The kids have worked very hard to win with their class points this month and…they did it!! It was a great celebration with “Make Your Own Sundae” fun! Very proud of everyone!!

We had such a great time preparing for Halloween!!! Our school decided to have some Halloween fun and create a contest called The Great Pumpkin Decorating Challenge!! Students had to come up with creative ideas and use of materials to decorate our class pumpkin and the decision was….Cookie Monster!!! They all worked so hard at this design and did an AMAZING job!! They also had a lot of FUN!!

We had SO much FUN participating in the Elmvale Fall Fair! What a great local community event! Our students represented our amazing school with such pride! Way to go Huskies!

With the use of gravity, angles and positioning, teams worked collaboratively to create a continuous pom pom run, that lasted for a minimum of 10 seconds. They shared their creative ideas and had success!

Hello to all of my Grade 5/6 parents and students at Hillsdale! I am very excited to be teaching at Hillsdale and I am looking forward to an amazing year with a class of such fantastic students! I will be updating this class blog with class information, important updates and some great pictures of student learning and experiences throughout the school year to ensure that you have a way to stay connected throughout your child’s time at school. I have also provided some useful links on my blog that can extend learning upon the different subject areas across the curriculum. It really has been so wonderful to meet with all of you! Thank you for being so welcoming!

Sincerely,

Mrs. Sharpe 🙂

So very PROUD of all of these wonderful, amazing kids! They all worked so very hard throughout our EQAO assessment! Very much deserving of a celebration with a “make your own sundae” table and movie!!

Hello everyone! As recently mentioned in the school form that was sent out to our Grade 6 parents, we have been invited to attend an assembly that has been put together by O.P.P. KIDS, a program that students participated in during the Fall. Students will  have the opportunity to interact and watch demonstrations with Ontario Provincial Police specialty units (eg: K9/ERT/OPP Museum/Marine). They will also play an educational video game designed to refresh some of the key messaging learned from the KIDS program. We will also have class photos and certificates to hand out to the students congratulating them for their participation. Mrs. Strampel and I will be the teachers attending this field trip and we are in need of some wonderful parent volunteers, to have the appropriate ratios on this trip! If you happen to be available and would like to help out, please write me a note to send in with your child. Our field trip will take place on (next) Wednesday, May 10th from 10:00 a.m to 12:00p.m. Thank you so much for your help and cooperation!

Mrs. Sharpe 🙂

Hello everyone! April has been a busy, productive month in our Grade 6 classroom! We have had the pleasure of hosting Ms. Wale, a teacher candidate from Lakehead University for the past 5 weeks! I am so proud of all the students for being so welcoming and appreciative of her time with us! They really enjoyed her unit on Fractions with a twist of creativity and integration of the Arts! They worked very hard towards the completion of her culminating task and I am very proud of them! On top of it being Ms. Wale’s last day with us, the class had won their class reward points, so we celebrated with a “make your own sundae” treat and a movie!

I just wanted to provide you with some updates regarding what we are/will be working on in class! We are well into our novel study on Hatchet which is part of our daily guided reading rotation. Students rotate through a total of 5 different stations, each station lasting a period each day. They are given the opportunity to complete any incomplete tasks during our daily independent reading period as well as during an extra period that I give, once they have cycled through all of the stations.  In Writing we are well into our poetry unit and are starting to work towards creating some original free verse poems following the writing process. Students will be asked to present one of their poems to the class, and any students that wish to participate in the junior poetry competition (Tues. May 9th) will have an opportunity to audition. In Math we will be starting our unit on Algebra/Order of Operations after I finish tying up some last pieces of Fractions and Geometry. In Science we are continuing to work on our Space unit and will have some unique artwork on display for next week, as it is part of Education week. We are continuing to work throughout our Social Studies unit on Canada’s global interactions and will be moving into studying NGOs and Canada’s involvement in humanitarian acts around the world. As we are coming into the last few months of Grade 6, I am encouraging students to be independently responsible for keeping track of what needs to be done, in terms of tasks in all subject areas. I do not “assign” homework, however bringing it home to independently complete is always an option, just making sure that it is returned the next day. Again, with use of the agenda it is a great way for students to keep their tasks/dates organized.

In May our school will be administering the EQAO assessment starting on Tuesday, May 23rd continuing on each day of the week and then into the following week. Please know that I am doing my very best to help prepare students to ensure that it is not a stressful period of time and that they feel comfortable and confident in themselves! Again, if you have any question or concerns related to the assessment, please do not hesitate to contact myself or Ms. Kadela.

Thank you all for you ongoing support and cooperation!

Mrs. Sharpe

Hello everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful March break with the kids and are enjoying your weekend! Everyone came back refreshed and eager to start back up again! Many students have been busy participating in sports, leadership and other activity groups that Minesing offers. We have welcomed Ms. Wale to our class. She is a student teacher from Lakehead University and will be joining us till the end of April. It is so wonderful to see how respectful, polite and welcoming all of the students have been! Such wonderful character!

Here are a few updates regarding some units that we will be doing. We will be starting up Fractions as our next unit in Math, and are just finishing up with 2D and 3D Geometry. For Writing we will be starting Poetry very soon, which will also lead into our school poetry competition! In Reading we have just started up a novel study unit on Hatchet, which will be used throughout our Daily 4 guided reading rotation. Students will be working towards specific CAFE goals throughout the rotation. They were all excited to read this novel, so I am anxious to see the thought and ideas that will come through in their comprehension tasks. It really makes such a difference when they connect to the text with such interest! In Science, we have started up our unit on Space. This unit will allow for some great STEAM activities which I am excited about, and I know the students will be as well.

Mrs. Sharpe 🙂

i have been meaning to post a little note to first congratulate all of my amazing grade 6 students who have done so well with the oral communication component through a variety of presentations such as their biome research projects, TedTalks and speeches! I know it is not an easy, comfortable position for many to be in and I am very proud of each student, demonstrating such courage!

I would like to acknowledge and congratulate Peyton, Mackenzie and Rylan from our class who were selected to continue on at the school competition for Junior/Intermediate TEDtalks. They all did an amazing job and definitely set the bar very high!! Very impressive presentations!! Congratulations to Peyton who placed in the top 3! Also, I would like to congratulate Liam M. and Ben K. who were selected to continue on at the school competition for Junior speeches! They both did such an excellent job and were outstanding representatives for our class!! Congratulations to Liam M. who placed in the top 3 and continued on to compete against Forest Hill in the area competition! Well done!!!

Mrs. Sharpe 🙂