December is here!
What a bus, but exciting month ahead! We are recognizing the month of Advent in our class by lighting our candle each week, participating in Advent prayers, and completing acts of service with our Advent Calendar. This month is also especially a great time to think of others and give back! St.Cecilia is having their White Elephant sale Friday December 14th, so if you have not done so already, don't forget to bring in gently used decorations, household items, toys, books, or accessories to donate! (Please no stuffies, clothes or earrings!). On Friday Dec, 14th, students can purchase items for 25, 50, 75 cents and a dollar - a great way to do some Christmas shopping!
Our class is also putting together a Christmas Hamper for a family who needs a little bit of love and help this holiday season! Our family consists of a mom, dad, and 3 boys (aged 8, 5, and 2). Along with Ms. Moore's class, each student has chosen an item or two that if able, have chosen to bring in! This Friday is also a Christmas-themed spirit day, where students can dress in their favourite spirit-wear for a small donation! The Grade 5's are helping to run this initiative along with our Advent Mass next Tuesday!
In Language, we are continuing to read The Wild Robot -- focusing on theme and character traits. Our reading goal will be moving on to summarising. In writing, we have been learning about lots of inspirational people and their influence on the world, in the form of writing biographies. We also have been practicing writing powerful descriptions and 'million dollar sentences' to use in narratives.
In Math, we have been working hard on multiplication and now division! Don't forget to check out the games in the Math Section to practice!
Tuesday 5 December 2017
Monday 20 November 2017
SNOW!
It's back! That playable, frosty, white stuff! Our vote this morning, said that double the number of students were excited to see snow, than not!
We worked hard to spot, extend and communicate number patterns in all sorts of situations, such as ordering toppings on sundaes, reading pages of books, and raising money! We finished off our unit by planning our Charity Fundraiser.
We have now started MULTIPLICATION! We will be multiplying 2 and 3-digit numbers, by 2-digit numbers. We have been practicing our basic 12 x 12 facts with strategies, tricks and memorization. Students are encouraged to practice at home with games, and online links (found on the math page) to help them build fluency for our bigger numbers and word problems.
In Language, we are focusing on Character Traits - what traits describe a character, and what proof tells us this. We are continuing to read The Wild Robot! We are also writing Biography paragraphs on a person of inspiration!
We are continuing to work on Communication - how we can be a great oral, visual and written communicator!
*I look forward to meeting with those who have signed up for Parent-Teacher Interviews this Thursday evening. If you would like to discuss your child's progress, but are unable to make this day/time, please send a note in the Agenda and we can set up a phone or meeting at a time that works better!
It's back! That playable, frosty, white stuff! Our vote this morning, said that double the number of students were excited to see snow, than not!
We worked hard to spot, extend and communicate number patterns in all sorts of situations, such as ordering toppings on sundaes, reading pages of books, and raising money! We finished off our unit by planning our Charity Fundraiser.
We have now started MULTIPLICATION! We will be multiplying 2 and 3-digit numbers, by 2-digit numbers. We have been practicing our basic 12 x 12 facts with strategies, tricks and memorization. Students are encouraged to practice at home with games, and online links (found on the math page) to help them build fluency for our bigger numbers and word problems.
In Language, we are focusing on Character Traits - what traits describe a character, and what proof tells us this. We are continuing to read The Wild Robot! We are also writing Biography paragraphs on a person of inspiration!
We are continuing to work on Communication - how we can be a great oral, visual and written communicator!
*I look forward to meeting with those who have signed up for Parent-Teacher Interviews this Thursday evening. If you would like to discuss your child's progress, but are unable to make this day/time, please send a note in the Agenda and we can set up a phone or meeting at a time that works better!
Monday 6 November 2017
Happy November!
What an exciting Halloween week we had, full of pumpkin carving, dance-a-thons and costumes! Thank you all for your support for the Barrhaven Food Drive with your raffle tickets, and non-perishable food items - what a community!
This week:
Math: Tuesday we will be having a Patterning quiz. Students were given a review, but also check out the games under the 'Math' section on our blog. We have also been working on a Fundraising project, to plan our own event for a charity important to us. We will be starting multiplication this week. Students are encouraged to keep practicing those basic skills at home and through games! (e.g. 5 x 2)
Language: We are continuing to read The Wild Robot, curious about how Roz is going to adapt to her new surroundings, working on communicating our ideas and thoughts clearly through group discussions and technology. We are finishing up our Book Review presentations this week to share with the class - we have movie trailers, posters, slideshows - we can't wait!
