Can you believe that our school year is OVER??? It was a fun one that is for sure! Thank you Division 6 for making this year so great! We had a wonderful time with you all! We hope you also had a great time this year and that you will look back on your time in Division 6 fondly.
Thanks parents for all your support this year! We have thoroughly enjoyed getting to know your kids and YOU this year. 
The home/school partnership is HUGE and we really appreciate all you did at home to help make our year as successful as it was.
We also wanted to express our sincerest gratitude for all the gifts you showered us with! Truly, your generosity and kindness is overwhelming! Division 6… your cards and kind words to us warmed our hearts! 
We enjoyed teaching you all — it’s a teacher’s dream to have a class that engages, is excited to learn, has fun, and works as hard as you did. Thank you, Division 6, for being that “dream class” for us this year.
It’s now time for a much needed and well deserved break! We wish you all a wonderful summer. If you are heading away, we wish you safe travels and many fun adventures. If you are staying closer to home, we hope that you are able to explore the beautiful area in which we live! 
We really do have it all here! Whatever you are doing, may you be creating some great memories with your family and friends. We’re excited to hear about what you did when we see each other again in September.
It’s been a fabulous year Division 6! Enjoy your summer!
Mrs. Gil and Mrs. Davis
As the year comes to a close, we are finally getting the sunny days we have been hoping for! We enjoyed a great week with lots of fun activities made better by the warm and sunny days. Extra recesses and playground time have been a nice addition to our usually very busy days.
Poetry Projects, which were due on Thursday. You were given lots of class time to work on the project throughout the week and they turned out amazing! Such creativity in writing and also, your artistic additions added an extra layer to an already beautiful product.
It was so nice to see you helping your buddy fill out a memory page about themselves, but also, YOU! They are sure to remember their time spent with you this year for many years to come. Make sure you remember to always say hi to them when you see them in the school or on the playground next year as well. They will love that.
This book had us feeling all kinds of emotions. It was a roller-coaster! There were funny parts, exciting parts, sad parts and even some suspense. The author did a wonderful job sharing the refugee experience with us by introducing us to characters who were learning about refugees with us. 
It felt like we were one of the kids trying to help Ahmet along with Alexa and her friends. The best part was finding out that proceeds from the purchase of our classroom novels will go to help refugees with food, water and clothing as they escape to find their new lives.
It was a solid game ( even with our smaller class size) and we played hard and well. They won, but that didn’t dampen our enthusiasm or our great sportsmanship!
Our week ended with a fun filled day at Confederation Park! It was great to just to be able to hang out, chat, play, get wet, relax and enjoy each others’ company on such a beautiful day. It was HOT– which was great as it was also the official start to Summer!
Also, Wednesday afternoon we will be cleaning up our classroom, taking home all of our supplies and work, and watching a movie as a class. Please feel free to bring yourself some extra snacks or a treat to enjoy during the movie!
Thursday will be our last day of school and it will only be 1 HOUR! In that hour we will celebrate our year end by having the MEGA MARKET MEGA SALE! Hopefully you have saved up some mega bucks because there will be some new and exciting items for purchase.
Mrs. Rakic, Mr. Serafini, and Mrs. Basso. It was a wonderful celebration and the students did a wonderful job with their good-bye messages and well wishes. We were especially proud of your contribution. Your cup song rhythm helped keep the whole school singing in time. Well done! I know the teachers who are leaving us were very moved by the performance.
had only 1/2 hour to try to escape the Egyptian Tomb created by Mr. Jung’s grade 6/7 class. You were all so very close to escaping but, unfortunately, none of your groups succeeded. It was wonderful to hear you all come back and discuss your strategies. You understood how important it was to work together as a large group and, how important it is to use each others skills and talents to solve all the different clues.
On Wednesday, we went on our second of four swimming trips. As usual, you were able to safely walk to and from the pool. You listened well to the adult supervisors and had a wonderful time playing together. It is so great to see you all celebrating the end of the year together in this way.
We discussed how the title of a chapter and the first few paragraphs really set the tone and help us get an idea about what might be important in the chapter. 
Our poetry collection is in its final stages of completion! You have been working hard to edit, revise, and publish your poems. The final step is to illustrate each page with images that match your poems. 
The absolute deadline for this project is Thursday, June 20th. We’ll have Monday morning ( Mrs. Davis is here on Monday) as well as Thursday to finish up. 
The Grade 5’s explored symmetry and congruency this week. We were able to look and measure shapes to find congruency while we were challenged to find lines of symmetry in a variety of shapes. At the end, we tested our skills at creating symmetry by completing some mirror images of Indigenous Designs.
