Weekly Update

12
Feb
2021

Good afternoon! I hope you are having a wonderful start to the Family Day weekend! We had a productive week here in the Grade Five classroom! Rube Goldbergs were completed this week (I will send a blog post with the videos shortly) and the students did AN AMAZING JOB! I was so impressed with the creativity in the projects, the students abilities to problem solve and work as a team. Well done! Students also had fun with their buddies, working together on a Valentine’s craft.

Here is a snapshot of what we did in class this week:

Math: We are coming to the end of our division unit. Students completed their division booklets, did an online ‘build a monster’ division problem solving activity and are working on a Movie Marathon division activity. They will have a unit quiz this coming week and we will then move into algebraic equations (solving for the unknown).

Writing: We have started our final persuasive writing project on the student’s favourite superhero. This has a research component where the students use a couple of websites to read about and choose their favourite superhero. This is a ‘show me what you know’ writing piece, where students will need to include all the elements of persuasive writing that we have learned about this year.

Science: Rube Goldberg projects finished on Monday and we began our next unit on Mixtures and Solutions. On Friday students experimented mixing a variety of solids and liquids together, observing their results. We then read about mixtures, solutions and compound, and will delve deeper into that next week.

French: We continued exploring the numbers 1-20.

Social Studies: This week we discussed push and pull factors of immigration. Each child has brought home a family immigration page to fill in with you. This is due Wednesday. If you need an extra copy please use the pictures of the assignment below.