A Promise is A Promise is A Promise

6/2/2016

June, JUNE, can you believe that it’s already June? And this is it, the last month, the last push before we say goodbye to the community we’ve built this year and say hello to summer, grade 7 and your future! That being said, it’s not quite summer yet and we have 4 full weeks of school to continue our learning and to make sure that it is meaningful learning. When we started this year, we made promises to ourselves and to each other about what we would accomplish this year, about the people we would be and about how we would try to act. For this last month, I think we need to renew our vows and to make some promises about how we will all get the most out of our last month here.
For myself, I promise that I will try to be patient with you and to understand your excitement as we near the end of the year.
I promise that I will continue to listen to your, to what you need and to create lessons based on the needs of the class as a whole.
I promise I will maintain my high expectations of you. I know that you’re all capable of truly incredible things and I promise that I will continue to expect that and your absolute best every day.
For your blog post, make and explain three promises that you will fulfill over the last four weeks. Think of the best for the class, for you, and for learning. I’m excited to read and hold you to your promises as I hope you’ll hold me to mine. Let’s keep crushing it!

Khushi

6/2/2016 12:51:54 pm

Last time my vows were plan and vague this time I want to put some character and meaning into them. To be honest my promises were something that anybody could achieve and I didn't even know what to do. Over the last couple months of school I have definitely changed. The people I surrounded myself with and the places I went to and the things I saw shaped me as a person and shaped me as who I am right now. Anyways here are my NEW vows...

1. My first promise is that I promise to make the most out of my time in grade 6. That is my first vow because we got to try new and cool things in grade 6 and we learned in different ways that other classes were not able to. We were also able to learn things that the other grade 6 class didn't learn like coding and we even got filmed a couple of times. Even though we have 4 weeks of school left we are going to learn new things and we have to make sure we pay attention even though EQAO is finished.

2. My next promise is that I promise to be way more nicer. I know that it's vague and plain but over the last couple months I have changed my attitude and I can get really rude sometimes and make people mad and even be the person who is being rude and saying rude stuff. Not just to other people but me too because for the people who talk to me know that I say rude stuff to myself all the time like "that's because I'm fat","I'm fat","I look like the grinch", "I'm really ugly" and stuff like that because I think that's ok. When it's really not nice to say rude stuff to other people and even yourself.

3. Last but not least I promise to ACTUALLY participate in things that involve physical movement during school. I'm pretty sure everybody has noticed that I'm not very good at sports and I prefer to just sit down and watch something on youtube rather than actually doing something active. I usually don't do the activity or sport because I know that I am going to embarrass myself in front of everybody. Other times I;m just to lazy. I want to keep this as a promise because activities and sports isn't something I do and I want to step out of my comfort zone.

I know that my promises were weird but it is the last month of school. Anyways to finish this blog post off here is a quote by somebody here it is: "People with good intentions make promises. People with good character keep them."

~Peace out girl scout
~Khushi Out
~Toodles

You do NOT look like the Grinch,

6/9/2016 02:00:18 pm

Don't be rude to yourself, you look great!

6/9/2016 02:32:10 pm

Yerin

6/5/2016 07:44:21 am

It almost feels like yesterday when I ran into the classroom late, because my bus didn't come on the first day of school. Having just a few weeks left of grade 6 I want to make the most of my time. I looked back at my vows from September and this is what I wrote:
-I promise to be a hard worker and to do my best
-I promise to be respectful to my teacher and peers
-I promise to take more challenges

I think I have accomplished these 3 things (I hope)
so here are my new vows for the rest of the school year.

1. I will stay focused. As the school year comes to an end, we will start to get more excited and rowdy, but we need to contain our energy for summer, and so Mr.Steltman doesn't explode.

2. I will try to not yell at people. I can get annoyed very easily, and too some poor people I will yell at them (sorry about that). So I will TRY to keep it in and be happy

3. I will do my absolute best in everything. I've said this all year, but it is something you should be doing all the time. Doing your best can make you feel your best.

Those are my new vows for the grade 6 year. I hopeto have lots of fun with you for the few weeks that we have left!

~~Yerin

Blake

6/6/2016 12:45:11 pm

It his been a great year but everything has to eventually come to an end.

Here are the 3 things I am going to do at the end of the year.

1. I will try to stay focused and not to fool around because I know everybody gets excited when it is the end of the year.