In writing, students are working on forming clear paragraphs with topic sentences, and million dollar sentences!
What else!? Don't forget to bring in those used batteries to recycle! Check out the newsletter for some of our Battery Bosses!
Students are selling poppies all this week during fourth block! *ALSO, if you have any family members who have serve, or have served, we would love if you could bring in a picture to share for our Wall of Honour!
What an exciting Halloween week we had, full of pumpkin carving, dance-a-thons and costumes! Thank you all for your support for the Barrhaven Food Drive with your raffle tickets, and non-perishable food items - what a community!
This week:
Math: Tuesday we will be having a Patterning quiz. Students were given a review, but also check out the games under the 'Math' section on our blog. We have also been working on a Fundraising project, to plan our own event for a charity important to us. We will be starting multiplication this week. Students are encouraged to keep practicing those basic skills at home and through games! (e.g. 5 x 2)
Language: We are continuing to read The Wild Robot, curious about how Roz is going to adapt to her new surroundings, working on communicating our ideas and thoughts clearly through group discussions and technology. We are finishing up our Book Review presentations this week to share with the class - we have movie trailers, posters, slideshows - we can't wait!
In writing, students are working on forming clear paragraphs with topic sentences, and million dollar sentences!
What else!? Don't forget to bring in those used batteries to recycle! Check out the newsletter for some of our Battery Bosses!
Students are selling poppies all this week during fourth block! *ALSO, if you have any family members who have serve, or have served, we would love if you could bring in a picture to share for our Wall of Honour!
Wednesday 25 October 2017
6 days until Halloween! This last week our class has been busily trying to bring in non-perishable food items for The Barrhaven Foodbank, and stick to our goal of 12 cans per day (Day number (x 12) = Class Goal). We have also been busily working on number patterns, and have discovered patterns in nature, restaurant seating arrangements, the way birds migrate, music and many more. In reading, we have been engaged in The Wild Robot, and how Roz is adapting to her new environment. We even had a chance to skype with another junior class who is reading the same book. Through answering clues and asking questions, we discovered they are in New Jersey. We have been working on clearly communicating our thinking by giving proof from the text, and have done so through Padlets, Flipgrids and Google Slides. We are also working on creating commercials for our own favourite book of the month. In writing we have been building solid paragraphs with topic sentences and supporting details. We have been using these, along with powerful adjectives in our Personal Recounts.
*Personal Recounts are due Friday October 26th.
*Dance-a-thon pledge dues Thursday October 25th.
We will be carving our class pumpkin on Thursday for our St.Cecilia raffle on Friday. All raffle tickets are 25 cents each, with all proceeds going towards the Barrhaven Food Bank.
Don't forget to do your brain challenge this week and get it in by Friday!
*Personal Recounts are due Friday October 26th.
*Dance-a-thon pledge dues Thursday October 25th.
We will be carving our class pumpkin on Thursday for our St.Cecilia raffle on Friday. All raffle tickets are 25 cents each, with all proceeds going towards the Barrhaven Food Bank.
Don't forget to do your brain challenge this week and get it in by Friday!
Tuesday 3 October 2017
This week! The weather has finally cooled off, and it is starting to look and feel like fall!
Some updates for this week:
Math - we have been working on choosing new bedroom furniture from IKEA, while staying within a specific budget, as well as planning road-trips around Canada using the distances in kilometers between various cities. Through all of this, we have been practicing skills of addition and subtraction of 4-digit numbers using various paper and mental math strategies.
*On Thursday October 5th, we have a Number Sense quiz. Review information can be found on the 'Math' tab of this blog, as well as in your Math Google Doc folder.
Writing - we have been writing personal recounts using proper organization and voice. We specifically have been focusing on using topic sentences to organize our paragraphs, as well as using compound sentences in our writing (main idea, comma, conjunction, second main idea - e.g. Next weekend is Thanksgiving, but I am sad to miss school for 4 days.)
Reading - We have excitedly been reading our library books as well as our new class books (YAY!), and discussing our reading using RAP - restate the question, answer it with details, prove our answer with information from the text.
Other important information:
We have been continuing our cross-country tryouts during the morning. Keep your eyes peeled for the Cross-country team list.
This Thursday is Picture Day.
Don't forget to bring in your cans for our WE SCARE HUNGER initiative.
Some updates for this week:
Math - we have been working on choosing new bedroom furniture from IKEA, while staying within a specific budget, as well as planning road-trips around Canada using the distances in kilometers between various cities. Through all of this, we have been practicing skills of addition and subtraction of 4-digit numbers using various paper and mental math strategies.
