We have been dancing our way through this week. You have all worked really hard to memorize your moves and we are so shocked at how quickly you are able to pick up the choreography,
you should all be very proud of your hard work over the past two weeks. All your hard work and practice certainly paid off as you showed off your talents on Thursday and Friday! 
Thursday was dress rehearsal day and your audience was the other half of the school. Then, in the afternoon, we were treated to the dances that the other half of the school did– and it was impressive for sure! Did you have a favourite? On Friday, your audience were your parents! We are sure that they were just as impressed by your dance as well as those of the other classes. The grand finale was fun!! What did your parents think of that?
In our career studies, this week we focused on borrowing and lending money. Specifically, we discussed business loans used to start or run a business.
It is important that we all understand it is important to realize that it is not that easy to get a loan, nor is it something we should take lightly. We discussed some scenarios were you were the person lending the money and had to decide if someone was a good risk or not. We learned that friends and family are challenging to lend to as there are many
emotional factors involved. We also learned that we have to make good life decisions if we want a bank to lend us money because we have to be responsible, trust worthy individuals if they are going to trust us to pay them back. Next week, we will dive deeper into the pay back process of loans. We will explore interest, how it works and even, how to calculate it!
In Math, we continued practicing our fractions skills. We compared fractions and worked hard to understand how to use equivalent fractions to help in comparing them. 
nd it seemed to have you working together as a few of you turned out to be really great teachers! It is so important to remember that we all learn at different rates and in different ways. That is why it is so great to see those of you who are really understanding the concept be able to encourage and help your classmates who need a little more time and practice with the ideas. What a wonderful community of learners you are!
In Science, we have worked through enough background information to start exploring the Laws of Motion through experimentation. This week, we completed a whole group experiment to answer the question, “Does the height of a ramp effect the distance a toy car travels?”
Of course, we were able to hypothesize that yes, in fact, the height helps the toy car travel further due to the increase in gravitational pull on the car as the ramp steepness increases. At the end of the experiment, you were asked to team up to come up with another question to answer through experimentation, only changing one variable from our group experiment. Your groups have come up with some interesting questions to test next week. Remember to bring in your materials on Monday so we can start testing and collecting our data!
Our study of Viola Desmond is wrapping up! 
Congratulations to our incredible PA announcers Ellery, Erika, Noya, Radin, and Linden for presenting the information we learned about Viola Desmond so well! You spoke clearly and your pacing was fantastic. 
We are sure that our listening audience learned a few new things about Viola Desmond’s life that they didn’t know before. Your mini books on Viola Desmond are completed, have been assessed, and returned to you. Your KAYAK Black History assignments are in the completion stages. If you are still working on that, it has been sent home to finish over the weekend.
Our time with buddies was a blast this week. Our little buddies “taught” us how to play “SNAP” and it was so much fun! 
Hopefully some of you were able to teach your buddy another card game as well. If not, would you like to play cards with them again some other time?
On Thursday we said farewell to Kiara! She has been an absolute joy to have as a volunteer in our class and we are going to miss her SO MUCH! She is off to study in Australia and is embarking on a fabulous adventure!
Thank you Kiara for being so generous with your time! We wish you the BEST time in Australia… and we look forward to your check-ins and are especially excited to see you in September when you are back in Burnaby!
Here is your blog response for the weekend:
Lunar New Year starts this weekend. 2024 is the year of the ____________. How many other animals are there in the Chinese Zodiac? Can you name 5 of them?
Have a great weekend Division 6! See you next week.
Mrs. Gil and Mrs. Davis