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Mathematics

Week 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Week 2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Week 3 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Week 4 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Week 5 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 Week 6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20 Week 7 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 Week 8 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Week 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Week 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Week 11 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35 Week 12 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Week 13 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41 Week 14 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Week 15 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Week 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50 Week 17 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Week 18 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Week 19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Week 20 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62 Week 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Week 22 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Week 23 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Week 24 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74 Week 25 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Week 26 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

Week 27 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83 Week 28 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Week 29 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Week 30 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 Multiplication Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 How Am I Doing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Division Tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 How Am I Doing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127 Metric Units and Measurement . . . . . . 129 Math Glossary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Cursive Writing

A a . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139 B b . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 C c . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 D d . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142 E e . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 F f . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144 G g . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 H h . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 I i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147 J j . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148 K k . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 L l . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 M m . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 N n . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 O o . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153

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P p . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 Q q . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155 R r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156 S s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 T t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 U u . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159 V v . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 W w . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 X x . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162 Y y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Z z . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164 Cursive Writing Challenge . . . . . . . . . 165 Cursive Writing Prompts . . . . . . . . . . 166 Cursive Writing Challenge . . . . . . . . . 167

Grammar and Reading

Exploring Types of Sentences . . . . . . 168 Common Nouns vs. Proper Nouns . . . . 169 Abstract Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170 Collective Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Plural Nouns Review . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Object Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Pronouns: Me vs. I . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Indefinite Pronouns: Someone

and Nobody . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176 Subordinate Clauses: What Are They? . . 177 Subordinate Conjunctions . . . . . . . . 178 Adverbs: Adverbial Phrases . . . . . . . 179 Verbs: Past, Present, and Future Tenses . 180

Exploring Commas . . . . . . . . . . . . 181 Reading Comprehension Tips . . . . . . 182 Text Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183 Making Connections with What I

Have Read . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184 The Wise Chief and His Wife . . . . . . . 185 The Magic Mirror . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Tryouts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Travelling to the Past . . . . . . . . . . . 193 Two Friends, Two Places . . . . . . . . . 196 Blog or News? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Wayne Gretzky . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 Goal Setting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204 Stay Safe on the Internet . . . . . . . . . 205 Adjectives for Writing . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Alliteration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208 Sensational Similes . . . . . . . . . . . . 209 Hyperboles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210 Idioms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Cinquain Poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212 Haiku Poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213 Limericks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214 Persuasive Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215 Narrative Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216 Procedural Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217 Expository Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218 Fact or Opinion? . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 Write a Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220 My Brilliant Board Game . . . . . . . . . 221

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Canada's National Symbols . . . . . . . 223 The Musical Ride . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227 Create a Musical Ride Advertisement . . 229 The Great Lakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230 Black Loyalists . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 Gimli, Manitoba . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235 Klondike Gold Rush . . . . . . . . . . . . 238 Home Children . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240 Pier 21 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243 Why Immigrants Choose Canada . . . . 245 In Flanders Fields . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250 Camp X . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253 Fathers of Confederation . . . . . . . . . 255 Biography of a Famous Canadian . . . . 257 Sir John A. Macdonald . . . . . . . . . . 260 Canadian Pacific Railway . . . . . . . . . 262 The Famous Five . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264 Old Money, New Money . . . . . . . . . 266 Canada's Imports and Exports . . . . . . 268 Cool Canadian Inventions . . . . . . . . 270

Science

Living Things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272 Classifying Organisms . . . . . . . . . . 274 The Animal Kingdom . . . . . . . . . . . 276 The Forgotten Kingdoms . . . . . . . . . 278 Biodiversity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280 Species Interactions . . . . . . . . . . . 282

Medicine from Plants . . . . . . . . . . . 284 Adaptations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286 Cougars vs. Lynxes--What Is the

Difference? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288 Leafcutter Ants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290 Up in the Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292 Flying Through the Sky . . . . . . . . . . 295 Experiment: Build an Aircraft . . . . . . . 297 Aircraft with Motors . . . . . . . . . . . . 298 Animal Fliers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299 Furred and Finned Fliers . . . . . . . . . 300 Amelia Earhart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 301 Current and Static Electricity . . . . . . . 304 Experiment: Electric Cereal . . . . . . . . 305 Using Water to Produce Electricity . . . . 307 Using Wind to Produce Electricity . . . . 309 Our Sun Is a Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 Planets in Our Solar System . . . . . . . 312 Moons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315 They Came from Outer Space . . . . . . 317 Astronauts and Space Travel . . . . . . . 318 Space Technology . . . . . . . . . . . . 320 It Came from Space . . . . . . . . . . . 322 On the Job with an Iceberg Wrangler . . . 324 STEM-Related Occupations . . . . . . . 326 Science, Technology, Engineering,

and Mathematics (STEM) Occupation Brochure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327 What Does an Engineer Do? . . . . . . . 328 Think Like an Engineer . . . . . . . . . . 330 Inventor Oral Presentation Outline . . . . 331

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Art

Crazy Colouring Ideas . . . . . . . . . . 336 Sketchbook Drawing Ideas . . . . . . . . 337 How to Draw a Wolf . . . . . . . . . . . . 338

Create a Geometric Design . . . . . . . . 339 Cutout Art . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 340 Symmetrical Drawings . . . . . . . . . . . 341

Certificate of Merit--Grade 6 . . . . . . . 342 Answers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343

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Monday Patterning and Algebra

1. FFiinndd txthh.ee vvaalluueesofoxf .x.

. Find x.

x + 23 = 55

x + 23 = 55

2. FFFiinnindddtthht.ee vvaalluueesofotf.t.

2. Find t.

3 x 8 = t + 15

3 x 8 = t + 15

3. What is the pattern rule? . What is the pattern rule?

2, 5, 11, 23, 47, 95 2, 5, 11, 23, 47, 95

4. What will be the 8th term of this 4. What will bepthaette8rtnh?term of this

pattern?

400, 385, 370, 355, 340 400, 385, 370, 355, 340

5. Wrhitaet twhiell fbirestththerefiersnt uthmrebeernsuomfbtheirsspoafttheirsnprautlete.rn rule? . What will be sthtaertfi3ras,ttm3th,urmletiueplltnyipublmyybb2eyr2s of this pattern rule?

start 3, multiply by 2 ____, ____, ____

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Tuesday Number Sense

1. If there are 25 apples in each basket, how many apples are in 11 baskets?

2. Order these numbers from least to greatest. ____282898998,928_2__2_9,2288292998 ____ 28 998

3. Find the product: 125 x 0.1 125 x 0.1

4. Write this number in words. 234 340234 340

5. If 3 novels cost $21.75, how much is one novel?

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Wednesday Geometry

1. Draw a parallelogram.

2. What kind of triangle is this?

3. Flip this shape

A. scalene B. right C. equilateral 4. How many lines of symmetry

are there in a rectangle?

5. Is this an acute, obtuse or right angle?

Thursday Measurement

1. 3 km = _____ cm

2. 700 mm = ____ km

3. What unit of measure would you use to measure the height of a building? A. km B. m C. cm

4. Find the area of a rectangle with tdhime ednimsieonnssioonfs8omf 8bmy 7bmy 7. m.

5. Find the perimeter of this rectangle.

1.2 m

2.2 m

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