Friday January 10, 2020 - Week in Review

Dear 6B Parents

Welcome back!  From the stories and conversations from students this week it sounds like many families had adventurous or relaxing breaks and all enjoyed the milder weather.

We have been learning about factors and lowest common multiples this week. Factors are whole numbers that are multiplied together to produce another number. For example, the factors of 12 are 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 12. Lowest common multiples are the lowest quantity that is a multiple of two or more given quantities (e.g. 12 is the lowest common multiple of 2, 3, and 4). We will be reviewing prime and composite numbers next week, as well as order of operations.

We continued our study of democracy this week and will be learning about the birthplace of democracy, Ancient Athens.  We reviewed where Athens is located in the world and learned that the concepts of democracy were first conceived over 2500 years ago.  In future weeks we will be learning about the different people of Athenian society (citizens, women, children, metics and slaves) and important places to Athenian democracy (Boule, Pynx hill, Agora and law courts).

Have a great weekend,
Mr. Cull

Junior High School Tours
We are starting to hear from Junior High schools about booking tours. Colonel Irvine School will be touring the students during the day on January 15th (forms coming home this week) and there will be an Open House that night as well for parents and students.



Junior High School
Please use the link below to learn which school your child is designated to attend next year.  If you are interested in having your child attend a different Junior High, please contact that Junior High school directly.
https://cbe.ab.ca/schools/find-a-school/Pages/default.aspx

Simons Valley Reads & Mathletes
We are excited to bring back two programs, Simons Valley Reads and Simons Valley Mathletes. Both programs were a HUGE success because of volunteers such as you! We are hoping to run an 8 week program of both SVS Reads and Mathletes starting January 28th for 1 hour a week.

Here is a brief description of the two programs (little different from last year) but just as impactful!

SVS Reads
To support our Grade One/ Two/ Three students, we are looking for parent volunteers who would be able to come once a week for an

hour and work with two students. Volunteers would work with a student for 20 minutes each practicing high frequency words, sentence work and of course, reading a short story. All of the materials will be provided for you!

SVS Mathletes
The second program, Simons Valley Mathletes is a program designed to help our grade 3 to 6 students develop proficiency in mathematics. The focus this year will be to strengthen basic math facts. With this program, as SVS Reads, we are looking for parent volunteers who would be able to come once a week for an hour and work with two students. Volunteers would work with each student for 20 minutes making numbers, practicing basic math facts and then playing a math game. All of the materials will be provided for you.

If you are interested in volunteering with either program, please contact us at ggdavidoff@cbe.ab.ca
or bghordern@cbe.ab.ca before January 14th.

Quizzes/ Tests
-No upcoming tests or quizzes
-Our geometry and perimeter quiz went home yesterday.  Ask your child their make our of 30.

Homework
-Jump Math Pg 129, 130
-Weekly Math PAT practice went home today and is due next Wednesday

Don't Forget
-Headphones: please bring an extra set of headphones to school if you have them
-Don't forget to return or renew your overdue library books

Forms
-Forms for the Colonel Irvine Junior High tour on January 15 went home on Wednesday  Please return ASAP!

Upcoming Events
January 15: Colonel Irvine Jr High Daytime Tour
January 15: Colonel Irvine Jr High Evening Open House (6:30 pm to 8:00 pm)
January 24: CAD Starts
February 27: Sir John A MacDonald Jr High Tour

Website
Don't forget to check out our class website for grade 6 resources
https://sites.google.com/educbe.ca/grade6svs/home