Grade 5 Harris' Weekly Highlights

Happy February Grade 5B Families, Here are some important reminders and highlights for the week! REMINDERS February 12-13: No school - Teacher's Convention February 16: No school - Family Day February 17: Exciting Author Visit February 24: In-school Science Fair Presentations LEARNING HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK P.E. is all about curling! Learning the skills, cheering each other on and even watching some of the Olympics! Technology  - We are exploring our new Chromebooks thanks to the money raised from Casino Funds! We also played on the new iPads on Friday! Science - Our final task in ENERGY (our science unit) was to construct an object that floated. The hypothetical situation was, "We have to save endangered animals from a sinking island. What can you build in 30 minutes to save the animals? Spelling / Grammar:  After reading and writing stories over the last month, we have noticed that as a group we need some practice with APOSTROPHES. They are to be used when indicating "p...

  Hello grade 5 families, REMINDER -  FRIDAY FOR STUDENTS - PD DAY Here are some learning highlights from this week! Math Continued learning on Stem and Leaf Plots, Dot Plots, Mode and Frequency. Students brought home some math today. Health We had another visit for our Restart Program.  This week we learned about conflict, communication styles: passive, aggressive, passive-aggressive and assertive.  Ask your child about the spaghetti and playdough challenge. Art Last Friday we enjoyed critiquing a famous Canadian artist: Doris McCarthy. Literacy Students reviewed spelling plurals, read with me in small groups focussing on these comprehension strategies: summarizing, connecting and predicting, and got feedback on their first story.  As well, they are writing postcards from an ancient civilization of their choice that demonstrates their understanding of the geography. P.E. Basketball games! Have a great weekend! Mrs. Harris