Fractions, Bibliographies, Pencil Crayon Techniques, Writing Dialogue, the Rock Cycle & more!

Hello, 5B families!

*Scroll to the very bottom to see amazing new art!*

In Language Arts, students have now brought home their spelling tests, homonym quizzes and their quotation marks quizzes. Please look at your child’s rewritten “dialogue between two characters”. For practice, I asked students to rewrite their dialogues to incorporate the specific feedback I gave them on their quizzes.

Next week, I am offering a rewrite of the “quotation marks and dialogue writing” quiz.

In Social Studies, students have been developing their research skills (note-taking, bibliography writing) during our Time Travellers’ Project work periods. They have been using both print and online resources. I recommend students also visit the public library to find books.

We have been reinforcing students’ skills when using Google Drive. By now, all students should be able to login to their accounts, locate Google Drive, create and rename a new document, and copy and paste content and web addresses using the CONTROL+C and CONTROL+V function. As well, all students should have created a document called “SS Bibliography” and entered at least one of their digital sources.

We are going with a very simple bibliography format. Please see the example below. A minimum of three different sources is expected for this project but 5 is preferred.

*A way you can help your children at home with Social Studies is to have them log into their Google accounts and show you that they know how to make a bibliography entry. As well, please help them to find new sources of valuable information on their time and place of study, either in print or digital form.

In Math, we are enjoying our fractions unit and the photos below show the kinds of questions we are doing. We did a check-in quiz today, and I asked students to bring them home to show you.

In Science, we have started learning about geology and the rock cycle.

In Health Education, we started our “Fully Alive” program. If you would like to see the exact textbook we are using, please send me an email, and I will arrange to loan a copy of the textbook to you. Or, you can come in and look at it in our class. Please let me know if you would like to stop by.

In Art, we just finished up a project that developed students’ techniques with pencil crayons. We focussed on blending, shading, and varying the colour value when making 8-square artworks celebrating the diverse beauty of various animals, birds, insects, reptiles and more.