Tuesday January 21, 2020

Homework

-Jump Math 144
-A new weekly math sheet came home last week and will be due January 22
-Athens people and places notes due now
-Planet Brochure due now

Quizzes/ Tests
-No upcoming tests or quizzes

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

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
-No forms are due at this time

Upcoming Events
January 21: G.P Vanier visit SVS (late French immersion)
January 24: CAD Starts
February 5: G.P Vanier Open House (6:30 pm to 7:30 pm)
February 27: Sir John A MacDonald Jr High Tour
February 27: Sir John A MacDonald Jr High Parent Information night (5:30 pm to 7:00 pm)

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

Monday January 20, 2020

Homework

-Jump Math 142, 143
-A new weekly math sheet came home last week and will be due January 22
-Athens people and places notes due Monday, January 20
-Planet Brochure due Tuesday, January 21

Quizzes/ Tests
-No upcoming tests or quizzes

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

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
-No forms are due at this time

Upcoming Events
January 21: G.P Vanier visit SVS (late French immersion)
January 24: CAD Starts
February 5: G.P Vanier Open House (6:30 pm to 7:30 pm)
February 27: Sir John A MacDonald Jr High Tour
February 27: Sir John A MacDonald Jr High Parent Information night (5:30 pm to 7:00 pm)

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

Friday January 17, 2020 - Week in Review

Dear 6B Parents,

    We kicked off our Junior High tour season with a visit to Colonel Irvine.  Forty students from Simons Valley learned about the many clubs and sports teams available to grade 7 students before going on a tour of the building.  The students visited the band room, shop, art rooms, etc, before having lunch in the cafeteria.  The students were interested in knowing more about options, how to open their lockers and why they have to change before gym class.  We will be visited by G.P. Vanier this Wednesday to learn about their late french immersion program, followed by a tour of Sir John A MacDonald on February 27th.

   The students did some note-taking on the various classes of people and important places in Ancient Athens this week. Now that we have a basic understanding of how the city worked, we will be creating an Ancient Athens board game starting Monday.

   The students created brochures this week on one of the planets in our solar system.  They needed to research the characteristics of their planet (size, distance from the sun, composition) and include images relevant to the planet. This brochure is due to Mr. Spriggs on Tuesday.

Have a great weekend,
Mr. Cull

Homework

-Jump Math 140, 141
-A new weekly math sheet came home yesterday and will be due January 22
-Athens people and places notes due next Monday, January 20
-Planet Brochure due next Tuesday

Quizzes/ Tests
-No upcoming tests or quizzes

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

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
-No forms are due at this time

Upcoming Events
January 21: G.P Vanier visit SVS (late French immersion)
January 24: CAD Starts
February 5: G.P Vanier Open House (6:30 pm to 7:30 pm)
February 27: Sir John A MacDonald Jr High Tour
February 27: Sir John A MacDonald Jr High Parent Information night (5:30 pm to 7:00 pm)

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

Thursday January 16, 2020

Homework

-Jump Math 138, 139
-A new weekly math sheet came home yesterday and will be due January 22
-Athens people and places notes due next Monday, January 20
-Planet Brochure due next Tuesday

Quizzes/ Tests
-No upcoming tests or quizzes

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

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
-No forms are due at this time

Upcoming Events
January 21: G.P Vanier visit SVS (late French immersion)
January 24: CAD Starts
February 5: G.P Vanier Open House (6:30 pm to 7:30 pm)
February 27: Sir John A MacDonald Jr High Tour
February 27: Sir John A MacDonald Jr High Parent Information night (5:30 pm to 7:00 pm)

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

Wednesday January 15, 2020

*Don't forget about the Open House tonight at Colonel Irvine*

Homework

-Jump Math no homework
-Weekly Math PAT practice went home today and is due today
-A new weekly math sheet came home today and will be due January 22
-Athens people and places notes due next Monday, January 20
-Planet Brochure due next Tuesday

Quizzes/ Tests
-No upcoming tests or quizzes

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

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
-No forms are due at this time

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 21: G.P Vanier visit SVS (late French immersion)
January 24: CAD Starts
February 5: G.P Vanier Open House (6:30 pm to 7:30 pm)
February 27: Sir John A MacDonald Jr High Tour
February 27: Sir John A MacDonald Jr High Parent Information night (5:30 pm to 7:00 pm)

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

Tuesday January 14, 2020

Homework

-Jump Math Pg 136, 137
-Weekly Math PAT practice went home today and is due next Wednesday
-Athens people and places notes due next Monday, January 20
-Planet Brochure due next Tuesday

Quizzes/ Tests
-No upcoming tests or quizzes

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

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
-No forms are due at this time

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 21: G.P Vanier visit SVS (late French immersion)
January 24: CAD Starts
February 5: G.P Vanier Open House (6:30 pm to 7:30 pm)
February 27: Sir John A MacDonald Jr High Tour
February 27: Sir John A MacDonald Jr High Parent Information night (5:30 pm to 7:00 pm)

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

Monday January 13, 2020

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

Quizzes/ Tests
-No upcoming tests or quizzes

Homework
-Jump Math Pg 134, 135
-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
-No forms are due at this time

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 21: G.P Vanier visit SVS (late French immersion)
January 24: CAD Starts
February 27: Sir John A MacDonald Jr High Tour
February 27: Sir John A MacDonald Jr High Parent Information night (5:30 pm to 7:00 pm)

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

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

Thursday January 9, 2020

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

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 127, 128
-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 will be coming home today.  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)
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

Wednesday January 8, 2020

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

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

Homework
-Jump Math Pg 125, 126
-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 will be coming home today.  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)
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

Tuesday January 7, 2020

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

Quizzes/ Tests
-No upcoming tests or quizzes
-We did the geometry and perimeter quiz before the break.  The results will come home in the new year.

Homework
-Jump Math Pg 122, 123, 124

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 will be coming home tomorrow

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)
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