September 13, 2022

 Good Afternoon,


Hope you had a great day!


Toonies for Terry starts this week and will run until next Wednesday, when we will run our school Terry Fox run! So please bring your Toonies for Terry. 


This morning the students were in PE and it looked like they were playing with scoops and passing to another student. I was not in PE today so be sure to ask your child what they did!


In Music, we learned about the different notes to music and the difference between rhythm and beat. We practiced both and then played a rhythm and beat game with the rhythm sticks. We had to tap a rhythm with the sticks and try to all do it together without adding to the beat. 


We had our first fire drill today. The class did well, but there are still areas to work on being silent, serious, and safe while exiting and entering the building during this time. 


We continued with our What if Everybody Did That? project. We will be moving on to a differnt topic tomorrow on how to build narrative stories. 


In Math, we continued with area and perimeter. We discussed and demonstrated how to solve for area and perimeter as a class. The students then practiced on their own. 


We read Chapter 8 of Pax today! Ask you child to sum up what has happened so far!


This afternoon, students continued to silent read as I work on getting my Cafe set up. We also had orientation in the Learning Commons today and learned how the students can take out books. We will begin to take out books next week!


We did another spelling pre-assessment, so I can work on continuing to get to know your children as learners so I can better assist them during our different literacy blocks. 


The last thing we did today was begin Social Studies! As a class we discussed what we already knew about physical geography and what we wanted to learn more about during our learning. We then began to look at the different make up of our class based on the World map. We learned that there are so many different cultures in our classroom. We continued to move on by learning about how many people live in the world compared to our province of Alberta. We will continue to learn about physical geography of Canada and how Canada is made up. 


Hope you have a lovely evening!


Miss. Hillier

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

September 7th, 2022

Image
  Good afternoon Lovely Grade 5 Parents and Guardians, I hope you had a lovely day! We sure did at school! Tomorrow is Spirit Day at school so please wear Purple (if you can) for Grade 5! We are also going on a walking Field Trip tomorrow to the Coventry/Country Hills Storm Pond. Please make sure that your child is dressed for the weather as it may rain in the afternoon. We are going from about 1:45-3:15.  This morning the students had their first music class. We learned about different vocabulary for music terms and about different instruments. We then played Rhythm Master! The students had a blast! We continued to work on our writing piece about either their summer vacations or what they are excited and nervous about in Grade 5. We are almost complete so it will be nice to hear what students did over the summer or what they are looking forward to this year. We moving forward we will be looking at how to create rich paragraphs by expanding and adding details.  In Math, we started our
Read more

December 13, 2022

Image
 Good afternoon! A reminder tomorrow is Healthy Hunger day! Kernels will be dropped off tomorrow. Thursday is Festive Hat day!  In PE, the students are working with scooters and it looks like so much fun! In Writing, students are working on wrapping up their pieces of writing with their ending. We have discussed the different strategies to use when ending a piece of writing. So, the students are going to wrap up their stories by using two of these strategies, revealing the character's trait that they learn about themselves, and revealing the adaptation that their character has gained from its journey!  In Math, the students reviewed the decimal place value strategy that was learned over the last couple of classes. We then discussed comparing decimals and reviewing what the <, >, = mean when comparing numbers. Students then practiced this task with 15 questions.  In Word Work, students worked with their groups to find different words that followed the patterns of their words.
Read more

September 28, 2022

Image
 Hello Lovely Parents and Guardians! Tomorrow is Orange Shirt Day! Please read the following: On Thursday, September 29, students are encouraged to wear an orange shirt (or an orange article of clothing if they don't have an orange shirt) to recognize Orange Shirt Day and National Truth and Reconciliation Day. Orange Shirt Day is an opportunity for everyone to come together in the spirit of reconciliation to show their support of a safe, respectful and caring school community. Orange Shirt day began in 2013 when residential school survivor, Phyllis Webstad, shared how her orange shirt was taken away on her first day at residential school. For more information about Orange Shirt Day please visit https://www.cbc.ca/kidscbc2/the-feed/what-is-orange-shirt-day September 30 is a National Day for Truth and Reconciliation meant to commemorate the history and legacy of Residential Schools in Canada. The intention of this day is to recognize and honor residential school survivors, their fami
Read more