Grade 5/6 Blog

  Tuesday, September 29th 🔶 Orange Shirt Day: Our class will be hosting the virtual assembly for Orange Shirt Day tomorrow morning. Students, please wear an orange shirt to school tomorrow. 📙 LA/SS Today, we worked on our reading skills emphasizing the importance of rereading to find and locate information. We read about "sleep": the importance of sleep, dreams and helpful hints to improve sleep. We also reflected on Virtues and our own gifts of characters. We wrote about our own virtues, including our strengths and areas for growth. ❎ Math - Factors, factors, factors - We spent one more day completing the activity sheets related to factors. Students are encouraged to practice their basic multiplication facts at home. We will be reviewing more strategies later in the week. 🌳 Science - The Nutrient Cycle - We watched 2 videos and used the "test yourself" option. You can find these two videos in Classwork (Photosynthesis; The Carbon Cycle). Students ...

  Monday, September 28th This is a reminder that the daily blog will be moving to the Google Classroom starting Thursday, October 1st. You will need to log in with your child's school email account (.... educbe.ca) and their password. Please take the time to check out the daily announcement in the stream. If your child is away for an extended period of time, and are healthy enough to do some school work, the Google Classroom's daily announcements will give you an overview of what was missed. Some of activities will be posted in the Classwork for your child to view and work on. 📅 Upcoming Dates: 🔶 Orange Shirt Day - Wednesday, September 30 - Virtual Assembly at 8:30 AM - Please wear an orange shirt on this day. Orange Shirt Day The Grade 5/6 classes will be hosting a virtual assembly on Wednesday, September 30 at 8:30am. Show your support by wearing ORANGE! In 1973, six-year old Phyllis Webstad was gifted a brand new orange shirt from her grandmother and wore it...

  Wednesday, September 23 ✅ Parents - if you have not had a chance, please sign up for a conference time for Thursday evening or Friday morning. See more information and links in Monday's announcement/blog post. 👣. Tomorrow is Early Dismissal. Students will be dismissed at 11:45. There are no classes in the afternoon. Conferences will begin at 3:30. 🎵 A message from Mrs. Anderson, the Music teacher at Prince of Wales School: Hello Prince of Wales families. For MUSIC Parent/Teacher Conferences, please go to your child’s CBE Gmail account and accept Mrs. Anderson’s invite into the Google Music Classroom. Here you will be able to view what we have been up to in September. If your child has already been into the virtual classroom, have them show you the items posted there. NOTE: the posts won’t be up until FRIDAY morning, September 25th. Feel free to write me a quick note and I will try to respond the same day. Thank you very much. Mrs. Patricia Anderson 💻I It was no...

 Terrific Tuesday Tuesday, September 22 ✅. Parents - please sign up for a conference time if you have not done so. Please refer to yesterday's announcement/blog for more information and links. 🇨🇦 SS We have been working on a Canada Map Assignment. Today we focused on completing the provinces and capital cities. 📙 LA We read "Shi Shi Etko," a story about a young girl's four days before she had to leave her family to attend residential school. We completed a reader response using cognitive reading strategies on this story. ❎ Math Students completed another "Mad Minute" focussed on perfect square products (1x1, 2x2, 3x3... 10x10). It is important that your child begin to memorize the basic multiplication facts. We will be working on different strategies (tricks) to help with the memorization. We have begun to talk about factors and factoring. We watched a BrainAntics video (see below). Students began some worksheet activities related t...

  Monday, September 21 (We will be updating our blog each day. Starting October 1st, the daily blog/announcements will be located in the Google Classroom. Parents can sign into the Google classroom using your child's CBE gmail and password. Please let us know if you need any assistance.) ✅. Parents - please sign up for a conference time for Thursday evening or Friday morning. Information was emailed to parents last week, and shared on our school webpage (see link below) 📅 Upcoming Dates: · Early Dismissal @ 11:45 – Thursday, September 24 · PT Conferences 3:30-7:30 – Thursday, September 24 · No school – Friday, September 25 · PT Conferences 8:00-12:00 – Friday, September 25 · Orange Shirt Day - Wednesday, September 30 💻. ✍🏼 LA: This morning, worked on our research skills using our "Wonder" topics. We worked on making jot notes by analyzing information to find main ideas generated from our "I Wonder" questions. We ar...

