Ms. Parent's Grade 5/6 Blog

Important Dates 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 Reminder: Students using Raz Kids- login name/teacher name is soveracker0 (password is the same as their login password) Homework: Students should be reading every day for 20-30 minutes :) Here is what we have been up to over the past couple of weeks: In social studies, we have continued to work on our research into our country study: identifying important information about food in each culture, the important foods in different regions and selecting some recipes that we would like to make and try. (This will take place in the new year as we are just finishing up the research). Additionally, we spent some time finishing up our journal entry on children's rights. In ELA, we started our pen pal letters (rough copies) and we will be ...

Dear Prince of Wales Families, Please join us for an evening of family fun on Thursday, December 6, 2018 from 6:00 PM until 7:30 PM. We invite our Prince of Wales families to join together and create new memories as we welcome returning families and brand new families to our school community. Come to the school, grab a passport and visit a number of engaging stations such as: ·      A photo booth ·      Enjoying hot chocolate & a treat ·      Creating crafts ·      Making Make it Merry cards ·      Caroling with Mrs. Anderson ·      Read alouds ·      The Giving Tree These family friendly activities will be embedded in a scavenger hunt that will cruise you through our many hallways to enjoy the varied evidence of learning that you...

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 ...

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...