Mr. Mueller's Grade 6 Masterminds

  Dear Parents & Guardians, Thank you all for your support with our Spring Concert. Despite the short notice (due to the lifting of Covid-restrictions), Mr. Wiens, our music teacher, managed to create a great show with the vocal support of your children. Today, I just want to make you aware of next week's assessments. With the PATs approaching in the week of June 13th, we have to complete our current units in social and science and start the exam preparation. In class, we voted today on doing the Aerodynamics and Flight  science quiz on Tuesday, May 31st Ancient Athens (social) test on Wednesday, June 1st. Here are 3 learning links for you to check out to prepare for the tests: Air & Aerodynamics Flight & Aerodynamics Ancient Athens - Democracy & Social Classes Next week, we are also starting our final units of the school year: 1) Fractions-Ratio-Percent in math 2) Evidence & Investigation in science 3) The Iroquois Confederacy  aka The Haudenosaunee i...

Dear Parents & Guardians, Concert information for tonight Pillars of Care Assembly & Winners for tomorrow Math quiz on algebraic equations tomorrow  As you all know by now, today is our Division II Spring Concert ! The concert starts at 6pm sharp. Please be here 10-15 minutes earlier. Send your child up to our classroom (Room 15). I will open my doors at 5:30. The concert is about 45 to 60 minutes long.   Tomorrow we are having our monthly Pillars of Care Assembly. Below are the students that have been nominated and chosen by their peers to win an award this month. At this point,  Parents of the award winners are invited to attend the assembly in person. Please be here before 8:30am. GRADE 6 Mr. Mueller Care for Others - Mahaa Thanks to Maaha, many of her classmates benefit from her input in partner tasks. If you have Maaha in your group, you can count on a reliable partner that helps you get the work done. She has been doing a fantastic job in researching Ancie...

  Dear Parents & Guardians, Tomorrow is our Spring Concert for Division II. This is the first in-person concert since 2020! I am hoping to see many of you in attendance. The concert starts at 6pm sharp. Please send your children to class at least 15min earlier. I will open Room 15 doors at 5:30pm and am available for a 'meet & greet.' FYI - Our Pillars of Care Winners for May will be announced her tomorrow. The assembly will be on Friday in the gym! Math - homework: After noticing that some of the Grade Sixers need some extra practice time, I sent home an algebra work sheet with 18 questions involving unknown numbers.  The principle of solving equations is to  a) treating each side equally (what you to do to left - has to be done to the right side, as well) b) isolating the variable (having the unknown number stand by itself) c) doing the reverse operation (+ <=> - and x <=> /) Tomorrow is our last chance to practice solving equations in class before F...

Dear Parents & Guardians, This 4-day school week will be another busy one for us here in grade 6. 1) Our spring concert will take place on Thursday evening at 6pm. You are all invited to attend in person in the gym. Students, please show up 20-30 min earlier. 2) We are going to have a math test on Friday to conclude the algebra unit! 3) It's almost June. This is one the of last calls for Baby Pictures for the grade 6 graduation in the second last week of school.  Ancient Athens Extra Research Resources https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/e/2PACX-1vTf4Brpzp0YlBhkINtXRNfJ12CVJUreltHvKtuuoZ7ANo7qhXG3Fg0p9WS-M7q5fJwR6N9zgJYE2w16/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000&slide=id.ga3b69da83f_0_0

  Dear Grade 6 Families, Tonight is our School Spring Dance, organized by our amazing parent council. You are all invited to attend.  The dance starts at 6pm and lasts for 2 hours. Children need to be supervised by an adult. I wish I could attend myself, but my own children have swim lessons every Thursday. Upcoming events & dates: No school tomorrow, May 20th => PD-Day No school on Monday, May 23rd => Victoria Day Long Weekend Next week, there will be a quick algebra  test and final news unit reading quiz, later in the week. Have a great long weekend!

  Good afternoon grade six families, Tomorrow is our first grade 6 provincial achievement test (LA PAT exam part A).  The exam consists of two parts: a)  writing a news article based off a research sheet and b) writing a narrative/ story based off a picture prompt. In class, we have written many stories and news reports in the past weeks & months to prepare for the exam. I have made another study sheet for students who want to review the tasks. The focus for grading the exam is on story/news organization, connecting events logically, using proper and varied syntax, descriptive and specific vocabulary, as well as demonstrating good control over writing conventions (spelling, grammar, punctuation, capitalization). Please have your child arrive on time at school tomorrow. The exam starts at 9:00 am.  We will read through it together then students get 15 minutes to plan with their friends.  Students  have up to four hours to write the exam if they need it....

Dear Parents & Guardians,   Welcome back to what is now already the 6th final week of the school year! Including today there are only 30 more days of teaching remaining until June 28th. There are a number of events & of course the first PAT exam taking place in this week. Overview: 1) Spring Picture Day tomorrow, Tuesday May 17th. 2) PAT LA writing exam will be on Wednesday May 18th (9am - 1pm). 3) Grade 6 vaccinations - Thursday, May 19th 4) BHS Spring Dance (parent council event) on Thursday 6-8pm in the school gym. Our Learning in class: Today students had their final chance to write a news report using Google Classroom and our brand-new laptops. If you wish to see their work, have them sign onto Google Docs. I marked Thursday writing sample and gave each student personalized feedback. We are ready for the PAT when it comes to news reports. Tomorrow we will go over story writing  one final time. In math, we started our new algebra unit. Today we learnt about variabl...