Welcome to Grade 5
We are getting close to the last month of school. There is still learning taking place, so please remind your son/daughter to continue to put forth a strong effort to finish off the school year.
Thank you to the many volunteers who help us out during the school year. The volunteer appreciation tea was a huge success. We all appreciate the help given throughout the year.
On Thursday, May 19, the Grade 4 and 5 classes ventured to the Legislative Building. We sat in on the Assembly as it was taking place, learned about the Legislative Building, and took a tour. Thank you to Mr. Ikhienarolor for coming with us.
In Language Arts, students continue to work on a weekly Spelling unit, with a pre-test on Monday, an assignment to complete, and a test on Friday with a bonus word and sentences to write. We continue working in our Communicating Skills grammar workbook. Students are also reading and answering questions with our comprehension stories. We continue to practice our handwriting as well.
In Social Studies, students have almost completed their work on their specific culture groups with their group members. Once good copies of the report and poster are completed, each group will present their findings to their classmates.
In Science, we continued working on Properties and Changes in Substances. Matter is anything that has mass/weight and takes up space. The 3 states of matter are; solid, liquid, and gas. Students completed a short booklet on the states of matter.
In Math, we are working on Place Value with numbers up to 1 000 000. Students have been identifying the position of a digit within a number and how much it is worth. We have also been writing out numbers in written form from their standard form.
Ex) 273 is two hundred seventy-three
Mad Minutes continue to be used to practice all the basic operations. Word problem solving takes place throughout the whole year.
Feel free to check out our blog to find out what the Grade 5's are up to!!! Feel free to contact me if you have any questions or concerns.
grade5.stgerard@shaw.ca
204-667-4862
Mrs. Cunningham
