Welcome back to the blog!

Dear Families and Friends,

So far these two days, we have been working on comparing numbers in math and creating a title page explaining about Canada.We have also finished doing our activity stations in gym. In Social studies we are learning about natural disasters  and also we watched about Haiti's earthquake and lesson saves life's

We are learning about French Canadian  culture and making a title  page about it.We will have a test  tomorrow on numbers, days of the week, and months of the year.

On September the 20th, we got the new Surface RT tablets with the key board and they are awesome!!
We used them for alot of things such as Evernote. In Evernote, we all created a notebook to write in and send our homework to Mrs.Pike. Ask your child to login from home and show you their work.

In gym, we have finally finished our fitness journal. Every day 3 we did  gym with Mrs .Pierce's class and every day 5 we did it with our class. This week we had collected $2 from our classmates for gym because theres a professional trainer coming to Northwood for a work out and that will be happening on 09/26/13.


From:
        The Despicable 6's (Doha,Urooj, Kagila, Hmaim,Baqer,Sobaan)

 (P.S) Come back next week and see what the Gru's 6 Collaborating Minions have to tell you.


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Math Puzzles

Doing math puzzles like Ken Ken are good for problem solving, improving numeracy skills and having fun! Here is a link to the Ken Ken website where you can do puzzles online or print out paper copies. Enjoy!
kenken.com

Technology in Social Studies

Our new Surface RT tablets come in handy to research symbols of Canada.

Students also use their own devices to do research.

Dear families,

You are reading back from us: students of 6PIKE. Each Tribe is taking a turn writing our blog post, this week it is the 6 Minions.

This week we have been writing our own speed week sentences and have been learning about personal health. We have been starting to understand our 4 tribe agreement: Attentive Listening, Mutual Respect, Appreciations No Put-Downs, Right to pass, by creating posters amongst our tribes. We recently created our tribe names and posters. We have conducted an iSearch on famous mathematicians and scientists. In art we have drawn and learned about the 7 elements of design and 1 principle of design. We are applying what we learned to decorate our art portfolios. Come back at a later date to see photos!

In French we have done small quizzes on the days of the week (les jours) and the months of the year (les mois de l'annee) and have been preparing for our up-coming French test next week.

Come back next week and hear what’s up in 6PIKE!

Thank you for reading,

The 6 Minions Tribe

Maaheen, Aidan, Namanya, Yousef, Hanna and Angelo.

Wow, it was hot!

It was so hot on Thursday we had to take a break in the Cooling Station, aka the air conditioned gym!

Math Mania

We opened our math kit and shared what we know about using manipulatives to improve our learning. Students use the iPad and Apple TV to present their group work. 

What's happening so far?

We had a guest (my daughter Courtney) bring in photos of her Bearded Dragon. The students had lots of questions about what having a reptile pet is like. Maybe one day Marvel will be able to come for a visit himself!