2. Sometimes we have projects at the end of the year.
I am going to try and finish all the projects we have this year before school ends.

3. The last but not least thing that I am going to do is Help others.
If others are off task I will fool around with them for a while and then tell them to get on task.
Just kidding I will not fool around with them I will tell them to get on task.

Those are the 3 things that I am going to do for the last month of school

Javed

6/6/2016 12:56:36 pm

When I joined River Oaks I was a bit anxious because It is new territory for me. Sometimes everything needs to come and go. Like grade 6.For this month I am going to make sure that I always keep studying so I stay smart and I have a bright future. My second promise is to stay happy . Have lot's of friends over the 4 weeks and also over the whole entire summer. My last promise is to make sure I hand in the projects or any type of work done by the due date.

Emily

6/6/2016 01:00:58 pm

It’s June and the last month of Grade 6! I remember at the start of the year I made some promises that I would follow. I don’t remember what they are but I can tell you, I have had one of the most incredible year! Now for the last month, here are my vows!

1. I promise that I will try my best to stay on track even though it is the last month of school. I feel like every time it is almost Summer, all I am thinking about is what I’m going to do. So that is why I promise to stay on track!

2. I promise to still be nice to everyone even if I’m in a bad mood. I know when I'm in a bad mood and it isn't pleasant, so whenever I'm in a bad mood, I'll try to cheer up a bit and still be nice to everyone.

3. I also promise that I'll have to best of Grade 6. I can't believe it is almost the end of Grade 6. Already finished EQAO! Time has went by so fast this year. I've learned over the years, if time goes by slow, you are bored, but if you are having a good time, time goes by so fast.

Those are my three promises for the end of the year! I have more than three promises but those are the main promises!

<>Emily

Monica

6/9/2016 01:58:47 pm

There's only a couple more weeks left until school ends and before I can enjoy my summer I must do this homework so here we go:

These are my goals that I made at the beginning of the year:
I promise I will...

1. Always be respectful to all my friends and peers and never be rude
2. Always be open minded to work with anyone and not underestimate others
3. Always help people with their needs when they ask me and in group activities

Now looking back at these goals I know that I reflected on them a lot and I have done awesome to Accomplish those goals.

Now I am going to tell you about the goals that I want to accomplish for the rest of school.

1. Practice, when I say practice I mean I'm going to try my hardest when we are doing subjects in school . the last couple weeks of school are left but I still want to remember a lot of stuff so when I come back in grade seven I don't forget everything.

2. Stay focused , With being so less time for school to end everyone is getting jumpy and crazy and really excited And so I want to try to stay focused as long as have fun.

3. have fun, this is probably a really weird goal but being a couple weeks left for school I want enjoy the most of it since it's the last time l am ever gonna be in grade 6 (I hope)
I want to make the most of it.

Those are my goals that I wanna accomplish by the end of the year

~Monica.

Rayna

6/6/2016 02:10:10 pm

I can't believe grade 6 is almost over. I remember the first day like it was just yesterday. Walking into my new class examining all the familiar faces and just knowing this is going to be a great year. I have felt that our class has become more close through out these months together. At the beginning of the year we were told to make 3 promises. Here is a quick recap of what mine were...
I promise I will...

1. I will always lend a helping hand to all my peers in need
2. I promise to always to do my best even if it is not my favorite subject.
3. I promise to always be open minded with all ideas from my peers

My new promises for the next few weeks are..

1. I promise to continue to learn and push myself to become the best learner I can be, even if it is the end of the year

2. I promise to be more enthusiastic when I am trying new activities

3. I promise to learn from my mistakes so I can learn from them and to help with grade 7

These are my 3 promises for the last few weeks of school.

Rayna

Vib

6/6/2016 02:31:53 pm

To be a better friend.
To learn so much about everyone before we are gone.
To learn more easy ways for math.

Haider

6/6/2016 02:45:16 pm

I can't believe it's June already, it just went by really fast. Grade 6 has been the best year so far. I have so many awesome memories. Soon I will be passing grade 6 (hopefully!!) so here are my three promises for the last month.

1. I promise to continue finishing my homework on time.
I choose this promise because we never had any homework during EQAO and this made me really excited, but when we finished EQAO we got homework again. Finishing my homework will help me with getting a better mark in my classes.

