Track Super Stars!

Congrats to Autumn and Chloe for their efforts and successes at the District Championships!

Chloe G and Autumn T

Field Trip to Windsor Police Training Branch

On June 11th, 6M traveled to the Windsor Police Training Branch as part of the VIP (Values, Influences, and Peers) program. Once there, Officer Neil accompanied us to several stations including, gun safety, repelling, explosives and the K9 unit. At each station, members of the Windsor Police would explain their area of expertise and display their skills. What a Great Day!

The day started with a visit from the Chief of Police

Autumn, Mickiya, Rana and Rebecca thought the Police Chief was awesome!

Deanna, Dina and Mackayla

All about gun safety

The Windsor Police's newest tool for keeping the peace

Repelling down the side of a building during a mock rescue

The Training Branch also serves the Canadian Military

Inside the repelling tower

Geoffrey being fitted for the ultimate in protection: A bomb squad suit

I think he's still in there!

Boom!

A Police Dog is worth his weight in gold when looking for things and bringing bad guys to justice.

Rana looking excited about wearing the dog training suit

Christian with the best in bite-resistant fashion

Chloe modeling the latest and greatest in dog training pants

I'm never going to let go!!!

Career Day!

Today we had 4 speakers come to our class to talk about their careers. The speakers discussed how they became interested in their field, what education they needed and their favourite thing about their job. Students enthusiastically asked questions to our speakers and showed a great deal of respect and maturity. All-in-all, I think our speakers were very impressed.

Tony Doucet talks to 6M about his morning radio show on CBC

Dane Macri discusses his role as a Social Justice Worker

Jade from 7/8L holds a toy truck made by children in Haiti

John Elliott talks about STAG (Sandwich Teen Action Group)

Our class listening attentively

TJ Janisse talks about his role as a Funeral Director

Tiger Teachers!

Today, half of the class took the role of teacher and taught their Math lesson to a peer. Any "Student" could attend a "Teacher's" lesson by going to their station and sitting down. 

The instruction was superb, the visuals were excellent, the behaviour was out of this world, and everyone had fun!

Check out the pics and leave a comment if you'd like.

Mackayla's centre on Perimeter

Isaiah learns about Mode from Rana

Tyler teaching the Ins-and-Outs of Bar Graphs

Mickiya looking professional as she teaches about the Area of a Triangle and Rhombus

Rebecca being an attentive student

Chloe shows Dina all about Reflections

Justin, our resident pro at Mixed Numbers

Jakir goes through the steps of the Order of Operations

Zac teaching about the rules of Dividing

Keegan teaches about Ratios

Michael making a tough concept, Prime Factorization, a little easier to understand

Stem -and -Leaf Plots made easy by Rebecca 

Rana learns about Range from Deanna

All about Volume, by Isaiah

Dina teaching about Median

Newspaper Articles

Students in 6M have been writing Newspaper Articles during our Literacy Block. Students wrote an article about life on the International Space Station, as if they had interviewed astronaut, Chris Hadfield.

Here are a few sample articles:

HADFIELD REVEALS HOW ASTRONAUTS SLEEP IN SPACE.

By Stellar Reporter Jakir A.

 

Some people may wonder how astronauts on the ISS have a good night sleep. Last night, Famous Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield returned to Earth well rested.

Many people never give a second thought about sleeping. Most of us just hop in our beds and fall asleep. But it is different for astronauts. They have to strap themselves to a bed or else they would just float away and hurt themselves.

Astronauts sleep in person-sized tethered soundproof booths in tethered sleeping bags. They don't sleep in the average bed a human on Earth would sleep on.

“We all sleep in a part of the ISS called the Zvezda. In the Zvezda, there are two sleep stations. Visiting crew have to tie their beds to walls to sleep,” Hadfield stated.

The average human on Earth sleeps 8 hours long. Astronauts sleep for 8 and a half hours a day. They go to bed at 9:30 at night and they wake up at 6:00 in the morning; a regular schedule is followed.

Since the whole crew of the ISS is only 6 people, everybody sleeps at once.

“When we sleep, it's pretty much like sleeping in a closet and it's definitely not the place a claustrophobic person would want to sleep. The sleeping booths are really small.,” Hadfield claimed.

Even though the booths are small, astronauts do enjoy some earthly comforts like laptops, music players and family photos.

Sleeping on the ISS is much different than on Earth, but at least it's amongst the stars.

Cooking and eating in space

WRITTEN BY TYLER

FRIDAY MAY 24 2013

Ever think of the challenges of eating in space? Its a tricky thing to master, recently returned astronaut Chris Hadfield will agree.

“Eating and cooking in space is difficult because of microgravity. The result is things in the space will float and you see that all the time,” Hadfield states.

An easy task like making a sandwich becomes impossible to do because you cannot have real bread on the International Space Station. Bread produces crumbs which is unsafe because they can get into the computer system and cause a shut down or malfunction to the spacecraft.

Before each astronaut travels into space they get a small choice of what kind of food they want to have like cereal or dehydrated meat.This makes them feel like they're still at home and they are eating things that have been prepared back at earth.

Science Projects

Wow! We really did have some amazing science projects! It was very nice to see the variety of ways students choose to present their topics, such as Prezi Presentations, Legos, Slide Shows, Books, Board Games and more!!!!

Way to go 6M for a job well done :)

Students As Teachers

Students in 6M are working diligently to make a lesson plan to teach a math concept to classmates. Some of the topics students have chosen, include:

-multiplication
-prime factorization
-volume, area and perimeter
-probability
-bar graphs



Here are some pictures of the students planning their lessons. 

By: Mike and Jakir