Hello, 5B families!
Here is an overview of what we have been exploring lately in our class.
What motivates people to immigrate to Canada?
In Social Studies, we began exploring the topic of changing trends in Canadian immigration over time and the push and pull factors.
Click here to download KYAK magazine with lots of rich historical information for students about immigration to Canada:
On Friday, we practiced the fifth “High 5!” reading strategy: summarizing!
The practice of transforming what you have read into your own words is powerful because this act of creativity helps you make connections to and within the text and thus remember it more fully and accurately.
After carefully reading a text about saints, as a class we discussed the big ideas.m, and small groups of students identified what they believed to be the main points of the text. Then, I modelled how one could weave together the big ideas of this text into a summary paragraph, distilling 18 sentences of text into just 6 sentences. We discussed that writing a summary is an artful process that involves trying to really understand the author’s purpose for writing and determining the relationship between ideas.
Keep reviewing place value concepts—we are starting to build upon this understanding with new units of study this week.
*Parents/Guardians, please check your email inboxes for a note about homework and a “Math Support Letter” I emailed today with specific tips for how families can support their children with their journey through the grade 5 math curriculum this year.
Students have continued to learn about the digestive system in Science class. Today we did a short “open book” quiz on the topic. Next Monday, we are lucky to have a special guest speaker: an endoscopic nurse who works to help assess and support digestive health.
Here are the spelling words for this week. What creative sentences can you write to show the meaning of the words in context?
A lovely portrait of a friend, by artist Gabriela.
Tiffany Poirier 