Thank-you and Have a Great Summer!

Hello Grade 6 Families,

We just wanted to say a huge thank you for your support this year.  We had an absolutely amazing group of students who we are going to miss very much but will be ready for Jr High.

Please know that you are always welcome at SVS if you need a friendly face or a word of encouragement.

Have a great summer and we hope you visit in the fall!

Mrs. Reeve and Ms. Blyth

Last Week of School

Hello everyone, 

It is hard to believe that it is the last week of school! Here are just a few reminders and the last weekly update of student work. Enjoy the weather!

Mrs. Reeve

School Reminders

A final,  SVS ‘Drop by and Drop Off’ Food Drive, will be held from June 23^rd - 25th from 9am – 3pm. Green bins will line the ramp leading into the parking lot where donations can be dropped off.

From June 23-25^th from 9 am – 3 pm, Simons Valley parents may return library books and home reading books. A labeled drop off site will be set up by the Kindergarten area. At this same time, families who have not yet picked up their child’s school supply bags may do so. 

All loaned Chrome Book laptops need to be returned to the school between June 23^rd- 25th    between 9 am - 3 pm. 

Please contact Mrs. Davidoff at 403-777-6660, if you are unable to drop off during these dates/times.

Weekly Update

Week in Review   (June 22nd- June 26th) 

M  | T | W | T | F

• Assignments for the day will be released in the morning. 
• All Assignments are due that Sunday, so you have the week to work on them. 
• 5hrs a week of essential learning
• https://bit.ly/2zFiaTa classroom website 

            

M (June 22nd)	TUSC Presentations During Class Meet 6A and 6B Math - Good Copy of Tessellations Art Project Flight Review
T (June 23rd)	TUSC Presentations During Class Meet 6C/D - 10:00 Asteroid Collision Locked Room Experience
W (June 24th)	TUSC Presentations During Class Meet 6C/D - 10:00 Assignment Catch Up
Th (June 25th)	Yearbook Pick up from 9:00 AM to 11:00 AM in front of the school.  Farewell Google Meet at 2:30, A code will be sent out to you so everyone in grade 6 can join the same meet.  Please do not use your classroom codes to join the end of the year ceremony.
F(June 26th)	Drive by the School between 11am to 12pm and wave at the teachers as we bid you farewell for the year.

Year-end News and Weekly Update

Dear Parents/Guardians,

          ‘Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage’—Anais Nin

 Dr. Jody Carrington defines brave as ‘diving into something, with your whole heart, without knowing the outcome.’  Since the middle of March,  students, parents, and staff of Simons Valley School have entered each day with hope and courage. Each day has been an adventure, not always an easy one but where bravery has been abundant. We are so grateful to be a part of this amazing community! We are down to our last few days and so as we wrap up the school year, here are a few reminders.

A final,  SVS ‘Drop by and Drop Off’ Food Drive, will be held from June 23^rd - 25th from 9am – 3pm. Green bins will line the ramp leading into the parking lot where donations can be dropped off.

From June 23-25^th from 9 am – 3 pm, Simons Valley parents may return library books and home reading books. A labeled drop off site will be set up by the Kindergarten area. At this same time, families who have not yet picked up their child’s school supply bags may do so. 

All loaned Chrome Book laptops need to be returned to the school between June 23^rd- 25th    between 9 am - 3 pm. 

Please contact Mrs. Davidoff at 403-777-6660, if you are unable to drop off during these dates/times.

Given COVID-19 restrictions, June report cards will be made available online through MyCBE/PowerSchool. Once logged in, select the “Report Card” tab to view the report card. If a printed report card is required, please contact the school to arrange a time to safely collect it during school hours by June 26th. Please our school website for printing directions.

Grade 6 parents may pick up their child/children’s yearbook from 9:00 am to 11:00 am on Thursday, June 25. There will be a designated drive-through area, in front of the school, where you can stay in your car and Ms. Blyth/Mrs. Davidoff will hand out a yearbook.

Kindly,

Mrs. Davidoff

Week in Review   (June 15th- June 19th) 

M  | T | W | T | F

• Assignments for the day will be released in the morning. 
• All Assignments are due that Sunday, so you have the week to work on them. 
• 5hrs a week of essential learning
• https://bit.ly/2zFiaTa classroom website 

            

M (June 15th)	Kahoot Language Arts - Reflection on the Year
T (June 16th)	Math - Reflection, Rotation, and Translation
W (June 17th)	Language Arts - FlipGrid Reflection Science - Hot Air Balloons
Th (June 18th)	Math - Rough Copy of Tessellations Art Project Year-End TUSC
F(June 19th)	Science - Helicopters

Answer the following question in the comment section of this post: 

“The most interesting thing I have learned is...” Explain your answer. 

