Happy Valentine's Day!

 6-1 celebrated Valentine's Day with...

*Valentine math: solving equations where the numbers are represented by symbols

*trying to correctly colour the math equations to discover the secret image

*writing stories using French conversation heart "candies"

*reading an awesome picture book together

*checking out the valentine Mme McKenzie made for us

The other week, each student was asked to write down a compliment about every student in the class. I compiled all of those compliments together to make a super Valentine. 

How fun to read all the anonymous compliments!

*an Amazing Race in English Language Arts including homophones, puns and jokes

Happy Valentine's Day!

Homework Alert!

 Science Design Process Projects 

are due Thursday, February 15th!

Please see post on January 30th for details.

This Week in 209!

 Here's what we'll be working on this week:

Mathématiques: working with multiples and factors, working with decimal numbers

Français: daily reading, oral comprehension, reading and analyzing poetry

English Language Arts: daily reading, reading & writing poetry, learning about the Holocaust, listening & viewing, critical thinking

Sciences de la nature: presenting design process projects, researching a planet

Sciences Humaines: learning about Canada's contribution to the Second World War: the Battle of Hong Kong

Also this week: Valentine's Day! 100th Day of School! Class Party!

Learning about the Holocaust

 In addition to our study of World War II in Social Studies, in English Language Arts, students are now learning about the Holocaust. As we know, this is a very difficult topic to study and discuss. 

Students have been encouraged to discuss any questions or concerns they may have regarding this study. Thank you in advance for your at-home support.

Later this week, each student will choose a Holocaust related novel to read independently.

To compliment this reading, we will also be studying a timeline of events and laws that led to the Holocaust. 

In addition, each student will get to follow the journey of a real individual throughout this time period, learning what their life was like during these years.

This Week in 209!

  Here's what we'll be working on this week:

Mathématiques: working with multiples and factors, working with decimal numbers

Français: daily reading, oral comprehension, reading and analyzing poetry

English Language Arts: daily reading, reading & writing poetry, presenting Speechtastic, learning about the Holocaust

Sciences de la nature: working on design process project, researching a planet

Sciences Humaines: learning about Canada's contribution to the Second World War: the Battle of Hong Kong

From the Science Department...

 It's time for another design process!

This time it's about... TIME!

First, students must reflect on why we want or need to measure time.

Then, they must choose one ancient instrument used to measure time and:
-research its origin
-create a labeled drawing
-write a description of the instrument: what it looks like and how it works

-give the advantages and the disadvantages of the instrument
-imagine possible modifications to make the instrument modern

For some of these components, students have researched the answers.
For other components, students should formulate and invent their own answers.

The pages students have been working on (pictured below) are the rough copy of this project.

Students should create a final project, including all of their information. This final project could take any number of forms: a poster, a book, a diorama, etc...

**They DO NOT have to construct a working model of the instrument.**

The final projects of this Design Process are due
 Thursday, February 15th.

*Click here for printable versions: Pages  Informations

This Week in 209!

 Here's what we'll be working on this week:

Mathématiques: working with multiples and factors, prime numbers, mental math: multiplication strategies

Français: daily reading, oral comprehension, reading and analyzing poetry

English Language Arts: daily reading, January Journal Writing Challenge, commonality chart, poetry, preparing Speechtastic presentation

Sciences de la nature: starting design process project

Sciences Humaines: learning how the Second World War began