Hello Families,
Has the countdown begun in your house?
At school, things are gearing up for the end of the year. Today we finish our Language Arts exam, the Math exam is finished by Thursday and the Inuit and Micmac projects are due (test next Monday). As well, the preparations for graduation are getting under way. It promises to be a very busy time in the grade six class!
In case you had not noticed, I have added a page for the calendar to the blog. Important dates are listed above and you can access the page by clicking the link under the blog title.
Have a wonderful week!
Kathy Napier
Monday, May 31, 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010
Field Games Day: Permission Slip
Hello Families,
Just a quick note to ask that you remind your child to bring back the permission form for the Field Games Day trip this coming Thursday.
We will be leaving right away, will need to bring a lunch, water bottle, snacks, good shoes, sunscreen and a coat if it is cool.
Students, please remind each other to bring back the form!
Have a lovely and safe Victoria Day long weekend,
Kathy Napier
Just a quick note to ask that you remind your child to bring back the permission form for the Field Games Day trip this coming Thursday.
We will be leaving right away, will need to bring a lunch, water bottle, snacks, good shoes, sunscreen and a coat if it is cool.
Students, please remind each other to bring back the form!
Have a lovely and safe Victoria Day long weekend,
Kathy Napier
Saturday, May 8, 2010
The end of another week (also known as one week closer to grad) and Special Visitors
Hello families,
Well, it was another big week here, and I hope you're giving your kids the Flintstones vitamins because from here on out there are only big weeks with many projects, exams and trips. It promises to be hectic and fun, but very hard work, and in my experience keeping 12-year-olds busy (very, very busy) is half the battle.
What battle, do you ask?
Oh, the ongoing battle against hormones and backtalk, arguments and obstinacy (which is a word, but I had to check), sloppy work, bad manners and lack of motivation. But I know I don't have to tell you this. From what I hear, this battle is being fought on all fronts.
Keeping myself ready for this is also what sometimes keeps me from acknowledging, daily, how your children are really great people. Really great people who care deeply about others and their world, who are critical thinkers and who have come a long, long way in the year and eight months we have been together.
I'm tearing up and losing my focus here. Ahem.
We had two special visitors this week. The first was the lovely Kat Usher, Naturalist from the EarthValues Institute in Montreal who came to give her annual presentation to the students. This year's theme was "Colour My World." She is a wonderful speaker and I was sorry to have been out sick that day and miss her talk.
I was also sorry since every time I am sick h-e-double-hockey-sticks seems to break out with the kids' behaviour and I come back to problems. If you heard from me Thursday you know what I mean (if you didn't, your child wasn't involved :).
Our second visitor arrived Thursday morning and was a surprise for the kids. Just in case your own loving 12yr old was less than communicative and forthcoming this week, you should know that I asked an agent of the Surete du Quebec to come and speak to them about drugs. If they didn't give it to you, you should go riffling through their bookbags for the information document for parents about kids and drugs (after hearing what he had to say, perhaps you should riffle through their things regularly). The students had excellent questions and Agent Jutras was a very experienced speaker who handled the information with just enough detail to (hopefully) scare them away from drugs and pushers. It is a good time to reopen a dialogue with your child about the whole subject.
Thank you for your help and support this week, and as we move into the Math and English Exams next week please continue to keep your child as well-rested as possible.
Enjoy the weekend, and Happy Mother's Day to everyone!
Kathy
PS - to let me know you have been here, please click on on the the boxes and/or leave me a comment. it lets me know I am talking to more than just my one-and-only blog-follower
EDITED TO ADD-Hey! I have readers! Thank you for clicking below (and I fixed the typos)! It is great to know I am not writing to myself here, people!
Well, it was another big week here, and I hope you're giving your kids the Flintstones vitamins because from here on out there are only big weeks with many projects, exams and trips. It promises to be hectic and fun, but very hard work, and in my experience keeping 12-year-olds busy (very, very busy) is half the battle.