*On Thursday October 5th, we have a Number Sense quiz. Review information can be found on the 'Math' tab of this blog, as well as in your Math Google Doc folder.
Writing - we have been writing personal recounts using proper organization and voice. We specifically have been focusing on using topic sentences to organize our paragraphs, as well as using compound sentences in our writing (main idea, comma, conjunction, second main idea - e.g. Next weekend is Thanksgiving, but I am sad to miss school for 4 days.)
Reading - We have excitedly been reading our library books as well as our new class books (YAY!), and discussing our reading using RAP - restate the question, answer it with details, prove our answer with information from the text.
Other important information:
We have been continuing our cross-country tryouts during the morning. Keep your eyes peeled for the Cross-country team list.
This Thursday is Picture Day.
Don't forget to bring in your cans for our WE SCARE HUNGER initiative.
Sunday 24 September 2017
Happy Fall!
Despite the warm, summer-like weather, we rang in the new season of fall this week!
Thank you to all those families who were able to make it to Meet the Teacher night this past Thursday! It was wonderful to get to meet those of you who I have not, and get to share with you some of our routines and plans for this year, as well as our classroom. Those who were not able to make it, a brochure with some information will be going home with your child on Monday.
This week we finished up our Place Value Math unit with a 'Show What You Know'. We are now moving on to mental addition and subtraction, as well as adding and subtracting three and four digit numbers.
In Religion, the students began a unit focusing on Global Citizenship and proper use of technology.
In Reading, we began reading The Beautiful Warrior, and are looking forward to finishing it this week. As reading, we have been looking at this Chinese legend, while examining the role of two strong female characters, as well as descriptive language such as similes.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend!
This week's BRAIN CHALLENGE:
a)Using the numbers from 2-8 once each, create a 4 digit number and a 3 -digit number that gives you the largest possible answer. How do you know you are correct?
b) Now, create a 4-digit and 3 digit number (remember, you can only use each number once), with the SMALLEST sum (answer).
POST your ideas below. *Check the Brain Challenge page at the end of the week for the possible answers.
Despite the warm, summer-like weather, we rang in the new season of fall this week!
Thank you to all those families who were able to make it to Meet the Teacher night this past Thursday! It was wonderful to get to meet those of you who I have not, and get to share with you some of our routines and plans for this year, as well as our classroom. Those who were not able to make it, a brochure with some information will be going home with your child on Monday.
This week we finished up our Place Value Math unit with a 'Show What You Know'. We are now moving on to mental addition and subtraction, as well as adding and subtracting three and four digit numbers.
In Religion, the students began a unit focusing on Global Citizenship and proper use of technology.
In Reading, we began reading The Beautiful Warrior, and are looking forward to finishing it this week. As reading, we have been looking at this Chinese legend, while examining the role of two strong female characters, as well as descriptive language such as similes.
I hope you all have a lovely weekend!
This week's BRAIN CHALLENGE:
a)Using the numbers from 2-8 once each, create a 4 digit number and a 3 -digit number that gives you the largest possible answer. How do you know you are correct?
b) Now, create a 4-digit and 3 digit number (remember, you can only use each number once), with the SMALLEST sum (answer).
POST your ideas below. *Check the Brain Challenge page at the end of the week for the possible answers.
Sunday 17 September 2017
Welcome back!
We have had an awesome two weeks back in Grade 5! The students got back into the swing of things by falling in love with reading, working together to solve stacking cup tasks sans hands, writing about our fun-filled summers, and investigating the populations of Canadian cities with numbers up to the millions. We have also been focusing on the power of words, and the idea that though we might not be able to do something perfectly right now, it is just about the word YET!
On Friday, students were introduced to their Raz Kids and Prodigy passwords, for them to complete tasks each night at home!
We also have started cross-country training and will be continuing practicing, by running a lap of the school Monday, Wednesday and Friday after recess.
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend, and I can't wait to see what you will come up with this week!
We have had an awesome two weeks back in Grade 5! The students got back into the swing of things by falling in love with reading, working together to solve stacking cup tasks sans hands, writing about our fun-filled summers, and investigating the populations of Canadian cities with numbers up to the millions. We have also been focusing on the power of words, and the idea that though we might not be able to do something perfectly right now, it is just about the word YET!
On Friday, students were introduced to their Raz Kids and Prodigy passwords, for them to complete tasks each night at home!
We also have started cross-country training and will be continuing practicing, by running a lap of the school Monday, Wednesday and Friday after recess.
I hope you all had a wonderful weekend, and I can't wait to see what you will come up with this week!
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