In teams of 3, we challenged each other to a “mini-golf” math challenge. Some of you were able to complete the full 9 rounds. Just like in a real game of golf ( the sport) the object is to have the lowest score. Our Winner based on the completed games so far is ANNA with a final score of only 9 points!! Well done Anna!
Our week wrapped up with SPORTS DAY on Friday! The Grade 7’s did a wonderful job preparing all the fun activity stations for us to travel through! “Balloon Keep Up”, “Water Wars”, “Rollback Racers” and an “Obstacle Course” were only some of the great stations we experienced today! 
It was fun to compete against each other in our house teams, but ultimately, the victory went to TEAM BLUE! Woohoo! Congrats to all the winners!
A special mention to all Dad’s, stepdads, grand-dads, great grand-dads… We wish you a wonderful Father’s Day this weekend! We hope you are spoiled and honoured for the very important role you play in the lives of your kids and any other children that look up to you!
The end is near, friends! We have made it to the last month and let the fun times roll! There is so much we are doing in class to finish everything before the school year comes to a close but there are also so many events happening this month as well. Never a dull moment here in Division 6!
Along with our desk switch, a new job has been added to our job board: Peer Mediation! We started the school year as Brentwood’s first peer mediator crew and now we’re ending the year in the same role. The only difference this time is that we get to choose if we want to take this on. Many of you have stepped up again and our primary students are well supervised over the lunch time break. Thanks Division 6!
format of your choosing, that had both a “message” and a “purpose”. This project is meant to demonstrate to us that you have an understanding of WHY we want you to be media literate. Information and media literacy teaches you how to make informed judgments about information and media and how to use it.
Also, we want you all to become skillful creators and producers of information and media messages. We hope you had fun with this project!
We learned how to use their physical properties to identify and compare them all. There is a lot of vocabulary to know which is the most challenging part of this unit, wouldn’t you agree?
We worked on some inferencing and predicting this week as well. We used our background knowledge of the book to make some mid-way predictions. We also looked back at our pre-reading predictions and see how they compared to what actually happened. Finally, we looked at how body language can give a lot of clues about how someone is feeling. Next week, the kids will be arriving at Buckingham Palace…… I wonder if they will meet the Queen?
Our poetry collection is on it’s editing and revising stage. With a partner, we are going over the draft selections that we want to publish from each set of poems. So far we have completed our Haiku, ABC, and Diamante poems. Our Cinquain, and Acrostics need to be edited by next Thursday. 
This is homework… make sure you go over your poems really well and make any changes you feel are needed. THEN ( and this is optional but highly recommended) ask a parent or older sibling to give your poems a look over too. We’re almost at the end of this project and they are looking REALLY great already!
Friday was a super fun day! We had our first swimming session at Eileen Daily pool and did we ever have fun! It could not have been a better day for the walk there and back either! Thank you to Stanko’s mom for walking to and from the pool with us ! 
Three more sessions to go Division 6! Next session is on Wednesday, June 12th.
Unfortunately, Ms. Davis had a loss in her family but we are happy she was able to spend some extra time with them last week and over the long weekend. We were happy to have her back on Thursday and Friday this week as well. 
Some of you helped her one on one during assignments, many of you ate with her at lunch and invited her to play at break times. We want to thank you so very much for welcoming her into our Division 6 family with such open hearts. She smiled a lot this week and we saw many laughs which are two signs that let us know, she is feeling safe with us. Thank you all!
Wasn’t his rope trick unbelievable!
Tuesday our lessons were all about conveying “emotions” and Wednesday was about “improv”. You were excellent acting students and the Maestro mentioned many times how some of you had really great acting skills already! We hope you enjoyed your lessons and exploring this type of Art.
of rules about what geometric properties are and how to use them to figure out the names of a number of shapes. We explored Polygons up to ten sided and we discussed how to decipher between Quadrilaterals.
Next week we will be continuing our exploration of Quadrilaterals but also, extend our learning to add Triangles to the mix. What do you already know about the properties of triangles?
Often, word problems give information that you don’t need and can be overwhelming at first glance… breaking down the steps helps focus on what is really needed to figure it out. 
The 5 steps are: Problem, Facts, Strategy(ies), Solve, and Sentence. Working together also helps as you can talk through each step with a friend and share ideas. You were all very focused as you worked on these pretty challenging problems.
