May

May 8th & 9th

The System 2 Thinkers and the JEFF's have been analyzing texts for determining essential ideas in order to summarize. The students are also focusing on applying French grammar when expressing orally and in writing. 

The rockets are being designed with lots of math applications. The students are focusing on the aerodynamic form, the forces that apply on a flying object, mass volume and speed to gain flying distance. 
 Both groups continue to improve reading comprehension by focusing on famine around the world. 

We hope to fly the rockets next week. We will be beginning with Canada and its diverse communities. 

The water prototypes are almost ready and Danielle will be consulting and to finalize the designs next week. 

Please take the time to review and have students share their learning process with you.




May 8th - May 12th

The 2D Thinkers and the JEFF"s keeping busy with:
  •  Competencies about the water filter and protoyping
  • Flight rocket designing and explaining the purpose through math & science
  • Past tense application of Passe Compose
  • Summarizing, determining main ideas and editing by improving grammar
Thanks for sending Bake Good in support the Grade 6 initiative Free The Children. Thanks for the parents who were able to volunteer and lead the sale.


The students will participate tomorrow, Monday, May 15 at 9 am with our Public health nurse and our SRO to speak to all the grade 6 students about Drugs. The following are key points points which will be addressed.


Key Points of discussion:

• It is dangerous to use a prescription medication or drug that hasn’t been prescribed for you by a healthcare professional

•  Prescription medications are meant to help your body or mind with an illness or infection. If you don’t have the illness or infection, you don’t need the medication.

• Illegal drugs can be made to look almost the same as prescription drugs, it can be hard to tell the difference.
• Illegal drugs are unpredictable and can be dangerous; you never know how it is made or what is mixed with it.
• In Ottawa, police and healthcare providers are warning everyone there are life threatening drugs (such as illicit fentanyl) being mixed with other illegal drugs.
•   Using drugs may cause an overdose.
•   An overdose is when a person uses more of a drug, or a combination of drugs than the body can handle. The brain is no longer able to control basic life functions. o Call 911, this is a medical emergency.
• Referring students on where to get help
Danielle Vernooy, RN, BScN
Public Health Nurse/Infirmière en Santé Publique
School Health Program/Programme de santé scolaire
( (613)580-6744  ext/poste 14045
 (  (613)292-0878
Twitter: @OPHSchool_Nurse


May 15th - 18th


The System 2 Thinkers and the JEFF's have designed, analyzed and reflected about the rockets that they have built. The rockets were flown on Wednesday. The students analyzed the causes and the factors of the results.  We will continue to explore political, social and economic impacts of aviation in society. We began exploring the new bill for passengers as some teams began the research evaluating the benefits of aviation. 




The students will be completing this Tuesday their final Prototypes for the water filters. Please remind your child to bring necessary items as decided by their team members. 

May 22nd- May 25th

A busy week with the 2D Thinkers and the JEFF"S finalizing the flight evaluation and evaluating summarizing skills. The students have or assessment and evaluation updated on water. By the end of this week, they will also have the French summarization skills completed and flight. 

We will continue with the passe compose to progress with its application.  we will also continue with the comprehension skills and determining essential ideas and causes and factors for non-fictional reading and writing. writing. 

We have embarked on social studies sand Candian identity. we are beginning with subjective, stereotypes of cultures. The students should have completed their identity ancestry from Great-grandparents.  We have reviewed some important historical events. Many thinking tasks are to be accomplished on Canadien government.  BY listening to a CBC report about a designer immersing 2 culture of clothing designs from Indian to modern Canadien. She shares her journey about what is subjective, perspective of cultural experience through the arts. 



The JEF"s were fortunate to take part in a live hangout about species and their DNA coding. The System 2 Thinkers will catch up on the recording for biodiversity discussions. 



The prototypes of the water filters will be built on Monday. Please let me know if your child is able to attend the blanket exercise on June 2nd. Blanket exercise

There will be a very simple research homework during the week on mapping skills by creating a study of a culture and submitting visual pinned information on Google My Maps. We will start the research in class.  The students will be writing EQAO test. Please ensure students early rest at night and a good breakfast. 




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