Thursday, February 13, 2020

Thursday, February 13


* School will resume Tuesday, February 18.

Dear 6C Parents and Students,

   We had a short but enjoyable week skating on the ring beside the school.  A big thanks to all of the parent volunteers who came out to hand out skates and helmets, tie laces and console students who fell!  

   We have continued our look at fractions this week, learning how to compare them by making common denominators.  Using either division or multiplication, the students looked for the lowest common multiple between the two denominators and either changed one or both fractions. We also looked at finding the factional amounts of whole numbers.  Next week we will work on fraction word problems.  We will have a quiz next Thursday on all concepts related to fractions.

On Tuesday the students participated in an Artificial Intelligence Workshop hosted by Kids Code.  We learned how computers are being trained and coded to recognize images, human gestures, and facial features.  Like a young child, a computer needs to see a variety of images and examples if it wants to understand and recognize an object in the future. The students played a card game that asked them to identify common everyday object based on it characteristics (colour, shape, size, texture, etc).  After this, we used the website https://teachablemachine.withgoogle.com/ to teach a computer to recognize classroom objects and perform a task (i.e. show the computer a ruler and have it say your name.)

As part of kindness month, students created an art piece.  Yesterday students wrote kind messages on the back of all of their peers’ art pieces as well as for various staff members who they encounter during the day.

Yesterday was the last day for our student teacher Miss D.  Our classroom will miss her and we wish her the best on her teaching journey.

Enjoy your long weekend,

Ms. Blyth

Homework
-Jump Math Pg 159 - 164
-Weekly math sheet due next Wednesday (Very similar questions to what will be on the quiz)

Quizzes/ Tests
-Math Quiz on Fractions next Thursday (Use Pg 140 to 165 in Jump Math to review)

Forms
-No forms due at this time

Parent Math Resources
As students get older and start to move into the upper grades, math becomes more challenging for students and parents who are helping them.  Below is a grade YouTube resource for parents looking for a refresher.

Junior High School
Please use the link below to learn which school your child is designated to attend next year.  If you are interested in having your child attend a different Junior High, please contact that Junior High school directly.

Don't Forget
-Don't forget to return or renew your overdue library books

Upcoming Eve
February 26: Pink Shirt Day
February 27: Sir John A MacDonald Jr High Tour
February 27: Sir John A MacDonald Jr High Parent Information night (5:30 pm to 7:00 pm)
March 6: CAD
March 11: Safety Expo field trip
March 19: Dress like your teacher day
March 19: Parent-Teacher Conferences
March 20: Parent-Teacher Conferences
March 23 to March 29: Spring Break
March 30: Classes Resume after Spring Break
April 3: Family Movie Night

Website
Don't forget to check out our class website for grade 6 resources


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