November 3 - 7

 

We made it! 

Important Dates:

- November 10-12: Fall Break (we will see you back at school on Thursday, Nov. 13!)

-  November 19: 📸Picture Retake Day 

- November 20: Healthy Hunger lunch: ordering can be found on healthyhunger.ca

👕   Last day to order hoodies or t shirts! 

- November 27 & 28:  Student led Conferences

- Dec. 2: Our field trip to the Hangar Flight Museum. We are looking for volunteers to help make this a successful field trip. Please let us know if you are able to volunteer!

 

We took advantage of the first snow day and spent our DPA (Daily Physical Activity) making snowballs and appreciating the winter beauty! We also spent lots of time this week reviewing expectations and routines, working towards building increased independence for our students.  

From the kiddos:

Science:

We made slideshows on our climate zone out of Polar, Continental, Temperate, Tropical or Dry. All turned out really well - Lizzie

Remembrance Day: 

Today we took the time to take in what soldiers fought for. We did some reflection posters about Remembrance Day. We listened to Last Post and observed a moment of silence. - Evie 

Our 5C Girl Guides holding our wreath. Photo taken by Evaya

Gym:

Handball proved a great success, we are beginning the soccer unit the week after -Kixton

Music:

We did cup passing to the Addam's family. - Lizzie

Students felt this had various degrees of success. 😝

Literacy Stations: 

Another great week, and the next will be even better - Kixton

Some Guided Reading and Literacy work happening!

Social Studies

We started working on our Canadian Geography Unit. Students did a quiz to see if they could identify provinces based on their boundary lines. We also discussed what makes a community and what elements make a community! We will move forward looking at how our current world has been influenced by Ancient Societies, including the physical boundaries of Canada.

Math

This week we continued with our focus on place value and our exploration of decimals. Students worked together in partners to make comparisons between decimal numbers, and practiced using the language of 'greater than' or 'less than'. We are working with decimal numbers to the thousandths this year. 

We also started doing Math Stations- Mazneen

We practiced and learned about Expanded form, standard form and word form for number - Clinton

Writing - Our grade 5s worked on their autobiography writing this week! We created plans using a graphic organizer and are working hard to follow our plans to create a piece of writing that has a logical sequence. The focus of this writing task is to organize our work into paragraphs that include topic, supporting and concluding sentences, as well as ensuring we remember to use capitalization and punctuation in the correct places. Next week we are hopeful we will be able to wrap our final paragraphs and then share our writing through peer editing groups and then a final Author's Chair! 

We had a wonderful week and hope everyone enjoys Fall Break. We are looking forward to seeing everyone soon! 

- Mrs. Barnden and Ms. Sera