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