2. I promise to keep on playing and practicing soccer so I have a better chance of getting on the soccer team next year.
I will keep going to my soccer games and practices in order to improve on my soccer skills. I really want to make the soccer team, so I play more soccer games rather than just once a week.

3. I promise to work on organizing my Google Drive so I can get a better mark on my Organization next time. Being Organized will help me find the stuff I need a lot easier.

Dominique

6/6/2016 03:13:16 pm

Hello people of class 6-2, today I'm here to promise, to promise about many things and to fulfil these promises by the end of grade 6. I promise to do my best and to never give up on my work and to never say "It's hopeless" and to NEVER EVER give up. I promise to be courages and to take risks and to keep being strong. I promise to NEVER give up on my friends, teachers and family and believe in my self and others and to NEVER discourage others. I just wanted to say thank you everybody in my class for making who I am and for accepting me at River Oaks and so far this school turned out for the better. And a quote...
"I can't promise to fix all your problems but I can promise, You wont have to face them alone"
Again, thank you for everything
~Dominique

Dominique

6/6/2016 03:17:26 pm

*Couragous

Jessica

6/7/2016 02:43:21 pm

Hello I'm going to tell you three promises that I will do for the rest of grade six.

1. I'm going to try to be more into what I'm doing. For example inanimate Alice I tried hard to make it as detailed as I could.

2.To focus on my work I talk to my friends and sometimes that can get me distracted so I set a goal to be more focussed on my work while I'm doing it.

3. To challenge my self I choose this one because I like to choose the question that is not that hard but for the rest of the school year I'm going to choose the harder quetion.

Those are my three promises that I'm going to make for the rest of the school year.
~Jessica

Paul

6/7/2016 05:26:28 pm

1. I promise to do my best in class for the rest of the year. I want to do this because getting good grades is very important so you can get in to a good school or a good job.
2. I promise to be positive. I noticed that I have not been super positive and that is bad. If I stay positive I can feel better and I can accomplish more goals instead of giving up.
3. I promise to do what I am told right when I'm being told. Sometimes I don't listen and don't act on what I'm suppose to do and I get in trouble. I realize if I just do what I am asked I won't get in trouble.

Tom

6/7/2016 05:29:31 pm

It was a great year to me at grade 6 with everyone. Here is 3 things I will do at the end of this year also during summer break:

1. I will stay calm and don't do silly things because is almost end of this school year( everyone went crazy).

2. Try my best at the 4 left month because I want a good ending.

3. Take turns to wash dishes during summer break, I don't want my mom be too tired.

I hope I reminds my self to do those things.

Chloe

6/8/2016 12:35:54 pm

I can not believe that it is June already, it feels like the first day of school was yesterday and its hard to believe that the last day of school is so soon!

My three promise that I will be do for the rest of grade 6 are:

1. I will always try to look for the best in bad situations. If I do this I think I will become a more posited person. I think that I will start to look at the good in every situation.

2. I promise that I will not be as hard on myself. This is important because I find myself thinking that I am not doing good at a sport or subject. I think that If I do this I will not care if other people think that I am terrible at that sport or subject and I will know myself that I am great at that sport or subject!

3. I promise that I will try my best at every subject. This is important because sometimes I don't like a subject as much as another so if I try my best I will know that I tried my best at that subject!

Those are my promises for the rest of the year.

-Chloe

Aidan P

6/8/2016 01:44:32 pm

When I started grade 6 the day went past so fast and I thought that was a good then at first but then I made very good friends and I did not want the day to end and Mr Steltman (the best teacher ever) help me a lot in this school year. Here is the 3 promise I made to my self at the start of the year.

1, Learn a lot. I have learned a lot past the school and it will be very helpful in everyday life.

2, Try and listen. I can not listen for over 20 minutes but Mr Steltman talk for 10 minutes so I wont get off track some of the times.

3, Be helpful. I don't think I have been very helpful but in book I think I have been very helpful.

Thank you everybody for making me, me.

Aidan gone bye bye.

Nicole

6/8/2016 02:11:53 pm

Grade 6 has gone by so fast. It is going to be sad knowing that not all of us are going to be in the same class next year. I have had so much fun this year I don't want it to end so soon! To end the year I have three promises. Here they are...

1. My first promise is that I will always try my best. If it is either a hard math problem or running in gym I will never give up. I hope we all try our hardest and finish the year strong.

