September 20 - 23

Our Professional Development Day on Monday was very inspiring. David Bouchard was the afternoon speaker. He is a Canadian Author, and the school library has many of his books, including his book called The Gift of Reading, which is a great read for parents and teachers.
Thank you for all parents for returning the field trip forms. I am very exciting, and we will be talking about the field trip in more depth later in the week.

This week are are doing the following...

LA - still working on Biography unit. Students will be working on an Alphabet Biography, and will need your help for this. It is due on Friday. They need to record facts for 20 letters about one of their family members. For example: My biography would be written about my mom. K - is for Karen my Mom's first name. S - is for Saskatoon, where my mom was born.

Math - We are continuing work with place value and times tables.

Science 5 - Students will learn about the effect that altitude has on temperature. We will be starting a weather monitoring assignment, where your child will be assigned a city somewhere in the world, to monitor the temperature and weather.

Science 4 - We will be reading "The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss to talk about the environment. There will be a writing assignment which may come home for homework. It will be due on Thursday.

Art - Mr. Wyper, the principal is teaching art this year to the Grade 5s. Students have done some amazing work on perspective and are starting a project on claymation!

I think that is about it for this week! Have a great one :-)