Just a quick update about routines for the last eleven days of school! We are continuing our learning by working on the following activities:
math – using protractors to measure angles, exploring geometry with manipulatives
English Language Arts/French Language Arts – creating paper bag puppets to use in a bilingual play for the grade four Core French students (presentations next week)
Social Studies/ French - teaching students from 5E how to create slideshows using Corel Presentation software in their biography study (Some students are also conducting their own research. )
Writing a ficitious penpal letter in French to contribute to the data collection for our school development plan. The French Immersion teachers will use these writing samples to learn assessment techniques and to develop a plan to improve the level of writing (ideas, organization and conventions) within our French Immersion programs.
Learning through presentations – grade five – one more lesson in Personal safety grade six -Family Life sessions have concluded, Smoking and RCMP presentation about cyberbullying take place this week
Reading for pleasure – The students in 5/6 F continue to read, share and talk about the novels they are enjoying. They are wonderful at promoting these books and authors amongst themselves.
Physical Education and Music classes continue! Yeah!
Due to technical difficulties with my home computer printer, our math test will be postponed until Monday. This will give the students a little more time to review the concepts of equivalent fractions, comparing fractions, changing fractions into decimals and visa versa, addition and subtraction of fractions, and for the grade six students: multiplication and division of fractions, mixed fractions, improper fractions and adding and subtracting fractions with unlike denominators.
We are still waiting for four May Reading Challenge calendars to be signed and returned. Our total number of minutes to date is 32 512 !
Students participating in the choir/percussion field trip should return their signed permission forms tomorrow.
We would like to publish a bilingual recipe book. Could students please bring in their favourite recipe from home?
Our grade five students will be going to Avonlea village on June 23 and our grade six students will be going to Magic Mountain on June 20. (rain date June 23)(Permission slips were sent home today.)
The students are publishing an imaginative story this week in the computer lab. Our goal is to use interesting adjectives and “show don’t tell” details.
Our grade six Family Life sessions began on Monday with Mr. Gagnon and Mrs. McCabe. I am teaching personal safety with Miss Stewart to our grade five students. Our topic today was a review of rules we have to keep ourselves safe at home and when we are in our community. We also discussed people who can help us when we need help. The learning is always enhanced when you discuss these topics with your children at home.
The grade six students are invited to attend a session about smoking on June 11.
Our class won the pizza party prize for the class who sold the most number of coupon books. Our party will take place on Tuesday, June 10th. Pizza, chips and drinks will be provided. Thank you to all the students who sold coupon books and thanks to the parents as well for your support.
Students have been working at their own pace to master the concepts of fractions. They have been learning about equivalent fractions, changing fractions into decimals, adding and subtracting fractions. The grade six students have also been multiplying, dividing fractions and changing improper fractions into mixed fractions. We began a review of equivalent fractions and comparing fractions today. The test will be on Friday.
The students did a wonderful job performing La Nouvelle Maîtresse at the Carrefour this morning. The adjudicators were impressed with the students’ ability to memorize their lines and their ability to develop the personalities of their characters. Bravo les élèves!
In English we are continuing to develop our reading skills by reading a variety of non-fiction texts. In writing, we are writing to express our original ideas in an organized way with correct spelling, capitalization and punctuation (conventions). Next week each student will be writing an original text that will be evaluated for our data collection as part of our School Development writing goal.
Today the students were given a review package for tomorrow’s test. The instructions are written clearly for each of the operations and sample questions provided for each. The answers are written at the back of the booklet for student’s to self-check their understanding.
