Weekly Update - Nov 7

Thank you to everyone who attended the Remembrance Day ceremony today.  

Highlights of the Week: 

• ELAL – This week we continued our work on Instructional Writing. Students wrote various “how-to’s” using step-by-step instructions and paragraph formatting. They practiced their typing skills to create good copies. 
• Math – Students wrote their coordinate geometry check-in this week, and it should have been brought home. We moved onto our next unit, which is place value. Students looked at the difference between a digit, the place, and the value of a number. They also worked on writing whole and decimal numbers in standard, expanded, and written form. 
• Science – Both grades started their space unit this week. 
• Grade 5 – Students spent time talking about the various astronomical phenomena's that take place in our universe. We will continue to dig deeper into these concepts in the coming weeks. 
• Grade 6 – We looked at the planets and the difference between the inner and outer planets. Students will learn about other celestial bodies within the space unit 
• Social  
• Grade 5 – We continued with our research project, and some groups have started to finish. These projects will be completed next week.  
• Grade 6 – We reviewed what democracy means and created a visual journal page dedicated to the four pillars of democracy. 

How you can support at home: 

• Homework – students were sent home place value practice 
• Math – work on basic math facts, place value including decimals and positive and negative numbers. 
• ELAL – reading out loud with your child 

Important Dates: 

• Fall Break (No School) – November 10-12 
• Art Cards final orders due – November 11 
• Final order date – November 11 
• Healthy Hunger Tim Hortons – November 19 
• Swimming Lessons – November 17-21 
• Healthy Hunger Jelly Modern – November 27 
• Conferences – November 27-28  
• Healthy Hunger Mucho Burrito – December 11 
• Healthy Hunger Booster Juice – December 18 
• Photo Re-takes – December 11 

Reminders/Updates: 

• Swimming Volunteers - if you are able to volunteer during our swimming time, please reach out!
• Room 5 will be welcoming a student teacher, Alexandra Mahler starting Nov 17 from St. Mary’s University. She will be in our classroom until Dec 4 and return in the spring. We are very excited for Ms. Mahler to join our classroom and share her expertise with us!  
• Indoor/Outdoor Shoes – Snow is here! If your child does not have indoor and outdoor shoes, they won’t be allowed out for recess to help keep our classroom and school clean.  
• A patrol training schedule will be sent home next week for a Nov 17 start date. If we do not have forms handed in yet, they will not be on the first schedule. New forms have been sent home if we have not received them yet.  

Learning Intention of Week: Remembrance Day Assembly 

Students participated in a variety of learning activities surrounding Remembrance Day. They read stories and articles about veterans and Canada’s military history. We made origami poppies for our wreaths as well as completed a collaborative mural. The 5/6 students showed great leadership as they led the school through a respectful ceremony.