It was so sad to see the pictures Ahmet drew and to hear his story as he explained it to his classmates. Although he answered many of the narrator’s 11 questions, now there are more questions than answers. Hopefully, we will get the answers we want before the end of the story.
We finished ALL of our poem drafts this week as well. We started the Acrostic poems last week and finished those on Friday. 
Next week we’ll be on the next stage of the writing process… editing and revising. Essentially, you will be making improvements to the poems that you want to take to the final stage: Publishing. Which of the five poems that you learned was your favourite?
Since Mrs. Davis was away last week, your Government power point presentation due date is extended to Monday, May 27th. 
Each of you will submit your power point through a TEAMS assignment. Mrs. Davis will assess them and then our presentations will take place at a later date. We are going to be presenting to other classes because we all have the same information. To keep us and our audience engaged, let’s share with a peer group that doesn’t already know this information. Stay tuned for those dates!
is important that we get volunteers to help us walk to and from the pool as there are some busy intersections that we must pass and it is helpful to have extra adult eyes to help us cross safely. Also, if you don’t have a B Active pass, you still have plenty of time to get one. It costs you nothing and you get free entrance into the rec center drop ins for the ENTIRE YEAR. It is easy to get. Just head into your nearest rec center and apply!
We ended our week with a slightly misty Jump Rope for Heart session. We had fun trying some new jumping skills and getting our hearts pumping! Thanks Division 6 for being so encouraging towards each other and having a great time together!
You are amazing role models and teachers! So many of the buddies have learned and gained confidence in their jumping skills because of this time they have spent with you!
We will have one more session next week to help prepare them for the event. Have you signed up to fundraise online yet? The link is easily found on the school’s website if you are interested.
plans and we asked you to spend some time thinking about what Reconciliation looks like for you personally. After watching some videos, listening to a story, and analyzing some quotes and poems from Residential school survivors, you all created some amazing drafts of the artwork we will be creating next Tuesday morning. Every student in the school will create a small cedar tile that will be included in a mural that will be put up in the school’s main hallway, near the office and library. We were very proud and impressed with the designs and symbols you came up with. So much power in just a few words and symbols.
You should all be very proud and excited to know that the teachers, who may become your teacher next year, are looking forward to having you because they were so impressed by your essays. They said the essays were very well organized, had clear sub-topics, transitions between paragraphs, and were overall very creative and engaging! Pat yourselves on the back Division 6, you are doing great things and are getting noticed.
This is a five line poem that describes a strong emotion. Why ABC? you ask… excellent question because the format of this poem is that the first four lines are in alphabetical order. Whatever letter the first line started with, the next 3 lines have to start with the next letter of the alphabet. The last line can start with any letter of the alphabet and finishes off the poem. We wrote one as a class that went like this:
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Our research on Canadian government concluded this week and you are now moving on to creating a power point presentation to share what you learned. 
Your notes are your guide to what needs to be included… but remember that a power point is an AID to a presentation and should contain prompts and images that will trigger your memory so that you can EXPLAIN what you learned about the level of government you have been researching. 
We’ll chat about this a bit more next week, but be sure to spend some time at home working on this project… the due date will sneak up on us pretty quickly!
Just an FYI for those of you who want to earn a bit of EXTRA credit and go beyond… there is an extension activity on TEAMS for you to explore. Have fun with that– there are some cool activities that will give you even more information about our government and how it works.![Reproductive info for children. Pensive kids... - Stock Illustration [109834444] - PIXTA](https://en.pimg.jp/109/834/444/1/109834444.jpg)
That way, if something is going wrong or does not feel right, you can get the help you need and express yourself clearly. We asked you to define the important parts of each reproductive system as well as locate the parts on the diagrams. We are very impressed with how maturely you are all engaging in these science lessons. It is understandable that we giggle and laugh sometimes, it helps us get through the lessons, but overall, you are all learning lots and participating respectfully. Well done!
do you remember any of them? We also asked you to think about the best ways to avoid falling into the traps. You all were able to come up with these top three ways:
RED FLAGS CAN YOU REMEMBER?
We have kicked off May with a bang! Monday was a professional day so while you all were resting up and relaxing (we hope!), we were busy here at school planning for a very exciting Art initiative which will be happening at our school on May 14th. It is called the “Project of Heart” initiative and we spent the day planning activities and preparing for the special event. Without giving to much away, this Art project will help us put reconciliation into action here at Brentwood Park.
