Welcome to Grade 5
Wishing all my students, their families, as well as the St. Gerard community a very Happy Thanksgiving. May we give thanks to God for all that he has given us. Grade 5 is in the process of preparing for our first school mass on Tuesday, October 13, at 11:00 a.m. If you are available, please feel free to join us.
In Language Arts we focus on a specific Spelling unit each week. Students are given a pre-test on Monday. They receive the assignment, which we correct together on Thursday, correct their words, then use the rest of the class to work on the weekly assignment. As a class we discussed what nouns are and students completed an assignment where they needed to categorize a group of words under a specific heading. We continue to work on comprehension stories, and handwriting.
In Social Studies, we are working on Cluster 1--The First Peoples. Students worked on a comprehension type activity, reading about the woolly mammoth and answering questions about what they read.
In Science we began our first unit, "A Healthy Body." Students were shown nutritional labels found on food, and we discussed what those labels show us. We talked about the importance of what the label provides us with, along with what information the ingredient label shows us. Students then completed an assignment on labels, comparing healthy ones apposed to unhealthy ones.
In Math, we continue our unit on Patterns. We have begun looking at number patterns and filling in the next 3 or so numbers in the set using a specific pattern. Students are working on patterns that increase (add) and/or decrease (subtract). We are using mad minutes to practice our basic facts. Problem solving will take place throughout the school year.
Please feel free to visit often to see what is happening in Grade 5.
Feel free to contact me at any time:
204-667-4862
grade 5.stgerard@shaw.ca
Mrs. Cunningham
