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.

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!