What a wonderful way to end last week, with the Winter Concert. You were wonderful to watch and the audience enjoyed every minute! Well done, Division 6.
We are winding down towards the Winter Break and a lot of our big projects are wrapping up. 
Your Unique School Project presentations went very well and the hard work, time, effort and practice really showed. We invited all the grade 4/5 classes to come and take a tour of our unique schools and EVERYONE was super impressed with your final projects! Congratulations Division 6! For the limited time you had to get these done, you certainly did a great job and should be very proud. If you want to show your final project to your family, the photos that were taken can be found in our TEAM. Remember, if you aren’t taking your project home, then please de-construct it, recycle what can be recycled and throw away what can’t be used next week.
On Friday, while the grade 6’s were enjoying a day at the movies, the rest of us played “99” and completed the first round of our tournament. 
As you continued to work on your Genre Projects this week in class and you should now be wrapping up your research this weekend as it is all due Monday. 
If you would like, you can even start to type your work into the assignment up on the TEAM. Next week, we will have time to type, print and start work on the posters. We sure hope you are learning a lot about a new genre and we look forward to the presentations so you can learn about all the other genres from your classmates.
Our writing focus for the last few weeks before the break has been a creative one. You are currently writing your own versions of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. 
We have been watching a version of the story in chunks so we can write in the same sequence as the original story. The main difference is instead of Scrooge being the main character, you are! Looking at the Christmas’ of the past and present while dreaming of what might be in the future, you are all creating some clever and creative stories that we will be sharing with one another next week. You will also be taking those stories home for the holidays and hopefully, you will share them with your loved ones at home to help them feel the Christmas spirit as well.
We had some time with our buddies again this week. You worked through some Christmas reading and math activities with them. It was so wonderful to see you all engaging with them, helping them and encouraging them. 
There were smiles all around and Ms. Di Spirito mentioned how excited they are when they know you are coming. Next week, we will be helping our buddies make some beautiful ornaments to take home and you will be making your own as well!
You all received your Secret Santa wish lists on Wednesday. We would like you to bring in your wrapped gift to school before Wednesday next week. Please label the gift with who it is for but not your own name….that is the secret part! Gift exchange will take place on Thursday, the last day before the break.
Your report cards went home on Thursday and we hope that you have had some time to go over our comments with your parents. Please remember to return the signed envelope and bring back the blue “core competency passport” as well. You can keep everything else at home. We’d like to have all envelopes returned by Thursday of next week. Thanks so much!
Your Blog response question for this week is…………
What do you think it means to have “Christmas Spirit”? (Please write in full sentences)
Have a wonderful weekend Div. 6… We’re heading into the final four days before Winter Break with lots of festive fun ahead!
Mrs. Gil and Mrs. Davis