Today: the weather was wonderful today as it allowed the Grade 6 students to conduct their field study at Cedarvale Park.  Students were true ambassadors of McMurrich as they respectfully trekked through the park making a variety of observations on the diversity of living things in a city park.  Thank you to our parent volunteers, we couldn't have been successful today without your support.

POETRY: My Best Friend is a Metaphor poem referring to the examples, write a poem about a friend (real or fiction) and include a few sketches to support your poem.  First draft DUE Thursday October 17th

DRAMA:  group focus for the Shadow Performances script writing in-class.

MATH: complete the Entrance Pass focussing on fractions for tomorrow.

Voicethread: Focussing on your response to the Margaret Mead quote:

Create an action plan (this should be realistic for you to follow through on) on the a local/gobal issue that concerns you, how might you begin to help solve this issue.

• identify the issue that concerns you and why it is an issue (plan)
• images to support writing
• solutions to put in action to address the issue
• type all of your work within one document page and include images in this page
• DUE Thursday October 17th