Homework Alert!

**Math/Art Projects are due tomorrow!

**The rough draft writing of French speeches should be finished for tomorrow!

En français...

For the past several weeks, students have been working on Concours d'art oratoire, the French speech contest.
Every student chose a topic, brainstormed ideas, organized their ideas, and wrote an introduction. Then, students set about writing out their ideas in three (or more) paragraphs. This writing should be completed for Monday.
Next week we'll write conclusions and then set about revising and editing our work. In other words, for Monday, students should have their first rough draft complete.

Roots of Empathy

Baby Casey and his mom came to visit this morning!

In Math...

In Math, students created an art project using geometric transformations.

All projects should be finished for Monday!

The turtle has arrived!

Remember when 6F1 adopted a sea turtle? 

Our adoption kit has arrived!

From the Math Department...

In math, students have been working on problem solving using the Think Tank cards.
Students choose a card, solve the problem and carefully write down a detailed solution.

Homework Alert!

Speechtastic Presentations are tomorrow!

Festival du Voyageur!

All the Grade 6 French Immersion students are off to Festival du Voyageur 

on Tuesday, February 16th! Hé ho!

Students have now received an informational letter and permission form for this field trip. 

Payment (15$) should be paid on the Golden Gate Middle School cash online process. Detailed instructions for creating an account and how to make a payment were sent home, as well as a letter explaining the rationale for adopting this online payment system.

Please return permission forms before Monday, February 8th.

Speechtastic!

It's time for another Speechtastic!

This time, students are preparing an Instructional Speech. They have chosen a demonstration (how to draw something, how to make something, how to do something...) and are planning a 2-5 minute speech to demonstrate the process to the audience. They should be sure to have an introduction, a middle (with the step-by-step process explained with clear details) and a conclusion.

Students may use visuals and/or props and have been encouraged to keep it simple!

Speechtastic Presentations are Friday, January 22nd.

Learning about the Holocaust

This week in English Language Arts, we have been discussing the Holocaust.
Each student has now chosen a novel to read, write about and discuss as we continue learning about the Holocaust.

Karaté des verbes!

In grade 6, students should be comfortable conjugating different types of verbs. In an effort to practice this skill, we have begun Verb Karate!
Each student has a ninja animal on the bulletin board. To pass a level (and obtain that belt), students have to practice conjugating a verb, write a pre-test and then successfully complete a test with 80% or better accuracy.
There are ten belts, from grey to black. Hopefully all students will master their verbs and achieve the rank of Black Belt!

New for 2016!

There are two new additions to room 19 for 2015.

The first is the Prison. If a student wants to borrow a pencil, they have to put one of their shoes in the prison. When they return the pencil, they can retrieve their shoe from the prison. Hopefully students will remember to bring their own pencils to class and won't have to surrender their shoe to prison!

 The second is the Commonality Chart.
Students meet in partners and find something they have in common. Two of today's examples: "we take karate at the same dojo" and "we like to bake chocolate chip cookies". These findings are recorded on the Commonality Chart. Hopefully by the end of the year, each student would have found something in common with each member of the class!