Happy Monday! It's hard to believe that this is already the last Monday in September. Also, we'll be starting extra help sessions on Tuesdays and Wednesdays after school, unless I have a meeting. Students are asked to bring questions or things that they'd like to work on.
Here's what we're up to: We've moved on to long division and will next be looking at order of operations (BEDMAS, as you may be familiar with the acronym). Students will be introduced to how brackets are used in math, but we will not be covering exponents (they are not part of the grade 6 curriculum).
We will be wrapping up our first science projects with presentations of the information posters that students have created. The projects have been largely completed in class, with some students choosing to print some pictures at home.
Please note that we have now started reading responses that will be due each week. Students have been given both a notebook and a page that gives them the outline of what to include as well as a marking rubric. Their responses should be between 3/4 and a full page long. They are due Monday through Thursday, depending on the student.
We've been having some interesting discussions regarding Terry Fox and Malala, perseverance and resilience. Our inquiry question, how can we learn from failure and what does it take to overcome challenges, has been rather timely. In the context of space, we've also read some excepts from Chris Hadfield's "An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth" to discuss some of the challenges that he overcame in his journey to become an astronaut and eventually commander of the International Space Station. Looking forward, students will, as part of their homework package, be asked to interview a parent regarding a time that they didn't succeed, and what was learned from that valuable experience.
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