We had another great week here in the grade 5/6 classroom.  With spring break and report cards quickly approaching, we find that there is a hustle to get things finished up!  We also have a number of things happening over the next two weeks, as listed in the upcoming dates.

Upcoming Dates:

Monday, February 27th – Intermediate Skating from 1:00 – 2:00 at Prospera Center.  Bus leaves HRA at 12:30.

Wednesday, March 1st – Jump Rope for Heart Day.  Please return all forms by this date.

Friday, March 3rd – 1/2 day for students with 12:15 dismissal

Tuesday, March 7th – Brittania Mine Museum

Friday, March 10th – Last day before spring break and report cards go home.

Thailand Suitcase:  This is our ‘final push’ to get our suitcase filled.  Next week is the last week that we can bring items for the team to take to Thailand.  Please help us fill the suitcase!  School supplies and travel sized toiletries would be greatly appreciated!

Brittania Field Trip Forms:  Just a reminder that field trip forms need to be in by Tuesday, February 28th.

Skating:  Students can wear casual clothes on Monday.  They will also need to remember their skates and helmets!

Spelling Lists:

List 1 (R2): radio, video, shelf, valley, mouse, echo, diamond, salary, lawyer, prisoner, prefix, success, variety, sheep, moose, piano, eternity, tomato, idea, enemy

List 2 (U4): senate, senator, expense, acquire, elaborate, elegant, ancient, delicious, confidential, conversion, distinguish, ignore, ignorance, necessity, excellence, meant, providence, finally, interfere, interferene

Have a super weekend!

The Britannia permission slip went home today so please fill it in and return by next Tuesday.  Parents are invited to come along.  Tickets are $17 each (no cost for students) and parents will need to arrange carpooling together since there is no space on the bus.

Biography Projects:

Starting next week, the students will be creating Biography Lapbooks on a famous person of their choice.  Grade 5’s must choose a famous Canadian and Grade 6’s much choose a famous non-Canadian. 🙂  Below are some sample names, but they can choose someone who is not listed – just get it ok’d by Mrs. Derksen.

Parents, could you please help your child to choose a person to focus on by next Tuesday?  It is very important that your child actually have an interest in learning about the person. 🙂  The person may be alive or deceased.  It would be helpful if the famous person has done some kind of ‘humanitarian’ work in their life or raised awareness for an issue (example, mental illness) to use their popularity for good.  Thanks so much for your support!

Click on this link for grade 5:  ListofFamousCanadians 

Click on this link for grade 6:  BiographyProjectNames

Remember that your child does not have to pick someone on the list, these names are an extra help if they are stuck.

Here are a few pictures of Mrs. Derksen’s sample project.  She chose Princess Diana as her subject.

We finally had a full week of school!  That in itself seems like a reason to celebrate!  We had a very productive week this week and are looking forward to getting a lot of things accomplished before the end of term…which is coming up!  Below are a few dates and reminders, as well as our spelling words for next week.

Thailand Suitcase – we would encourage families to bring in items to fill our suitcase this week!!  A filled suitcase gives us an ice cream party in March!

Skating Rescheduled: we will be going skating on Monday, January 27th.  I believe it is in the afternoon at Prospera but will confirm once I have more details.

Upcoming Dates:

Wednesday, February 22nd – Knight’s Day.

Monday, February 27th – Skating 

Wednesday, March 1 – Jump Rope for Heart Day

Friday, March 3rd – 1/2 Day with 12:15 Dismissal

Tuesday, March 7th – Britannia Mine Museum field trip

Friday, March 10th – Report cards sent home

Monday, March 13 – Friday, March 24th – SPRING BREAK

SPELLING LISTS

List 1: loose, sweet, common, stage, resign, precious, provision, honour, congratulate, tension, tooth, patient, sword, wrech, profession, convention, tempt, facial, attention, experiment

List 2: pigeon, heir, emperor, citizen, attorney, customer, majority, issue, tissue, scene, journey, compliment, appetite, apparatus, envelope, vegetable, approach, difficulty, aisle, icicle

Have a great weekend!

Since the snow week disrupted our academic schedule a bit, we’ve listed a few of the ‘due dates’ of upcoming assignments or quizzes as a reminder for students.

