Notes and Reminders:
In Class Learning:
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns!
-Tom
- Thank you everyone for coming out to our Celebration of Learning! It is one of my favourite nights of our school year. I think it gives all a real chance to see what we have been working on in the classroom and to celebrate accomplishments and to set future goals.
- If you were unable to make it that is OK! You are always welcome to set up a time and check out your child's work. I am sure they would be more than happy to share their work.
- Grade 5 parents/guardians: We will begin to shift into prepping the kids into middle school. Our first big step is having the the Gilbert Paterson band teacher (Mrs. Lewis) in to show the students some of the awesome instruments they can play next year.This will happen Monday March 25th.
- Our Music Gala is March 21st from 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM. This is for our parents and guardians who's children are in any extra-curricular music program. It should be a wonderful night and I hope to see you there!
- Monday is St. Patrick's Day, so we will celebrate by wearing green!
- LOTG cutoff is March 21st as well.
- March 27th we have our Leader in Me Assembly which be run by our 4/5 English team! We will focus on learning and will be singing a song as well as presenting some writing we have done and a video. Parents are welcome to come. It begins at 9:00 am.
In Class Learning:
- Health: We are talking about learning within our lives. I am focusing on learning outside of school and how it doesn't just start and end with our school bell. We have been exploring where we learn and with who. On a lake fishing with Dad? On the hockey rink with our coach? At our grandma's house doing art? Have a conversation with your child about where they learn. What are their interests? We will lead this into possibilities of jobs we might want to try when we grow up.
- Math; We will have a math quiz on multiplication this Thursday. Please let me know if you need any resources for home. The focus is:
- Grade 4s: Facts up to 7 x 7 & 1-digit by 2 or 3 digit multiplication
- Grade 5s: Facts up to 9 x 9 & 2-digit by 2-digit multiplication
- Please check out Math Prodigy with your child it is a fun game they can play at home online. Or play some of the card games we learned at the celebration of learning!
- Science:
- Grade 4s will be starting a new unit focused on Plants. They are going to have to develop a proposal for Mr. H about our new outdoor classroom and use math to plan out where it should go as well as what sort of plants it should have. All grade 4 students will be working with me and at times Mr. V
- Grade 5s: We are will focus on Weather and what effects weather. The students will be working with Mr. Firth and at times Mr. V
- Writing: We will continue to develop our Opinion writing but by focusing on persuasive speech.
- French: We will begin learning vocab about weather and clothing.
Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns!
-Tom