What battle, do you ask?
Oh, the ongoing battle against hormones and backtalk, arguments and obstinacy (which is a word, but I had to check), sloppy work, bad manners and lack of motivation. But I know I don't have to tell you this. From what I hear, this battle is being fought on all fronts.
Keeping myself ready for this is also what sometimes keeps me from acknowledging, daily, how your children are really great people. Really great people who care deeply about others and their world, who are critical thinkers and who have come a long, long way in the year and eight months we have been together.
I'm tearing up and losing my focus here. Ahem.
We had two special visitors this week. The first was the lovely Kat Usher, Naturalist from the EarthValues Institute in Montreal who came to give her annual presentation to the students. This year's theme was "Colour My World." She is a wonderful speaker and I was sorry to have been out sick that day and miss her talk.
I was also sorry since every time I am sick h-e-double-hockey-sticks seems to break out with the kids' behaviour and I come back to problems. If you heard from me Thursday you know what I mean (if you didn't, your child wasn't involved :).
Our second visitor arrived Thursday morning and was a surprise for the kids. Just in case your own loving 12yr old was less than communicative and forthcoming this week, you should know that I asked an agent of the Surete du Quebec to come and speak to them about drugs. If they didn't give it to you, you should go riffling through their bookbags for the information document for parents about kids and drugs (after hearing what he had to say, perhaps you should riffle through their things regularly). The students had excellent questions and Agent Jutras was a very experienced speaker who handled the information with just enough detail to (hopefully) scare them away from drugs and pushers. It is a good time to reopen a dialogue with your child about the whole subject.
Thank you for your help and support this week, and as we move into the Math and English Exams next week please continue to keep your child as well-rested as possible.
Enjoy the weekend, and Happy Mother's Day to everyone!
Kathy
PS - to let me know you have been here, please click on on the the boxes and/or leave me a comment. it lets me know I am talking to more than just my one-and-only blog-follower
EDITED TO ADD-Hey! I have readers! Thank you for clicking below (and I fixed the typos)! It is great to know I am not writing to myself here, people!
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Websites for Studying
Hello all,
These are a few sites which can provide guided practice of some of the math skills we are reviewing in class. Students should use them to study as they are self-correcting and can give rapid feedback on skills and understanding.
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/BillyBug/bugcoord.html
Coordinate geometry
http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/amy/geometry/6-8/activities/quad_quest/quad_quest.html
Quadrilaterals
http://www.innovationslearning.co.uk/subjects/maths/activities/year6/angles/game.asp
angles
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=triangles
triangles
http://cemc2.math.uwaterloo.ca/mathfrog/english/kidz/div5.shtml
long division
http://www.mathplayground.com/fractions_mixed.html
mixed numbers
http://cemc2.math.uwaterloo.ca/mathfrog/english/kidz/order.shtml
order of operations
http://cemc2.math.uwaterloo.ca/mathfrog/english/kidz/decMulti6.shtml
decimal multiplication
These are a few sites which can provide guided practice of some of the math skills we are reviewing in class. Students should use them to study as they are self-correcting and can give rapid feedback on skills and understanding.
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/BillyBug/bugcoord.html
Coordinate geometry
http://teams.lacoe.edu/documentation/classrooms/amy/geometry/6-8/activities/quad_quest/quad_quest.html
Quadrilaterals
http://www.innovationslearning.co.uk/subjects/maths/activities/year6/angles/game.asp
angles
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=triangles
triangles
http://cemc2.math.uwaterloo.ca/mathfrog/english/kidz/div5.shtml
long division
http://www.mathplayground.com/fractions_mixed.html
mixed numbers
http://cemc2.math.uwaterloo.ca/mathfrog/english/kidz/order.shtml
order of operations
http://cemc2.math.uwaterloo.ca/mathfrog/english/kidz/decMulti6.shtml
decimal multiplication
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