Ms. Parent's Grade 5/6 Blog

Updates and Important Info: November 28: Fun Lunch December 6: Making Memories Family Night December 7: PD Day - No school for students December 11: Last PoWer Hour December 12: Fun Lunch December 17: Caroling in the morning December 19: Caroling in the afternoon December 20: Report Cards home December 21: Last day of classes before Winter Break January 7: PD Day - No school for students  January 8: Classes resume Here is what we got up to last week! On Thursday, we spent some time in the afternoon in a circle for Bella. We had a chance to go around the circle a few times and share our favorite memories and well wishes as she moves forward in her journey to a few school. We put those memories and wishes into a rock that she took with her so she can always remember the nice things her classmates had to share. We had our first story-telling time with Elder Randy. He shared a wonderful story that had lessons around treating others how you

Highlights from our week! With a partner, we read some stories to learn about different animal contributions during WW1 and WW2. We also looked at Indigenous contributions during the different wars and learned that many Indigenous people lost their status when the volunteered to fight for Canada. Additionally, we talked about Cree Code Talkers, including Charles “Checkers” Tomkins, and the importance of their role in helping the Allies win the war. We had music three times! Ask me what I have been learning about in music. We spent some time creating the templates for our story writing unit in our visual journals in order to organize our writing process. We have continued building on our character development for our story writing unit. After creating our protagonist and antagonist with a partner using tapigami, we sketched our characters in our visual journal and created a space to answer questions about our characters. We also spent some time thinking about fou

I apologize that I have been quite sick for almost two weeks now! After leaving school last Friday (battling an illness) I forgot to post a blog so this blog will encompass two weeks into one. Important Information: Raz-kids: Some of us have access to Raz-kids to practice our reading skills at our current independent levels of reading. Please go to  https://www.raz-kids.com/  and click on "Kids Login" and type in soveracker0 to log in and see if your name is in the classroom. Students should be reading EVERY single day for 20-30 minutes. If you have access to Raz-kids try to listen to, read and respond to the questions of one book a day! I would love it if you could also record yourself reading a book once a week so we can sit down together and talk about what we notice :) Weekend Letters We will be writing "Weekend Letters" that will come home 1-2 times per month. This will give you an opportunity for you to see what you son/daughter can do independently. P