It was another busy week here in the 5/6 classroom.  Students were excited to start Genius Hour again as well as our newest writing unit – Poetry!  The students have all chosen a poem to recite to the class and we are having a friendly “Poetry Slam” – a poetry reading competition.  A few groups have gone and I am looking forward to hearing the rest of the class recite their poems in the coming weeks.

Service Day: Next Wednesday our class will be baking muffins to give to Cyrus Center, a shelter for at-risk youth.  Each table group has chosen the type of muffins they will make and have divided up the ingredients.  The ingredients are listed in the student’s planner.  Please remember to bring them WEDNESDAY, APRIL 19th.  We will be baking in the morning and I will deliver them after school.  I would love a parent or two to help out between 9:30 & 11:00.  If you are able to come please email me at pgoosen@highroadacademy.com.

Full Dress Wednesdays:  Just a friendly reminder that full dress uniform needs to be worn each Wednesday.  This includes pants for the boys and a kilt for the girls.  They need to have button down shirts and their cardigans.  We will start handing out classroom ‘fines’ (part of our classroom economy) for students who do not dress appropriately as well as awarding table points for the table groups who are all wearing their correct uniforms.

Kleenex Needed:  We have run out of Kleenex for the classroom.  If you could bring in a box next week to help us get through the end of the year, that would be much appreciated!

Field Trip Forms:  This week there has been a track and field form sent home and today there is a Lindeman Lake Hike form coming home.  Please sign and return those next week.

Upcoming Dates:

Friday, April 14th – Good Friday, school closed

Monday, April 17th – Easter Monday, school closed

Wednesday, April 19th – Service Day (bring baking ingredients)

Monday, April 24th – Pro D Day

Wednesday, April 26th – Knight’s Day

Monday, May 1st – Lindeman Lake field trip

Spelling Lists

List 1 (R6):  feature, neighbour, beige, sleeve, poverty, visitor, toward, pickle, advice, tobacco, article, drown, liquid, decade, disaster, vessel, avenue, janitor, against, method

List 2 (V3): weight, campaign, consciousness, controllable, organize, organization, sense, sensible, compression, experience, permitted, profit, arrangement, discussion, session, welfare, tying, resemble, resemblance, magnificent

Wishing you and your family a wonderful Easter weekend.