Important Dates
Jan. 30th- Electives and PE Report Cards go home Feb. 1st- No School Feb. 6th- Swim to Survive @ Southland Leisure for PE. Forms are attached, and if you haven’t returned them, they need to be returned by Wednesday. Please email the PE teachers if you can volunteer. Feb. 14th & 15th- No School- Staff Retreat Feb. 18th- No School -Family Day FORT STEELE DATES: 5.3 - May 2-5, 2019 5.4 - May 5-8, 2019 **If you would like to be considered as a parent volunteer, please email your child’s homeroom teacher. Decisions regarding volunteers will be made closer to spring break. We do attend camp over the weekend days. The other pod goes to camp after us. Humanities- Students finished their Canada One Pager. Next week we will start a quick overview of each of the regions of Canada, as well as look at some primary artifacts from WWI. Our Caldecott books were narrowed down and a winner was chosen. Students know the final 5 books, but will not know our class pick or the official pick until Monday. Students completed 2 small assignments that allowed them to express and support an opinion. Next week students will begin crafting a persuasive letter to Mrs. Veteikis. They are making a case for, and requesting that their favourite Caldecott eligible title be added to our school library collection. Math- Students started the week with some inspirational math and looked at the benefits of taking your time when solving math problems. They took their time to solve a problem that required deep thinking and not fast thinking. Students started looking at methods of division as the week wrapped up. Next week we will continue with division strategies. Science- Students reviewed the steps of the scientific method. This review of the method for conducting fair tests and experiments will used in the upcoming weeks as they design their own experiments in the weather unit.
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Important Dates
Jan. 25th- Last day of term 1 electives Jan. 30th- Electives and PE Report Cards go home Feb. 1st- No School Feb. 6th- Swim to Survive @ Southland Leisure for PE FORT STEELE DATES: 5.3 - May 2-5, 2019 5.4 - May 5-8, 2019 **If you would like to be considered as a parent volunteer, please email your child’s homeroom teacher. Decisions regarding volunteers will be made closer to spring break. Humanities- Students viewed a documentary that took them on a cross-country tour of Canada. They began creating a Canada One Pager to demonstrate their understanding of the video’s content, as well as their own prior knowledge. They will continue working on this next week. Our Caldecott books were narrowed down to a field of 20. Students took another look at each of the books and used the criteria to rank each book. We will choose our winner on Friday of next week. Our top titles are going head to head, and students will be very sad to see some favourites eliminated. Students will begin crafting a persuasive letter to Mrs. Veteikis. They are making a case for, and requesting that their favourite Caldecott eligible title be added to our school library collection. Math - This week we learned (or reviewed, for some), the traditional algorithm for multiplying. We also tested 2 conjectures around multiplying double digit numbers. We are close to wrapping up our multiplication analysis and will be moving on to methods for dividing. Continue to practice multiplication facts at home as fluency in those will aid in students ability to divide. Science - In Science this week we shared our weather instrument videos with each other and looked at ways of measuring weather. We also began to explore air/atmospheric pressure and the role it plays in weather. We had a busy week in grade 5. Please enjoy this glimpse into the week’s learning.
Important Dates Jan 15- In class expert, Science Illustrator (Teresa McLaren) will spend 80 minutes with each grade 5 class on field journal sketching techniques. Jan. 18th- No School Jan. 25th- Last day of term 1 electives Feb. 1st- No School Feb. 6th- Swim to Survive @ Southland Leisure for PE Math- In math this week we explored another multiplication strategy, the Lattice Method. Many found success in this simplified strategy and prefer it over the array method. They did a check-in on Thursday and it is in the midst of being assessed. Students will get these back by mid week. If you are interested in learning more about this method, check out this instructional video and why it works. In Grade 5, students are expected to master 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication, some have been able to take a strategy like this to expand to even larger numbers. Next week we will look at the strategy that is familiar to adults, what we will call the ‘traditional algorithm’. It is important that students have a strong understanding of what it means to multiply prior to investigating this strategy, as it is not as intuitive as the first two strategies we explored and much more depending on memorization of steps. Science- Students researched, planned and created weather instruments that helped us observe and monitor what is happening weather-wise in our local environment. They tested their instruments and shared their results with a video that was posted on Seesaw. This week will look at some of the scientific principles behind the weather phenomenon we see in our local environment (such as chinooks). Humanities- We spent this week immersed in our collection of Caldecott eligible picture books. There were over 40 books available on the long list for students to examine against the Caldecott criteria. Students voted for each book on a 3 point scale, and the top will 16 move onto the next round. In addition, 4 books will be assigned wild card spots and will move on. We will continue narrowing down the books until Jan.25th, when we will choose a winning selection. We will compare our results with the official results on Jan, 28th. Looking ahead, the students will begin looking at beauty within Canada, and we will continue with Mock Caldecott. Project Beautiful- We have completed another assignment for this inquiry. Students built their critical thinking skills as we explored the concept of beautiful. Collectively and individually we defined the word, “beautiful.” Many students found that their ideas around, “What is beautiful?” have expanded. Thank-you to all of you who were able to take the opportunity to provide feedback to your child on their movie. Moving forward we will be examining our essential question, in the context as it relates to “What is beautiful about me?” and within the context of the topics we learn about in grade 5. |
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