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  Dear Parents & Guardians, As mentioned last week, April-May-June is a busy time and this week's tasks, assessments and activities reflect that.  1) Social Studies assessments on Provincial Government this Friday, April 8th. 2) New Spelling words - based on key concepts of the social unit provincial government ( Test on Friday, as well ). Knowing the meaning of these words is key to be successful in the unit test.  3) Basic Computation 15 Questions assessment tomorrow, April 5th. 4) Integer Check-In - After teaching this concept for 7 days, our grade 6 team has decided to put student's knowledge through an easy test (on Thursday, April 7th). Art-Update Artist in Residence - We were fortunate to work with our artist in residence, Dean Stanton, today on a great Pop Art project. Each students has created their own square tile with colourful images, patterns which will be put together similar to a collage and assembled into a whole school piece. Math assessments We do th...
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  Dear Parents & Guardians, Below you will find links to study notes for the Social Studies assessment on Thursday. We will also have a math check-in to see how students are doing in regards to the following skills in  geometry: measuring and identifying types of angles calculating the value of missing angles in triangles and quadrilaterals determining the area and perimeter of triangles Source:  https://www.onlinemathlearning.com/types-of-triangles.html Study Notes for the Social Studies Test: Unit Overview: https://gradesix.mrpolsky.com/ewExternalFiles/Chapter%205%20Notes.pdf Vocabulary: https://gradesix.mrpolsky.com/ewExternalFiles/Chapter%205%20Vocabulary.pdf LA updates: Yesterday I sent home the marked novel study quizzes. This week we are focussing on story planning and writing entertaining and descriptive introductions and rising actions. Some of the strategies shown in class on how to begin a story are: - snapshop - onomatopoeia - character sketch - 5 senses d...
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Dear Parents & Guardians, This Thursday afternoon and Friday morning you have the opportunity to book an appointment with me to discuss your child's learning. Our conferences can be booked via your MyCBE/Powerschool account. Thanks to all of you who have done so already.  Important updates and reminders: 1) Parent-Teacher Conferences Thursday (15:30-7:30 pm) and Friday (8:00 to 12:00). 2) Math Computation Quiz on long division & multiplication (this Wednesday or Thursday) This assessment is repeated every three weeks with varying numbers and also includes decimal and whole number addition and subtraction. I track each student's progress throughout the semester. Additionally, it functions as revision due to the spaced practice. 3. On Thursday our class will be attending some of the online courses and lectures from the City of Calgary Safety Expo. Hopefully this year will be that last year that we have to do it virtually instead of paying a visit to our Town Hall. This ev...
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