Welcome to Grade 5
Milk Spirit Week was filled with themed-dress days, mystery mooers, activities regarding milk each day, and finishing off with our annual barn dance.
Our annual Family Bingo night has come and gone. It was fun watching families play. Congratulations to our winners.
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. As our novel study is completed, we will be returning to working in our Communicating Skills grammar workbook. Students are also reading and answering questions with our comprehension stories. We have begun looking at handwriting as well.
In Social Studies, students have been researching their specific culture groups with their group members. An outline has been completed, and coming up will be work on a rough copy of the report and a poster about their culture group.
In Science, we continued working on Properties and Changes in Substances. We reviewed the properties/characteristics of matter, and defined solubility and buoyancy. Groups were given classroom objects and had to predict if they would float or sink. Once their predictions were made they tested it out, and filled in their chart as to if the object did float or sink. We also looked at solubility. Once again the groups predicted if mixing a substance would dissolve when mixed in water (salt, instant coffee, and flour). Results were again recorded in the chart provided.
In Math, we continue with our look at Division by completing. Students are working on completing division questions with and without remainders. We are also completing division word problems. I encourage my students to keep practicing their basic multiplication facts, as it will help with solving division questions. Word problem solving will take 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