We reviewed the metric units of measurement (mm,cm,m,km) and we practiced using our rulers this week as well. Perimeter is another topic we reviewed and practiced together. It is important to know how to measure shapes for perimeter as it is something we will need to use and understand all our lives
. Converting measurements and comparing them was also practiced. Next week we will be talking more about Perimeter and diving into the topic of Area. Do you remember learning about Area last year?
We wrapped up our “If the World Were 100 People” graphs with one final GOW. You received your “Part 3” section back and this last graph was an assessment to see how well you could take the information given and convert it into a pie graph. This graph focused on wealth and income. Did you know that only half of the world’s population makes over $7.00 a day??? 
The remaining half of the population earns LESS… with 10 % of the people on the planet having less than $2.00 a day to live on. That sure is an eye-opener… and puts into perspective how truly fortunate we are!
During puberty so much is changing. Whether it be physical, emotional, or social, our changing hormones play a huge role in how we feel about ourselves and in turn, can directly effect how we treat those around us. We were very proud of how mature you have all been during our discussions and we can see you already know a lot about your bodies! It is so important to know what to expect so we can ask for help if something feels wrong but more importantly, not worry when things feel different. Knowledge is power friends!
Our research on government started this week as well. Each of us now have a level of government that we are learning about: either Federal, Provincial, or Municipal. Government ( no matter what level) is a HUGE topic, so we are narrowing it down and looking at only the “legislative” branch of each. 
Using our guiding questions, several videos on Teams, and “google”, we should be able to find out quite a bit about the level of government each of us is responsible for. Remember, your notes are due next Thursday… and those will be your ticket to starting your power point presentation. The goal is that everyone is starting their power point in class next week.
Cyberbullying can happen on social media, in texts, emails, and even websites or gaming platforms. Cyberbullying can include: sending cruel or threatening emails / messages. We want you all to be aware of how vulnerable you can be online and to understand the dangers lurking behind the screens. Next week, we are going to focus more on using technology wisely and learning how to navigate the internet safely and efficiently, especially when trying to complete work for school.
and healthy so it can keep providing us with so much. It was great to celebrate Earth and show it some well deserved gratitude!
We used the data those classes gave us to learn about “averages” and how to calculate them. In partners we calculated the averages from 5 sets of feedback. Then we took those averages to determine what the final average was from ALL of the feedback provided. It took some calculating, but we had fun figuring it out!
we will be moving on to Measurement and Geometry starting next week!
Our best editors are usually those who have no idea about your topic or your assignment. A sign of a well written essay will be that they can read through it easily (because there are no errors) and that they understand what you wrote. If they stumble or have questions, that is a sign that you should make some changes in order to “clean it up”.
Along the lines of some other writing, we learned a new poem this week as well! The Diamante poem is a 7 line poem around antonyms ( opposites). To kick us off , we did another word sort using pairs of antonyms… but ones that were more abstract. Pairs such as “hero/villian”; “wealth/poverty”; “determination/apathy”. As a class, we wrote a Diamante using the antonyms “reality and fantasy” as our anchor words. This sparked our creative juices as we continued to write our own poems.
Our new Social Studies unit is focusing on our government. This week we watched a video about the 3 levels of government in Canada: Federal, Provincial/Territorial, and Municipal. Next week we’ll dive into those a bit deeper. The technology we’ll be using to share what we learn is Power Point. 
In our randomly created triads, we have been creating a mini- ( 5 slide) power point to show what we know how to do using this platform. Most of the us have created power point presentations before so this was just a “refresher” before we embark on the actual project.
Finally, we had some long discussions about how important it is to stay clean during puberty. We discussed the changes that happen to our body when we experience puberty like; increased sweat, overactive oil glands, acne, and of course,
menstruation. It is important to remember that personal hygiene routines are super important when you are experiencing so many changes in your body. Next week, we will move on to discuss the science behind our reproductive organs and what jobs each part plays in the cycle of life. We were very pleased how well you handled our discussions this week because we know it can be quite embarrassing to talk about our bodies so openly. You all asked some really great questions and a lot of you already know what to expect, which is great!
Sadly, we had to say good-bye to Radin as he is moving to North Vancouver. We will certainly miss him in Division 6… but we also know that his new classroom will enjoy his presence and energy just as much as we have here. We hope your transition into your new class is smooth and you enjoy your time in your new school as much as you have enjoyed your time at Brentwood Park! Good luck Radin!
