Our First Week!

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Hello, 5B families!

Here are some highlights from this past week you could discuss with your children to continue the learning connection at home…

Academic Highlights:

This week we focussed on storytelling skills, reading a clock, calculating elapsed time, goal setting, and being creative using the design process.

In Language Arts, we enjoyed reading aloud the story “The Tiger Who Came to Tea” as a creative prompt. Students were invited to create and tell their own spin-off story of “The ____ Who Came to ________”. We talked about storytelling skills and about the upcoming opportunities students will have to tell their stories to our little grade 2 buddies later this term. *Please invite your child to tell you his/her story and offer your support and feedback.

As well, we set up our Personal Spelling Dictionaries, which students will use to record new words, including words I underline and correct for them on their writing assignments.

Reading and Analog Clock

Please Note:
I have vetted all the videos I post on this blog as both age appropriate and useful teaching content. The videos can help to reinforce and review our classroom learning.

If your child needs more help with the concepts we covered in class, please help your child to continue study at home in some way, such as watching these tutorials I post.

In Math class we have working on reading an analog clock, and beginning the skill of calculating elapsed time. Here are two videos that review the concepts…

Calculating Elapsed Time: Timeline Method
Calculating Elapsed Time: T-Chart Method

In Career Education, we explored the concept of goal setting and did a creative visualization activity to inspire students to picture themselves in 20 years achieving their own definitions of success. Some students volunteered to share their wonderful work with you here. Come to our classroom to see more!

Great work like this will be safely stored in students’ portfolios (the white binders). This work can be seen anytime you come visit our class, and it will be taken home at report card time.

In ADST (Applied Design Skills and Technologies), we learned about the design process while enjoying a creativity challenge based on transforming a toilet paper roll! What an amazing gallery of new creations! Here are some examples of works students volunteered to share…

Thank you, grade 5s! You helped my son Henry feel very welcome when he visited our class on his first day of Kindergarten. We have some excellent chess players and leaders in our class! You will make great “Big Buddies” when we start that initiative later in the year.

COMING UP…

Mon., Sept. 9 is our first Phys. Ed. class. Please wear gym strip. Also, the Comfort Kits are due back, and please make sure you have all your school supplies. *Some students are still missing important items like binders: please ask your child what he/she still needs and refer to the supplies list. Thank you!

Tues., Sept. 10 – Welcome Back BBQ & Meet the Teacher, 4:30-6:30pm

Fri., Sept. 13 – Grade 5 Soccer Jamboree at Carnarvon Park 

Tues., Sept. 17 – Terry Fox Run (Wear Gym Strip this day) at 9am

Fri., Sept. 20 – Pro-D, no school for students

Mon., Sept. 23 – Photo Day, full uniform

Thurs., Sept. 26 – Welcome Back Mass, 10:45am

Mon., Sept. 30 – National Truth & Reconciliation Day, school is closed

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