WEEK 8 - Friday October 25

Homeroom
October 31st is Halloween. Students are invited to dress up if their costume follow some parameters :

• Avoid excessive gore
• Weapons of any kind are not permitted
• No masks
• Please use discretion when choosing attire, remembering the school environment includes students with varying sensitivities
• Ensure costumes are easy to get into and out of for the washroom
• Ensure costumes allow for safe and easy movement at school and will not interfere with your child's ability to participate in regular class work and in gym class.

FLA - Poliquin

This week, students finished their short descriptive text and took some notes on how to find a verb in a sentence to help with the conjugation with their subject.  We will continue on that subject next week.  Here is the worksheets : Verbe - Sujet


ELA- Fedchun We have begun our Mystery Unit... defined some vocabulary words and are working on some mystery activities. We discussed the literary device Alliteration and are creating a Halloween themed tombstone.

Social - Turcotte
This week we presented our project to the class and voted. The projects about Technology won in both grade 6 classes. We also started to study for our first quiz using the Study Guide. The quiz will be on Wednesday, October 30th.

Science - Poirier
We will have a TEST on Astronomy (the whole unit) Wednesday October 30^th.

Études pour l’examen d’Astronomie 6e

Reconnaître les objets du Ciel. (corps célestes)

Nommer les 4 planètes de gaz / Nommer les 4 planètes de roche

Placer les planètes en ordre croissant -  de la plus grosse a la plus petite
                                                            -  de la plus proche a la plus loin du soleil
                                                            -  de la plus petite a la plus grosse

La vie d’une étoile (moyenne et massive)

Les particularités des planètes (volcans, température, eau, etc…)

Reconnaître les constellations importantes (Céphée, grande et petite ourse, Dragon, Orion, Cassiopée, etc…)

Comment utiliser un chercheur d’étoiles

Les dates de Solstices et équinoxes

Les saisons (comment la terre tourne autour du soleil)

Les phases de la lune

Mon adresse galactique

Ou se lève le soleil / ou il se couche?

Les marrées

Les éclipses de lune et du soleil

Math - Poirier

There are the Math homework from Oct 28th – Oct 31th:

Lundi:        p.80 # 1-2-3

Mardi:        p. 80 # 4-5-6

Mercredi:   p. 81 # 7-8-9

Jeudi:         Pas de devoir

Vendredi:   Pas de devoir

WEEK 7 - Friday Oct 18th

FLA - Poliquin

This week, students worked on their past, present and future tense text.  They will finish this next week.  Here is the rubric I will use to evaluate them : Grille d'évaluation.

ELA- Fedchun

Students worked on reading and vocabulary test corrections and we began our Mystery Unit, by discussing a game of Classroom Clue. Students will read short stories, make inferences, look for details in text and examine the context for cues. Students will create a digital project on Unsolved Mysteries by researching a mystery of their choice.... more to come.
HOMEWORK for Thursday: students were given a handout called Secret Agent Stan.... Students were asked to complete this for homework... it may be tough for some... so only work on it for no more than 15 minutes tonight.... we will take it up on Friday... 

Social - Turcotte

This week, we learned about the structure of the Canadian government and different parties, on Friday the school did the Student Vote. Next week, we will complete our School Environment Improvement project and present it.

Science - Poirier

Students need to finish drawing the 5 constellations for each season this weekend. Bring the work  back on Monday Oct 21th.  (North Star in the middle of the sky) Look on staratlas.com

         -Petite Ourse    - Grande Ourse  - Cassiopee  - Cephee    - Dragon

Math 6 - Poirier

There are the Math homework from Oct 21th – Oct 25th:

Lundi:        p.73 # 8-9-10

Mardi:       p. 73 # 11-12

Mercredi:  p. 76 # 1-2-3-4

Jeudi:         p. 76-77 # 5-6-7

Vendredi:   Pas de devoir

FLA song

There will be a short listening evaluation this Thursday.  We read the song and listened to it together and the students will have to listen to it again Thursday and fill in the blanks with the missing words.  Here is a copy of the lyrics : Coton ouaté - Bleu Jeans Bleu.

I suggest they read the song and listen to it today and tomorrow.

WEEK 6 -Friday Oct 11th

Homeroom - Poirier


ELA- Fedchun 

This week students have started an assignment about the light and dark sides of their character. This is due Tuesday Oct 15th and needs to be handed into the bin when finished. They can draw, use words and symbols that represent the light and dark side. Students will write a real life event that demonstrates their own dark or light side on the back side of the assignment. Please see the link below for the assignment and rubric.

