Hello, 5B families!
Today we had the privilege to host Father William as a guest speaker in our Religion class. He so graciously answered our questions and shared moving stories about his journey with faith and priesthood and pastoral care. The students were so engaged and excited ask their powerful and challenging questions that the hour went by all too fast! It was very enriching!
Please Note:
PINK SHIRT DAY is Wed., February 28th—the same day as our Salish Sea trip. This day is a Civvies day for grade 5 since students need to be dressed for the boat trip. Students are encouraged to wear their pink shirts in the morning of the can and wish to do so.
We have been learning about the season of Lent. We looked at the history of Lent and done daily devotions and readings from ’Twas the Season of Lent.
In Math, we are working on adding and subtracting decimals to the thousandths place. Thank you for supporting students on the homework they brought home this weekend. We will do another check-in quiz on this context tomorrow.
In Social Studies, we have continued our inquiry about our relationship with water. Assessment of learning in this unit takes place through students’ discussion in class, their written reflections in their Oceans, Freshwater, and Us booklets, a self-made quiz they will design based on the content we have been studying, and another comprehension quiz I will give at the end of term. During our Salish Sea boat trip and Cattle Point trip, our Salish Sea tour guides from Eagle Wing Tours will also be making connections to Social Studies curriculum, specifically around sustainable resource practices and local Indigenous groups’ historical and present day interactions with the Salish Sea.
In Language Arts, we have now completed our novel study of Hatchet. Students have been working on a creative reading response project to write a “five senses poem” from the perspective of the protagonist, Brian. The assignment details are listed below, and the good copy (printed neatly or typed and proofread) is due Monday, Feb. 26th. This assignment sheet was given out last week.
Reminder that the Jonah group plays are due and should be performed in class before the end of day on Monday, Feb. 26th—I gave the students an extension on this.
The individual Bible storytelling projects are due to be presented before the end of day, Monday, March 4th but students are welcome to present them anytime now. We have already enjoyed a creative presentation of the story of Esther.
Here is a reminder of the assessment criteria for the individual Bible story presentations below. Students do not need to write scripts, and they are welcome to just speak from their heart. Students may read from their own written versions of Bible stories if they are more comfortable doing that. A learning goal is for students to understand their chosen stories well enough to put them into their own words and speak about the meaning.
For fun, here is a link to the video I showed in class today of my two sons dramatizing the Bible story of David and Goliath. My son, Ben (grade 1) told me what he remembered of the story at bedtime on Friday, and I recorded it for fun. On Sunday, we realized it would be even more fun to act it out as an example for my students of how we can retell Bible stories and their meanings in our own words and create costumes from materials we find around our homes. I look forward to working with the students to create something like this on the story of Jonah.
Please note that while it may sound like there are a lot of things going on in class, I am careful to calculate to give lots of time in class for students to complete their projects in class. In fact, many students do complete all of their assignments and study solely during class time.
However, some students like to spend a lot of time adding extra detail and/or they do not use their class time as efficiently as they could and so if you child says they have a lot due right now and feels overwhelmed, please connect with them about how they may have fallen behind and how they can structure their time to stay on top of their work. I always try to accommodate students who have absent or who have unique needs, so they lease reach out if your family needs some accommodations or has questions.
REMINDER:
As well, please make sure you have sent in the $45 payment for your child via Etransfer, cash or cheque. Thank you so much!
Please complete the online waivers for your child for the Eagle Wing Tours Salish Sea field trip as soon as possible. I emailed you a reminder about this with the link.
Tiffany Poirier 