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