January Short Posting!

WOW! January flew by like a whirlwind! Bat Crew... I apologize for not getting out our blog out sooner! This is just a wrap up of the month as we are in the last week:

MATH: Grade 6s participated in Math Olympics! A competition of games that are Math related! They joined teams of Grade 7s and 8s and worked on Tangram puzzles and Sudoku!  Geimetry tests need to be signed and returned
Data Management: Means, Median, Mode, Surveys and Graphs

LANGUAGE: Writing: Narratives, Paragraph Writing and Figurative Language: Similes, Hyperboles, Metaphors, etc., Newspaper article writing
Reading: Non-fiction review and Reading comprehension practice, APE startegies, Historical Narratives (movie and reading comprehension of Candian Literary classic), Part 2 of Spirit Bear
Media: Advertsing Techniques and creating your own ad

HEALTH: Completion of Body Image and Health; will be looking at Substance abuse and peer pressure next

ART: Word Bombs! Pop Art a la Roy Lichtenstein

DRAMA : Script wriitng of Fractured Fairytales continued

SCIENCE: Grade 5s: Nervous System and Poster assignment, and Final Human Body Assignment

Grade 6s: Animal Kingdom Posters, Adaptations, Ecosystems and Final Assignment

JANUARY:
Thursday Jan. 31st -Pizza Lunch
Friday February 1st - Spelling work due and spelling test

So far only 1 guess for the Riddle from our Superhero of the month: FLASH and the question of whose faster: Him or Speed of light? Winner of the riddle gets a prize! Get your answers in!
Next Month hero/heroine: DC or Marvel? Hmmm....