This week was all about getting ready for our Student-Led Conferences that took place on Thursday afternoon. Preparing for these takes some time and included reflecting on yourself as a reader, writer, mathematician, as well as how you are doing in terms of behaviour and work habits. In addition to that, you pulled a variety of work samples representing Pride, Improvement, Perseverance, and Creativity. We know that there were probably several samples for each category, but narrowing those down and choosing only one or two can be challenging. Finally, you set goals for the last stretch of this school year, we provided a goal for you, and then your parent(s) gave you one as well. Beyond the portfolio package you created, you also toured our class, had your parents respond to our GOW question, and toured our store fronts. 
It is always such a joy to watch you interacting with your family on these events. We love seeing you take the lead and show your work with such confidence and pride. Well done Division 6! Parents, we hope that you enjoyed the showcasing of not only your child’s growth but also seeing some of what we in Division 6 have been up to this year!
Our Graph of the Week questions that we asked this week were “What was/is your favourite/ least favourite subject?” We asked all the family members that came on Thursday to respond — and the students also answered this question too. On Friday morning, when we recorded the responses, we discovered that Science was the parents’ favourite subject ( followed closely by Math). 
The students’ overwhelming favourite was Math. 
Language Arts ( reading, writing, speaking) ranked on the bottom of the list. Why??
We continued our extreme environment robot work and started a new unit in Social Studies. 
In partners, we sorted a set of vocabulary into 5 different categories. Some words we knew, some we recognized, and some we were completely new to us. After our sort, we predicted what we were going to be learning about. Over the next weeks of school we’ll dive into this subject a bit deeper and embark on a mini research project. Our learning will be showcased and presented using technology.
Finally, our Jump Rope for Heart fundraising campaign kicked off on Friday. We are trying to raise funds in support of the heart and stroke foundation. 
We watched some inspiring videos of what skipping can include — and how challenging a sport it is! Over the next weeks, we’ll be doing a bunch of skipping practice as we gear up for the school wide event in May. What skills will you try to learn?
ith all the cloud cover and rain, we missed catching a glimpse of the rare solar eclipse however, we did watch some live footage to make us feel more a part of what was meant to be a very special event.
we had time to finish up our storefronts and prepare for our shopping days with the grade 4/5 classes. We are very impressed with most of your groups as the creativity and style of the storefronts were really eye catching! 
All of your hard work really paid off on Wednesday and Thursday when we welcomed all the Grade 4/5 classes to come shop! Everyone who came enjoyed seeing your creations and many people purchased your products! 
After the two days of customers from other classes, we decided that we wanted to have a private, “in-house” shopping event as well. Stores opened one last time and you all had a chance to shop at each others’ stores. That was lots of fun!
Following all the shopping, we spent some time calculating the success of our stores and whether or not each business made a profit or suffered a loss. For those businesses that made money, congratulations! For those of you who didn’t, don’t be discouraged… many businesses start off a bit rocky before they start seeing a profit. 
What’s important is what you learned and the how you apply that to the future when/if you have a similar challenge. We hope you enjoyed this project– regardless of how your business did– we certainly did! Our stores will stay here at school until the end of next week so that parents can see all of the businesses during our student led conferences on Thursday.
We had some conferences so you could have some one on one time to try to better understand how to write them. We really want all of you to understand that the topic sentence is the sentence in the paragraph that gives your reader the general topic and also the main idea, or what the paragraph is trying to say about the topic. The other sentences in the paragraph are meant to provide supporting facts and evidence to support your thinking. Next week, we are going to learn how to write Introductory and Conclusion paragraphs for essays. If you have not already completed the body paragraphs in class, do not forget to work on them this weekend so you are ready to move on next week!
Cinquains are five line poems that also follow a particular formula. Not only do they use syllables, but each line also has to adhere to specific parts of speech as well. Nouns, adjectives, verbs, are all part of this poem following a 2,4,6,8,2 syllable pattern. Whew! Lots to remember, but, we’re having a great time figuring it all out!
In our gym times, we have been exploring bars, ropes, mats and Bosu balls. When at each station, you are all working on different skills. Some of you are trying out new ways to roll and balance while others of you are trying hard to get to the top of that rope! A lot of our gymnastics unit has to do with controlling our body movements, strength, agility and safety of course. We are always watching how you move on different pieces of equipment and paying close attention to how you challenge yourself to try new movements. We have a few more weeks with the equipment so make sure you are thinking ahead to what you want to work on most, the next time we are in gym!
There is a “Guess the jelly beans” jar and a “Match” game where students are asked to match teachers to the lucky items on the display board outside the library. On the day of the event, we will be playing school wide bingo as well. It is going to be a fun week for sure!
What is it and what makes it lucky for you?