We had a great week here in the Grade 5 classroom!  Here is a snapshot of what we have been working on:

Math – we finished up our learning on Fractions and will begin working with decimals next week:

Science – we finished our exploratory centers with the digestive system and will continue our learning next week.

Writing – the class has been enjoying our poetry slam and the fun poems we have been writing.  We have another week of poetry writing before we move on to our next unit.

Reading: We worked on summarization this week.

Social Studies: The class discussed their ideas for how to colonize Mars. Each group was responsible for a different aspect of how our community would thrive as we immigrate. We learned that making decisions for a large group of people is very challenging and that we all have different ideas about what is best for our survival.

Things Coming Up:

No BMV this week.

Save the date:  We have a field trip to Lindeman Lake on Thursday, May 27th.  We would love parents to join us on this trip.  You will need to ensure that your criminal record check information is up to date at the office and meet us at the trailhead.  We will plan to leave school at 9:15 and return around 2:00.

April Dates:

Friday, April 30th pro d day

I hope you have been able to enjoy this beautiful weather this week!  It has felt like summer this weekend, hasn’t it?  We had a great week in our classroom and the students have been very productive, despite the summer weather outside!  Here is a snapshot of what we were working on this week:

Math:  we continued our work with fractions, with a focus on equivalent fractions as well as ordering fractions.  Next week we will wrap up this unit and move on to decimals.

Writing:  We kicked off our poetry unit this week with our poetry slam!  Students chose a poem and we have been having a poetry reading contest at the beginning of each writing block.  We also wrote three poems this week…and they are amazing!

Science:  We started a new unit on the human body this week.  We learned the relationship between cells, tissues, organs and systems and then students acted out the digestive system!  That was fun (and there may have been some giggling in there as well).  Next week students will work their way through centers as they explore more about this system.

Bible:  Students are beginning an independent topical study.  Students looked over a variety of topics and chose a few that might interest them.  This week we will dig in to the Bible to see what it has to say!

Reading: This week we explored the city of Lahore, Pakistan in order to better understand the journey of our protagonist. Students also responded to some reading comprehension.

Social Studies: As we continue our current unit, we are now trying to figure out what our class colony on Mars should be like since in our hypothetical story we are now immigrating there. Students are in different groups with specific focuses. Next week we will talk about areas we all agree on and things that we would like to change.

Art: Due to the beautiful weather we paused our current art project and instead did a nature found object activity. The theme was ‘beach’ and with some strict guidelines and a limited amount of time the class used found objects in the school garden to create some incredible pieces of art! See for yourselves!

Things Coming Up,,,

Save the date:  We have a field trip to Lindeman Lake on Thursday, May 27th.  We would love parents to join us on this trip.  You will need to ensure that your criminal record check information is up to date at the office and meet us at the trailhead.  We will plan to leave school at 9:15 and return around 2:00.

Interim Reports:  These will be coming home on Friday and are meant to give you a snapshot of how your child is doing as we head toward the final stretch of Grade Five.

Upcoming Dates:

Apr. 23 – Interim Reports go home & Knights Day

Apr. 30 – Pro-D Day

Here are some photos for you to enjoy…

The weeks seem to be flying by!  Although we had a short week this week, we still managed to get a lot accomplished!  Here is an overview of what we did this week:

Math:  We continued our learning of fractions with a focus on building equivalent fractions.  Next week we will work on ordering and comparing fractions.

Writing:  Students wrote a comparative essay this week, following the both, same, different, end writing structure.  They compared two items of their choice and I was impressed with the writing that I saw!  Next week we begin our poetry unit.

Reading : We’re halfway through our novel study now. This week we had some great ethical discussions relating to the book and students wrote a chapter summary.

Social Studies: The class had the chance to reflect on a political cartoon from 140 years ago and pretend to tell the illustrator what they think the cartoonist should know about racism.

Art: We practiced using water colour pencil crayons this week. Our focus was on blending and shading.

A Few Reminders…

Beach Day on Wednesday:  Students can come dressed up in their favourite beach wear!  Shorts and t’s, tank tops etc.  The weather should even be nice on Wednesday!

Interim Reports:  We will be sending these out on Friday, April 23rd.

Little Hoopsters & Little Diggers:  Please continue to pick students up after school at regular time and provide your own supervision until programing starts. Again, thank you so much for your cooperation in these strange times! We are all doing our best to provide our best for students within the current limitation.

Upcoming Dates:

Apr. 14 – Beach Day K-6

Apr. 16 – Knights Day

Apr. 23 – Interim Reports go home & Knights Day

Apr. 30 – Pro-D Day

I wanted to send a reminder that Little Diggers & Hoopsters start this week.

Little Diggers is today (Tuesdays) from 3:45 – 4:30

Little Hoopsters is on Mondays from 3:45 – 4:45 and Thursdays from 3:00 – 3:55.

Please remember that students still need to be picked up after school and then dropped back off when their session starts at 3:45.  As our campus is closed after school, students cannot wait around at the playground or on campus.  Thanks for your understanding with this.

Happy Easter to you and your family,  We had a great first week back!  We have begun a lot of new units this week and are looking forward to this final stretch of school.  Here is what we worked on this week:

Writing:  We have begun our comparative writing piece this last week and will continue working on it this week.  We also are working on a morning grammar booklet.

Math:  We have begun our unit on fractions and will be focusing our attention on equivalent fractions and comparing fractions.

Bible:  We finished our mini Easter unit and will be turning our attention next week to an independent study unit.  Bible Memory will be coming home tomorrow.  I have included this week’s BMV for you here as well.  The Bible Memory page has also been updated.

Galatians 5:22-23. But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self control.   Against such things there is no law.

Science:  This week we finished our Mixtures and Solutions unit and students did a ‘show what you know’ unit assessment on Tuesday.  I was thrilled to see how much students learned during this Science unit.  We are now turning our attention to the human body. First up, the digestive system!

Reading: we continued to read Amal Unbound. This week we discussed figurative language (simile, metaphor, and personification) as well as how to compare and contrast using a Venn diagram.

Social Studies: This week we looked at some old pictures of early Chinese immigrants to BC and talked about how images can tell us a lot about history. One of the most interesting discussions was about a political cartoon, the class was incredibly insightful as they talked about the ways that racism and discrimination were evident and displayed in the drawing. We also spent some time learning in the school garden, some students made friends with a local snail when their work was done.

April Calendar:

Apr. 9 – Knights Day

Apr. 14 – Beach Day K-6

Apr. 16 – Knights Day

Apr. 23 – Interim Reports go home & Knights Day

Apr. 30 – Pro-D Day

Here are a few pictures for you to enjoy!

Have a great week!