2. My second promise is to be helpful to anyone who needs it at anytime. If I put myself in their shoes I would probably want help as fast as they do so I should help them out ASAP.

3. My last promise is to listen and answer my family, friends, and teachers. I shouldn't day dream and wonder off or keep watching my show. If people need answers I will help them. I don't want to be rude and ignore them.

Although our task was to write three promises, I have more. I just didn't write them because I am just going to do them randomly. It is kind of like a random act of kindness.

All our promises are going to help make a difference for someone's day. If it's helping them on a math question or just listening to their story. Our class is committed to what they wrote and are going to stick with our promises. That is why it is going to be so hard to leave this class.

Connor #THE YEAR WENT BY SO QUICKLY!!!

6/8/2016 03:46:28 pm

I will miss you all, and I am not sure if we will be in the same class, which will be very sad. :(
Here are my top 3 promises for the month.

1. I will help around the class more
Why I need to do that is because I
want to help other people do stuff. It's kind.

2. I will listen ALL the time, now
Why I need to do that is because
I'm not reading during class,
but I will listen way more now, because
the teacher might say something important,
and I wouldn't be able to do the test.

3. My third and final promise is...

...to manage my stocks in the project better. LOL
Why I need to do that is...

... I just want an extra lunch!
(Even if it means sharing it with Mr. Steltman)

These are my top 3 promises for the month.
Bye! :)

Logan

6/9/2016 01:12:23 pm

This year has been so fun but all good thing have to come to a end and this time it is school ya!! you never know what is going to happen with the classes next year like some people maybe have half of there class in the grade 7 class next year or zero of your friends.

My first promise is...
Always stay positive because the school year is almost over and say there is a new project due in 5 days about why colours are made. So I need to stay positive and try to finish it.

The second promise is...
Try my best because if you don't try your best you can't do a lot of stuff that people can do. because you aren't try your best at something doesn't mean that you are bad at it. It means that you need to try hard they you are trying now.

The third promise is...
To be more helpful because if you are not helping someone do something it doesn't fill as good as you helping someone do something. After you fill good because you help someone and now the are better at the sport or anything.

Those are my three promises and I am going to try my best to do all of those in them four weeks that is left of school and the next year.

BYE

Aidan Roseland-Barnes

6/9/2016 02:04:11 pm

Thank you so much for such a fantastic year! I have had so much fun and great moments. I will most definitely remember this as one of the best schools years in my life. The person I should thank most is Mr. Steltman though. He is the one that was here when we needed him and the one that helped us when we were in need. I think I said that for everyone. These are my three promises:

1. I PROMISE I will do my best whenever doing something and put in extra effort.

2. I PROMISE I will help anyone with anything (to a certain limit) when they are in need.

3. Last but not least I PROMISE I will help my mom to cook whenever she needs it.

That's All Folks!

#helping your parents

6/9/2016 03:38:27 pm

nice

Kai

6/9/2016 06:20:17 pm

I think that the last few weeks are very important towards your report card and how you represent yourself. A lot of students usually don't behave or work hard in the last few weeks because they don't think that it is important but it is. For the last few week I am going to try and...

1: Work hard in every class. Sometimes near the end of the year the work gets a little easier and sometimes students take advantage of that and don't work at all. For the last few weeks I will do my best to stay focused and do my best on anything that I need to get done. Sometimes near the end of the year I get distracted easily but this year I will try to change that.

2: Don't get distracted. Sometimes near the end of the year I get distracted easily but this year I will try to change that. I usually get really excited at the end of the year and I am not always focused on what I need to get done.

3: Be nice, I'm not mean to anyone during the end of the year, but I still think that it is important to make sure that you are nice to everyone and your aren't bullying anyone or making them feel badly.

Those are my goals for the last few weeks of school.

Lucas

6/9/2016 07:10:49 pm

I think that these last four weeks are really important because this is the final report card and this is the one that matters most. I want to get fantastic marks and learning skills just like everybody else but I am not perfect so that wont happen. If I make these last four weeks in school I will get better marks on my report card because the thing that I was doing not great will maybe be great by the end of the year. Now this is not only about my report card it is just about my future and about what things I need to get better. Even if I get better by the time the report cards are already handed out , I will still feel good because I have gotten better at the thing that I wanted to get better on. These promises are not going to be stuff too big because I can't achieve that stuff in 4 weeks but just somethings small that I promise to do that makes a positive impact on me or other people. Here are my three promises.

