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March 9 - 13

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Upcoming Dates: March 17 – SPIRIT DAY: Wear Green for St. Patrick’s Day March 19 – Edo Fun Lunch Day / Mr. Pretzel Treat Day (order through healthyhunger.ca ) March 19 - 20 – Evening Student Involved Conferences Student Involved Conferences on Friday Please sign up through your MyCBE Parent Account . March 19 & 20 – Purdys orders can be picked up at the Evening Student Involved Conferences on Thursday or the Daytime  March 23 – 27 – SPRING BREAK – No school March 30 – First day of classes after Spring Break  Look what happened this week! Math - multiplication of large numbers and a check-in on Thursday! Writing - We are focusing on how to edit and revise our writing. This week we looked at the Dog Man series and editing for proper capitalization. We also published a whole lot of "How to...." mini procedural writing books to share! Lastly, in writing and literacy, students are completing their EXPERT STATION presentation to show to their peers next week. Ask them what th...
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March 2-6

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Hello grade 5 families, Here are the learning highlights this week! A lot of Social Studies research - Ask your child what ancient civilization they have been learning about and what they have learned. How are they going to be sharing their learning? Just ask them. Math is still long division and now multi-digit multiplication. Students still need to practice their basic facts to support their multiplication and division of larger numbers to solve problems. Ask them how you can support them in becoming more efficient.  multidigit x Lastly, in Science we are starting a new unit on Matter. Ask your child what they know about the topic so you can understand what we have learned.  Matter Reach out if you have any questions. Have a great weekend!  
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February 23-26

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 Hello Families,  Next week and the following, we are looking forward to a visit from a Knowledge Keeper  Chantal Chagnon. Stay tuned for pictures from her visit with all of the NLS community. This is what we got up to this week. SCIENCE We viewed and celebrated our peer's Science Fair projects, and there were two presenters from 5B who contributed a project as well. GreaT Job Akorede and Jiana!   We also recognized and celebrated PINK Shirt Day with a school-wide assembly, drawing and writing tasks!   Math is still long division and multidigit multiplication. In P.E. students started learning about floor hockey. We decided to have some fun with Ms. Docherty and were doing buddy reading and independent reading, pretending we were on the C-Train. WRITING - We wrote a lot of proper sentences. Sentences have a subject and a predicate! Compound and complex sentences had conjunctions. We also started researching an Ancient Civilizations's Innovations, Government and ...
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