Ms. Parent's Grade 5/6 Blog

SAY SOMETHING! We are busy planning and organizing for our spring concert.  This year, we are taking our inspiration from the book,   “SAY SOMETHING!”   by Peter H. Reynolds.  The students are putting in suggestions and preparing to dance, play, and/or sing. Mark you calendars as our performances will be: March   4 th   and   5 th .  There will be two performances on each of those days. To accommodate all families in our gym we are dividing our performances:  The students with last names that begin with A-K will be performing on Wednesday. The students with last names that begin with L-Z will be performing on Thursday. There will be a daytime ( Wednesday 9-10am   and   Thursday 1-2pm ) performance and an evening (6:30-7:30pm) performance on each day. Tickets will be needed for the evening performance.  Each   family   will get 3 tickets with a possibility of obtaining extra ones. If your chil...

IMPORTANT DATES February 11: Cathy Beveridge - Writer's Workshop  February 12: Fun Lunch (Opa!) February 13 & 14: Teachers Convention - No school February 17: Family Day - School closed February 18: Cathy Beveridge - Writer's Workshop February 20: Parent Council Meeting February 26: Fun Lunch (Booster Juice) February 26: Pink Shirt Day Assembly (12:30pm) Congratulations to all of the students who participated in science fair this week!! Everyone worked so hard in becoming well versed in their area of interest and the presentations they created. An additionally congratulations to those students who are headed to cities and to those who were honored with student and judges choice. We continued our work with identifying and classifying quadrilaterals (grade 5) and triangles (grade 6) in mathematics this week. We have been talking about congruent angles and sides, parallel and perpendicular lines (and how those are documented on shapes) and understa...

IMPORTANT DATES February 11: Cathy Beveridge - Writer's Workshop  February 12: Fun Lunch (Opa!) February 13 & 14: Teachers Convention - No school February 17: Family Day - School closed February 18: Cathy Beveridge - Writer's Workshop February 20: Parent Council Meeting February 26: Fun Lunch (Booster Juice) February 26: Pink Shirt Day Assembly (12:30pm) Learning Updates: Here are some of the things we got up to: Mathematics: We are learning about geometry this week. Grade 5's have been learning about quadrilaterals including how to classify and identify them while Grade 6's have been learning about triangles and how to define them by their angles. We have also been playing an area and perimeter game by flipping two cards and drawing rectangles to match the numbers in centimeters. We have also been using our cards as an opportunity to practice our basic division facts by creating fact families with the cards we have flipped. E...

Ms. Parent's class (and the other grade 5/6 classes) have a busy couple of months coming up in regards to field trips so it seemed appropriate to update everyone on upcoming dates, location and reminders for trips we still require some volunteers for. Special Shout Out: Thanks to Jo-Lynne (our room mom :) ) for being so supportive and organized with our field trips! February 25th, 2020: Youth Link Police Interpretive Center (Ms. Parent's class only - Ms. W and Ms. G will be going on Feb. 24th) - We have enough volunteers for this day! Please look for an email tomorrow with a field trip form and parent letter. Just print and return by February 7th (if possible). If you do not have access to a printer- please let Ms. Parent know asap. March 9-13th, 2020: SEED School (Ms. Parent's class only) -We still need 1-2 volunteers most days. Please click the link below to sign up for a day to help us meet our adult to kid ratio and to have some FUN with us :) March 16-19...

IMPORTANT DATES January 29: Fun Lunch (Coco Brooks) January 31: PD Day - No school for students February 12: Fun Lunch (Opa!) February 13 & 14: Teachers Convention - No school for students  February 17: Family Day - School closed Updates for our learning: This week we spent some time writing a few new poems! We talked about Haiku poems and the unique features of this traditional Japanese style poem. Students also created an illustration that related to their subject area and we superimposed our poems over top of the art. We have now worked on thinking about emotions in poetry as well as a subject we are interested in. Each student selected a poem they were proud of and presented at our Poetry Café on Friday! We have been talking about multiplication and division fact families this week. These will help us see the connection between the two operations and to continue to strengthen our known facts. We continued thinking about heroes this wee...

Welcome Olive! We wanted to let you know that Olive had an amazing first day in the classroom :) During our computer time, we researched some interesting facts about hamsters which we will build into our circle next week as we set up important expectations for the classroom. Below is a picture of a first look for some of the students this morning :) Take a look tomorrow for some other highlights of the week in our classroom

IMPORTANT DATES January 13 - 24: Gymnastics - Please see safety information January 15: Fun Lunch (Subway) January 24: Poetry Café (please bring a travel mug to enjoy a hot beverage while sharing a poem with your peers!)  January 29: Fun Lunch (Coco Brooks) January 31: PD Day - No school for students February 12: Fun Lunch (Opa!) February 13 & 14: Teachers Convention - No school for students  February 17: Family Day - School closed February 20: PAC Meeting  February 26: Fun Lunch (Booster Juice) February 26: Pink Shirt Day Assembly  What We've Been Up To: In mathematics, we started our term looking at integers which we defined as all whole numbers and their opposites. We talked about zero being a neutral number and discussed some real-life examples of where we might see negative numbers and we spent some time comparing positive and negative integers. We have continued to look at factors and multiples as we continue to explore mult...