June 10 to 14

Welcome to Room 14!

Our week was very busy with 4 grade 6 PATs. We are all finished with social studies, math part A and B and reading. On Monday we have our science exam and then we are all finished with PATs!

L.A.

This week, some of our groups presented their debate arguments. Our topic is whether schools should have uniforms or not. We prepared speeches and ideas for rebuttal. The groups who have debated have done a great job! The remaining groups will present next week.

Math

We continued working on our geometry city projects this week. Grade 5's also looked at building rectangular prisms with specific volumes and explored the edges, faces and vertices of 3D shapes.

Social studies 

While the grade 6’s have been writing PATs, the grade 5’s have been working on their own project. They are researching a National Park in Canada and creating a brochure! Some of the national parks students chose are: Banff National Park, Jasper National Park, and Pacific Rim National Park (my personal favourite). Students have to research the terrain, landforms, wildlife, among other topics. I am so excited to see the finished product!

We also continued working on our Civilization Project. Students were required to choose one of the forms of democracy we learned about this year, e.g. Canadian, Ancient Athens, Iroquois Confederacy. Students had to include gender roles, law/order, organization, laws, and policies on education. 

Science

In order to prepare for Monday’s science PAT, we continued learning about sky science. We reviewed the phases of the moon. We labelled a drawing and coloured in the phases. We also learned about how sundials work.