Dear GCS Grade 6 Families, Grade 6 had a great full week of school. We thoroughly enjoyed our trip to Orwell Corner on Wednesday where we learned about Island life over 100 years ago. In Social Studies we started to formally research our debate topic. Students have been divided into affirmative and negative teams. [...]
Dear GCS Grade 6 Families, I hope you all had a wonderful March break and I look forward to seeing the Grade 6 students next week. In Social Studies next week we will be researching our debate topic. Students will be looking at the issue of lowering the voting age to 16. In Math [...]
Dear GCS Grade 6 Families, Well, this was an interesting week! Thank you to all Grade 6 families for adapting quickly to changing circumstances. In Math this past week, we started our geometry unit. Students were reminded about the names of certain types of lines and the names of shapes. We also continued in [...]
Hello GCS Grade 6 families, I hope you are all doing well with our current change of circumstance. I am thankful we have the technology to continue to learn during this time. If you haven't already, I would encourage you to read Mrs. MacNeill's update email sent around 11 am this morning. Grade 6 [...]
Dear GCS Grade 6 Families, Wow! A 2 day week for students! Thank you to all families for being patient with weather-related delays and cancellations. In Math this week, we finished our graphing unit. We will move on to our next unit, Geometry, next week. In Social Studies this week, students explored different news [...]
Dear GCS Grade 6 Families, Thank you for another great (short) week of school! In Math this week, we continued with our graphing unit. We are almost finished! Students worked on how to draw scale drawings on Friday. In Social Studies this week, we started to discuss different forms of news media. We’re going [...]
Dear GCS Grade 6 Families, Thank you for another great week of school! In Math this week, we continued with our graphing unit. Students learned about line graphs and circle graphs. Students will have time to review these concepts next week. In Social Studies this week, we finished our Government Scrapbooks! The students put [...]
Dear GCS Grade 6 Families, We officially started quarter 3 this week! Thank you to all parents for your investment in your child’s learning in the first two quarters. In Math this week, we continued with our graphing unit. Students learned how to read bar graphs and draw bar graphs. In Social Studies this [...]
Dear GCS Grade 6 Families, We’ve reached the end of quarter 2! Congratulations to all the Grade 6 students for completing half of their year! In Math this week, we started our new unit on graphing. Students learned about pictographs and bar graphs. In Social Studies this week, we started to work on the [...]
Dear GCS Grade 6 Families, This week we continued our study of percentages in Math class. We are almost finished with our percentages unit! Students must study to prepare for our challenging test this upcoming Wednesday. In Social Studies, we are continuing with creating our government scrapbook. Students this week will submit their research [...]
