Grade 6 Farewell Details and June 15 - 19 Online Learning

Please see the invitation at the end of this post for our virtual grade 6 farewell on Thursday, June 25 from 1pm to 2pm. We hope you’ll be able to join us online to celebrate the accomplishments of our wonderful students. The farewell is being held on Zoom to allow family members to join from anywhere. The free Zoom app can be downloaded on any device or you can sign up for a free account on the website at zoom.us. The meeting details are in the invitation and will also be sent out on the morning of the farewell via school messenger, as well as posted in the LA Google Classroom.
The program will feature a photo montage, speeches, and presentations of this year’s student awards. The t-shirt from parent council, a printed copy of each student’s certificate, and a small gift from the teachers have been placed in the plastic bag of student belongings. You should have received an email from the office about booking a time to pick up student belongings. Please note that even if you picked up items earlier, student work and grade 6 certificates and shirts have just been put out this week so you will need to come in again. Let me know if you have any questions about the virtual farewell or about picking up student belongings (siwinston@cbe.ab.ca).

Updates for our eleventh week of online learning are below. Answer keys and next week’s assignments and resources will be posted on Monday morning as usual.

LA (approx 45 min.)
This week students will edit the story they wrote during week 9. There is a document in which to copy the story and a checklist to complete with various edits and revisions. Students are also asked to highlight features such as figurative language (similes, personification, etc.) and word choice that invokes imagery. There are handouts posted on dialogue rules and figurative language so that students can refer to them while working on improving their stories.

Math (approx. 2.5 hours)
This week we are learning about transformations. Students will watch videos and complete tasks on Mathletics to practice transformations, rotations, and shifts on coordinate planes. There are questions to answer after the first set of videos as a way of making notes on key info and there are Mathletics reflection questions at the end of this week’s document. All other work will be submitted through Mathletics this week.

Social Studies (approx. 45 min., counted as LA time)
The Iroquois Confederacy unit is continuing. This week there are two videos to watch and questions to answer about the history of the Great Law of Peace.

Science (approx. 60 min., counted as LA time)
In the Evidence and Investigation unit, students are going to explore the various types of evidence and their unique characteristics (e.g. footprints, animal & tire tracks, fabric and soil samples testimonial evidence etc.) There is also a link to a Bill Nye episode on “Forensics” for those who want to learn more.

Due dates are set for each Sunday as a way of providing structure and keeping work from piling up and becoming overwhelming, but we understand that work may need to be handed in late for various reasons and we would much rather see the work late than not at all. We are trusting that late work is completed honestly and without the use of the answer keys.

All grade six teachers will continue to be available online during school days and can be reached through stream comments, email, comments on student work, and in Google Meets. We will continue to have daily morning Google Meets at 8:30 and two afternoon Meets, one on Monday at 12:30 and one on Wednesday at 1:30.

Have a great weekend and a wonderful week next week!