This Week's Recap

What a busy but productive week! Report cards were sent home yesterday afternoon with your students after a lovely afternoon of swimming and helping our Kindergarten buddies paint with shaving cream! Somehow, though, it did seem like we managed to paint ourselves more than our cloud pictures....

This week, we began our new Social Studies units. Grade 4s are examining First Nations in Saskatchewan prior to European arrival and, next week, will begin looking at the push and pull factors that led to different groups' arrivals. Grade 5s are studying the Canadian identity. This week, they helped to make a Canadian slang dictionary and looked at symbols of Canadian identity. Next week, they will begin studying the geographic regions of Canada. 

I am very excited about these units! Why? We are using Google Classroom as a tool for learning this term. I am able to upload instructions, information sheets, videos, pictures, even soundtracks for your students in addition to editable worksheets. This means that Grade 5s, fro example, can work independently, at their own pace, on these items while I work with Grade 4s. students, thus far, are more focused and engaged in content, which means I spend less time reminding and more time teaching!  I have told students they can bring a USB to school to listen to music during their time on Google Classroom.

Grade 5s have constructed a store in our classroom and have used it to continue adding and subtracting decimals to thousandths. We are wrapping up our unit on fractions and decimals this week, so a test will be upcoming shortly. 

Next week, on Friday, our classroom will be open for our Celebration of Learning. Our classroom will be open from  9-12 in the morning and 1-3.30 in the afternoon. Please feel free to stop by at your convenience to explore what your student has been learning and celebrate his/her/their success! I will be available for specific questions during these times. 

Please be aware of the following next week: 

• Grade 4 Health projects due on Monday
• Menchies delivery on Wednesday afternoon
• 'It's a Spring Thing' School Oratory from 1-3.30 pm on Thursday
• City Basketball Finals (Girls @ 6:15 pm, Boys @ 7:45 pm) on Thursday
• Celebration of Learning on Friday (no school this day)
• Grade 4/5 Artist Study projects due the following Monday