Grade 6 Farewell and Weekly Review

Hello everyone, 

I hope you have all dried out from the rain in the last few days! You are invited to our Virtual Grade 6 Farewell. Please see the details, below.

Here is our weekly work.

Week in Review   (June 8th- June 12th) 

M  | T | W | T | F

• Assignments for the day will be released in the morning. 
• All Assignments are due that Sunday, so you have the week to work on them. 
• 5hrs a week of essential learning
• https://bit.ly/2zFiaTa classroom website 

            

M (June 8th)	Classroom Meeting & Kahoot Language Arts (Clue 6 & 7)
T (June 9th)	Jump Math NS6-69 (Percentage Word Problems) Social
W (June 10th)	Language Arts- News Article Science - - Parachutes
Th (June 11th)	Jump Math NS6-70 (Fractions, Ratios, and Percentages) Catch Up Time
F(June 12th)	Science - - Parachutes Social

Answer the following question in the comment section of this post: 

“If you could be a food, what would it be?” Explain your answer.

News from the Office-Bussing

Dear Parents,

Please help us plan yellow school bus routes for next year by pre-registering before June 14, 2020.
We know that there are many unknowns and we do not yet know what September will look like for return to school. We understand that you may not have finalized your decisions for September. However, if you do not pre-register by June 14, we will not include your address as bus routes are planned. It may take up to 4 weeks to add a bus stop for you, and congregated stop locations are only reviewed once per year. As a result, your stop location may be much further away from your home, as your address was not included in the route planning. There is no requirement to pay at the time of registration, and there is no financial penalty if you register for bus service and cancel before the cancellation deadline.

If you have not already done the following, please do so now:

1. Create a Parent CBE PowerSchool Account using your student’s CBE number above by following the instructions at this website: https://sis.cbe.ab.ca/public/home.html

Student and Parent / Legal Guardian Sign In MyCBE / PowerSchool may, at times, not be accessible for various reasons, including system maintenance, and The Calgary Board of Education does not warrant or make any representations regarding the use, accuracy, timelines, applicability, performance, security, availability or reliability of MyCBE / PowerSchool; sis.cbe.ab.ca

2. Sign up for school emails by “subscribing” to School Messenger: http://calgary.schoolmessenger.com/cbe_subscribe

Kindly,

Gina Davidoff

Assistant Principal

Important Year End Dates and Weekly Review

Dear Parents, 

I hope that you are all well and that you have been able to enjoy some of our sunshine! Here are the weekly review and some important year-end dates regarding the school being open.

Week in Review   (June 1st- June 5th) 

M  | T | W | T | F

• Assignments for the day will be released in the morning. 
• All Assignments are due that Sunday, so you have the week to work on them. 
• 5hrs a week of essential learning
• https://bit.ly/2zFiaTa classroom website 

            

M (June 1st)	Classroom Meeting & Kahoot Language Arts (Clue #3 & 4)
T (June 2nd)	Jump Math NS6-66 (Comparing Decimals, Fractions, Percentages) Social - Rights project
W (June 3rd)	Language Arts( Clue# 5 & 6) Science-Paper Airplane Design
Th (June 4th)	Jump Math NS6-67 (Finding Percentages) Catch Up Time
F(June 5th)	Science –How Airplanes Fly Social - Wrap up of the Canadian Charter

Future Dates: June 23, 24, and 25- The school will be open for:

-picking up hard copies of report cards or IPPs if required

-returning all computers and/or technology that was borrowed 

(Note: a schedule will be coming for safe arrival and departure)

Some Updates -May 25

Hello everyone, 

Hopefully you had the opportunity to enjoy the warm weather, this weekend. 

Here are a few updates: 

- There is the SVS Food Drive this Wednesday, May 27 and Thursday, May 28 at SVS from 9-2. 

- Brown Bagging is continuing to offer lunches by the Community Ice rink Sheds from 11-1.

Week in Review   (May 25th - May 29th) 

M  | T | W | T | F

• Assignments for the day will be released in the morning. 
• All Assignments are due that Sunday, so you have the week to work on them. 
• 5hrs a week of essential learning
• Extensions are on the classroom website 

            https://bit.ly/2zFiaTa

M (May 25th)	Classroom Meeting & Kahoot Language Arts (Clue #1)
T (May 26th)	Jump Math - NS6-64 (Percentages) Social-Charter of Rights and Freedoms
W (May 27th)	Science-Four Forces of Flight Language Arts (Clue # 2)
Th (May 28th)	Jump Math NS6-65 (Visual Representations of Percentages) Catch Up Time
F(May 29th)	Science-Parts of an Airplane Social-Charter of Rights and Freedoms

If you have read the week in review, please post on the stream an appropriate math or science joke. 

