FANTASTIC FIVES

The Terry Fox Run will take place on Wednesday, not Tuesday as I posted yesterday.
Mrs. Goosen

This Tuesday, September 23rd we will have having our Terry Fox Run. Our class will be running either 5 or 6 laps around the field, depending on the grade of each student. After our run we will enjoy some oranges. We are also asking students to bring a ‘toonie for Terry’. The money raised will go to the Terry Fox Foundation.

Spelling Words:
List 1 – sale, subtract, nearly, several, equal, since, animal, curious, ninth, which, sail, hundred, o’clock, decimal, amount, complaint, strength, caterpillar, newspaper, hearse.

List 2 – century, centennial, centimeter, examine, examination, marry, marriage, condition, government, stopped, knowledge, theater, megaphone, belief, believe, ability, union, behave, behaviour (behavior will also be accepted), course

Have a great week!

Today we started a classroom mailbox! This was an exciting thing for the students – they are actually allowed to write notes in class! Each student received a hand written letter from Mrs. Goosen and were introduced to our letter writing area – complete with a rural mailbox! It was so much fun seeing the student’s excitement as they opened and read their letters… and the class was pumped when the time came for them to write letters of their own! Who said you can’t have fun in class and cover curriculum at the same time! I have attached some pictures for you to enjoy!

We have begun our spelling program this week. Students were assessed and put into two spelling groups. Both groups will be working on grades 5 & 6 spelling words. Students know which lists they are in and will be tested on their words each Friday of a full week. Below I have the spelling words:

List 1: wait, quit, thumb, blur, lack, signal, level, admit, shadow, travel, Mrs., coward, prison, language, verb, noun, rapid, grief, reddish, election

List 2: impartial, possible, total, particular, natural, temporary, pleasant, grateful, certain, serious, local, opposite, peculiar, brilliant, divine, fertile, original, handy, constant, anxious

Just a reminder that Monday is FULL DRESS UNIFORM for student photos.

Girls:  kilt, button-up dress shirt, navy knee socks, navy cardigan.

Boys:  navy pants, button-up dress shirt, navy cardigan.

BIBLE MEMORY:  verses due next Thursday are posted on the blog home page under ‘Bible Memory’.  If possible, please memorize from the NIV translation.

September 11th.  A day that I will never forget.  Forever, I will remember where I was, the thoughts running through my head, and the ache for the victims and their families.

Today in class we had a class discussion about the tragic events that took place on September 11, 2001.  Most of the grade 5/6 students were not yet born, but I felt it was  important that we talk about the tragedy that we remember on this day.  I showed the students a short tribute video and we had a great discussion about the cause of the events and the importance of showing love to others.  Spreading love in this world, not judgement or hate, can solve a multitude of problems.  This will be a common theme that we discuss in Social Studies this year.

I encourage you to continue these discussions with your children, as I’m sure most of you remember vividly where you were and what you were doing when you heard the news of 9/11.  Mrs. Derksen

9/11 Tribute Video

Well, we all survived our first week back. 🙂  In fact, we did more than survive it, I think we learned a few new things and had some fun too.  The students kicked off the year in math with some place value centers.  Here are a few pictures from the first day working on them.

Metacognition – Be sure to ask your child what it means.  Today we learned a little about it and also what fake reading and real reading look like.  Fake reading is when we sound really good reading aloud but we don’t really understand what we just read.  Real reading means that we are actually THINKING while we are reading.  We made a reading salad together (not very edible though) and talked about what it ‘sounds like’ to think while you are reading a text.  Remember students, we always want more lettuce (thinking) than tomatoes (text).

We can’t wait to continue working together to try new things, challenge each other, to celebrate our achievements and encourage each other when we fail.  We ‘love’ how failure reminds us that we still have so much to learn.

Thanks for a fabulous first week back, Grade 5/6 students!  Looking forward to an incredible year together.

Yesterday we did a very fun exercise that helped us look at the importance of working together as a team. Each pair was given four straws, two paper clips, two pieces of newspaper and 19 small strips of tape. The task was to build the tallest tower…with two minutes to plan and five minutes to build! The kids were SO excited for this task and had a lot of fun building their towers! We also had a great discussion afterwards about what it means to ‘work together’…take a look for yourself! Well done, grade 5/6!

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Mrs. Derksen and Mrs. Goosen

It has been such a pleasure working with your amazing kids this year!  We want to say a huge thank you  for all of your words of encouragement, gifts and thank you cards.  We feel so blessed.

Below is the genius hour video from this morning’s assembly – just in case you want to watch it again!  =)

Have a wonderful summer!

Mrs. Derksen & Mrs. Goosen