Mrs. Higgs and Ms. Dick grade 5/6

 This week in health, we wrote about our emotional strengths and challenges and our bodies strengths and challenges.  In gym we did skipping. We practiced jumping lightly on our feet. Next, we used the long ropes and said some skipping rhymes. Then tried to increase our stamina by seeing how long we could skip. In science, the whole class went outside and examined footprints in the snow. We were looking for animal tracks. We observed the footprints and made inferences about what type of animal it might have been and how it was moving. The grade 6's learned about the 4 different types of fingerprints. They are arch, whorl, loop and compsite. We used pencil and coloured a dark spot. We rubbed our fingers on it and then made a fingerprint with tape. The grade 5's used batteries and wires to light up a lightbulb. We also learned the parts of a lightbulb.  In writing we finished our Wonderopolis projects. We added in a recording of our voice and made a Google Forms quiz to go ...

 This week in morning challenge we did number riddles. They got progressively harder each day. In writing we worked on our Wonderopolis pages. We finished our paragraphs and added them into a template. We highlighted "Wonder Words" and linked them to a dictionary. Some of us started to make a quiz about our topic. We are recording our voices by reading our work, and adding in a video and pictures.  On Monday, we looked up the meanings of Indigenous words that we use daily. For example, chinook, Deerfoot and Kananaskis. We wrote the meanings and drew a picture clue or added a photo.  In math we were doing the distributive property to simplify algebraic equations. We combined like terms. We solved algebraic equations by using inverse operations to isolate the variable.  For example, 2a + 4 = 16   a = 6 We worked on questions around the room. Next week we will be having a quiz on algebra. Ms. D's group worked on defining different kinds of lines such as inters...

 In writing this week worked on our Wonderopolis projects. We continued to take jot notes from websites and started turning those jot notes into paragraphs. We organized our sentences by including a topic sentence 3- 5 of the supporting details and a concluding sentence.  In math we did a check in for ratios, fractions and percents. We then started doing algebraic equations. We learned about the commutative property, variables and coefficients. When we see 6 x y we can write it as 6y. We created math quilts using ratios, fractions and percents. We found percent by using a calculator and dividing the numerator of a fraction by the denominator to get a decimal. We then changed the decimal into a percentage. In gym we started racquet sports. We started with badminton.  We practiced rallying with a partner and got better at handling and control with the racquet. We used forehand and backhand. We also served and rallied against the wall with backhand.  In grade 6 social s...