Welcome to Grade 5
Our annual Learning Fair took place this past Thursday, April 18. Our focus this year was on Social Studies. Grade 5 showcased their group project on their First Peoples culture group. They also made their own Viking flag using the Viking alphabet to write their names. It was great to see the amount of families that came to see what is going on in our Social Studies curriculum.
Milk Spirit Week is coming up with activities related to milk. The themed-dress days are listed in the April calendar. We look forward to some fun mild activities throughout the week.
We held our parent meeting in regards to camp this past week. We were very excited to have such a good turn out. We are all looking forward to this year's camp experience in May.
In Language Arts, we continue with our weekly Spelling lessons, comprehension and handwriting assignments. I encourage my students to practice the words in their weekly spelling that they had trouble with during our Pre-test on Monday. We continue on in our Communicating Skills workbook.
In Social Studies we continue with our look at the First Peoples. We defined a personal decision (what to wear, eat, etc...) and a collective decision (affects a group of people). In their table groups students filled out a worksheet describing the best way to come to a collective decision.
In Science we continued work in our new unit, Properties of and Changes in Substances. Students shared their descriptions of classroom objects with their classmates. Some objects were easy to identify with their description while others weren't. Using the properties/characteristics of substances table groups described honey and an elastic band. We then shared our findings as a class.
In Math, we continue working on Place Value. Student are using worksheets to practice writing numbers out in words as well as in expanded notation/form.
Ex. standard form--2789
words--two thousand seven hundred eighty-nine
expanded form--2000 + 700 + 80 + 9
We began using division Mad Minutes to keep practicing our basic facts. Increasing our problem solving strategies takes place year round.
Feel free to contact me anytime at:
grade5.stgerard@shaw.ca
204-667-4862
Mrs. Cunningham
