Friday, February 7

Messages and Reminders:
Fun lunch forms went home today. Order online if you want Subway at this month's fun lunch. Many ratios unit tests and basic facts / computation quizzes still need to be signed and returned. Outdoor school forms are due back by the end of February. There is no school next Thursday or Friday because of teachers' convention.

Morning Recap:
This morning we had some visitors for health. Mount Royal University nursing students have been observing grade six students over the past few Fridays. They are working on a community health initiative. Today they had us complete a survey about resiliency to give them a better idea of what type of program might be the most useful for us. After health, we got right into working on our stories in language arts. Most of us are working on our beginning paragraph or writing our first draft in our journals. We'll move onto computers next week after we finish and edit our first drafts. During math, we continued working with integers. Today we watched a MathAntics video about adding and subtracting integers and then did some practice adding using a number line and then tried some without. After math, buddies came up to do some art with us. Since there is no school on Valentine's Day (next Friday), we started our Valentine art today. We drew large hearts on our paper, and then used black paint to stamp overlapping black circles throughout our hearts. They need to dry before the next step, so we'll see our buddies again on Monday to keep working on it. We ended the morning at gym with all the grade sixes.

Have a great weekend!

Upcoming Important Dates:

Thursday, February 13 - no school (teachers' convention)

Friday, February 14 - no school (teachers' convention)

Monday, February 17 - no school (Family Day)
Tuesday, February 18 - science project due
Wednesday, February 26 - pink shirt day (see http://www.pinktshirtday.ca/why-pink-t-shirts.html for more info about this day)