** for students not in district, optional attendance forms sent home today

MATH: Data Management Project: Part 1 Sections A - D: organize data in a graph that best represent information, calculations of the mean, median, mode, range and analyze data using the guiding questions ... peer feedback will be provided over the next few days

HEALTH: You will be given a few days to collaborate online.  Next week, students will be provided a copy of their online work to them independently design an informative poster. (The poster will be presented to the class later in the week)

SCIENCE: students have been assigned a research topic for our Electricity Unit. REFER to the Big Idea questions Grade 6 OUTLINE; student generated guiding questions to research and describe the transformation from raw form to electricity. Groups will reorganized from their expert group and be jigsawed into home groups later this week. Class time provided and at-home will be useful to support group members.

SOCIAL STUDIES: looking at continuity & change, cause & consequence in history.

POETRY: Write a poem, about a journey an animal embarks upon as they try to survive in a natural environment that has been negatively impacted by a local or global issue.  (This is to be written from the perspective of the animal).  Open assignment in Google Classroom. 

WRITING: over the next two weeks, students will write their final draft of their mystery story, referring to feedback from author A.Misri and discussions during writers workshop Google Classroom Mystery Writing 

THE ARTS: 
***intro to one-point perspective drawing 

Monday, January 16, 2017

Field Trip: please bring in signed forms, two parent volunteers are needed

MATH: Data Management Project: Part 1 Section D: organize data in a graph that best represent information, calculations of the mean, median, mode, range and analyze data using the guiding questions 

HEALTH: You will be given a few days to collaborate online.  Next week, students will be provided a copy of their online work to them independently design an informative poster. (The poster will be presented to the class later in the week)

SCIENCE: students have been assigned a research topic for our Electricity Unit. REFER to the Big Idea questions Grade 6 OUTLINE; student generated guiding questions to research and describe the transformation from raw form to electricity. Groups will reorganized from their expert group and be jigsawed into home groups later this week. Class time provided and at-home will be useful to support group members.

SOCIAL STUDIES: looking at continuity & change, cause & consequence in history.

POETRY: Write a poem, about a journey an animal embarks upon as they try to survive in a natural environment that has been negatively impacted by a local or global issue.  (This is to be written from the perspective of the animal).  Open assignment in Google Classroom. 

WRITING: over the next two weeks, students will write their final draft of their mystery story, referring to feedback from author A.Misri and discussions during writers workshop Google Classroom Mystery Writing 

THE ARTS: 
***intro to one-point perspective drawing 

Friday, January 13, 2017

MATH: for Monday we will be looking at the Data Management Project: Part 1 Section A - C: organize data in a graph that best represent information, calculations of the mean, median, mode, range and analyze data using the guiding questions 

HEALTH: You will be given a few days to collaborate online.  Next week, students will be provided a copy of their online work to them independently design an informative poster. (The poster will be presented to the class later in the week)

SCIENCE: students have been assigned a research topic for our Electricity Unit. REFER to the Big Idea questions Grade 6 OUTLINE; student generated guiding questions to research and describe the transformation from raw form to electricity. Groups will reorganized from their expert group and be jigsawed into home groups later this week. Class time provided and at-home will be useful to support group members.

SOCIAL STUDIES: looking at continuity & change, cause & consequence in history.

WRITING: over the next two weeks, students will write their final draft of their mystery story, referring to feedback from author A.Misri and discussions during writers workshop Google Classroom Mystery Writing 

THE ARTS: 
***intro to one-point perspective drawing 


Thursday, January 12, 2017

HEALTH: Students have been assigned to small groups to research a focus area in Healthy Eating.  Follow the "Big Idea" and generate 2-3 inquiry questions to research on the topic. Tonight look for 2 potential websites. You will be given a few days to collaborate online.  Next week, students will be provided a copy of their online work to them independently design an informative poster. (The poster will be presented to the class later in the week)

SCIENCE: students have been assigned a research topic for our Electricity Unit. REFER to the Big Idea questions Grade 6 OUTLINE; student generated guiding questions to research and describe the transformation from raw form to electricity. Groups will reorganized from their expert group and be jigsawed into home groups later this week. Class time provided and at-home will be useful to support group members.

SOCIAL STUDIES: looking at continuity & change, cause & consequence in history.

WRITING: over the next two weeks, students will write their final draft of their mystery story, referring to feedback from author A.Misri and discussions during writers workshop Google Classroom Mystery Writing 

MATH: Data Management Project: Part 1 Section B Team Bowling Scores: organize data in a graph that best represent information, calculations of the mean, median, mode, range and analyze data using the guiding questions 

THE ARTS: 
***intro to one-point perspective drawing 

Wednesday, January 11, 2017

HEALTH: Students have been assigned to small groups to research a focus area in Healthy Eating.  Follow the "Big Idea" and generate 2-3 inquiry questions to research on the topic. Tonight look for 2 potential websites. You will be given a few days to collaborate online.  Next week, students will be provided a copy of their online work to them independently design an informative poster. (The poster will be presented to the class later in the week)

SCIENCE: students have been assigned a research topic for our Electricity Unit. REFER to the Big Idea questions Grade 6 OUTLINE; student generated guiding questions to research and describe the transformation from raw form to electricity. Groups will reorganized from their expert group and be jigsawed into home groups later this week. Class time provided and at-home will be useful to support group members.

SOCIAL STUDIES: looking at continuity & change, cause & consequence in history.

WRITING: over the next two weeks, students will write their final draft of their mystery story, referring to feedback from author A.Misri and discussions during writers workshop Google Classroom Mystery Writing 

MATH: Data Management Project: Part 1 Section A Individual Bowling Scores: organize data in a graph that best represent information, calculations of the mean, median, mode, range and analyze data using the guiding questions 

THE ARTS: 
***intro to one-point perspective drawing