Math PEDMAS Stations!

Happy Wednesday!
The month of February has flown by and the count down to the end of Term 2 has begun!

In Math, we worked in randomized groups of three and rotated through different Math centres, each with a different activity involving the order of operations (PEDMAS). We were fortunate to have Mme Page with us during Math today, too and she was able to help guide us through some of the stations with the trickier 'thinking' questions. We were only able to rotate through 5 of the 8 stations today, so will be finishing off the remaining three stations tomorrow morning.

In Français, after our 10 minutes of daily reading time (today we were reading with a partner and were happy to welcome Mme Galka to our classroom!), we watched the NFB video of the story "Le chandail de hockey."
We have been working with this text over the last 2 weeks and were happy to see it 'come to life!' After watching the movie, we worked to answer a set of questions, being sure to write our answers in complete sentences (using part of the question in our answer) and also making sure to include proper capitalization and punctuation.

At the end of the morning, we took time to review the outline for our open-book Science assessment coming up on Friday. Mme Careen reminded us to review our notes/handouts in our binders to ensure we have everything we need for Friday, as we CANNOT share our pages with our friends during the assessment. Anyone wanting to review/double-check their Science info before Friday is welcome to do so tomorrow (Thursday) at 12:15.

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Agenda items:

1. I Love to Read calendar logs - due Thursday/Friday of this week.
2. Open book Science assessment  - Friday. See assessment outline below:

3. Overdue learning tasks - as the end of Term 3 approaches, it is now time for students who have unfinished tasks to come in over the noon hour to finish up their work. A list of incomplete items will be posted in class by the end of the week. Some of the items include: Math art project, Science arthropod research,"ma résolution" sentences, Le chandail de hockey résumé.
Please check-in with your child to ensure they are staying up-to-date with their work! Thanks!

Ness Knights are Presenters!

Today was a great day for French presentations!

We started our day listening to the Grade 6 Concours d'art oratoire speeches in the library and ended our morning in class listening to our CFOO "Opinions" presentations. Félicitations!

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Agenda items:

1. Dress like your favourite storybook character (and bring the 'matching' book if you can!) - Wednesday
2. I Love to Read calendar logs - due Thursday
3. Open book Science assessment  - Friday. See assessment outline below:

4. Overdue learning tasks - as the end of Term 3 approaches, it is now time for students who have unfinished tasks to come in over the noon hour to finish up their work. A list of incomplete items will be posted in class by the end of the week. Some of the items include: Math art project, Science arthropod research,"ma résolution" sentences, Le chandail de hockey résumé.
Please check-in with your child to ensure they are staying up-to-date with their work! Thanks!

A busy week ahead!

Happy Monday, learning friends!
We have a busy week coming up! Only 3 weeks left until the end of Term 2!
Time flies when we're busy learning! :)

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Agenda items:

1. CFOO presentations - tomorrow (Tuesday)
2. Concours presentations tomorrow in library - Good luck to Deneige, Van and Jaeda!
3. Atomic basketball tournaments - tomorrow afternoon
4. Open book Science assessment  - Friday. See assessment outline below:

5. Overdue learning tasks - as the end of Term 3 approaches, it is now time for students who have unfinished tasks to come in over the noon hour to finish up their work. A list of incomplete items will be posted in class by the end of the week. Some of the items include: Math art project, Science arthropod research,"ma résolution" sentences, Le chandail de hockey résumé.
Please check-in with your child to ensure they are staying up-to-date with their work! Thanks!

Thursday Agenda Items

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1. Math art projects - overdue!
2. Science arthropod research sheets - absolute deadline is Monday! (Students will be asked to come in over the noon hour to work until the sheet is completed).
3. CFOO - Tuesday
4. Open-book Science assessment - Friday
(A detailed outline of what students should know will be discussed in class on Monday).
5. February Scholastic orders due Tuesday.
6. I Love to Read calendars - due Thursday.

Have a great long weekend!
Happy reading! :)

We LOVE to Read!

Happy Wednesday, friends of learning!
We had a WONDERFUL start to our day today; we celebrated our LOVE of reading!
Our February assembly was themed around our I Love to Read month and included many different literary parts!

We played a word game, listened to Mme Buckwold read us a story, celebrated the many different books published by our students here at Ness and took time to Drop Everything and Read!

Ness Knights are READERS!

We LOVE to read! :)

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Agenda items:

1. Math PEDMAS questions (white sheet with 8 questions in boxes) - due tomorrow (Thursday)

2. Math projects - now overdue

3. Science arthropod research - now overdue

4. Limonade pour la lecture - tomorrow at lunch

5. CFOO - Tuesday, February 27

6. I Love to Read calendars - due Thursday, March 1

7. Science open-book assessment - Friday, March 2.

Hé Ho!

We had a great day at Festival today!

We had the change to drum and sing with the Summer Bear Dance Troupe, do a scavenger hunt of the Festival Parc, listen and dance to a great Franco band and purchase a sweet treat (or two)!

Thanks for a great day, mes amis! :)

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Tomorrow is "Se blotter et lire!"
Please wear your pjs and bring a book for our J'aime Lire reading assembly!

