Spring Break

Wishing everyone a safe and restful spring break!

Over the break students should research about the upcoming election in Alberta.
Students should know who are the leaders of each of the political parties and who is running for MLA in Calgary-Fort (our constituency). Students should also research the individual political parties, what are their main campaign platforms?

See everyone back in class on April 8 at 7:50am.

Podcast Link

Literacy centre podcast link:
https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/stories-podcast/e/58313493?autoplay=true

Slideshow Vocabulary Words

The vocabulary words for the Google Slides presentations are:
Agora
Assembly
Ancient
City-State
Direct Democracy
Lottery
Agenda

Students were also asked to create a slide on:
Athens
What type of government did they have?
Explain who were citizens
Explain who were metics
Explain who were slaves

Sparta
What type of government did they have?
One interesting fact about Sparta

No quiz tomorrow

The quiz for tomorrow, Monday March 11 has been cancelled due to technology issues at the school.

The quiz will be rescheduled later in the week.

Report Cards/No school tomorrow

Report cards will be sent home today. Please ensure that envelopes are signed by guardians and returned to the school next week.

There is no school tomorrow, Friday, February 1.

Cell Phones

All grade 6 teachers met at the start of term 2 and have come to a consensus on a new cell phone policy for all grade 6 classrooms. Students will be asked to leave their cell phones at home, in their lockers or hand them in to the teacher at the start of class. If a teacher spots a student phone, it will be taken and returned at the end of the day. If there is a second offense the phone will be taken again and the parents/guardians will be contacted to come and retrieve the phone. This is in the continuing effort to make a welcoming and productive learning environment for all!

Your cooperation is appreciated. Please contact the school with any questions.

Ancient Greece

Today we began our new social studies unit on Ancient Greece! We learned our first three vocabulary words, Assembly, Ancient and Agora. Students were asked to answer the following questions in their journals:

How did men who were citizens participate in the democratic government in Athens?
What are the beliefs and values that shaped democracy in Athens?
What role did citizens play in Athenian democracy?
Why did each city in Ancient Greece have it's own style of government?
What is a city-state?