There WILL BE Spelling and Bible this week:

Spelling:

List 1: Q6  although, surprise, religion, estate, backward, progress, towel, effort, special, include, their, example, debt, debit, forward, umbrella, dry, dried, result, perhaps

List 2:  U2  yield, siege, achieve, receive, conceit, vein, foreign, describe, response, rebellious, neutral, suggest, penalize, unfortunate, height, revere, mere, necessary, envelop, compute

Bible Memory Due Thursday:  Romans 8:35-36

Good afternoon!  This Tuesday, February 14th is Valentine’s Dress up.  Student’s can wear Red, White or Pink on Tuesday.

Hope you have a fantastic Family Day!

Valentine’s Day is quickly approaching!  We will exchange cards on Tuesday.  Your child does not have to hand out cards to the class, however, if they decide to hand out cards we ask that all students receive one.  🙂

Nathan B., Josh B., Maiyah, Nico, Chloe, Owen, Holden, Ava, Anthony, Mikaela, Nathan K., Samantha, Imman, Xander, Joseph, Emma, Kiera, Josh N., Preslie, Brookelyn, Ethan, Annie, Christian, David, Claire, Audrey

Stay warm tonight!!

Good evening!  As I am sure you all have read, school is open tomorrow.  I just wanted to send out a couple of reminders:

1.  Genius Hour is tomorrow!  Don’t forget your supplies!
2. Love Thailand Hot Lunch – forms are due in on Thursday and food must be pre-ordered.  Lunch is on Tuesday, February 14th.  There will be no pizza lunch that day.
3. There will be no BMV or spelling this week, due to the CRAZY weather!
4. Please bring snow gear to school tomorrow as we hope to be outside for recess!!

That’s about it!  See you tomorrow!
Mrs. Goosen

What a busy week!  Thanks to everyone that came out to Math Mayhem.  It was a fantastic turnout with so many new games this year.  My personal fave was the giant size game of Dutch Blitz, however my body paid for it the next day. 😉

Important February Dates:

Tomorrow, Feb 3:  Intermediate Ski Trip to Manning

Thursday, Feb 9:  Dogs & Fries Hot Lunch forms due.

Friday, Feb 10:  Pro D Day:  No school for students

Monday, Feb 13:  Family Day Stat:  No School

Tuesday, Feb 14:  Valentines Day Colors Dress-up Day.  Team Thailand ‘Dogs & Fries’ Lunch – Must pre-order by Feb 9th.  No Pizza served this day.

Monday, Feb 22:  Knight’s Day

Tuesday, Feb 28:  LAST DAY to bring in donations for Team Thailand (school supplies and travel size toiletries).

Spelling Lists:

List 1: Q6:  although, surprise, religion, estate, backward, progress, towel, effort, special, include, their, example, debt, debit, forward, umbrella, dry, dried, result, perhaps

List 2:  U2:  yield, siege, achieve, receive, conceit, vein, foreign, describe, response, rebellious, neutral, suggest, penalize, unfortunate, height, revere, mere, necessary, envelop, compute

DOGS AND FRIES EVENT—TUESDAY, FEB. 14^TH—FOR THE THAILAND TEAM!!

Dogs and Fries lunch. This is a great way to give while getting fed!

Hot dogs are $3 and Fries are $3. These prices are set for the purpose of generating funds for projects.

Important Details:

• Order forms were sent home yesterday and extras are available from your child’s teacher.
• All orders are pre-order ONLY!  (We will not be selling at the kitchen doors)

·         The due date for orders to be in is Thursday Feb 9^th. This is a hard date. No orders will be taken after this date. (After school Thursday is fine.)

FILL A SUITCASE/BACKPACK FOR THE THAILAND TEAM!!

We are collecting the following items for Team Thailand to take with them on their Spring Break trip.  Please bring them in during the month of February.  If we fill the suitcase in our classroom, Mr. Maccan will buy ice cream for our class!

1. Travel sized personal hygiene products such as but not limited to shampoo, conditioner, toothpaste, toothbrushes, shaving cream, or any other travel sized product that one can purchase at a dollar store or grocery store
2. Student supplies: Pencils, pens, pads, paper, erasers, calculators, kid scissors, pencil crayons, geometry kits, crayons, etc.—SCHOOL RELATED.

There will be no toys or clothes collected this year.  The Thailand staff requested only the lists above.

Each class is asked to donate a backpack so if you have one at home that is not being used, please send it in. 🙂