Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6

[Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6 @drbs_evans]

We’ve begun Literature Circles!! After reading their books for the first time the kids insisted they had a chance to talk about the books so far! Music to a book nerd’s ears!

[Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6 @drbs_evans]

@Chelsea_OLeary I use the app Prisma 🙂

[Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6 @drbs_evans]

We celebrated the Grade 6's on Friday with an outdoor gathering and lots of play time! Conveniently, for the kids, the underground sprinklers came on during the last 10 minutes and there was so much joy!

[Take Me Outside @takemeoutside]

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[Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6 @drbs_evans]

Using Mathagon to play with tangrams and marking coordinates on a Cartesian plane.

[Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6 @drbs_evans]

There were some different things to look at on our morning walk through the trees. Remnants of a fire (one side of the path vs the other) as well as piles of pollen from the poplar trees. It felt like a different place than a week ago. @cbedrb

[Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6 @drbs_evans]

Yesterday we had our final grade community assemblies outside in the sunshine! Kindergarten shared their understanding of Honesty (Raven/Sabe) and the 6's shared about Truth from the Turtle. Here is the art we created for our school community! @cbedrb

[Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6 @drbs_evans]

Our weekly walk through the ravine along with our weekly sit spot where we have begun to create phenology wheels to track changes as spring approaches! @cbedrb

[Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6 @drbs_evans]

The grade 6's created their own anchor charts to explain how to convert mixed/improper fractions as well as add and subtract mixed fractions with unlike denominators. @cbedrb

[Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6 @drbs_evans]

Some of "Golden Threads" we found during our life writing and métissage work! I couldn't be more proud of the thought and care that the Grade 6's put into this work! 🥰 @cbedrb

[Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6 @drbs_evans]

Giving peer feedback on a couple of our Life Writing vignettes!

[Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6 @drbs_evans]

Exploring fractions!

[Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6 @drbs_evans]

This week's life writing vignettes were about connecting to the land and researching our "self" in relation to Spirit, Heart, Body, and Mind! @cbedrb

[Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6 @drbs_evans]

After learning about Blackfoot Winter Counts from Elder Shirley, we created our own versions representing important moments from our lives! @cbedrb

[Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6 @drbs_evans]

How can we represent decimals to the thousandths place using base ten blocks or other creative methods?

[Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6 @drbs_evans]

Busy day today! A few leaders helped the Grade 1's celebrate the 100th day of school, we taught our Grade 3 buddies some songs we learned at camp, and then we had a school wide assembly to share the traditional hoop dancing we learned from Jackie Wabasca a few weeks ago! @cbedrb

[Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6 @drbs_evans]

Last week was Bell Let's Talk Day and the 6's wrote some positive messages for anyone that needs to read them! @cbedrb

[Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6 @drbs_evans]

So much 'mathing' going on at the Math Festival yesterday! @cbedrb

[Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6 @drbs_evans]

A snowy field doesn't stop us from going out and playing field hockey!

[Ms. Evans DRBS Gr.6 @drbs_evans]

We've been on a concept map kick since being back from break. Here's a couple of samples showing some connections between parts of the solar system and the beginnings of mapping relationships among concepts in math. @cbedrb