100 Day!

Today we celebrated the 100th day of school!
Congratulations to everyone on being 100 days smarter! :)

To celebrate, we started with an "Aimerais-tu" tournament. There were some pretty close votes, but in the end, we would rather have 100 friends!

We then did an "Amazing Race" type challenge with different Math questions. Many of us got stuck on Question #2, but once we got passed that one, we sailed all the way to the finish!

Once we completed all 9 questions, we took a selfie and used the AgingBooth app to make ourselves look old.
It IS the 100th day of school after all...

To finish off the morning, we did "Le défi de 100 secondes." How many push-ups and chair sits can you do in 100 seconds? How many times can you print your name or hop on one foot? After estimating our totals, we put ourselves to the test to see if our predictions were correct!
Check us out HERE, HERE and HERE.
Celebrating the 100th day of school is A LOT of work!

Félicitations to everyone for making the morning so fun!
Looking forward to 100 more great days of learning! :)

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Agenda items
1. Festival du voyageur field trip - Tuesday! Please dress warmly and ensure you have a bagged lunch!
2. Concours students - You will be presenting your speeches in class Wednesday of next week!
3. "Se blottir et lire" - Wear your pjs and get ready to snuggle up and read
at our I-Love-to-Read assembly on Wednesday!
4. Calcul mental assessment - Thursday
5. Limonade pour a lecture - Thursday
6. CFOO #8 "Opinion" - Tuesday, February 27
7. I Love to Read calendars - everyday in February
8. Open book Science assessment - Friday, March 2 (More info coming soon).

Thursday Agenda Items!

Happy Thursday everyone!

Please, please, if you have not already done so, return your Festival forms and payment to the school by tomorrow! We are headed to Festival on Tuesday! Hé Ho!

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Agenda items:

1. Math art projects - now overdue
2. Mental Math Evaluation - rescheduled to next week.
3. School Registration forms - please return ASAP!
4. Festival du voyageur forms and payment ($10) - due ASAP
5. "Lire ma chemise" - Wear shirts with words - tomorrow (Friday)
6. "I Love to Read" calendars - every day in February!

Concours students: in-class presentations will be Wednesday, February 21.
Science Fair students - projects due at school Monday, March 5.

Have a great afternoon! :)

Order of Operations

Put your thinking caps on and solve these expressions:

1.   2 + 5 x 3
2.   10 - 3 x 3
3.   3 x 8 - 7 x 2
4.   9 + 9 ➗ 3

Did you get the following answers?

1. 17   2. 1   3. 10   4. 12

These same questions sure had us thinking earlier this week! 

To help us all arrive at the same answer, we've added a new skill to our Math arsenal: PEDMAS!

The acronym PEDMAS helps us remember the order of operations 

when we are evaluating a Math expression or equation.

Today in class we practiced our skills by working in groups at the white boards.

Using four 4s, we used the order of operations to create equations that would equal each number from 0 to 10.
For example: 

0 = 4 - 4 + 4 - 4   

1 = 4 + 4 ➗ 4 - 4 

and so on...

We sure had to think hard. This is not as easy as it sounds!

Want to learn more about PEDMAS? Check out this great Math Antics video to become an expert!

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Agenda items:

1. Math art projects - now overdue
2. Mental Math Evaluation - Friday
3. School Registration forms - please return ASAP!
4. Festival du voyageur forms and payment ($10) - due ASAP
5. Limonade pour les livres - Lemonade on sale for $1 tomorrow at lunch!
6. "Lire ma chemise" - Friday
7. "I Love to Read" calendars - every day in February!

Concours students: in-class presentations will be Wednesday, February 21.
Science Fair students - projects due at school Monday, March 5.

Have a great afternoon! :)

Tuesday Agenda Items

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1. Math art projects - now overdue
2. Section B Calcul mental - tomorrow (Wednesday)
3. School Registration forms - please return ASAP!
4. Festival du voyageur forms and payment ($10) - due ASAP
5. "Lire ma chemise" - Friday
6. "I Love to Read" calendars - every day in February!

Concours students: in-class presentations will be Wednesday, February 21.
Science Fair students - projects due at school Monday, March 5.

Have a great afternoon! :)

Monday Agenda Items

Looking forward to a great week of learning!
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1. Math art projects - now overdue
2. Section B Calcul mental - Wednesday
3. Registration forms - please return ASAP!
4. Festival du voyageur forms and payment ($10) - due ASAP
5. "I Love to Read" calendars - every day in February!

Concours students: in-class presentations will be Wednesday, February 21.
Science Fair students - projects due at school Monday, March 5.

Happy Friday!
It was SO great to see so many Knights dressed up in Canada colours and Canada gear! Go Canada Go!

This morning we completed our Math assessment, worked on our math art projects and tackled the "Rectangle question" one more time. We also tried our hand at solving different Math equations that involved pictures (such as fruit, dinosaurs and insects) instead of numbers. We also had a visit from Mme Page, one of our division's numeracy specialists, who challenged us with different mental math questions at the end of class! Our Math brains were working HARD this morning!

