Weekly Recap

What a glorious week! With this wonderful weather has come more smiles, co-operation and fantastic attitudes!

We have had a busy week which seems like it will be the trend all the way to the end of June.

On Monday, we arrived at school to determine that our Literacy in Action 5B texts were missing -- the exact ones we needed to start our new unit! We found some interesting clues in the classroom and finally tracked the texts to Miss Baker's Kindergarten rooms! In other news, we started an ELA unit on Mysteries.

On Tuesday evening, I certainly enjoyed the carnival (and free face painting)! I hope you did too.

On Wednesday, we made grass heads with our Kindergarten buddies. We also started a new Health WebQuest in Grade 4. We will be helping a school cafeteria to develop a healthy eating menu after learning even more about essential vitamins, minerals and food groups. Grade 5s began their Puberty unit (with mixed levels of excitement). 

We also introduced the idea of 'inferencing' this week. We infer when an author doesn't give us all the information about a character or event. We use clues from the text and our background knowledge (schema) to figure out what's going on (an inference). We each created 'Mystery Bags' and then determined, using inferencing, what was located in each other's. We are also practicing inferring what's going on in pictures.  

On Friday, Grade 5s helped Mr. Billy Bonka (of no relation to Mr. Willy Wonka) to determine which of his prototype spinners would be the most fair for inclusion in a new board game 'Spin It to Win It'. This allowed us to practice using the probability words likely, unlikely, impossible, possible, and certain.

 Finally, we have been working on our plays which we will present to the class on June 9. We are practicing tongue twisters to help with enunciation, playing charade-like games to help with body movement and doing focus exercises like 'Pulse'.


Important dates of note:

• June 1: Grade 4 instruments & Grade 5 Rube Goldberg machines due
• June 2: Track & Field Day (Rain or shine -- come prepared)
• June 4: Music quiz
• June 5: Bowling money due; Library books due; Menchies orders delivered
• June 9: Drama presentations
• June 12: PD Day