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Grade 6 @ Room 365 |
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Grade 6 @ Room 365 Runnymede Public School Mr. A. Reynolds On the Web: www.areynolds.org Blog: http://room365vibe.blogspot.com |
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Phone: 416.393.9055 Fax: 416.393.9059 |
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We are nearing the final stretch on the year. All the students seem healthy and well rested. I look forward to an excellent final three months! In 365 we are continuing with the Collections reading activity in myths and legends. In addition to a CASI assessment later in the month, the students will also take part in some year-end exemplar activities and some EQAO derived work as we build toward the test dates, in late May (May 28,29,30,31). Our point of view activities in Reading also continue this month. Social Studies work in April will be slightly less emphasized in favour of the Science activity listed below. We will use computer resources to make a study of a First Nations culture as a culminating activity for the First Nations unit. I will introduce the key subject next month: students will identify European Voyagers to North America and examine their impact on the Native cultures they studied in the second term. The unit project is a brochure on a specific explorer. Our Science activities in Electricity commence with a view to the major term project: the Science Fair on April 25. The students have all used a range a electricity manipulative materials and have had several building demonstrations in class. They will begin work on design activities and a finished display board that will be presented at the Science Fair. Materials are available from me for $13.00 to make the electric vehicle: a motor, mount, battery clip and pulleys which the students can keep as well as four wheels. No student is obliged to purchase materials from me — they are sourced from Science catalogues and supply stores in a bulk purchase for a reduced price. We will continue making other electrical devices in class as well, such as drawing machines and game boards. In Math, we are finishing up a short unit on Transformations and then starting on Number Sense before turning to Perimeter, Area and Volume. The final two units in May and June will be Patterns and Probability.
April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain.” — T.S. Eliot, “The Waste Land”, 1922. |
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Thomas Tusser, A Hundred Good Points of Husbandry, 1557 |
