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__ Welcome to MR. LEONE'S GRADE 6 CLASS website __ "Dedicated in faith to excellence and service" Summer entry: I hope summer is going well for you all. Reminder: keep collecting milk bags and old batteries for recycling. You all have different God-given talents so I hope you use them well and I hope all of you have a great summer and best wishes for next year! If you want to continue reading my blog, it's changing to ClassDOJO but you have to get a code from me in September. It will only be for blogging, not messaging with students and parents. This blog will stay active until July 30th. I will post new Health Tips in September. Thanks for all the gifts!

Have a happy summer!

Mr. Leone

STEM info: (Could also add art so it's STEAM) a new report suggests having good science and math fundamentals will help you get a job in STEM (Science Technology Engineering and Math). More jobs are available in IT, engineers, doctors and dentists than any other job now. Maybe you might like to try code.org or scratch coding for fun (https://scratch.mit.edu/) Just an FYI. Hope it helps! = __//Websites://__ =

[|www.linktolearning.com] [|www.cybersleuth-kids.com] Math:

[|__http://www.mathplayground.com/Fraction_bars.html__] www.prodigygame.com [|www.myworksheets.com/math/] [|www.aplusmath.com] [] [|**Snappy Math:**] [|[[http://www.snappymaths.com/]]] JUNE Mass ||= 2 Tzyler's Day || PA Day ||= 5 ||= 6 ||= 7 ||= 8 Hot Lunch ||= 9 || Last Hot Lunch ||= 16 || Father's Day ||= 18 ||= 19 Track and Field Meet ||= 20 ||= 21 ||= 22 Mission to Mars ||= 23 ||
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 * 24 || 25 Play Day || 26 Pizza Permission form || 27 Pizza Lunch || 28 Last day of school Report Cards and electronics day || 29 Have a Happy Summer! ||  ||


 * __ Timetable – 2017/2018 __**


 * ** Time ** || ** Monday ** || ** Tuesday ** || ** Wednesday ** || ** Thursday ** || ** Friday ** ||
 * 9:00 - 9:40 || Religion || Religion || Religion || Religion || Religion ||
 * 9:40 - 10:20 || Music || Math || Math || Music || Math ||
 * 10:20 - 10:35 || Recess || Recess || Recess || Recess || Recess ||
 * 10:35 - 11:15 || Phys. Ed || French || Math || French || French ||
 * 11:15 – 12:00 || The Arts || Math || French || Math || Math ||
 * 12:00 - 1:00 || Lunch || Lunch || Lunch || Lunch || Lunch ||
 * 1:00 - 1:40 || Language || Language || Language || Language || Family Life ||
 * 1:40 - 2:20 || Language || Language || Language || Phys. Ed || Health ||
 * 2:20 - 2:35 || Recess || Recess || Recess || Recess || Recess ||
 * 2:35 – 3:15 || Science/SS || Science/SS || Science/SS || Science/SS || Library ||
 * 3:15 – 3:30 || Science/SS || Science/SS || Science/SS || Science/SS || Library ||

- Daily Physical Activity is on non-gym days at various times throughout the day - French with Mdme Barbuto - Music with Mr. Ombao - Snack times before or after first and last recess - SS is Social Studies

== 2. one night, do a little at a time. Just like school has recess, give yourself recess after every chunk of homework you do at home. Get up and stretch, walk, exercise, play a sport, a pillow fight with your parents, have a protein snack and water then get back to work! Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! ==

== 3. Daily physical exercise does not need to be a hard workout every day. Just do something physical for at least 20 minutes and make it __fun__. It will make you feel better and make other people feel better too, when they see you smile! Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! ==

== 4. Have dairy and protein at least 3 times per day. If you’re lactose intolerant then have almond milk or another substitute. Dairy gives you calcium which you need for bones and muscles. Protein keeps your energy levels constant so you can stay awake in grammar class. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! ==

== 5. Do some light, easy stretches after you warm up and before you play a sport or exercise. Then after exercise do a complete stretch routine for at least 15 seconds on each muscle. Stretching and a hot shower after sports will help you recover faster and you’ll be less sore the next day. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! ==

6. Have a treat. It’s good to treat yourself once a day. Studies show if you don’t, then you’ll crave treats more and then binge. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal!
== 7. Try to do daily physical activity but alternating between easy days and hard days of sport or exercise. Studies show that the day after a hard workout you should do an easy jog or stretch or any easy fun, physical activity so it helps you recover faster from the tough workout the day before. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! ==