In Français, we took some time to read and in Science we had our last work period for our
arthropod research activity.

We worked hard and wrapped up different tasks this week and are now ready to move on to new learning adventures starting Monday!

Take some time to read and to cheer on Team Canada this weekend!
Have a good one! :)

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Agenda items:
1. Math art project - Monday
2. Calcul mental Section A - Monday
3. Arthropod research - due Wednesday
4. Registration forms due back ASAP!
5. Festival du Voyageur permission forms and payment ($10) due ASAP!
6. "Coups de coeur pour une cause" - Candy grams on sale ($1) Monday and Tuesday at lunch,
with proceeds going to The Children's Hospital.
7. I Love to Read logs - every day in February!

Thursday!

Félicitations to everyone on their CFOO presentations today!
We learned so many new facts about different countries, animals, musicians and more! Bravo!

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Agenda items
1. Math assessment - Tomorrow (Friday)
2. Math Art Project - Friday
3. Arthropod research - last work class tomorrow
4. "Lecture pour l'or" - Dress up in Canada colours and Canada gear to celebrate
the Opening Ceremonies of the Winter Olympics!
5. I Love to Read home-reading calendar - Every day in February!

Have a great afternoon! :)

Many Agenda items!

We are working hard to finish up the many different assignments we've been working on over the past couple of weeks. The list is lengthy, but please note that students have had plenty of class time to work on these tasks, and many have already completed the items below (see agenda items).
Please check in with your child to see how they are doing.

And, a big congratulations to both Savannah and Tommy who each found a solution to our "Rectangle Math" question. There are 2 possible solutions to the question, with one of the sums being 22.  (Hint, hint!)
(See yesterday's blog post for a question refresher).

Good luck! :)

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General Agenda Items:

1. Registration forms due back to the school ASAP, please!

2. I Love to Read calendars - fill in daily for the month of February

3. "Limonade pour la lecture" - Lemonade on sale ($1) tomorrow (Thursday) at lunch,
with proceeds going to The Children's Hospital.

4. Lecture pour l'or - Dress up in your Canada gear to cheer on reading and Team Canada! - Friday

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Academic items:

1. CFOO presentations - tomorrow (Thursday!)

2. Math assessment on "les transformations géométriques" - Friday

3. Math Art project - due Friday

4. Reading comprehension "Tout sur les tomates" (yellow sheet) and "Les arthropodes"
(green sheet to be completed with our Science text) - both due Friday

5. Internet research sheet on arthropods - last work class will likely be Friday, with students having the option to either bring the sheet home over the weekend to complete or to come in over the noon hour Monday and Tuesday to finish. Sheets will be due Wednesday, February 14.

Math Challenge

Hello friends of learning!

Today in Math we tackled one tough question!

"Frame the Cards"

Arrange ten playing cards (ace to ten) in a rectangle with three cards on two sides and four cards on two sides such that the sum of the cards on every side add up to the same total.

Working in randomized groups at the white boards we tried combination after combination of numbers to see if we could find the solution. Many of us got close, but no one was able to find the sum.

The solution for this question remain a mystery for now! Keep on working on it! 

Hints for the solution will be shared over the next couple of days before the answer is revealed on Friday! 

Good luck!

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Agenda items:

1. Science Fair forms past due.

2. Registration forms due back ASAP!

3. CFOO Presentations - Thursday

4. Limonade for la lecture - Thursday

5. Lecture pour l'or - Friday

6. Home reading log - every day in February!

Happy Monday!

Hello 208 friends!

We had a great morning of learning today!

We started our day with Français and were happy to have Mme Galka with us!

Today, for our daily reading time, we read with our table partner.

Next, in our mini-journals, we were asked to share (write) our opinion about "Whether boys and girls should have separate classes at school." Before our writing time began, we brain-stormed sentence starters that would help us clearly structure our opinion in our writing response.

In Mathé, we continue to review different mental math strategies and are finishing up our work on 

"les transformations géométriques."

In Science, we used the iPads to continue our research on two different arthropods. For our research, we can choose any two arthropods we would like and then, using a list of websites given to us by Mme Careen, we need to find the answers to a set of characteristics, including : life cycle, diet, movement and habitat. We also need to include an explanation of why our chosen example is an arthropod.

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Agenda items:

1. Science Fair project forms - past due. Please submit ASAP!

2. Please return school registration forms ASAP!

3. CFOO presentations - Thursday

4. "Limonade pour la lecture" - Lemonade will be on sale Thursday at lunch, with proceeds of sales going to a charitable literacy organization.

5. "Lecture pour l'or" - Dress up in Canada gear and Canada colours on Friday to celebrate reading and 

the Opening Ceremonies of the Olympics!

6. Home-reading logs - Be sure you are reading every day throughout the month of February! :)

Have a great evening! :)

Thursday Agenda Items

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1. No school tomorrow!
2. I Love to Read home reading logs - every day in February!
3. Science Fair project forms - due back Monday
4. Registration forms - ASAP!
5. CFOO #7 - Thursday, February 8