November 20-24

I can describe how local and provincial governments are structured (Grade 6 Social Studies)

I can use geographical thinking in order to understand the relationship among people, events, and issues in the world (Grade 6 Social Studies)

This week we engaged in discussion and reading around our current municipal, provincial, and federal governments. Students started learning about how each level of government has different responsibilities and provides different types of services to citizens. We are starting to develop an understanding of the elected officials and their roles as representatives. Moving forward, we will be learning about what political parties are and how they come into power in the provincial government. 

This information can be a bit confusing so we had the students fill in a chart in order to give them a visual comparison of the three levels of government.

We also used this opportunity to work on our mapping skills. In order to help students connect municipal with city, provincial with provinces and territories, and federal with our country, they spent some time looking at maps of Canada and labelling their own map for their reference. They learned what a compass rose is and we discussed how north is always at the top of a map. 

I can create models of rectangular prisms and calculate volume using hands-on materials or digital applications (Grade 6 Math)

Great News! We worked out our tech glitches and got back to work practicing volume in Minecraft this week. This work really helped solidify an understanding of 3 dimensional objects taking up space as well as gave students the opportunity to practice using the formula for volume (V = Base x Width x Height).