== 8. Contrary to what a lot of people think, children as young as 8 years can start “resistance training” which means pushing and pulling heavy objects relative to their size. Instead of lifting weights you can use bungee cords and play games of tug-of-war with your parents or tie the bungee cord around your waist and have your parents pull on it while you try to run away. Or see how far you can pull your parents on a skateboard or on skates or sled! Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! ==

== 9. Caffeine energy drinks are not good because you can get addicted to the caffeine and those drinks have lots of sugar. Plus caffeine doesn’t let your body absorb calcium which is not good for your bones and muscles. You are better off to eat a fruit at least an hour before exercise which gives you about the same amount of energy. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! ==

== 10. Make something with your hands such as a painting, a clay pot or a skateboard ramp out of scrap wood. It gets you thinking creatively which is healthy. I made a treehouse for my daughter this summer without any plans. (Picture below) Until next time keep your eye on the goal! ==

11. Once in a while try a workout in front of the TV so you can do two things at once! Until next time, keep your eye on the goal!
== 12. Snack on popcorn, fruits, vegetables, some nuts or healthy chips instead of other snacks when you watch a movie or any other time, so you get more fibre. Fibre helps you feel full so you won’t eat unhealthy foods. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! ==

13. If you are healthy you will miss less school, which is good for both you and your parents. How you ask? Well, you don’t need to catch up at night with 4 hours of homework given to you by your homework buddy and your parents don’t need to spend money on a babysitter or miss work to take a day off to baby-sit you. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 14. To add strength to leg muscles and get a cardiovascular workout at the same time, try climbing plain old stairs. This can be done at home. Climbing two steps at a time is good for building the quadriceps (thigh muscles) and the gluteus (butt). Going down steps builds strength in the quadriceps and to a lesser extent, the hamstrings. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 15. **Have computer and TV blackout times and schedule regular exercise time periods.** Children and teenagers spend many hours on their computers, working on school assignments or chatting with their friends online. In addition, they watch numerous television programs during the week. Make sure kids get up to stretch and get exercise. Schedule time for them to go outside, preferably after school when they can soak up some sun, to play with friends or take a walk with a parent, by themselves or with the family pet. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 16. Stay cool. 17. STOP putting plastic in the microwave. Studies have shown that hot plastic leeches dangerous chemicals which affect your mental and physical health. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal!

18. Look for people who are healthy and physically fit so you can learn from them. It’s just like school… if you hang out with good students then you too will be a good student. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 19. Sport is 80% using your brain and only 20% physical. The smart ones succeed. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 20. Too often students don’t bring a ball or other recess equipment to school and they have nothing to do so they wrestle or sit, which are both not good. School supplies are given out in September but by October they’re all lost. I remember when I was in grade 5,6,7,8 bringing my own baseball glove to school every day and a tennis ball. We used to play catch every recess or foot hockey with the ball and the girls played too. I sometimes was the goalie and used my baseball glove and pretended I was Mike Palmateer of the 1980 Maple Leafs. During class I would sit on my glove so it could get “worked in” better and make it softer. So bring your own recess equipment and have fun!!! Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 21. People think sport is just good for the body. But don’t forget about the social aspect of sport and play. People who play together or play sports together usually are happier not just because they are playing the sport but because they are talking and laughing with each other and that makes them even happier and healthier! Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 22. To ice an injury wrap ice or an ice bag in a tea towel so you avoid frostbite, then ice for 10 to 20 minutes (depending on the area), followed by 40 minutes of no ice or slowly warm up the injury. Repeat if necessary. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal!

23. The following was written by an Unknown author:

The duration of an athletic event is only but a few moments, while the training for it may take months of hard work and continuous exercise of self efforts.

The real value of sport is not the game played in the limelight of the applause, but the hours of dogged determination and self discipline carried out alone imposed and supervised by an exacting conscience.

The applause soon dies away.

The prize is left behind. But the character you build up is yours forever.

Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 24. Using ankle braces for sports such as volleyball and basketball is a good idea to prevent injuries and does not reduce performance. Remember: an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 25. Give me a "C" for Collagen Collagen is the most abundant form of protein found in the human body. Although most of us are more familiar with its aesthetic value thanks to an endless onslaught of beauty marketing campaigns, collagen is integral to several forms of soft tissue in the body, including tendons and ligaments. Now here is where the rubber hits the road and we bring you back to nutrition basics: vitamin C is essential for collagen synthesis. It activates enzymes which convert proline and lysine (amino acids) into hydroxyproline and hydroxylysine, which are needed to give collagen its 3-D structure. Fresh, whole foods such as fruits and vegetables are always the best way to get vitamin C, and they contain modest sugars, various fibers, and bioflavonoids - a class of phytonutrients that produce and protect collagenous structures, and mitigate inflammatory pathways. Don’t be afraid to supplement either: stress, sugars, illness and refined foods increase your vitamin C needs dramatically. Regardless of your nutrient media, beware of other side effects: better immunity, improved phase 2 liver detoxification, and nicer skin! Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 26. Before a race or game eat lots of pasta or other carbs the night before and 2 hours before the event. Have lots of water before and a little during the event. After the event always eat protein and carbs about an hour after the event and drink juice or milk. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal!

