Week one of December

Reading - novel study - all students will use drama to demonstrate
              comprehension of their final chunk starting on Wednesday.
                (Dec. 5 - full costumes / props).
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Writing - we will be working hard at writing dialogue, paragraphing,
               and punctuation in order to improve our mechanics. This
               will continue until winter break.
            - listening games help us focus for extended periods of time.
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WORD WORK - lists handed out on Monday - test on Friday.

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Math - ... surface area of regular rectangular prisms is finished for now
          - we add in concept of V = l x w x h of rectangular prisms.
       
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Socials - we have been studying the concept of "what is poverty?"
            - video clips
            -integrated into art

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HCE - how to read food labels was collected on Friday - half
           the class handed it in.
         - more nutrition studies and quizzes this week.
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Art .... Enlargement art on Friday - faces of poverty (faces).
           We will finish these by Monday, Dec. 10.

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Drama - will be included in the novel study at chunk# 5.
           - LOOK FORWARD TO D103! THIS IS THE
              LAST DRAMA ACTIVITY IN 2012 ON DEC 21.

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Music - recorder playing / reading music.

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French - on computers to translate simple objects and animals.

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PE - lacrosse skills - FULL COURT GAMES THIS WEEK.
      - we will be skating on Dec 12 and Dec 17 (students
        have already written this in their agendas) - more
        details to come.
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Science:  Final 'Global Citizens' project for 2012

Problem Solving - Canadian Inventions 

The process of scientific problem solving is a critical thinking response to observed experiences in which a science problem is solved. It combines all the activities of asking questions, gathering evidence, designing and proposing solutions, and testing those solutions by making a prototype. This grade 6 level sees the beginning of technical design work, and problems are solved by practical methods. Problem solving includes these stages:

-determine the human needs involved in the situation (or assigned task)

-identify the task, and observe the key attributes involved

-establish the criteria for use of the prototype (set limits)

-plan creatively a possible set of solutions

-determine the available materials or equipment, and select a course of action

-draw a series of possible solutions for building

-build a prototype or model

-test and evaluate the model according to the criteria

-evaluate the results and redo if necessary

-communicate success to others.

Option A... All prototypes will be based on one of the researched problems within our textbooks.

Option B ... http://www.kast.com/kast-news/imagine-year-2050-how-will-we-use-less-energy?utm_source=Contraption+Contest+Newsflash&utm_campaign=ENSL+NEWSFLASH&utm_medium=email

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Classroom 10 -  House Team Spirit Friday - this week is...

Jersey Day

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