Hello from the Lygo-Lowe Duo!
What a fantastic first week we have had with your children! Thank you for your patience through September startup, it can be a mixed bag of excitement and nervous emotions for all. The first day message had a few glitches, but all seems straightened up now.
We are touching base to let you know that we have our class blog up and running this week. Please copy and paste the URL into your bookmarks for quick and easy access: http://tmc-lygo-lowe.blogspot.com
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The blog includes information about what we have done, what’s coming up, any homework assignments, and important reminders.
Please email your child's teacher at any time with questions or concerns.
6-1 Mrs. Lygo (Humanities):
jrlygo@cbe.ab.ca
6-2 Mrs. Lowe (Math and Science):
lelowe@cbe.ab.ca
Homeroom:
- Community Introductions with all grade 6 teachers
- Discussed classroom expectations and the roles and responsibilities we have and want in our shared space
- Read Aloud of the book The Invisible Boy and discussed how we all play a role in each other’s experience
- ‘Name Art’ for the cover of their visual journals
- All grade 6 students are creating ‘Fishy’ art inspired by the book 'Only One You' using their choice of materials and creating a grade 6 ‘School of Fish’ to display
- Students are asked to bring in a small notebook or use one I provide as an Homework notebook/Agenda/List of things to do
Math:
Introductory Activities, Creating Confidence and Brain Building to shake off the holiday fog
- 4 Fours Activity – My favorite number Inquiry task where students work together to find the numbers 1 - 20 using only four 4’s and any operation. Students work in groups and are invited to come up to the board to share solutions. They were introduced to BEDMAS, Square roots, and calculating ‘Factorials’. Students were asked to take this task home to share and challenge you while attempting to create a solution for the ones they didn’t finish in class. Some of these are challenging, so all I asked was to attempt all 20 of them. No tears allowed! We did 10 together in class and will go over the rest together in class.
- Number Visuals – Students examined diagram that consisted of dots representing every number from 1 to 35. They took them home to show and share with you. This activity invited students to investigate a really interesting representation of numbers, created by Stephen Von Worley. We all found it fascinating as more and more patterns showed us ‘factors’ and ‘multiples’ using shapes. This gives students an important opportunity to explore, notice and understand numbers visually.
Science:
We will be introducing our Trees and
Forest Unit this week. We are planning two field trips over the next
month. One to Bowmont Park the last week of September and one to YMCA Camp River’s Edge the first week of October. We will need 3
volunteers from each class for each trip, so anyone interested please email me
at lelowe@cbe.ab.ca. We will confirm exact dates ASAP.
Humanities:
Through discussion and art students have shared some of the things they are looking forward to and a few things they worry about for the upcoming year.
We have read the picture book 'Only One You' together and started 'Fishy Art'
Students have been examining their own roles, rights and responsibilities as an introduction to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
We have read the picture book 'Only One You' together and started 'Fishy Art'
Students have been examining their own roles, rights and responsibilities as an introduction to the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
