Last Day of May, 2017.

Agenda:

1. To work on your Grade 6 farewell movie, log on to:

1) adobe spark

2) Sign in with google

3) enter the email address: gradesixfarewell@gmail.com

   password: DrCoffin

First slide needs to be "Guess who"

Include your likes, dislikes, favorites, etc

Make sure you have a slide stating who you are

Last slide needs to be your advice 

Your video can be no more than 30 seconds. 

That's all you need to do!

2. Social homework - Iroquois Confederacy mapping due tomorrow.
3. Math booklet + sheet (perimeter, area, and volume) due tomorrow.

Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned how to use 'Adobe Spark'.
How did you show what you learned?
We began our 'Farewell Movies' in music today.
What do you need to learn next?
We need to try and access this at home, if we need the time.

May 30th, 2017.

Agenda:
1. Personification sheet/HW due tomorrow.
2. Complete Perimeter and Area booklet + Volume sheet (2-sided) by Thursday.
3. Please bring a book to read for school - no more book exchange.

Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned about personification and alliteration in LA.
How did you show what you learned?
We worked in rm. 6 & 7 to learn about the parts of speech and poetry.
What do you need to learn next?
We need to keep interpreting the meaning of various poems.

May 29th, 2017.

Agenda:
1. Simile and metaphor sheet due tomorrow.
2. Complete Perimeter and Area booklet + Volume sheet (2-sided) by Thursday.
3. Please bring a book to read for school - no more book exchange.

Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned about gliders in science today. 
How did you show what you learned?
We made paper gliders in class.
What do you need to learn next?
We need to learn how to modify our gliders for various purposes.

A Spectacular F.A.F.!! Room 7's post is also here...

Agenda:
1. Page 2 (back of p. 1 - area) of math booklet - due Monday.
2. What modification to your parachute worked the best?? Be prepared to discuss on Monday.

Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned that methane (CH4) is created by the process of decomposition.
How did you show what you learned?
We asked Dr. Strous from the U of C questions about the research being conducted at Dr. Coffin.
What do you need to learn next?
We need to know if moving 'Scummy' (PBR) to the Learning Commons will grow more algae, as 'Rodriguez' grew a fair bit more in the L.C. than in Room 6.

May 25th, 2017 - Room 7 look here too

Welcome Room 7 students :-)

Agenda:
1. Page 2 (back of p. 1 - area) of math booklet - due Monday.
2. Create a modification to your parachute - add a hole in the top, modify the canopy (size, material, number of sides), modify the shroud lines (type, length, number), modify the weight. You may also have  some other creative ideas to engineer your parachute to preform a different purpose. You may enter either of the 2 contests - land your parachute on a target or stay in the sky the longest. These tests will be happening during FAF tomorrow.
3. F.A.F. tomorrow.  Please dress appropriately.

Dr. Marc Strous will be visiting tomorrow to answer questions we have about our work with the PBR. Here is his website if you would like to know more about him and his department before his visit.
http://www.ucalgary.ca/ebg/

Learning Intention
What did you learn today?
We learned about volume and capacity today. 
How did you show what you learned?
We completed some word problems to show our understanding. We also talked about examples (referents) of 1 mL and 1cm3
Can you and your family think of other examples?
What do you need to learn next?
We will complete various centers to solidify our understanding of volume and capacity.

May 23rd, 2017.

Agenda:
1.  Check out 'Solar Bio Cells'  (youtube.com) to see some of the science behind our U of C research study.
2.  Please sign and return the rubric from your Ancient Athens mini-project.
3. Volunteer Tea tomorrow.   Waiters and platers - white shirt & black pants, while everyone else please wear your Dr. Coffin shirts.
4.  Think about possible questions for Dr. Strous (the lead U of C researcher, who will be visiting this Friday).

Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned about 'biofuels'.
How did you show what you learned?
We watched videos and learned information from our student researchers.
What do you need to learn next?
We need to see how much more the algae grew by F.A.F. this week.

May 18th, 2017.

Agenda:
1. No school tomorrow and Monday.  We will see you on Tuesday, May 23rd!
2. Coordinate geometry design - due Tuesday (completed).

Highlights
What did you learn today?
We learned that algae 'eats' carbon dioxide. 
How did you show what you learned?
We got to view and clean the apparatus for our U of C research study today.
What do you need to learn next?
We need to see if the algae will grow just from the the carbon dioxide in our air.


Picture of our PVR with algae: