Thank You For a Great Year!

Today is the last day for grade 6. It has been my pleasure to teach your child. I believe we learned a lot this year and anticipate an enjoyable holiday.

I want to encourage the students to read for pleasure this summer. They can still do the Accelerated Reader quizzes to ensure they comprehend the story. There is also the Saskatoon Public Library that has the summer reading program as well.

Also, if your child needs help with math, encourage them to review some of the math topics we covered this year. Division and Multiplication of decimals, divisibility rules, adding and subtracting fractions, perimeter, area of a rectangle and triangle, volume, factors and multiples, etc..

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Have a great and enjoyable summer.

See you in the new school year.

Mr. A. Baetz

Year End Party at Vander Kooi's Please Bring Forms By Friday

We are planning to have a year end party at the Vander Kooi's. They have opened their farm so we can have a fun wind up. Hopefully the weather will cooperate. We plan to leave the school at 10:00 am and leaving the farm at 1:30.

Please sign the forms and return Friday.

Student should bring their own lunches/drinks. They can also bring water guns/balloons. They should also bring their bathing suits and sandals,flip-flops as they can expect to get wet:-). They can bring socks and running shoes as their is room for a soccer game. Also, hats, sunscreen, and bug spray should also be brought.

The Vander Kooi's have also offered a tour of their dairy farm. We will be tourning their farm at about noon.

If the weather does not cooperate, we will remain at the school all day, clean up and watch a Tim Hawkins video in the afternoon.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me.

Health Talk

On Tuesday, June 21st, Mrs. Marcoux is coming in to talk to the girls about body changes. Mr. Letkeman and myself will talk to the grade 6 boys about body changes as it realtes to the Saskatchewan Curriculum.

Reading Celebration

This Friday we will be watching the movie "The Greatest Game Ever Played". We are doing a unit in golf and with the U.S. Open major golf tournament coming up this weekend the timing is good.

The movie is rated both PG and G.

Students are welcome to bring snacks and I will supply the drinks.

If you have any questions or concerns please feel free to contact me.

Science Test Study Notes For June 17

Use the Periodic Table of Videos to help you. http://www.periodicvideos.com/

Science Study Notes
• The Periodic Table organizes and classifies elements
• Greek and Latin are languages the names of elements come from
• There are 118 known elements in the earth
• The combination of the symbols is called a formula

7 elements in the earth and air
Aluminum
Calcium
Iron
Oxygen
Potassium
Silicon
Sodium
Compounds - matter formed by two or more elements joined by a chemical reaction
Compounds can be represented by the combination of two or more symbols.
Water is a common compound. H2 + 0 = H20
The smallest particle of a compound is a molecule.
Mixture – two or more elements or compound, or both, that have combined without a chemical reaction.
Identify
SiO2 = sand
H2SO4 = Sulfuric Acid
NH3 ammonia
C12H22O11 -sugar
Fe2O3 - iron oxide (rust)
NaCl salt


The first 7 elements in the periodic table
1. Hydrogen
2. Helium
3. Lithium
4. Beryllium
5. Boron
6. Carbon
7. Nitrogen
Metals are shiny, they are good conductors of heat and electricity, and can be bent or hammered into many shapes so they are called malleable. Gold, silver, and iron are some examples
Non metals are dull, poor conductors, and brittle. Sulphur and carbon are two examples.
Metalloids have some characteristics of both metals and non-metals. Some metalloids are shiny and many of them are conductors; however compared to metals, they are poor conductors. Silicon, arsenic are 2 examples of metalloids.
Marie and Pierre Curie discovered of Polonium (84) and Radium (88)

Social Quiz on Thursday and Study Notes

This Thursday we will have a social quiz.

Social Studies Study Notes

308 Seats in House of Commons

166 Conservatives
103 New Democratic Party
34 Liberal
4 Bloc Quebecois
1 Green Party

Terms
Bill – The draft version of a law presented in the House of Commons
Cabinet Minister- a minister chosen by the Prime Minister to be responsible for a specific area of the government, for example the Minister of the Environment, Minister of Finance, Minister of External Affairs etc..
Caucus – All the members of Parliament from a political party
Leader of the Opposition – The leader of the party with the second highest number of seats in the house. ( Jack Layton – NDP)
Majority Government – When the winning party has more than half the seats in parliament
Minority Government - When the winning party has fewer than half the seats in Parliament
Party – a group of people sharing similar political views
Riding – a distract that elects a Member of Parliament
Levels of Government
1. Municipal Government
2. Provincial Government 3. Federal Government
Leader Mayor – Don Atchison – Saskatoon Premier – Brad Wall Prime Minister – Steven Harper
Elected person Councillor Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) Member of Parliament
Responsibilities
• Fire protection
• Public Libraries
• Snow Removal
• Transportation
• Waste removal
• Schools
• Hospitals
• Building Roads and highways
• Driver’s Licenses
• Armed forces
• Environment
• Immigration
• Post Office

Monarch – The Governor General is Canada’s representative
Prime Minister and Cabinet – Elected by the voters
Senate – Appointed by the Prime Minister
House of Commons – Elected by the voters
Supreme Court of Canada- Highest court in Canada
Federal and provincial Courts