There will be some activities and assignments that are ongoing throughout the year; they will be marked in green.
Big Ideas:
- Exploring and sharing multiple perspectives extends our thinking.
- Questioning what we hear, read, and view contributes to our ability to be educated and engaged citizens.
Curricular Competencies
COMPREHEND/CONECT
CREATE/COMMUNICATE
- Think critically, creatively, and reflectively to explore ideas within, between, and beyond texts.
- Respond to text in personal, creative, and critical ways.
CREATE/COMMUNICATE
- Use writing and design processes to plan, develop, and create engaging and meaningful literary and informational texts for a variety of purposes and audiences.
- Assess and refine texts to improve their clarity, effectiveness, and impact according to purpose, audience, and message.
Assignments/Activities:
Language Arts curricular competencies are also covered in Social Studies.
Language Arts curricular competencies are also covered in Social Studies.
- Persuasive Writing
- Big Book Project (Art)
- 40 Books Challenge
Big Ideas:
Grade 6
- Mixed numbers and decimal numbers represent quantities that can be decomposed into parts and wholes.
- Linear relations can be identified and represented using expressions with variables and line graphs and can be used to form generalizations.
Curricular Competencies:
REASONING/ANALYZING
COMMUNICATING AND REPRESENTING
- Model mathematics in contextualized experiences
COMMUNICATING AND REPRESENTING
- Communicate mathematical thinking in many ways
- Represent mathematical ideas in concrete, pictorial, and symbolic forms
Assignments/Activities:
I teach math using a guided math concept. All the students are put into groups and they will work in stations such as problem solving, math drills, math games, apps etc. to help master the skills. Although sometimes the main concepts are the same between the two grades, the details are different.
I teach math using a guided math concept. All the students are put into groups and they will work in stations such as problem solving, math drills, math games, apps etc. to help master the skills. Although sometimes the main concepts are the same between the two grades, the details are different.
- Fractions/Decimals
- Patterning
- Algebra
- Geometry (transformations)
- Probability
- Financial Literacy
Big Ideas:
- Design can be responsive to identified needs.
Curricular Competencies:
APPLIED DESIGN
- Empathize with potential users to find issues and uncover needs and potential design opportunities (Understanding context)
- Identify criteria for success and any constraints (Defining)
- Decide on how and with whom to share their product;
- Demonstrate their product and describe their process, using appropriate terminology and providing reasons for their selected solution and modifications
Assignments/Activities:
- TBA
Big Ideas:
Curricular Competencies:
PLANNING AND CONDUCTING
- Multicellular organisms rely on internal systems to survive, reproduce, and interact with their environment.
- Newton's 3 Laws of motion describe the relationship between force and motion.
Curricular Competencies:
PLANNING AND CONDUCTING
- With support, plan appropriate investigations to answer their questions or solve problems they have identified.
- Use equipment and materials safely, identifying potential risks.
- Evaluate whether their investigations were fair tests.
- Communicate ideas, explanations, and processes in a variety of ways.
Assignments/Activities:
- Disease File
- Experiments using Newton's 3 Laws
Big Ideas:
Curricular Competencies:
- Complex global problems require international cooperation to make difficult choices for the future
Curricular Competencies:
- Take stakeholders’ perspectives on issues, developments, or events by making inferences about their beliefs, values, and motivations
- Make ethical judgments about events, decisions, or actions that consider the conditions of a particular time and place, and assess appropriate ways to respond
Assignments/Activities:
- World Conflicts
Big Ideas:
- Learning about Francophone communities helps us develop cultural awareness.
Curricular Competencies
- Explore Francophone communities across Canada
- Explore connections between First Peoples communities and the French language
- Explore a Francophone cultural festival or celebration in Canada
Big Ideas:
- Learning about similarities and differences in individuals and groups influences community health.
Curricular Competencies:
- Demonstrate leadership skills through collaborative activities in the school and community.
- Recognize their personal preferences, skills, strengths, and abilities and connect them to possible career choices.
Assignments/Activities:
- Career Cards
- Classroom Economy
Big Ideas:
- Learning about similarities and differences in individuals and groups influences community health
Curricular Competencies:
SOCIAL AND COMMUNITY HEALTH
- Identify and describe strategies for avoiding and/or responding to potentially unsafe, abusive, or exploitive situations.
- Describe and apply strategies for developing and maintaining healthy relationships.
- Describe and assess strategies for managing problems related to mental well-being and substance use, for others
- Explore and describe strategies for managing physical, emotional, and social changes during puberty and adolescence.
Assignments/Activities:
- Puberty
- Drug case files
Big Ideas:
- Artistic expressions differ across time and place.
- Dance, drama, music, and visual arts are each unique languages for creating and communicating.
Assignments/Activities:
- Big Book Project
- West Coast art designs
- Reader's Theatre
