Happy New Year!

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Hello, 5B families!

Happy New Year! It is wonderful to be back to learning with our class, and we have started strong. Please enjoy a scroll below to see what we have been exploring and to learn what is coming next.

The two grade 5 classes did an excellent job showing leadership, creativity, and courage by helping support Mass with readings and liturgical dance using ribbons and flags. It was a special honour to have Father William invite the students to share their presentation after his homily, which was a beautiful discussion of the story of Lazarus that wove in themes of community and inclusion.
In Math, we have been reviewing our December unit on multiplication using both the traditional and box methods to solve up to 3-by-3 digit questions. Students have been preparing for “Quiz #2” tomorrow, and they have been invited take home the extra practices sheets and any class work they needed to review.
What are your New Year’s resolutions? We launched on Monday with uplifting discussion of our dreams and goals for 2024; then students were invited to get specific in planning how to put those goals into action.
We have been learning about the feast of Epiphany, a celebration of the baby Jesus appearing to the Wise Men who travelled to see him.
Continuing our discussion in December about gratitude and gifts, we are thinking now together about the gifts we have been given to serve to in the Kingdom of God.
Next week we will launch some new creative inquiry work in Religion class. Some open-ended project ideas and prompts are now posted on the bulletin board by the office. Students have begun thinking about and discussing which projects more intrigue them.
We we look more closely at these project ideas next week.
What’s this white stuff?!
(Snowflakes curated by Ansley and Becca)
Our Spelling & Vocabulary list comes this week from a reading comprehension activity we did reading biographical information about author J. K. Rowling. As a part of learning these words and naturalizing them in our speech, we have been working them into conversation where possible. Also, students have been challenged to write a fantasy story in the style of “Harry Potter” that incorporates all ten of the above words and shows their meaning in context. I am delighted to see so many students motivated independently to keep working on these stories to take them to higher levels. What I thought would be a few paragraphs of texts has turned in to chapters of writing for some. It seems 5B is full of passionate authors! Wonderful enthusiasm, everyone! (We will have our spelling quiz on these words on Monday.)

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