June 1st - 5th

Dear Parents / Guardians,
I hope everyone had a restful weekend even if the weather was a bit chilly. The following tasks are being shared with students this week.

Mr. MacGillivary:

Religion : The Course Before Paul

Language Arts: Making Inferences Through Song Lyrics

Math:  Relating Decimals to Fractions

Science: Gravity in our Solar System

May 25th-29

Dear Parents/Guardians,

I hope you had an opportunity to enjoy the great weather this past weekend.
For students who are attending St. Paul's High School next year, we will be having a Google Meet at 1:30pm on Tuesday. The invitation will be sent at 1:20pm.

The following activities will be shared with students this week in their Google Drive folders.

Mr. MacGillivary

Religion: Video Paul and Silas in Philippi

Reading Comprehension: Story "The Wretched Stone" Inferring Task

Math: Comparing and Ordering Fractions:

Science: Planets in our Solar System

Mme Pharoah

I have posted the following activities to your Hapara workspaces:

• Écriture - procedural text on how to make a paper airplane
• Écoute - Des messages et des messages (that there are no access problems this week)
• Sciences - Four forces of flight: Weight/gravity
• Music - making words with music notes activity
• Études Sociales - Tremblement de terre  à Haïti, les ONG quatre situations d'urgence

As well, please visit the blog, as I have added new pages and links for both music and science which will complement the work in the Hapara Workspace. As always, work at your own pace, and as you are able to. Please email me if you have any questions or concerns. kara.pharoah@ocsb.ca

Madame Wollinger

Assignments will be shared in students' workspace for French and Social Studies.

May 19th - 22nd

Dear Parents/Guardians,

I hope you had a great long weekend. The following activities are being shared with students this week.

Mr. MacGillivary:

Religion: Christ is For All 

Reading: Comprehension Strategy Inferring Activity

Math: Fractions Greater Than 1 with Improper fractions and Mixed numbers

Science: Tumblewing experiment

May 4th - 8th

Dear Parents,

The following activities will be shared in students Google drive folders for religion, language, math, and science.

Religion: Emmanuel's Dream A Story of Hope

Reading and Writing Task: Leaf Cutter Ants text

Math: Proper Fractions Introduction

Science: Airplane Movements for French Extended students

April 27 - May 1st

April 27th - May 1st

The following activities will be shared with students in their work folders.

Religion: The Road to Emmaus video and question

Reading and Writing: Reading and Writing Task 4

Math: Complete questions from various strands

Science: Gr. 6 Flight and Gr. 5 Structures for students in the Extended program

April 20th-24th

Dear Parents,

The following activities will be shared to students this week.

• Religion: Caring for Our Earth 

 

• Reading and Writing: Task 3

• Math: Measurement work

April 14 - 17th Activities

Dear Parents,

As we continue with distance learning, remember that if you have any questions about the activities in your child's folders, feel free to email me or have your child write a comment on the Google doc he or she is working on.
I am correcting student as it is completed. I am asking that students revisit their work to see comments on areas that were strengths and areas that need corrections. In class, we often have the discussion that we learn the most from our mistakes.

Religion: 

• Benjamin's Box digital story

Language Arts:

• EQAO Reading and Writing Task #2

Math:

• Perimeter and Surface Area

April Elementary Distance Learning

Dear Parents,

I hope everyone in your family is safe and healthy, during these difficult times. The second phase of the Ministry of Education's distance learning program is beginning this coming Monday, April 6th. These are the following outlines set out by the ministry for Grade 6 students:

• 5 hours of work per week for all subjects.

• Students in Extended French
• 2.5 hours of math that includes science 
• 2.5 hours of literacy (English and French) that includes Social Studies (in French)
• Religion needs to be included in the Literacy hours. 

• Students in Immersion French
• 2.5 hours of math and science (Note: science is taught in French)
• 2.5 hours of literacy (English and French) that includes Social for Studies (in French)
• Religion needs to be included in the Literacy hours.

As you know, every student works at a different pace and needs different levels of support to complete tasks. Parents can support their child but are not expected to act as teachers, when students are having difficulty. The distance learning program is not meant to add additional stress to an already stressful time. 

If the task assigned isn't clearly understood, please contact me via email david.macgillivary@ocsb.ca or write a comment in the document that is being worked on, in students Google Drive. I will be able to respond to the question and reduce any stress that you or your child is having.

Work will be shared with your child every Monday, for the upcoming week. I will be checking the progress of student work often, to make sure there isn't any difficulties in completing the task.

March Activities

Dear Parents and Students,

I hope you are doing well during these difficult and uncertain times. Usually staff and students would be excited to return to class after the March Break. Unfortunately, this is not the case. The most important thing for everyone is our health and well being during these trying times.

In order to give students the opportunity to continue with the curriculum in the upcoming weeks, you will have an opportunity to do so by accessing your Google Drive Folder for language and math activities. This work is not meant to create added stress on families during these difficult times. Each person's situation is different, so work at the pace that is best for you.

The Ministry of Education has also created a website to support students and parents. Please remember that this is an option for students to work on certain skills at their own pace.

The learning goals for the next few weeks are as follows:

• Reading Comprehension Skill - questioning - by asking questions before, during, and after reading, students will gain a stronger understanding of the text and identify key ideas. Students will use this skill when doing research for their explanatory writing topic of their choice.

• Writing Form- explanatory - the primary purpose of explanatory writing is to increase knowledge. When writing an explanatory text, the writer answers questions of why or how. This writing form provides information on a specific topic in a straightforward way. Students will write and explanatory writing piece on the topic they chose in class. If you did not choose a topic yet, you can do so now. You can see in Google Drive the explanatory topics that most students have already chosen. This will give you an idea of the variety of topics you can choose.

• Measurement - students have worked on various tasks related to measurement before the break:
• Perimeter - distance around an object by adding up the side lengths (s+s+s+s)
• Area - the space an object occupies. Formulas for certain shapes are: 
• (Area = length x width for square and rectangle, Area = b x h for a parallelogram, Area = b x h / 2 for a triangle)
• Surface area - the total area of the faces, on the outside of an object, such as a cube, find the area of the 6 faces and add those areas to find the surface area).

Please see students Google Drive to access math work for measurement. An activity involving measuring length and converting units of measurement has been shared.

Please email me if you have any questions. 

Thanks,

Mr. MacGillivary