Hello, 5B families!
Congratulations to all of our hardworking TRACK PARTICIPANTS! We heard you represented our school so well, gave it your best efforts, and had fun!
For the next two weeks, we have lots of important projects, writing assignments, and year-end Math and LA assessments on the go, and so we are taking a pause this week from Spelling tests to focus our energy.
Students are working to finish the following: “Time Traveller’s Reports” in Social Studies (due May 30), Simple Machines projects in Science (due June 10), two perspective stories (due now), group parables presentations in Religion/Drama (due by June 15), and personal interest projects (due by the last day of school, but I will do weekly progress check-ins starting now, and students will be expected to share their progress with classmates on June 11).
In Math class, we have wrapped up our probability unit and are now learning about money! We have been reinforcing adding and subtracting with decimals by doing various money calculations. As well, for enrichment, some students have been keen to learn how to calculate sales tax. Using a fake money set, students have been practicing adding up coin and bills and making change. Great mental math! Today students were challenged to create their own toy stores, and then create a series of word money problems related to the stores. Students have also been doing one-to-one “money meetings” with me where they play the banker and perform calculations. Please keep practicing this real-life skill at home.
Please note that this Thursday is our grade 5 “Parliamentary Tour” field trip. We leave the school at lunch time and return by 2:55pm. There were no parent volunteers needed for this trip since we have 4 St. Patrick’s staff attending, and less than 40 people permitted on the tour as per the tour capacity rules. Please note the parliament’s posted behaviour expectations.
Behavioural Expectation Reminder
-BC Parliamentary Tours Guidelines.
BC’s Parliament Buildings are working buildings and visitors are expected to talk quietly, behave in a calm and courteous manner and follow public health policy during their visit.”
POISON HEMLOCK INFORMATION:
CRD information sheet: https://www.crd.bc.ca/docs/default-source/es-watersheds-pdf/invasive-species/poison_hemlock__factsheet_v5.pdf?sfvrsn=5fc1afca_6
Invasive Species HAT: https://hat.bc.ca/blog/poison-hemlock?format=amp
Tiffany Poirier 