1. My first promise for the end of the year is that if someone is just playing by them self or sitting by them self I promise to go play with them , invite them to play with us , invite them to sit with us , or go sit with them. I want to do this because that will maybe make someone think who maybe isn't sure if they want to sit with a certain group of people , maybe it will make them feel more comfortable and will help them know that they are always welcome.This is just a small promise but it can make somebody a lot happier by just saying a couple words. So what I am trying to say is I promise to always make people feel welcome.

2. My second promise for the end of the year is to always try 110% in every single thing that I do, unless I need to try 60% for some weird reason. OK back on track , I want to always try my absolute best because sometimes I only try 90 or 80 % and I find that not OK because I think that I should always try my best because the harder I try the better I do. I will be more enthusiastic when I try 110% because I will always be into it and I will not drift of into space. So I guess what I am trying to say is I promise that in the next 4 weeks of school I will always try my absolute best in every thing I do.

3. My third promise that I wish to fulfill by the end of this school year is that I want to fulfill all of my promises, because I believe that in order to get better I need to follow through with my promises. A goal or a promise is not effective when you do not follow through with the goal or the promise. If you don't follow through the goal or the promise that somebody made is completely useless because it means nothing. But I will not let that happen because one of my promises is specifically that. So I guess what I am trying to say is I promise my the end of the school year I have followed through on my promises.

I really feel like I need to follow through with these promises because I actually promised that I would so if I break those promises I wont feel accomplished. I also think that goals and promises to yourself are a really good way of self improvement because I know what I need to get better at better than anybody else. I made a promise and I am not going to break it I promise.

Noah

6/9/2016 07:21:26 pm

Grade 6 this year has been so fun and I really do not want it to end, I felt like just a few weeks ago it was the start of September and I was very nervous talking to the new people that are in out class this year, but today I feel confident and very comfortable talking to this people and working in a project with these people. As I was saying this year has gone by so, so, so , so , so fast and I am going to miss this class because we only have 4 weeks left in the class. At the start of the year on one of our first blog posts we talked about our goals for this year and one of my goals that I still try to accomplish to this day is that I will try my best, no matter if I am in a bad situation, no matter if I am in a good situation, even if I have no chance of succeeding I will always try my best. So for this weeks blog post I will talk about my new goals that aroused over the course of the year, so here it goes.

Here are my 3 promises for the rest of the year

1. My first promise (although I kind of covered the topic in the intro is that I will work my hardest no matter the situation, no matter the circumstance I will always try my best. The reason I will always try my best is because if I give up I am missing great potential, because what I am doing at the time can turn into something big, but I it could not turn into something big because I gave up and quit, so that is why I always believe that trying your best can only have benefits to your later life, and also trying your best can not do bad for you.

2. My second promise for me to try to work me best with other people and listen to other people and try to be as nice as I can, I just love when everyone is happy and there are no conflicts going on and everyone is happy as can frolicking across the grass and getting along, the reason I think this is a good this is because there is non chance where something can turn into a big fight and everyone is happy

3. My third promise is I will try to make everyone around me happy by treating them with respect, kindness, and empathy amongst other things those are some of the most important, another way I can make this possible is by if I see someone that is feeling left or sad I will make them feel included and that we make them feel better about them self, that is my third and final promise that I will be saying.

Those are the promises that I have for the last few weeks of school :)

What are your promises?

-Noah

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Salma

6/12/2016 12:11:59 pm

Promise?
promise.

This year has been amazing and I can't believe there is only about 2 weeks left! Even though summers coming up we still have to make these couple of weeks amazing and really show what we can do so for this weeks blog post I am going to tell you my 3 promises I have to still make these two weeks amazing!

1.My first promise is that I always want t put as much effort in my work. sometimes when I am done early I still can make many more things to make my assignment better and thats how I will get a better mark

2.My second promise is to help anyone who is struggling to solve a question or if they are just feeling down. Its really good to be helpful because then peers will start realizing that they can always count on someone!

3. My last promise for this blog post is to remember to manage my time and instead of doing something useful I could start working on a project I am a bit behind or put more effort in it as I said in my first promise!

Lets make the rest of this year even more amazing!

-Salma

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