Light and Dark Character 
Assignment



FLA - Poliquin 

This week we listened to a song (Coton ouaté - Bleu Jeans Bleu) and the students had an evaluation where they had to listen to it again and fill in the blanks with the missing words on their sheet.  The results will be posted during the week-end on Power School.  We went over the answers on the first part of the verb tenses worksheet (infinitif, présent et imparfait).  We will correct the future tense (futur simple) next Tuesday.

Next week, we will continue working a short descriptive text about an object or a person or a place.  They need to describe their subject in the past, present and future tense.  It is class work.  I will evaluate their use of the different verb tense we have seen in class  : imparfait, présent et futur simple.

Here is the rubric I will use : Temps des verbes.

We will go to the library on October 16th.

Social St. - Turcotte

This week, we completed our study of the Canadian charter and we started to talk about politics. We watch an episode of  Dragon's Den and in groups we are getting ready to present our own school project to the class. During next week, we will organize ideas and present our school development project. We will also talk about different political party and get ready to do our Student Vote on Friday, October 18th. 

Math  - Poirier

There will be a Math quiz on "Module 2" Wednesday October 16th, 2019
   -  Comment ecrire les nombres (tableau de valeurs, developper, symbolique, en mots)
   -  Les multiples, multiples communs et PPCM
   -  Les facteurs, facteurs communs et PGFC
   -  Arc-en ciel des facteurs, arbres des facteurs et division repetee.
   -  Nombres premiers, composes, pairs et impairs
   -  Un nombre parfait
   -  Problemes a resoudre
   -  Q'est-ce qu'une somme, quotient, difference, produit


There are the Math homework of the week Oct 15th to Oct 18th:

Lundi:       Thanks giving - Pas de devoir
Mardi:       Se preparer pour le Quiz de Math
Mercredi:  p. 72 # 1-2-3-4
Jeudi:        p. 72 # 5-6-7
Vendredi:  Pas de devoir

Science - Poirier

We will see the phases of the moon and review constellations.

FLA - homework

In FLA, students will have to finish the past tense section (Imparfait) in this booklet, "Le verbe" for Wednesday and the future tense (futur simple) for next Tuesday.

I made a mistake for the update of last week and it was not the right post I wanted to make.  Here is the post of last week, if you are interested :

This week we took some notes about the verb tenses : imparfait, présent, futur et infinitif.  The students also started working on a booklet about verbs and if their are not done the infinitive and the present tense they will have it as homework.  We will go over the answers Monday.

Here is the booklet : Le verbe

Next week,  the students will have to finish the verb tenses booklet and they will have a short descriptive text to write in which I will evaluate the uses of the different verb tenses we have seen so far.

WEEK 5- Friday Oct 4th

Homeroom - Poirier

Please sign all assessments in Red Duo-tang.

ELA- Fedchun Students should now have their typed stories printed and put into their red duotangs. Over the next couple of weeks, I will continue to work with the students one-on- one with these stories to determine next steps in the writing process.  Next week, we will have a reading comprehension informal assessment. Students do not need to study for this test. Please ask your child what the difference between a simile and metaphor is...  we will continue our work with figurative language. This week we began 'Grammar Friday' with a look at Synonyms, Antonyms & Homonyms.

FLA - Poliquin 

We are currently working on the verb tenses (imparfait, présent, futur simple et infinitif).  The work we are doing in class will have to be done for Monday, October 7th.  We had Tuesday, Wednesday and will have tomorrow to work on the booklet.  What will not be finished, must be done for Monday.  

Sadly, students don't have a personal copy of the booklet.  If they want to finished their homework or to print it to be able to write on it, here is a copy of it : Le verbe.

Social St. - Turcotte
This week in Social, we explored and discussed about the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedom. We also talked about our school Rights and why it is important for a citizen to know them. Next week, we will start to talk about politics, how political party are formed and how to convince your audience that your ideas are the best. 

Math  - Poirier

There are the Math homework of the week Oct 7th to Oct 11th:

Lundi:       p. 65 # 5-6-7-8
Mardi:       p. 66 # 9-10-12
Mercredi:  p. 69 # 1-2
Jeudi:        p. 72 # 1-2-3 (will be done in class) No Homework for the weekend
Vendredi:   Pas de devoir

Science - Poirier

We will continue on: seasons - equinox - solstice and how the Earth rotate.

Homework for Monday October 7th

We are currently working on the verb tenses (imparfait, présent, futur simple et infinitif).  The work we are doing in class will have to be done for Monday, October 7th.  We had Tuesday, Wednesday and will have tomorrow to work on the booklet.  What will not be finished, must be done for Monday.  

Sadly, students don't have a personal copy of the booklet.  If they want to finished their homework or to print it to be able to write on it, here is a copy of it : Le verbe.