Weekly Update - October 23

Brrr! What a cool end to the week! Sending out a gentle reminder for students to come prepared for all types of weather, including layers and having indoor and outdoor shoes. 

Highlights of the Week: 

• ELAL – Students continued working with their cryptids. They wrote descriptive paragraphs about their creatures. They were introduced to the method of suspense building to enrich creative writing using the magic of three. 
• Math – We worked on relating decimals to fractions and representing decimals on a grid. Students also completed an exit slip for representing and comparing decimals.  
• Science –  
• Grade 5 – Students were introduced to their next unit, Energy. Students explored different phenomena of flight through stations that emulated various flying craft (airplanes, helicopters, parachutes, and hot air balloons). 
• Grade 6 – Students were introduced to the next unit, Energy. They explored hands on activities to learn about the internal forces, tension, compression, shear and torsion. They used a variety of materials to investigate the forces.  
• Social – 
• Grade 5 – Students were introduced to their new unit of geography. They began to note observations about artifacts of Ancient Egyptian culture.
• Grade 6 – Students engaged with new terminology to prepare them for our first unit focusing on democracy in Ancient Athens.  

How you can support at home: 

• Homework – Math homework for ordering and comparing decimals was sent home on Thursday.  
• Math – work on place value including decimals up to the millions and thousandths. 
• ELAL – review figurative language and practice writing sentences that include literary devices (simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole).   

Important Dates:  

• Alien In-line – Oct 22-23, 26-30 
• Grade 6 Vaccinations – Oct 26 
• Healthy Hunger (Papa Johns) – Oct 29 
• Halloween Dance – Oct 29 
• Photo Re-take Day – Nov 10 
• Remembrance Day Assembly – Nov 10
• Fall Break – Nov 11-13
• Parent-Teacher Conferences – Nov 19-20 

Reminders:  

• Alien In-Line schedule: 
• Garthus - Tuesday 27, Thursday 29

Learning Intention of the Week – Ink Drawings 

Students were introduced to four drawing techniques with ink: hatching, cross hatching, random lines, and stippling. They then used each drawing technique to draw four different spheres with fine liners. This helped students explore a new medium of art and encouraged them to utilize new ways of representing their ideas in future projects.