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).