Food Drive

Happy Mother's Day

Hello everyone, 

We just wanted to thank all of you, moms and dads, for all of the support and for helping your children. Remember, please reach out at any time if you need anything. We also wanted to say;

 

We hope that you all get spoiled! Enjoy!

Mrs. Reeve and Ms. Blyth

Week in Review

Hello Parents, 

Every Monday, we will post the assignments for the week to help you track them with your child.  We will continue to release the assignments, daily.

Please let me know if you have any questions otherwise have a fantastic weekend, 

Mrs. Reeve

Week in Review   (April 20th-24th)

M  | T | W | T | F

●     Assignments for the day will be released in the morning.

●     All Assignments are due that Sunday, so you have the week to work on them.

●     5hrs a week of essential learning.

M (April 20th)	Narrative Writing- Learning to ‘Pace’ your story Team Meeting Reading Comp and Kahoot
T (April 21st)	Jump Math- Solving Equations Science - Flight Experiment
W (April 22nd)	Narrative Writing- Cracking the story code Social- Structure of Municipal Government & Bylaws
Th (April 23rd)	Jump Math- Word Problems
F(April 24th)	Science - Flight Experiment Social- Structure of Municipal Government & Bylaws

Please see the website for continued Math extensions & study guides if you are looking for more work.  

https://sites.google.com/educbe.ca/grade6svs/home

I Can Statements

Dear Parents, 

Please find the following "I Can Statements" from our Grade 6 Curriculum that we will be covering from now until the end of June. There will be a focus of Language Arts and Math with some Social and Science integrated into Language Arts. 

Please let me know if you have any questions, 

Mrs. Laurie Reeve

Language Arts Grade 6 I Can Statements General Outcome 1: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to explore thoughts, ideas, feelings, and experiences. Ø  I can read, write, and talk to explain my prior knowledge connections to new information. Ø  I can use talk, writing, reading and others’ ideas to understand.

General Outcome 2: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view, and represent to comprehend and respond personally and critically to oral, print, and other media texts.

Ø  I can combine personal experience with new ideas when I read see or hear.

Ø  I can use a variety of strategies to help me read and understand new words.

Ø  I can read from a variety of genres and cultures.

Ø  I can summarize what I read, see and hear.

Ø  I can connect events, characters, and settings when I summarize.

Ø  I can explain the reasons for a character’s actions or feelings.

Ø  I can draw conclusions related to events, characters, setting, and main idea.

2.3 Understand Forms Elements and Techniques

Ø  I can identify and talk about the similarities and differences between different types of readings.

Ø  I can identify the main problem in things I read, see and hear.

Ø  I can explain how conflict is resolved in things I read see or hear.

2.4 Create Original Text

Ø  I can choose forms of writing and ideas and details that match audience and purpose in my own writing.

Ø  I can use my own experiences to find ideas for writing.

General Outcome 4: Students will listen, speak, read, write, view and represent to enhance the clarity and artistry of communication.

4.1 Enhance and Improve

Ø  I can ask for and use feedback about my writing from others.

Ø  I can narrow down or expand ideas in my writing.

Ø  I can delete unnecessary information.

Ø  I can make sure the verb tense and pronouns are correct.

Ø  I can use paragraphs in fiction and non-fiction writing.

Ø  I can choose words that are just right for my audience and purpose.

Ø  I can play with different parts of my writing like sentence structure and word choice to choose the best way to communicate.

Ø  I can write clearly and legibly.

4.2 Attend to Conventions

Ø  I can edit my writing for commonly misspelled words.

Ø  I can attend to grammar.

Ø  I can attend to capitalization and punctuation.

                                                         Mathematics   Grade 6

I Can Statement

GENERAL OUTCOME:  Numbers

Develop Number Sense

Ø  I can explain how the pattern of the place value system makes it possible to read and write numerals for numbers of any size.

Ø  I can solve problems that involve whole numbers and decimals.

Ø  I can solve a problem involving factors and multiples.

Ø  I can provide concrete or a visual representation for ratio.

Ø  I can explain, verbally, concretely or pictorially that percent means out of 100.

Ø  I can solve problems that involve multiplication and division of decimals using multipliers from 0 to 9 and divisors from 1 to 9.

GENERAL OUTCOME:  Patterns and Relations

Ø  Use patterns to describe the world and to solve problems.

Ø  I can identify the unknown in a problem and represent the problem.