Spectacular 6M

Sky Science is Out of this World! By Foster We made a solar system out of papermache so we can learn about planets in a different way. First we picked our planets by pulling popsicle sticks and choosing the one we were most interested in. Next we researched our planets only using trusted websites. We researched interesting facts, appearance, diameter, rotation and revolution period, and weather of our planets. Our next step was building a replica of our planet. We built our planets using papermache and balloons. We needed to know the colour and texture of our planets to be able to replicate them accurately. Finally we presented our research and slide to the class. You can see the presentations under the science section of the blog. We had some challenges with group work like people not doing their jobs. This project was easy for me because I was interested in the planet I was researching so I actually wanted to do my work. One fact I learned about Mercury is that the sur...

Creating FACES of each Moon PHASE By Kaleb We are learning about the moon phases in class. It doesnt sound like the most fun topic but Miss Major is making it very fun! Last Friday we made the moon phases out of the icing on oreos. There are 8 phases of the moon and it takes 29.5 days to cycle through. Making the oreo moon phases helped us learn because it engaged us in our learning. It was easier for me to remember the phases by actually making them. It was very fun and we had to strive for accuracy and persist.

Learning the FUN-damentals of Graphing By Mathias This week we conducted really fun experiments in math to practice our data collecting and graphing skills. Here are the steps we followed to conduct our experiments in math class!  First we needed to come up with a suitable idea that could be tested. Once we had our idea we needed a good question for example my question was, "what is the most popular snack in grade 6". Some of the materials I used where crackers and vanilla yogurt! Then we had to set up a tally chart that implemented intervals. An interval is a set of numbers in between numbers like 0-5,5-11,11-16 etc... After all the writing was done we got to conduct our experiments! We had fun doing each others experiments. Then it was time to record the data we attained during our experiment and put the info into a graph.  I honestly quite enjoyed this activity and believed it was a little bit difficult for myself  because it was hard to come up ...

Green Team By Joyce The green team is a group of kids in grade 6 that help our school more green. When I say green I mean healthier for the environment.  We have been looking at doing more of the following: recycling paper, juice boxes, yogurt containers, turning off lights and not wasting water. Last week there was a group of green spies that went around the school and observed the classrooms for being green. We noticed that a lot of classrooms were not being as green as they could! Our next step is to give each class compost bins and recycling bins. Looking forward to a cleaner and greener school!

Class Kindness Challenge By Ethan  What is it? Every day, Miss Major puts up a calendar that has different acts of kindness. We roll a dice, and what ever number it is we have to complete the square. It is a doing something kind. We started doing this to try to make other people happy and to be kind and to show respect.  Some activities we have done are; -smile at 25 people -sit with someone you don't usually sit with at lunch -write an anonymous note to someone -compliment 5 different people. I feel it is a good idea to make someone feel happy and just to be kind to someone because it makes the world a better place!

Visiting the Daycare Grade 6 Demonstrates the CUBS Code By Mary Every Thursday miss major picks people to go to the daycare centre to play and interact with kids. Each of us have a certain theme we are looking for like caring understanding belonging and safety. when we are there we teach the kids to socialize because some kids dont talk to one another. what we also do is we play with them and try to convince them to play with new kids and to be polite kind and helpful to their teachers and friends.we hope they were happy and one thing i learned is that it is important to help keep the kids safe and be positive role models.we also had fun playing with them and we hope we can come back to the Daycare centre.

JTA  Reports Live from the Curling Arena By: Jeremy    As you have known the last month both grade 6 classes have went to the Fenlands rec center to curl. Our amazing instructors John and Brian have taught us lots of different skills like turning a rock clockwise and counter clockwise. We have played lot's of fun games, but that does not matter now because the grade 6 classes are going head to head in a epic tournament. For the fame the glory and best of all the bragging rights.    The tournament is now over. We had a amazing time and it was so much FUN. It was so much fun that I want join curling now.