Field trip Tomorrow

Our class has an opportunity to go on a great field trip, but it is at very short notice.  Notices will be sent home today and they must be returned by tomorrow. Here is the contents the notice:

HAPPY VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

FIELD TRIP CONSENT FORM

FOR LOW RISK ACTIVITIES

December 10, 2012.

Mr. Gadd and Mrs. Dickinson have arranged a field trip for students in grades 6 to go to the Dominion Observatory on Tuesday, December 11, 2012.

We will be away from the school from 10:00 a.m. to approximately 12:30 p.m. We will be travelling by school bus. The learning outcomes for this field trip are covered under the Science curriculum, Extreme Environments.

This field trip is paid for with class funds provided by PAC. Students should bring their snack and lunch as they usually do, as there will be no opportunity to buy food.

Accidents can be the result of the nature of the activity and can occur with or without any fault on either the part of the student or the School Board or its employees or agents, or the facility where the activity is taking place. By allowing your son/daughter to participate in this activity, you are accepting the risk of an accident occurring, and agree that this activity, as described above, is suitable for your child.

Mr. Gadd and Mrs. Dickinson

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Please return this permission form to your child’s teacher Tuesday , Dec. 11th. Children not returning the form will not be permitted to participate in this field trip. Alternate supervision will be arranged for them at school.

I give ______________________________ (name of student) permission to participate in the field trip to The Dominion Observatory on Tuesday, December 11th, 2012. I understand that my child may be exposed to certain risks while participating in this activity. Accidents and injuries may occur.

___________________________________ ___________________________

Signature of Parent/Guardian                         Date

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Printed name of Parent/Guardian

LA, Spelling

LA- Maniac Magee page 9 and 10 worksheets.  Due Thursday.

Spelling- Write at least 8 sentences.  2 using because, 2 with quotes.  Due Friday

French - Page 1 of Quelle Heure Est Il package.  Due Wednesday

Long Division

If you're having trouble with long division, try this interactive http://www.kidsnumbers.com/long-division.php.

Math online Text

Please do Page 102 Numbers 4-8. Due Tomorrow
P 106-107 Numbers 2-13 Due Monday.
The Math text is available at http://www.mathmakessense.ca/books.html
Click on the Grade 6 book
Login: mmspdf6
Password: ebook6mb

Maniac Magee Ch 6-9 Questions

Vocabulary

befuddled                                          converged                                            solitude

Chapters 6-9

1. How many children were in the Pickwell family?

2. What did the mystery dinner guest do that angered the Pickwell children and caused them to blink and squint?

3. Who is John McNab? What does he look like?

4. In Chapter 7, what was so unusual about the baseball game?

5. How did Jeffery get his nickname?

6. Why did McNab’s group stop at Hector Street?

Also Math Worksheet- decimal division due tomorrow.

LA

Maniac Magee- Chapter 1-5 question sheets were given out today.  They are due on Thursday.

Math - Estimating Decimal products and quotients U3WS2 due Wednesday.

Spelling and Math

Students are learning to multiply decimals today.  2 worksheets are due tomorrow.
Spelling- sort words and write sentences.  Yellow group- 6 sentences, Blue group- 6 sentences, Green group - 8 sentences.
Students learned to write direct quotes.  Spelling sentences should include at least 3 sentences of direct quotes.

Social Studies

With Mr. Wilson, students worked on an LA worksheet which was due Friday Nov. 16th.
They are working on a speech about stereotyping.  Rough copies are due Monday Nov. 19th. Speeches must be ready by Wednesday Nov. 21st.

Interims home today

Missing Task sheets went home today, outlining what students need to finish for the next report card.  Please have tasks done by Friday if possible, Monday at the latest. 

SS - 2 mapping assignments were given and should be done by tomorrow.

Parent Teacher Meetings

Please return your parent teacher meeting request forms

Math

Student got a Math test returned to them.  It should be signed and returned.  Students had difficulty with factors and multiples.  This is a key concept for elementary math, so I will reteach is and give students another chance to show what they know with a new quiz.  For the students part,ethey should review their work and be sure they understand these key concepts as much of the math to follow builds on these concepts.

Students also are reviewing 3 digit multiplication and division. 
2 Multiplication worksheets due Friday
Division worksheet due Tuesday

Mr. Wilson in the afternoon

Mrs. Sahota has been away for the last few weeks and will be away for the next little bit.  I am filling in as administrator in the office until she gets back.  As a result Mr. Wilson will be teaching the class in the afternoon for the next little while.

Halloween Party. Field Trip, Math, and Spelling

Halloween - In the afternoon we are having a Halloween Party.  Some students have offered to bring refreshments to share with the class.  We will watch a movie.  Dress in costume.

