Ms. Parent's Grade 5/6 Blog

Important Information: Please join us on Wednesday, February 27 to create a sea of   PINK   in support of   Pink   Shirt day.  We encourage everyone to practice kindness and wear   pink   to symbolize that you do not tolerate bullying.   Highlights from our week: Last week was a super short week! Mr. Schmidt prepared some fun activities for his day of teaching on Tuesday which included some backwards math, leading some fun games in the PE power hour and helped students make final edits for their presentations in Google Slides. We also had a HUGE grade 3 building challenge where students were asked to create a tower using strips of paper that they turned into hearts. Mr. Schmidt raised the highest amount of money in our class to go towards the library redesign. This week, we started out with welcoming our new guest teacher for the next 10 weeks! Ms. G has really enjoyed getting to know all of the students and is SO excited to start tea...

Important Dates: February 13 - Early dismissal February 14-15 - Teacher's Convention - no school February 18 - Family Day - no school February 20 - Fun Lunch February 27 - Pink Shirt Day Remember: Everyone is to read for 20-30 minutes every day! Congratulations to Rocky for raising the most amount of money in pledges for our read-a-thon fundraiser! He will be teacher for a day!! Also, congratulations to Ryder on reading the highest number of minutes in our class :) Highlights of what we have been working on: We have been continuing our work in subtraction with regrouping in mathematics. We had a couple of challenge riddles that asked students to solve equations in order to solve the riddles. In ELA we have been working on our stories! We wrote three possible story beginnings, selected one and asked for two stars and a wish from a peer and then reworked our story beginning. Afterwards, we began the typing process :) We had two 30 minute blocks where we used ou...

Important Dates January 30 - Fun Lunch January 31 - Division II (Gr 4, 5, 6) Music Concert January 31 - Last day fro Read-a-Thon February 1 - No School for students February 6 - Read-a-Thon forms and money due Highlights from our week: In science/social, we have extended our initial research by selecting one  animal from our global country and to now study this animal with guiding questions. These included the characteristics of the animal, to look at the habitat of the animal and to research it's diet (prey) and it's predators.  In math we have been reviewing the rules of subtraction (more on top, no need to stop; more on the floor, go next door & numbers the same, zero is the game) as well as looking at what to do when our neighbors have nothing to give. We spent some time each day this week getting our Harry Potter shapes sketches done and next we will cut them out and get them into our visual journals! We also created two visual journal entries: one asked us t...

Important Information The Read-a-thon is well underway and students have been SUPER engaged in reading as many minutes we can through the course of our day :) Please continue to track your minutes at home and collect your pledges to help us with our library redesign.  Dress Like Your Favourite Character Day Tying in with the Read-a-thon, Friday, January the 25th is Dress Up Like Your Favourite Book Character Day. I will talk more about this, with the students on Monday. January 25 - Dress Up Like Your Favourite Book Character Day January 30 - Fun Lunch January 31 - Division II (Gr 4, 5, 6) Music Concert January 31 - Last day fro Read-a-Thon February 1 - No School for students February 6 - Read-a-Thon forms and money due An email will be sent out next week to inform parents about our work on foods in our global communities! Highlights from our week: In math we have been working on our Ikea bedroom design to use a real-life application of addition and subtracti...

Welcome back Grade 3 students! It was so nice to see the excitement as everyone ran into the school on Tuesday morning :) I am so happy to hear that everyone had such an amazing break with your families and friends. We started the week with a nice morning circle to allow everyone a chance to share a few things about their breaks. We also welcomed a new student, Emmanuel, to our classroom this week. I was proud of the leaders in our room who stepped up and showed him around and played with him at recess (there was no shortage of students who were interested in helping- we have such a kind and compassionate group this year :) ). In math this week, we reviewed addition and subtraction with regrouping and talked about why we might need to use these concepts in the real world. We started a budgeting project where the students have been given $1000 to design a dream bedroom from Ikea. They have to select an item from a number of different categories (bed frames, mattresses, textiles etc....

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...