Ms. Baker 5/6

 Hello families, I hope the kiddos enjoyed the long weekend and are ready for another one next week! We took advantage of the sunshine and went outside to play volleyball for PE and we will try to get out even more next week.  We had our student vote today which was exciting to see the students using their voice and making informed political choices. They spent the week researching parties and a platform issue that is important to them this election. Hopefully this will engage them more into the rest our of Provincial Government unit.  We have continued our Poetry unit and have begun reading and interpreting poetry. We will continue this into next week as we practice reading comprehension with poems and figurative language. In Math, the Grade 6's had a practice Part A Math PAT (15 computation questions), ask them how they did! We will be doing one more practice creating unbiased survey questions and creating graphs based on that data. The Grade 6's will be wrapping up this unit

 Hello families, Thank goodness the smoke is clearing out! We got to go outside again today (hooray!) This week the Grade 6 students had their first PAT. I am very proud of them for the hard work they put in and I am sure it is a big relief for them to have this first one done. The rest of their exams are not scheduled until the last two weeks of school.  In Social Studies, students have begun exploring Provincial Government. We will be learning about the different regulations around elections and the different areas of Provincial Government. We will also be participating in Student Vote next Friday and comparing the results to the actual election votes. In Science the students have been looking at footprints and the information you can gather from the size, stride, depth and type of shoe.  We have moved into Poetry for ELA. Students have started creating poems about themselves to add to the art they are creating and next week we will be analyzing and critiquing poetry pieces. We have

 Hello families, We had a great week getting to meet with Elder Harley Bastien. We met him at the pond and hopefully the students appreciated the experience. We have our fun lunch this week if you wanted to get in your orders before the weekend with Healthy Hunger  https://healthyhunger.ca/ .  In Math the Grade 6's reviewed graphs and interpreting information. They created a survey for the class and had to choose two ways to display this information. They needed to address the mean, median, mode and range from the data they gathered. Grade 5's reinforcing parallel, perpendicular and intersecting lines and discovering them in everyday places ie. maps.  We have finished our Social Studies Local Government unit. The students have completed a test which I will hand back Monday for them to bring home and get signed. I think the test was a good reflection of those that have been engaged in the unit. We will be moving onto provincial government this week and getting into Student Vote