Swimming - On Nov 5th all the intermediate classes will go swimming at Commonwealth Pool.  Bring back permission forms.

Spelling - Sort words and write sentences.  Half of the sentences must be complex sentences.

Math - Prime Factors worksheet is due Wednesday

Math and French

Factors, Prime Numbers and Composites Worksheet is due Friday.

French - Dans mon pupitre is due Friday

SS

SS- Students compared their day with that of a girl from Nepal named Sita.  They wrote 3 sentences comparing and contrasting.  Due Wednesday Oct 24.

Math - Students studied multiples and common multiples.  Worksheet due Tuesday Oct 23.
This video teaches least common multiple:
http://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/factors-multiples/v/least-common-multiple 

Forms

DARE notices went home today.

Please bring picture forms back to school.  Also, some students have not brought in their Comfort Kits for the earthquake box.

Math- We worked on how to figure out if a number is divisible by 4.

Science - We began comparing and contrasting SONAR, RADAR, and GPS.

Spelling - Works are on spellingcity.com but wordsheets were not given out today.

SS, Notices

Math - Students studied how to tell if a number is divisible by 6.  Is 2354 divisible by 6?  If you can't tell, phone an friend and find out how to tell.

Sci- Students read about Sonar, Radar and GPS.  They will compare and contrast these next Sci class

SS - Mapping:  Students got two mapping worksheets. They also had time to work on their human rights poster.  All Due Thursday

LA - Students worked on their Puppet shows.

Spelling - Words should be written in their spelling books.  Study words please.

Scholastic book order forms went home.  Picture proofs went home.  All picture proofs must come back to school, whether or not you are ordering.

Math link

Here is the library of virtual manipulatives:
http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html

Here is Khan Achademy
http://www.khanacademy.org/

Sci. LA. Math

Today we worked on a Readers' Theatre performance of The Golem.  Students should know their lines and be ready to perform.
In Science we started a map of extreme environments.  Compare and contrast paragraphs are overdue and should come in as soon as possible.
We are finishing up our current Math unit.  There will be a review and then a test.

Math and Art

Today students handed in a Math worksheet about graphing coordinate pairs.

In Art, students began work on a drawing instructions poster.  Rough copies were finished today and good copies will be finished tomorrow.  This assignment continues from art instruction on how to use basic shapes to create an animal or character.  Students will create a step by step instructions poster using diagrams and sentences.  Students are also fulfilling Language Arts outcomes related to writing instructional texts.

Map of Canada

• Label all the Provinces, Territories and capitals.

Notices, LA and SS

Immunization and Info update forms are going home today and must be back by Friday
Hot Lunch forms have gone home and are due by Sept 14th.
The Tiger Mascot project is due on Sept 18th.
If students are interested in volunteering for lunch monitor positions, they should return forms as soon as possible.

LA- Picture from "The Husband who was to Mind the House" due Wed. Sept. 12th.
       Summary of "Androcles and the Lion" - past due  Mon. Sept 10th\
SS.- Map of BC- Due Wed. Sept. 12th
      On the map neatly label:

• Alberta
• Northwest Territories
• Yukon'
• Pacific Ocean
• USA
• Victoria
• Vancouver
• Prince George
• Kamloops
• Nanaimo
• Rocky Mountains
• Vancouver Island
• Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands)
• Okanagan Lake
• Shuswap Lake
• Williston Lake
• Babine Lake
• Arrow Lakes
• Thompson River Frazer River

Welcome to Grade 6

Welcome to Mr. Gadd's class: Div. 1.

SS: Explorers Poster

Students will begin a poster project on  Canada's explorers today.  Choose an explorer from this web site -  http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/canada.shtml or choose another explorer you know.

Bike Rodeo, Spelling, Math

Tomorrow is the Bike Rodeo.  Students should bring their bikes and a helmet.

Students should write 5 sentences in their spelling books.

We learned about pyramids and prisms today.  Students started a worksheet that they will have time to work on tomorrow.

Language Arts

Students were given a paragraph today with 2 rambling sentences and 2 run-on-sentences in it.  They should break each of those 4 sentences up into shorter sentences.

Math

The Math multiplication package is due tomorrow.

Math, Sci

Math - Students were assigned P 297, #1,2,3,7,8,9 -Due Friday
Science - Students started planning their Plant Adaptation Poster today.

Plant Adaptation Poster

Design a plant with unique adaptations for its habitat.  Make a labelled diagram of your plant.

Planning:

1.        What kind of environment does your plant live in?

Water
Sunlight
Ground

2.       What challenges does your plant face?

3.       Design and label your plant. Show at least 3 adaptations.

Math, SS, Spelling

Math-

• Students were asked to hand in P 286 #1-6 today, but many did not have it done.  Please be sure it is in tomorrow.
• P 292 #1-6 was done last week and will be handed in tomorrow.  Photocopies of both these pages were given out.
• A multiplication worksheet was given today to be marked tomorrow.  It must be finished.

