Oct 23 - 27

 I can write to inform, explain, describe, or report, for a variety of purposes or audiences (Grade 6 ELAL)

With Remembrance Day coming up, the Grade 6 students have started researching Canadian Veterans. Students were asked to read about different groups of Canadian Veterans and choose a topic that they wanted to research. The choices were: Women, British Home Children, Black Canadians in uniform, Indigenous Veterans, Jewish Canadian service, and Chinese Veterans.

Once students chose a topic, they were asked to choose a Veteran from that group to research and create a Google Slide presentation. We are so impressed with the Grade 6's research skills! Well done!

October 16 - 19

I can respond to texts by summarizing main ideas and provide supporting evidence from the text. 

This week, students were asked to create a Novel Summary Poster based on the novel they are reading in their guided reading groups. They were asked to focus on identifying the main events in their novel so far. They did an amazing job picking out the important parts of their novels and illustrating them. 

Here are some of the books the Grade 6s are reading in their guided reading groups

Here is some of their work on the Novel Summary Posters. 

October 10 - 13

 Science 

I can describe kinds of plants and animals found living on, under and among trees; and identify how trees affect and are affected by those living things.

This week, we started a new project on the levels of the forest. We learned about the forest floor, the shrubbery layer, the understory and the canopy. We were given a list of things found in a forest and had to create definitions for each one.

We will. be using these definitions to create a visual representation, which we started this week! We had a list of things we have to include. Here is our progress!

October 2 - 6

ELAL - Writing 

Planning can help organize thoughts and prioritize information and includes 

• consideration of audience, purpose, and form 
• idea generation 
• narrowing a topic

This week we started essay writing. We began planning our essay using the 'Pick, List, and Choose' method. We were asked to pick a topic and list everything we know about it. Then, we grouped the information into similar categories, which would eventually be our 3 main ideas. 

We then learned how to write an introduction. The lead sentence is meant to grab the reader's attention and inform them on what our essay will be about. The main idea sentence informs our audience what we will be talking about in our essay.

Our next step was to write our 3 main paragraphs. 

Our next step is to write our concluding paragraph and type up our work on the computer!