Another WISE presentation

Good afternoon,

The grade 5 students were fortunate enough to have a second presentation by WISE. This time around, the theme was liquids (acids and bases). The students assisted with different experiments. 

Mme C

WISE presentation

Good afternoon,

5-22 was fortunate enough to have Jenna from the WISE program (Women in Sceience and Engineering) at Universite de Saint-Boniface visit our classroom. She discussed the different types of simple machines and their uses. The students also created their own simple machine. 

Mme C

Math Quiz

Good morning,

I will be giving the students a quiz to cover our unit on division.  I will be giving them some questions to cover 3 digits divided by 2 digits equations on Wednesday and on Thursday, I will give them basic division questions as well as questions with remainders.

We have discussed different strategies to solve long equations and I have sent home a paper demonstrating the different strategies.  The students have also been participating in different Math centres in order to prepare and to practice.  We will also do an in class review tomorrow and I will also ask some students to come to Faisons nos devoirs for extra practice.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email me.

Mme C

Freeze Frame

Hello,

I am sending home the permission forms for Freeze Frame today.  We will be going next Tuesday afternoon.  Please sign and return the permission slip as soon as possible.

Merci!
Mme C

Science Quiz

Good afternoon,

I will be giving the students a Science quiz on Thursday.  We have gone over the following material:

- Compare 2 food labels and answer questions
- The definition of fibre, lipids, glucose, protein, vitamins
- Understanding and identifying the portions of the food guide for their age group
- Critical thinking questions (for example, why is it important to eat a variety of foods)

We will do a review in class tomorrow and they have their booklets in their agenda to study.

As always, please let me know if you have any questions.  If your child was not at school, I will work with them tomorrow.

Mme C

February Newsletter

ELA:

The students have been writing persuasive writing texts in hopes of convincing Hershey’s to become part of the Fair Trade Organization.  They continue to practice their words.  Their next step is to work on their editing skills using their weekly TWAS.

Sciences humaines:

The students have been looking at different explorers and Vikings and as well as the countries who financed the expeditions.  The students completed a small research project on a Viking or explorer of their choice.  We also discussed the relationship between the Aboriginals and the Europeans once they established a colony in North America.

Sciences de la nature and Hygiène:

The students have almost completed part of the unit Maintaining a Healthy Body.  The students are now looking at the different systems (for example, the digestive system).

Arts plastiques:

The students created an project involving the Olympic Rings.

Français:

The students have spent most of their time writing a speech for the concours d’art oratoire this month. As a class, we started off exploring different ideas for their speech. Students heard examples of speeches and we identified the structures of these speeches. Finally each student wrote a minimum of 2 minutes.

Math:

We have begun our unit on long division.  We also continued to work on problem solving and mental math strategies. They completed a problem involving the fur trade to go along with Festival du Voyageur week

Mme Craciun

Dates to remember:

March 4^th: Early dismissal

March 7^th: Basketball tournament (11:15-2:30)

March 10^th: Theater Club: AM

March 12^th: Report Cards

March 13^th: Project Fair and Conferences PM

March 14^th: Conferences AM and No School       

March 18^th: Early dismissal

March 21^st: Spring photos

March 28^th: Last day of school/Party PM

March 31^st- April 5^th: Spring Break

Contributions by: Jayde, Haley, et Bria

This month has been pretty hectic.  We had the Olympics and Festival du Voyageur, not to mention Anti-Bullying Day.  Mme Noel, Mme Lachance, and Mme Craciun's classes wrote speeches. They presented them in their class in order to participate at the divisional level.  The kids who were chosen were Jeremy, Anais, Diana, and Cole.  In the Olympics, Canada came in third behind Norway and Russia.  For Festival du Voyageur, we dressed up like voyageurs for the whole week and on the Friday, we had our pancake lunch.

Homework

Good afternoon,

I am sending work to be completed over the weekend.

They are to finish their menu (they have to plan meals for a camp for 7 days) and they have to finish their persuasive writing text about fair trade chocolate.

As always, please email me if you have any questions.

Have a great weekend,
Mme C