May 29th Class Newsletter

May 29, 2015

Dear Families,

I was very impressed with the hard work all students put into their opinion post writing assessment.  There were a variety of opinions students were writing about.  Opinions about such topics as a ban on smoking, animals in zoos, movie stars making too much money, the legalization of marijuana, and that students should be taught about the ingredients in food were ferociously defended. 

In math we are working on understanding multiplication and division using the area of a rectangle model, the partial product model and the standard algorithm model.  We are also continuing with math word problems that are a review of what we have learned this year. 

In social studies, students were assigned a final open book test on the Middle Ages.  Students may chose to write answers for each question or they may choose to take notes on each question and present the answers orally to me.  This is due by Monday June 8^th.

If you have not returned the permission slip for your child to attend Unity day at U32 on Tuesday, June 9^th, please return it on Monday June 1^st.  Your child will not be able to travel on the bus to U32 without the permission slip filled out. 

Please read the information about the upcoming Ogunquit Oceans Field Trip on June 11^th.   If you have any questions about the trip, please contact me.

Information regarding graduation and how you can help make this a meaningful evening for all students can be found on the Grade 6 homepage on the EMES school web site.  Please consider calling someone who has volunteered on one of the committees to see how you can help.  Volunteers are what it takes!

 As of this newsletter, there are 13 days of school remaining.  Yikes, it is winding down fast!

Have a relaxing weekend.     Ellen