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1. Grade 6 students are reminded to bring in or email Mrs. Hastie a baby photo and a recent photo of themselves by May 31. 2. Jersey Day May 29 3. Grade 6 students can prepare for PATs by accessing the practice tests on Quest A+ at this link: https://questaplus.alberta.ca/ In French: French Food Comic Strip assignments are now overdue. Students who have asked for extensions should be handing in their work. This week we will be working on improving our oral language skills. Students will be learning about the verbs être and avoir and their conjugations. Students will also begin reviewing greetings and salutations, how to ask questions and weather. In PE: Frisbee begins this week. In Math: This week we will also be continuing our studies of Shape and Space: Grade 5 students will be identifying attributes of different types of lines and how they interact in 2 dimensions. Vocabulary will include: horizontal, vertical, parallel, intersecting, perpendicular Both grades are completing a watercolor art piece using perspective and vanishing point. They will identify key lines and angles in their paintings once complete. Grade 6 students will review the Grade 5 vocabulary and will learn more about labeling the parts of an angle with the words ray and vertex. They will also begin identifying angles by their attributes and classifying them using words such as acute, obtuse, right, straight, reflex and full. If you are looking for extra practice work please see these web-links: http://www.math6.nelson.com/studentcentre/studtryout.html http://www.math5.nelson.com/studentcentre/studtryout.html In Humanities: For the following weeks, in Language Arts, Grade 5 and 6 students use contextual clues to determine the connotative meaning of words, phrases, and figurative language such as simile, hyperbole, metaphor, exaggeration and synecdoche. Grade 6 students will prepare presentations on each area of figurative language to share with Grade 5 students. Social Studies: Grade 6 Iroquois Confederacy presentations will continue this week. Students will provide peer feedback and then will be working on completing review activities in preparation for a Iroquois Confederacy Unit test on Thursday May 30. Grade 5 Immigrant Digital Stories are now complete. Students will finish presenting and peer evaluating their stories. After feedback and completing a consolidation activity, students will complete self-refections and upload them to IRIS. Students will also be working on a Confederation Mind Map project this week. It is due on Friday May 31. In Science: Grade 6 Students are working to complete Air and Aerodynamics Centre work based of the properties of air. Centre 7, 9 and 10 must be finished by Thursday May 30. Grade 5 Students will continue to work on designing, constructing and modifying their electric game boards. Completed game boards are due May 29.
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Here's hoping everyone had a restful and fun-filled long weekend. This week will prove to be another busy one!
Reminders: 1. Grade 6 students are reminded to bring in or email Mrs. Hastie a baby photo and a recent photo of themselves by May 31. 2. Volunteer Tea - Friday May 24 9:00am – 10:30am in the North Haven Learning Commons 3. Jersey Day May 29 4. Grade 6 students can prepare for PATs by accessing the practice tests on Quest A+ at this link: https://questaplus.alberta.ca/ In French: French Food Comic Strip assignments are now overdue. Students who have asked for extensions should be handing in their work. This week we will be working on improving our oral language skills. Students will be learning about the verbs être and avoir and their conjugations. Students will also begin reviewing greetings and salutations, how to ask questions and weather. In PE: Frisbee begins this week. In Math: We will be finishing our inquiries into area and perimeter by completing the Cheap Fencing problem and playing a "Dicey" Perimeter game. This week we will also be continuing our studies of Shape and Space: Grade 5 students will be identifying attributes of different types of lines and how they interact in 2 dimensions. Vocabulary will include: horizontal, vertical, parallel, intersecting, perpendicular Both grades are completing a watercolor art piece using perspective and vanishing point. They will identify key lines and angles in their paintings once complete. Grade 6 students will review the Grade 5 vocabulary and will learn more about labeling the parts of an angle with the words ray and vertex. They will also begin identifying angles by their attributes and classifying them using words such as acute, obtuse, right, straight, reflex and full. If you are looking for extra practice work please see these web-links: http://www.math6.nelson.com/studentcentre/studtryout.html http://www.math5.nelson.com/studentcentre/studtryout.html In Humanities: For the following weeks, in Language Arts, Grade 5 and 6 students use contextual clues to determine the connotative meaning of words, phrases, and figurative language such as simile, hyperbole, metaphor, exaggeration and synecdoche. Social Studies: Grade 6 Presentations of project work on the Iroquois Confederacy will start on Thursday May 23. All projects are to be completed by Friday May 24. Grade 5 Students are putting the finishing touches on their Immigrant Digital Stories after feedback and completing self-refections to upload to IRIS. Students will begin presenting their digital stories on Wednesday May 22. In Science: Grade 6 Students are working to complete Air and Aerodynamics Centre work based of the properties of air. We will begin sharing our understandings on Wednesday May 22. Grade 5 Students will continue to work on designing, constructing and modifying their electric game boards. Completed game boards are due May 28.
This is a great opportunity to have all your kids at the school to get a picture together! Please email [email protected] with all your kids' names and room numbers to sign them up. Please use the subject "Sibling Photos" There is NO COST to this amazing opportunity. Life Touch will give the school $2 per family that sign up to have sibling photos taken. Just like in the fall with individual photos, you will receive a code to go online to see your pictures and decide if you would like to order them. There is NO OBLIGATION to buy. Thank you! North Haven Parent Association
- Keyboards, mice, microphones - VCRs and DVD players - Cassette players and stereo tape decks - Battery-powered children’s toys In French: Students have begun a French Food Comic Strip assignment. The due date has been extended to May 16. In PE: Field hockey will continue this week. In Math: This week: Grade 5 students will be comparing and ordering fractions using number lines and common denominators Grade 6 students will be comparing and orderings fractions and mixed number using number lines and common denominators. If you are looking for extra practice work please see these web-links: http://www.math6.nelson.com/studentcentre/studtryout.html http://www.math5.nelson.com/studentcentre/studtryout.html In Humanities: Grade 5 and 6 students will complete their latest narrative writing story using a picture prompt and both grades will be practicing writing newspaper articles about our Ralph Klein Park field study. Social Studies: Grade 6 Students have started studying the Iroquois Confederacy - They are now working on the Iroquois "Glog" Project research. Students are working in small groups to research one of the 6 Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. They will learn how to prepare a "Glog" using the platform "Glogster". Grade 5 Students finished researching the stories and histories of their region and will be taking this knowledge to build a digital story book on Immigrants to Canada. Students have complete their initial research and have moved on to writing the script. In Science: Grade 6 We have begun our inquiries into Air, Aerodynamics and Flight (AAF) Students have received a glossary and vocabulary and have started drawing connections between vocabulary terms and concepts. Students have also started drafting questions about AIR that will become the basis for our inquiries moving forward for the week. Grade 5 This week, students will be working hard to determine how switches work to help us in everyday life and experiment with magnetic fields and determine how they can help us. Students will also be making a compass galvanometer and a simple motor this week. |