Friday, November 29

Please bring all Entrepreneurship materials to school on Monday. This includes your poster, product and business plan. For social studies, you need to work on your Concept map. It is due on Friday. And don't forget to order your tickets for Carols at the Bell. They are $3 each. Parents can also call the office to book appointments for parent teacher conferences. Have a great weekend!!

November 28

Reminder:  our Entrepreneur Show has been changed to the morning of December 3rd because the PAC is using the gym in the afternoon for a The Christmas Store. 

November 27

Today we learned how to play the dreidel game with Ms. Lirenman's class for Buddies.  

For homework: 

November 26

Today we talked about entrepreneurship with Bill Roche, the founder of the Powerplay Entrepreneurs Program.  We learned about different ideas for marketing our products.

In the afternoon we had Mrs. Lim, the Science and Technology Helping Teacher for the Surrey School District come and talk to us about decomposers in the ecosystem.  She got us started on a science project where we are creating our own decomposers.  We look forward to sharing our finished projects with her when she returns.

Reminders:

- book fair continues tomorrow

- coin drive : quarters

- grade 6- Unit 2 Math test tomorrow

- grade 7 Math : - page 238 #1,2

- French presentations next Tuesday

To prepare for the Math test, see if you can do the following:

Entrepreneurship Show Information

November 24

Today we had a guest speaker, Aanikh Kler, the creator of the Undr the Radr app featured on Dragon's Den come talk to our class about social entrepreneurship.  He talked about the importance of believing in your dreams, being persistent, the importance of school and giving back to the community.

Tomorrow we will be having Bill Roche from Powerplay Entrepreneurs come talk to our class.  Please bring your product to school so that we can discuss its marketing.

Reminder for tomorrow:

- book fair

- Math Grade 6 Unit 2 test is on Wednesday

- Math Grade 6 homework is Unit 2 Show What You Know # 1- 9

- bring nickels and dimes for coin drive

- bring donations for the Bundle Up campaign

Thursday, November 21

We had an excellent field trip to the Apple store today. We played with the iPads and made trailers on iMovie. Thanks again to all our wonderful parents for making it happen!  

For homework:

1) read 30 min

2) entrepreneurship - good copy of p.24- 

    26 of business plan

    -work on product

November 21st, Going to the Apple fieldtrip

Today we visited the Apple store in Guildford Mall to learn how to use iMovie.  Everyone created movie trailers in small groups.  They were funny, scary, mysterious and fantastic.  Everyone has a copy of their movie on a USB to share with their families.  Here is the trailer made by Ms. Grewal and Ms. Kooner.

November 20

Today we played mystery Skype with a class in Croatia.  Everyone used very good geography questions to pinpoint their location.  We were able to guess their location first.  Here is a photo they took of themselves talking to us.

During math, the grade 6's showed their learning on whiteboards.  Our learning intention was to be able to compare and order integers.  The homework is page 80 #3 - 6.  

We worked on Daily 5 and the Friday group will be meeting with teacher next because we will be at our field trip tomorrow.

We will be leaving for our field trip to the Apple store in Guildford Mall at 8:45 and we should be returning to the school by 11:30.  We will be learning how to use iMovie. 

For the Entrepreneurship Program, everyone should be working on their marketing plan.  You will have time to type up your plan tomorrow afternoon.

Grade 7's have math workbook page 133-134, #1, 3-6, 7 choose two. Also textbook page 226 #1-3.

Please read for 30 minutes and do a Blind or Timed Sort for Word work.

November 18

Today we played a Jeopardy game about the novel Out of My Mind with our partner class in Montreal via Skype.  We earned 3700 points and were very excited.  Some of the questions were quite tricky.

Homework: Read 30 min

Grade 6- Math p 76 #1 - 4

Grade 7 - sign math test

Bring Gym Strip tomorrow

Friday, November 15

What a wonderfully engaging day today!  First we had our resident artist Maggie lead the class in an art lesson sketching the human body. Then the scientists in our class looked at the skin of an onion thru a microscope. For homework:

1) read for 30 min daily

2) grade 6 math - page 26

3) work on your product

If you have not handed in your bookmark or Venn diagram comparing Melody to Hellen Keller, it is late!!  Hand it in by Monday. 

Have a great weekend!

November 14

Homework:
- read 30 min
- good copy of Business Plan page 18-21
- finish book mark
- Math: Grade 6 p 72, #4
Grade 7, page 26-28, test tomorrow
- remember to have posted a reading response blog for this week and to have commented on one other person's blog

November 13, 2013 and Our Global Read Aloud 2013 Project

We are finished the Global Readaloud 2013 and the collaborative project we were working of with other classes is finished. Take a look.



For tomorrow: - read 30 minutes
- Math Grade 6's, page 72 1a-k
- Math Grade 7's Math Test Friday
- bring gym strip
- bring band instrument

For Friday:
- good copy of the Money Plan on pages 18-21 of the Entrepreneur Book
- book mark for our bookmark exchange

November 12

We learned how to use a microscope today. 

This week, we are back into our regular routine of participating in the Daily 5 activities, so everyone should be blogging about their reading at home.  

Remember to study for your science quiz tomorrow.te three concepts are: 1) living things are diverse 2) living things share basic needs and 3) living things share characteristics.

Grade 7's have math homework: workbook page 20-21, #1-5 and text page 44 #2 ,3 ,4b, 5.

Tomorrow is book exchange so please bring your library books. Remember to read for 30 minutes tonight.

November 7

Today we participated I the Remembrance Day assembly with a piece titled "Passing the Light".

On Monday, take a moment to remember those who have fought for our freedom.

Today we finished reading "Out of My Mind," by Sharon Draper.  The book made us laugh and cry for the main character.  We tried to take part in the Google Hangout with the author but were unable to join it live.  Here is a video of today's discussion for the Global ReadAloud with Sharon Draper.

Today's homework:

November 6