Another week of fascination, work and new insights for all of us in 6B! It is hard to believe that each week holds so many new and interesting things for us, but they do!
I'll start with the highlight of the week. In Social Studies we had a mock provincial election, complete with 5 parties, campaign posters and debates! This was led by our own Mr. Nardella, who guided the kids through the steps necessary to create an election. The excitement was high as we approached the polls, and there was little appetite to wait to see who won. In the end, it was our Wildrose Party winning a minority government, with an NDP official opposition, and the Liberal Party a close third. The PC's and the Alberta Party fared far worse, barely managing official party status! We will continue with this next week, seeing if the kids can debate and get passage of a bill before the Christmas break.
Next up was the finale of the Science unit Evidence and Investigation. We started the week with an experiment to determine the constitute colors used to make black ink (chromatography) and finished with our unit final test. We will do a little wrap up next week, but otherwise the Sky is the limit, as we start our next unit Sky Science (astronomy) in January (and it feels weird to say that already!).
In LA we finished up on our composition assignment looking at how to take the compact humor of a Garfield cartoon, create our own based on the pictures and then draw out the writing into a fully-formed paragraph. It was interesting to see how the humor developed (or didn't!) in the different paragraphs. And we are nearly done the Medieval Christmas work, fittingly just before Christmas comes upon us.
In CE we have spent the week exploring the meaning of our favorite stories about or from Jesus in the gospels. The kids are working on explaining what the stories are about and why they are important for us still. There is lots of enthusiasm around this assignment.
Just a note to let you know that next Friday we plan to do a pizza lunch, so there will be a notice going home about the cost (anticipated to be $5) to purchase the pizza. More details will also be coming out about our celebration day on the 23rd, so watch for that next week! Have a wonderful, warm and cozy, weekend and all the blessings of God be on you as we head into Christmas!
