Weekly Update - May 8

What a beautiful week of learning and weather. We spent a lot of time outside playing cricket and going for a walk. Thank you all for the kind messages and support this week for teacher appreciation week. We feel lucky to be in such a kind community.  

Highlights of the Week: 

• ELAL – We worked on a whole school writing prompt this week. Students K-6 were given an image to write a story about. We also worked on personal narrative writing. 
• Math – Students continued learning a variety of algebra skills such as using PEMDAS to solve expressions, simplifying expressions, isolating variables, and writing expressions.  
• Science –  
• Grade 6 – we continued our ecosystem brochures this week. They will be homework after next Tuesday. Students who are already finished started creating a food chain related to their ecosystem in Scratch. 
• Grade 5 – students continued learning about the body systems and will be assigned groups next week to build a specific system. Please send any recyclable materials for building! 
• Social –  
• Grade 6 – Students finished up their social media Charter of Rights project and worked on a scavenger hunt when they were finished.  

How you can support at home: 

• Homework – Personal narrative brainstorming and writing algebraic expressions. 
• Math – Work on basic facts of all operations to support algebra. 
• ELAL – Work on using clues in a text to make an inference.  

Important Dates:  

• 2nd Round Grade 6 Vaccinations – May 11  
• Commun-I-Tea – May 11  
• Healthy Hunger (Papa Johns) – May 14  
• School Council – May 27 
• Healthy Hunger (Jelly Modern) – May 28 
• Volunteer Tea – May 28 
• Patrol Field Trip – June 8  
• Commun-I-Tea – June 8 
• Healthy Hunger (Tim’s) – June 11 
• School Council – June 11  
• TB Riley Student Open House (walking field trip) – June 11  
• Healthy Hunger – (Jelly Modern) - June 18 
• Grade 6 Farewell – June 24 
• Sports Day – June 25 
• Last Day of School – June 26 

Grade 6 PAT Dates: 

• ELAL Part A (Writing) – May 25 **updated date 
• ELAL Part B (Reading) – June 4 
• Science – June 12 
• Math Part A (Computations) – June 15 
• Math Part B (All Stems) – June 18 

Reminders: 

• Patrol Field Trip Forms – please send forms back as soon as possible. The deadline is next Friday. If you’d like to volunteer – sign up on the volunteer sheet or let your child’s teacher know. 
• PAT Review – we have had several comments and questions about PATs. We will begin review mid May and will be sending home review for Math and Science. You can access practice tests here: https://abed.vretta.com/#/en/public-practice 
• Students will have plenty of opportunity to work on their reading and writing at school, however, here are some suggestions to support at home: 
• Have your child plan a story in 10 minutes with a prompt/theme 
• Give your child 20 minutes to write as much as they can towards a story 
• Practice a preferred style of non-fiction writing when given a prompt and practice planning under time constraints (persuasive, comparative, instructional, friendly letter, etc.) 
• What to focus on – grammar, punctuation, paragraphing, complete sentences 
• Students are given 2 hours to write both a fiction and non-fiction piece of writing during the PAT. They will be given an overarching topic, such as Friendship to write both pieces on. Typically, students will take 5-10 minutes to plan and organize their writing topic for each piece and then spend the remaining time typing their pieces.  
• TRS Flex Time – Wednesdays until 4pm in the library with Mr. B and Ms. Hassen 

Learning Intention of the Week – Cricket 

Students learned how to play cricket by developing and practicing important skills such as batting, bowling, catching, throwing, fielding, and teamwork. Through skill-building activities and full games, students learned the rules, strategies, and sportsmanship needed to participate successfully and safely in cricket.