Friday, October 25

Messages and Reminders:
Please remember to check Mr. Shackelton (https://gr6bhs.blogspot.com/) and Mr. Mueller's (https://mrmuellerbhsgr6.blogspot.com/) blogs for details on our social studies and science projects. Book orders are due by Tuesday and can be submitted online or by returning forms to Ms. Winston. Thursday is Halloween, which we will be celebrating at BHS with black and orange day. The pillars of care assembly is at 12:30pm on Thursday. Notes will go home with our winners next week. There is no school for students next Friday. Swimming forms and payment are due November 8 and theatre forms and payment are due November 22.

Morning recap:
This morning all students in division two (grades four, five, and six) spent the morning with presenters from the Junior Achievement program. In grade six, we learned all about businesses and worked together to develop a business of our own (a custom order candy store). We got to watch some clips from Dragon's Den to see how other children pitched their businesses in real life before designing a business plan together as a class. We also practiced working individually and as an assembly line to see which was more efficient when building pens. We played games including Jeopardy to identify popular logos and broken telephone to pass along customer orders. At the end, we played a review game to see how well we had been listening this morning. Everyone received a certificate for participating in this program.

Yesterday's basic facts quizzes have been marked, but students have not seen them yet because we were with Junior Achievement all morning. As a class, we didn't do very well on this quiz. This quiz was significantly more difficult than the first one, so it was expected that scores would be lower. The questions on this quiz better reflect what we will see on our triweekly basic facts quizzes throughout the year and what we will see on the math PAT. We will have many chances to improve, which means there is not reason to be concerned about marks at this point in the year; however, I want to make this clear and go over the quiz with students before handing them out because I don't want anyone to see their scores without an explanation and be upset. We will go over the quiz together on Monday, and then quizzes will be handed out for students to bring home, have a parent/guardian sign, and return to school.

Have a great weekend!

Upcoming important dates:

Tuesday, October 29 - book orders due

Thursday, October 31 - black and orange day (no costumes at school please)

Thursday, October 31 - pillars of care assembly - 12:30pm
Friday, November 1 - no school - PD day
Friday, November 8 - swimming forms and payment due
November 12, 13, 14, 18, 19 - swimming lessons
Friday, November 22 - theatre forms and payment due
Tuesday, November 26 - theatre field trip