SS-

• A timeline of each student's life was assigned today and is due Thursday.

 Spelling -Words are on www.spellingcity.com/rgadd

S.S., L.A.

Students worked on a comparison of Inuit and West Coast first nations.  It is due Thursday.
There will be a first nations test early next week.

Students must be ready to participate in their reading circles by finishing the appropriate assignment:
Wednesday- Freckle Juice
Thursday- Sadako and Charlie's Raven
Friday - Pinballs and Because of Winn-Dixie

LA and Spelling

Spelling words posted at www.spellingcity.com/rgadd.

Students have begun a reading circle unit.  They have chosen a novel which they will study.  They will complete exercises on the books and meet once a week to discuss their books.   Students must be prepared for their book circle meetings.  Freckle Juice meets Wednesday.

Picture Day tomorrow

Picture day tomorrow.
Spelling words can be found at http://www.spellingcity.com/rgadd/

Math and...

Math - we are adding and subtracting decimals to tenths. Worksheets 5.12 and 5.13 should be finished for tomorrow.

Music - Recorders must come to school Tuesdays and Thursdays.

Crunch Cards - finish and submit before the end of the month.

Spelling Words

Orange List -there are two ways to sort this 1. by how the long 'a' sound is spelled (ai, aCe, ay) 2. by of the long a sound is in the first or second syllable.

1. rainbow


2. awake


3. painter


4. contain


5. obey


6. raisin


7. complain


8. decay


9. crayon


10. mistake


11. chocolate


12. parade


13. mayor


14. maybe


15. basement


16. escape


17. bracelet


18. amaze


19. again


20. today


21. pavement


22. explain


23. payment


24. remain

White - sort by long e (ee, ea) and short e (e, ea)sound. homophones are in italics.

1. when


2. dead


3. trees


4. each


5. reach


6. head


7. queen


8. east


9. street


10. bread


11. seat


12. dream


13. great


14. lead


15. steam


16. sled


17. sweet


18. breath


19. beach


20. death

Homework

Math- finish up WS 5.12 on adding with tenths.
Spelling - test tomorrow.
HACE - Emotions sheet- finish up for tomorrow.
Crunch Cards- Hand in tomorrow.

Spelling test

Spelling test tomorrow.
FSA Test part 1 Tomorrow

Spelling Words

White: some long 'a' are made with a helper 'e' (mane) and some with two vowels (main). Sort by long and short vowel sound and by how long vowels are made:
space, rain, black, mane, tale, brain, paint, place, rash, blame, train, main, faint, want, chain, camp, tail, said, frame, flash.

Orange: In two syllable words, if the first syllable ends in a vowel, the vowel is short (diner); if the first syllable ends in a consonant, the vowel is long (dinner or silent). Sort by long and short vowels and find the pattern:
silent,happen,number, funny, winter, follow, female, better, problem, after, moment, pattern, sister, finger, bottom, chapter, fever, member, blanket, pillow, water, only, yellow. window.

Water Cycle Websites

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks1science.html

http://player.discoveryeducation.com/views/hhView.cfm?guidAssetId=087777c8-4ff0-45d2-878f-e7cd90f7ee19

http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/kids/flash/flash_watercycle.html

http://earthguide.ucsd.edu/earthguide/diagrams/watercycle/

http://apps.southeastwater.com.au/games/education_kidsroom_wcactivity.asp

Field Trip

On Wednesday, Feb. 22nd, the class will be going on a trip to the museum to do an activity about explorers. The class needs some parent volunteers to either come with us or meet us there. The permission form is in the communications folder. I will paste it below:

Div. 4 and 5 are going on a field trip to the Royal BC Museum on Wed., Feb 22nd, 2012. We will be travelling by school bus. Our bus will leave the school at 9:00 and arrive at the museum at approximately 9:30. There will be time for students to eat their snacks outside before going in to the museum. For ½ of the time, one class will be doing a museum activity about Simon Fraser and the fur trade, while the other class (in small groups, each supervised by an adult) browses through the First Nations gallery. Then the classes will switch. (Exact times of the programs will be given in a later newsletter.) Students are welcome to bring money for the gallery shop at the museum, but they may not use the concession. We will be eating lunch at the museum.

Students need to bring an easily portable snack that is in a non-breakable container. They should also bring a “brown bag” lunch, with easy-to-eat, non-messy foods. The museum does not allow backpacks/bags larger than 30 cm X 30 cm in the galleries. The museum provides large bins for each class for coats and backpacks and stores them in a room off-limits to the public.

