The Last Blog

 The Last Blog

June 18th, 2021

Written by Mrs. Will and the Gang

This week, our focus was on getting ready for our grade 6 graduation! On Monday, we used colourful cardstock paper, glitter glue, stickers, gems, string, and printed pictures to design a graduation cap. The graduation caps had a tassel and we designed them to represent our interests. We could tell who made each cap just by the design. Mrs. Will brought in her Cricket paper cutter to help us. We then went outside and took pictures of us "wearing" the grad caps for our graduation video. 

We are going to have other students in the class sign the backs of our grad caps like a yearbook as a keepsake to take home. 

On Tuesday, we went to Laycock park! We played kickball, ate picnic lunches, and played on the park. 

On Thursday we had our graduation celebration! We dressed up and watched our virtual celebration video. The video had the grade 6 classes playing instruments, our video of the graduation cap art project, Ms. Code's class made a short project with signs, there were messages from the teachers and Mr. McCracken wishing us good luck for next year and a slideshow with pictures of us growing up at the school. 

In the evening we had a parade! We hope you loved seeing all the teachers with their decorated cars driving around the neighbourhood honking and playing music. We loved seeing you all join in the fun and some of you even decorated your homes for the parade!

Social Studies: In social, we wrapped up our Iroquois unit by recreating a Council fire to make a decision using consensus. Consensus means that everyone has to agree to a decision or it doesn't pass. Even if one person disagrees, we have to start the decision making process all over again. We used our council fire to make a decision about what our class would put inside the time capsule and we decided to make a scrapbook! Next week, we will be working on that scrapbook and adding it to the time capsule on the last day of school. 

Science: We learned about finger prints and chromatography! We used tape, icing sugar, cocoa powder and paintbrushes to lift latent fingerprints off our desks, we compared our writing styles and tried to forge other peoples handwriting, and we learned about separating ink from pens to see which brand of pen wrote a note for a fake crime. 

Gym: Our unit for the rest of the year is basketball! We learned how to dribble, the different types of passes and played a shooting game to see who could make a 3-point shot.