27. Not wearing shoes in school, untied laces and wrestling in the schoolyard will not get you a spot on the sports team. What does that mean? Too often students don’t wear their shoes properly in school or play dangerously at recess and a few years ago this resulted in injuries where my best volleyball player broke his arm wrestling in the schoolyard and couldn’t play in the tournament. Another girl tripped on her shoelaces and fell down the stairs hard. So you decide if it’s worth it. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 28. What sports should you choose when growing up? That depends on your parents’ budget, number of brothers and sisters, what you like to play, and time. Your parents may also want you to do a family life-long sport such as skiing, hiking or biking. Some sports that involve all 3 basic movements of running, jumping and throwing are volleyball, tennis, baseball and basketball. Great cardio workouts are from hockey and soccer. If you do at least one running, jumping and throwing sport per year your muscles will learn and be able to succeed in other sports you have never played and you may want to do those in the future. If you play too many sports, your schoolwork will suffer and so will your body. So choose wisely. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 29. After physical exercise you should drink a glass of milk instead of a sports drink. Milk helps build your muscles more than a sports drink. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 30. Hospitals need higher concentration of vaccines now in North America because people in this continent are getting heavier. Be careful what dose you receive if you ever need a vaccine. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 31. Visualize your goals and you will succeed faster than if you just work on your task. Visualization means dream it, see it in your mind. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 32. You can have your parents check for Radon gas in your home by getting a Radon Gas Test Kit from a hardware store. Pro-Labs is a great kit. Radon is everywhere and causes lung cancer. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 33. Drink water at school not juice or pop. They are high in sugar and you will feel tired after about an hour then you won’t focus in school. Drink juice after school for a treat. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal!

34. Blueberries and red wine have lots of anti-oxidants which are good for your eyes. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 35. Sometimes a workout or playing a sport will help, if you are tired or have a headache. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 36. Walnuts are the best nuts for heart health and so are other kinds. Just a small handful twice a week. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 37. I went for another run today and was thinking that it's ok to take a break from a sport or even a non-sport activity or even a friend or try a different sport for fun, once in a while, then get back into it again. Your body will heal and your mind will be refreshed and you will enjoy the activity better again. Performance won't drop that much. It might even improve because it's called cross-training. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 38. Eating green veggies every day improves memory. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 39. Mind health: the best way to improve your memory or when you study, is to read and speak aloud the material you are studying. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 40. If your family has used, clean, shoe orthotics and/or clean, knee braces in any size, please give them to Mr. Leone to donate to Canadian Disability Resources. Until next time, keep one eye on other people's goals! 41. Medical Dictionary Artery: The study of paintings Bacteria: Back door to the cafeteria Dilate: To live long Fibula: A small lie Morbid: A higher offer Node: I knew it Outpatient: A person who has fainted Pelvis: Second cousin to Elvis

Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 42. Corinthians 6:19-20 states “Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit?” So take care of your bodies for your sake and to honour God. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 43. If you have difficulty sleeping, try massaging below your ankles for a couple of minutes before sleep. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal!

44. Grateful people sleep better. A study from 2011 reports spending a few minutes jotting down or thinking of a few grateful thoughts before bed may help you sleep better and longer. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 45. If your knees hurt going up stairs one at a time, try two at a time and they may “reset” themselves. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 46. To prevent headaches, eat sunflower seeds, cashews, peanuts, soybeans and coconut which contain chemicals that relax and open blood vessels, reducing your risk for head pain. Integrative medical expert Dr. Fred Pescatore says headaches can be caused by swings in barometric pressure – which cause spasms in your brain’s blood vessels. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal!

47. Exercises such as push-ups, squats, planks and weight lifting help ease depression and make you feel happier, according to a new study. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal! 48. Ladies, [|eating] healthy, can help protect your hearing. The research was conducted by the Brigham and Women's Hospital. Healthy [|eating] may lower risk of __ [|hearing loss] __by 30 percent. Have olive oil, grains, legumes, nuts, fish, fruits and vegetables, low-fat dairy, and low sodium. Until next time, keep your eye on the goal!