We will need 10 adults (altogether) to chaperone groups of 5 - 6 students all day. Volunteers are welcome to accompany us on the bus or you may meet us at the museum.

Our class fund, generously provided by PAC, will pay for all costs of this field trip.

Accidents can be the result of the nature of the activity and can occur with or without any fault of either the student or the School Board or its employees or agents, or the facility where the activity is taking place. By allowing your son/daughter to participate in this activity, you are accepting the risk of an accident occurring, and agree that this activity as described above, is suitable for your child.


Sue Allen and Rupert Gadd

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Please sign below giving your child permission to go on this field trip and to indicate whether or not you can volunteer. Please return the form by Monday. Children not returning the form will not be permitted to participate in this field trip. Alternate supervision will be arranged for them at school.

I give ______________________________ (name of student) permission to participate in the field trip to the Royal BC Museum on Wednesday, February 22nd, 2012. I understand that my child may be exposed to certain risks while participating in this activity. Accidents and injuries may occur.

___________________________________ _____________________
Signature of Parent/Guardian Date

______I can volunteer as a chaperone to supervise small groups of students.
______I will accompany the students on the bus OR
______I will meet you at the museum.

Name of person volunteering __________________Phone # ________________
Please print the name.

Spelling words

White group- some end in Consonant Vowel Consonant to make a short vowel sound, some end in a CVCe in which the helper 'e' makes the vowel sound long, two are oddballs: which, wax, skin, crab, lots, gum, drip, crop,these, mule, rule, note, safe, wife, cape, tide, vote, wipe, race, done, have.

Orange Group- these are all compound words, some are literal, some are figurative: bookmark, bookworm, cookbook, scrapbook, lightweight, daylight, flashlight, sunlight, headlight, downstairs, downtown, downpour, countdown, headfirst, headphones, headstrong, snowflake, snowstorm, snowplow.

Thursday, Jan. 26

• Math- Finish P 161 and worksheet 11


• SS- some students' projects are overdue


• LA - finish The Grasshopper and the Ants


• We need clean 2 Litre milk cartons for Art with buddies tomorrow

Khan Academy

We are beginning to use Khan Academy to supplement our Math curriculum. Please Sign up for rupertgadd@happyvalley.sd62.bc.ca as your coach.
Let me know if you have questions or concerns.

LA

Students are working on folktales. They were given The Crow and the Peacock which is due tomorrow, and today got The Ants and the Grasshopper which they will do for Thursday.

Spelling Words

Orange - y endings: many, turkey, movie, July, hungry, money, fifty, ready, angry, honey, cookie, rely, every, jockey, ugly, very, body, goalie, try, plenty, twenty, empty, hockey, chimney.

White- using 'e' to make a long /o/sound: rock, cone, nose, job, hope, those, clock, hot, hose, joke, home, pot, rope, come, hole, some, spot, chop, stove, woke, broke.

SS

Students have been handing in some excellent SS projects on the West Coast Nations. All projects are due on Monday at the beginning of school.

Spelling Words

Please be sure to put your spelling words in your book.
White - Sort by long and short vowel sounds, one is an oddball - swim, gift, rich, five, nice, drive, clip, stick, while, spill, mice, knife, dice, nine, give, thin, kick, flip, hike, dish, prize. (while is a high frequency word)
Orange - irregular plurals; sort by f becomes v or vowel change; two don't change- wife, foot, sheep, mouse, tooth, leaf, life, knife, goose, woman, wolf, deer, feet, women, mice, wives, leaves, loaves, loaf, teeth, geese, knives, wolves, lives. (woman is a high frequency word)

Math and Spelling

Math worksheet 6 is due tomorrow.
Spelling test tomorrow.

SS Projects

Museum projects are due next Friday, Jan. 20th.
They must include:

1. A display of West Coast First Nations' Culture
   


2. A short write-up



3. Skinny notes

Displays may be:

• model




• diorama




• picture




• comic




• performance




• other

The write-up will be 5-10 sentences made from the skinny notes about the display.

Skinny notes are notes taken from a book - facts about the topic. A large part of the lead up to this project was teaching students to gather information from books. Their notes are an essential part of this project.

Missing Supplies

Several students don't have scissors or rulers. Please ensure that they have them by next week.

Math and LA

MATH- Several students did not finish their Math homework last night or need to do corrections. Please check students Math duo tangs and agendas for work tonight. Unit 4 W/S 1

LA- Students should have finished looking at a sample autobiography (organization Week 1 Day3). They will start rough copies of their autobiographies tomorrow.

Art Bookmarks

Today we made bookmarks in Art. some students were interested in making more. Here is the link. Monster Bookmarks.

Welcome Back

Today students got new spelling words that they can sort at home.
We did a Math and a Language Arts assignment that were finished in class.