  Thursday, September 17, 2020 Please remember to wear RED and WHITE (and to bring a water bottle) for tomorrow's Terry Fox Run! AM Terry Fox Assembly - This morning, we enjoyed an inspiring assembly organized by the grade 2's and 4's! MUSIC -- We practiced our "signature moves" in music today. LA -We took the discussions and ideas we generated from yesterday's heroes talk and organized it into a paragraph. PM Science - we learned how to classify leaves by their shapes and margins. Check out the slide show in Classworks called "Leaves". Math - We learned how to use a multiplication grid to help us with our basic multiplication facts. Student had the opportunity to play Multiplication War with a buddy.

  Wednesday, September 16, 2020 Update: -Our Virtual Terry Fox Assembly is tomorrow morning at 8:30AM for students. -Our Terry Fox Run for the Grade 5/6 students is Friday at 10:30AM. Wear your RED AND WHITE and dress for the weather! Remember to visit the Google classroom for additional information. The blog will no longer appear here starting Oct 1st. AM LA- We had a great discussion this morning about heroes. Ask us about it! We discussed what we think it means to be a hero and how this ties into virtues/gifts of character. SS-We continued to work on our Canada mapping skills. PM Science - Each student collected 6 different leaves from the front of our school. Then we created a booklet from a single piece of paper. Using wax crayons, students made a leaf rubbing of each of their six leaves. Tomorrow, we will be looking at the different characteristics of each leaf and labeling our leaf rubbings. Math - Students completed the MIPI for their grade level. Wha...

Monday, September 14th AM Parents... please note that our blogs will soon only be posted in our Google Classroom.  To establish our online presence we (re)familiarized ourselves with Google Classroom and Google Meet.  Your child can show you how they access google classroom using their CBE email and password.  The students worked on two assignments in Google Classroom this morning - a response to our Google Question and a polished copy of their "I Am" poem.  We shared our "Wonders" this morning.   PM Math - Google Slides - Students visited the google classroom to complete a math task (Math Arrays) and used the "turn in" button to submit their work. Please have your child show you the activity at home. Since some students did not complete the task, I would like them to complete it for homework. Science - Trees ~~I think... , I wonder... , I discover....  We did not have much time to work on this task. We will continue working on it this week. Music -...

We worked on completing our "I Am" poems. What deep, creative thinking! Way to go, Class! Over the past few weeks, we have been discussing and focussing on virtues in relation to our class mission statement. Today, we watched the Kindness Boomerang and signed our mission statement - our commitment to striving to build a DETERMINED, RESPONSIBLE, LOYAL, GENEROUS, JOYFUL, RESPECTFUL AND TEAM-focused classroom community. We have been working on slowing down and being observant. Today, we took our observations and formed them into curiosities, using "I Wonder..." We spent some time outdoors, brainstorming our curiosities... stay tuned to see where this leads! We read another chapter in Silverwing! What a great discussion today about history! We discussed if and why history is important. To finish our morning, the students had an opportunity to present "themselves" using the art puzzle pieces that each student created. Students, please remember to...

 REMEMBER! TOMORROW IS PICTURE DAY!  BRING YOUR SMILES! 

  Welcome back! We hope you had a great long weekend! Here are some highlights from this week so far! - Letter to My Future Self-- We wrote our own   time-capsules  in the form of a letter, which we will seal and open at the end of the year! - Observational Sketches-- Today, we learned a little about Leonardo Da Vinci and how he used his observational skills to help further his understanding of the world. We then practiced using our own observational skills by creating "mini-sketches" of objects we could see outside! - Multiplication "Perfect Squares"-- Today, we learned what a "square number" is in multiplication, and watched a couple of fun videos to help us remember! ( Square Numbers Song for Kids , Square Numbers Song -Rap)   Mail: - No new mail (please return form package from last week!) Upcoming Dates: - Thursday, September 10-- School Photos

Photo Day is Thursday, September 10. More information will be communicated on Tuesday. STUDENTS,  PLEASE  have hats, water bottles and a little extra   clothing in your backpacks so you are as comfortable as   possible in our outdoor music room!   As long as the weather is reasonable we'll be outside.                    Mrs. Anderson

 Hi Everyone,  We are so proud of your kiddos!  They have truly risen to the "new ways" of routines and expectations at school.  Over the last few days, everyone seems to be settling in and adjusting.  We are all getting to know each other a little more each day.  Each student is really trying their best each day.   Today, we spent some time thinking about virtues and discussing the virtues/characters we would like to emphasize and work towards as we build our community.  As a class, we have decided that the following virtues will lead our class mission statement (stay tuned as we finish creating this together)!  Generosity. Responsibility . Determination. Respect. Joyfulness. Loyalty. Teamwork.    We watched Lessons from Geese today.  Feel free to ask us about what we learned about geese and see if we remember how it connects to community building in our classroom!  Reminders:  There has been a lot of informatio...