June 8 - 12
The countdown to summer break!
Important Dates:
June 17 - Tie Dye Day! - Please bring in your white T-Shirt on Monday if you haven't already done so!!
June 18 – Subway Fun Lunch / COBS Treat Day (Place orders at healthyhunger.ca by June 13)
June 19: BANNOCK making day! Please see note on Bannock below.
June 21 – National Indigenous Peoples Day
June 24 – AM Play Day activities *Please see note about freezies below*
June 24 – 2:15 - Grade Five Farewell / Send Off for our Grade Five families. (See Mrs. Brinson’s email that was sent to Grade Five families for details.)
June 25 - PJ day!
June 26 - Last day of classes
Bannock: If you do NOT want your child to eat Bannock, please email your child’s homeroom teacher BEFORE June 18. If your child IS allowed to eat Bannock, no action is required on your part.
Bannock ingredients include: Flour, baking powder, salt, water, milk, and oil
Butter ingredients include: Pasteurized cream (milk), salt
Freezies: On Wednesday, June 24 for Play Day, we will be providing a Mr. Freeze freezie to students. If you do NOT want your child to have a Freezie, please email your child’s homeroom teacher BEFORE the day itself and send a snack for them to have instead. If your child IS allowed to eat a freezie, no action is required on your part.
News from our students!
- In music we practices our song for the grade 5 farewell! - Kaitlyn
- Today we did a small SWYK about fractions! - Claire
- Most of our plants have started sprouting! - Evaya
- We stenciled leaves onto the grade 5 legacy plant pot! - Nhial
- I'm excited to leave school for summer break! - Vansh
- I'm looking forward to making more memories for the next two weeks! - Arsh
- I'm excited to go to my new school! - Jenny
- This was the last Friday to return our library books. We won't go to library anymore at this school! - Clinton
Science
We conducted a celery experiment to test how water travels through a plant. We places celery stalks into water that was coloured with food colouring, and observed it over a 48 hour period. After the 48 hours we cut open the celery to see how the coloured water had traveled from the roots to the top of the celery. Students were excited to see the tubes within the celery - the xylem and phloem, and just how much colour they absorbed!
Our plants also started sprouting this week, with some students plants really taking off! We can't wait to see how they look next week :)
Math
This week, we wrapped up our focus on fractions. Students worked on adding and subtracting improper fractions and mixed numbers. We also added in elements of problem solving. We had some of our fraction "experts" share their knowledge with their classmates and everyone was accurately solving the addition and subtraction of fractions!
We also continued on with algebraic equations and multiplication. We learned what a coeffiecent is! 4y = 20, y = ? We also continued practicing solving different equations created by our peers! See if you can solve a few below!
Writing
We began biography writing this week. Students interviewed someone in the class in order to gather information about their life. They asked questions about family, friends, interests and hobbies, as well as goals and dreams for the future. Our students will then use this information to create a biography, putting their writing skills to the test to organize their work into clear paragraphs and to add details and strong vocabulary to add interest to their writing. We are impressed already with the sense of voice that is shining through in their first paragraphs!
Here are some new and some throw-back pictures to show just how far we've come! 😍
We also did some great creative work for Imagination day! Students worked in groups of 4 to create a picture with ten second intervals, they then worked together to tell a short story to accompany their picture. The best part was hearing them laugh and enjoy doing a teamwork activity together.
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