From Mrs. Davis: Division 6, by now Mrs. Gil has told you that I will not be at school again until after Spring Break, due to some family matters. 
My father is elderly and lives alone. He has a brain disease called Dementia and up until very recently, the help I was providing him was enough and he was managing quite well. Unfortunately, things have changed suddenly and he needs much more help now. There are several things that need to be done to best support him and it takes time to set those up. 
I am so grateful to Mrs. Gil for stepping into the four days that I will be missing so that you don’t have a TOC in my place. Thank you Div. 6 for your understanding. I look forward to seeing you again in April when we all come back after Spring Break.
We are sad to hear about what Mrs. Davis is going through right now and we are missing her for sure. Even though we are sad to hear about what she is going through right now, we still have lots of work to do. With mixed emotions,
we managed to soldier on and get some things done. It is almost Spring Break and so we are trying to wrap up some things so we can have a fresh start in April. We have been researching about Extreme Environments in Science by reading non-fiction texts and pulling out important ideas and details for note taking. In Math, we continued to explore how fractions are related to decimals. Finally, we spent a lot of time working on our ADST projects, creating products for our stores.
We had a short visit with our buddies this week where we helped them practice writing numbers and adding.
It was so fun to watch you engage with them and help them work on their number sense. They adore you all so much! After Spring Break, Ms. Di Spirito and I have a fun building challenge activity you will work on with your buddies so there is lots more fun to come!
In Science groups, we researched about Deep Oceans, Volcanos, Polar Regions, Deserts, and Space. You worked together to read, unpack, take notes and think critically about the challenges of living and/or exploring each of the environments.
Now that you have some background knowledge about each place, you are going to be asked to choose the one that most interests you. Using that environment as a guide, you are going to create a Robot that can help us survive exploring that environment. This is your chance to think creatively about all the challenges faced in the environment you choose and come up with some ideas about how someone could safely research there. This is where critical thinking and creative thinking come together in a very fun way!
In Math, we have been working on our understanding of decimals as they relate to fractions. 
Specifically, we have been going back to our understanding of place value and are now able to see the relationship between 1/10 (one tenth) and .01 (one tenth). 
It is becoming clear now how each unit of mathematics we study this year builds on what we have learned in the past. The relationship between whole numbers, place value, and fractions is becoming quite clear now and all of you are really getting the hang of it! After Spring Break, we will be moving into working on operations with decimals.
You have had 3 hour long blocks to work on your entrepreneurship products with your partners this week and you will have about the same next week. It always impresses us how you are all so focused and hard working during these work periods. On the horizon, you will need to have ALL PRODUCTS completed by the time we get back to school on April 2nd. At that point, we will have four class periods to prepare for the sale. The sale will be held April 10 and 11th and we will be inviting the 4/5 classes to come to the sale. To prepare for those two days, we will be asking you to create price lists, receipts, advertising and a “Store Front”.
****Reminder to parents and students, a tri-fold poster board which can be found at a local dollar store is required for each store. The students should have included this in their operating budget and should be here NO LATER than April 2nd. We can see you are all excited for the sale and so are we. Your products are all turning out wonderfully!
Track and Field will be starting up for our school team. All grade 4- 7 students have been invited to join if they would like. 
A meeting was held on Friday at lunch and all interested students should be bringing home a notice with more information about future practice and meet dates.
The countdown is on……. Spring Break is only a week away. Next Thursday is another school spirit day and the theme is “The 90’s”
and Progress Reports will be going home later next week as well. 
Lots to look forward to Division 6!
Your Blog Response for this weekend is………
- What Extreme Environment are you most interested in exploring?
2) 3 reasons why you find it so interesting.
Have a fabulous weekend everyone!
Mrs. Davis and Mrs. Gil