HUMANITIES HOMEWORK:
Grade 5's
Announcements and Reminders
This week at in Room 16/18 Gym: This week, we welcomed ELEV8 Lacrosse to teach us the skills and fundamentals of lacrosse. Students had a great time and learned a lot. French: Students have started finger weaving bookmarks and friendship bracelets for our upcoming Agora. Next week we will also be painting kindness rocks as part of our Entrepreneurial inquiries. Health: Students are continuing to examine their diets and the effects that different nutrients have on our bodies. Please use the healthy food checker to check labels of packaged foods this weekend in order to make informed choices about the food that we eat. Next week, we will continue to learn about healthy foods choices, focusing on raising awareness about the food we eat. Math: We have started our unit around fractions, decimals (both grades), percentages and ratios (grade 6). We started by using pattern blocks to build different fractions to visually represent different fractions. We started looking at fractions as a set and fractions as a whole and the definitions for numerator, denominator and equivalent fractions. Grade 6 students have been determining improper fractions and their corresponding mixed numbers. Science: Grade 6: This week we have investigated what happens when air is compressed and how air can be used to lift water. Cutting Through Air Centre work should now be handed in. Grade 5: Students have now completed their Sticky Static investigations - this work should now be handed in. We have moved into working with our electricity kits which will use to complete hands-on experiments. Today we learned about what is inside of a dry cell battery, how a battery works and learned about Ohm's law. We also began to investigate how to light a light bulb using batteries and wire. Humanities: Literacy: We will begin our Functional Writing unit, News Articles, by learning about the News Article Triangle. This is an organizational tool that helps lay out your article. Over the next few weeks we will be looking at articles and the elements within them. We will then move to writing our own articles. Grade 6 students are in the process of writing their first article, and Grade 5's have worked to extract the elements of news article out of a sample. Social Studies: Grade 5: Students have finished their art pieces and completed their biographies. If the biography is not finished, it is now overdue and expected on Monday morning. Please check with your child to ensure that this has been handed in. You can access the rubric and their work in progress through their google drive. Grade 6: Students have completed their course work on Ancient Athens. If your paragraph and flow chart have not been handed in, they are expected on Monday. Please check with your child to ensure that this has been handed in. You can access the rubric and their work in progress through their google drive. Next week we will be creating study notes in class in preparation for our unit test which will be next Thursday. Our agora event has been rescheduled to Monday, March 16. Students know their roles and should be researching costuming ideas in preparation for this event. Announcements and Reminders: If your child is going to be absent, or leaving early, please call the office in advance and if possible, email the homeroom teacher so that we will have your child prepared to be picked up. Our School Council and Parent Association Meeting is next week, Monday March 9th at 6pm in the North Haven learning commons. Everyone is welcome! Come join the conversation in regards to fundraisers, events, and residencies in our school. We are going to have a St. Patrick’s School Dance hosted by our Parent Council Association on March 19th from 5:30-7:30. Tickets will be $2.00 at the door.
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