Housekeeping Items:
-Photos have been sent home. Be on the lookout!
-We have a field trip coming up to Fort Calgary on October 22nd and will be looking for 4-5 volunteers from each home room to come with us. Email your homeroom teacher if you are able to come along!
-HUMS Take Home Question this weekend! Please bring your orange duotang back on Tuesday.
-Information sessions regarding this year's musical (Annie Jr.) will be on Oct. 10th and 11th next week in the drama room. Students interested should attend one of these sessions.
HUMS
We have begun looking at the political map of Canada as well as important bodies of water on the map of Canada. It is important to become familiar with all of the provinces, territories, capital cities, and bodies of water just like it is to become familiar with the multiplication table in math. Memorizing these elements will help us when we move forward into Canadian history later in the year. We talk a lot about various areas of Canada where explorers settled as well as different places where Indigenous peoples of Canada lived. On the "Humanities" page of the blog, you can see the maps that we are studying.
We have also been discussing why it would be important to know the map of Canada as well as why it is important to know about your home country. A Take Home Question is coming home this weekend about this very topic!
We will be moving into natural resources, what they are, and what we have in Canada in the next couple weeks. This will be accompanied by learning some note-taking strategies to build up our capacity for research!
Our read-aloud for "Holes" continues and we don't want to put the book down! We have done a number of reading responses that are really making us think in different ways about the book and are starting to work on creating a picture for something that we have read in the first 15 chapters.
MATH
We have been working like crazy fiends on our Nerd Candy math throughout this week. Our central questions has been, "Is it possible to eat a million of one thing in a sitting?". We worked on looking at Nerd candies (small and sort of easy to count!) and identifying how many were in each box based on colours. Different groups within the rooms all have different amounts and we have worked on trying to figure out how many boxes we would need to have a million Nerds. We also talked about the sheer space that a million Nerds would take up. We worked on finding an average for the amounts of Nerds between the different boxes so we could work with that data as well. From here, once we figure out how many boxes we actually need we can start to look at the volumes of Nerds as well as the theoretical weight that a million Nerds would weigh. Lots more to come!
SCIENCE
Students began working on a small project focusing on climate change. Our driving question is: "How can we teach others about greenhouse gasses and global warming, making suggestions to ensure that future inhabitants of our planet are safe from the consequences of global warming?" Through the lens of being an Environmental Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada, we are going to teach him about greenhouse gases and global warming and make suggestions ensuring that future inhabitants are safe from the consequences of global warming. We began with researching three key questions and collected jot notes.
Key questions
ART 5-2
Fall is still upon us (even though it looks like Winter outside!) so we have started a Fall art project! We are making pumpkin zentangles to work on our ability to create realistic looking forms, shading to create dimension, and using a variety of patterns. We are still at the pencil-to-paper part of this project but soon we will be adding water colour and black ink! Stay tuned! 5-1 will be starting this next week.
FRENCH 5-1 and 5-2
We have been learning/reviewing our colours and numbers in French! Through songs and worksheets, we are becoming more familiar each day! In 5-2 we also sang Je Suis une Pizza today just for fun! It is important to know the sounds of the French alphabet too! If you want to listen to the songs at home, here are the links:
Numbers 1-20 Numbers 20-50 Silly Colour song
Je Suis une Pizza Alphabet
C'est bon!
-Photos have been sent home. Be on the lookout!
-We have a field trip coming up to Fort Calgary on October 22nd and will be looking for 4-5 volunteers from each home room to come with us. Email your homeroom teacher if you are able to come along!
-HUMS Take Home Question this weekend! Please bring your orange duotang back on Tuesday.
-Information sessions regarding this year's musical (Annie Jr.) will be on Oct. 10th and 11th next week in the drama room. Students interested should attend one of these sessions.
HUMS
We have begun looking at the political map of Canada as well as important bodies of water on the map of Canada. It is important to become familiar with all of the provinces, territories, capital cities, and bodies of water just like it is to become familiar with the multiplication table in math. Memorizing these elements will help us when we move forward into Canadian history later in the year. We talk a lot about various areas of Canada where explorers settled as well as different places where Indigenous peoples of Canada lived. On the "Humanities" page of the blog, you can see the maps that we are studying.
We have also been discussing why it would be important to know the map of Canada as well as why it is important to know about your home country. A Take Home Question is coming home this weekend about this very topic!
We will be moving into natural resources, what they are, and what we have in Canada in the next couple weeks. This will be accompanied by learning some note-taking strategies to build up our capacity for research!
Our read-aloud for "Holes" continues and we don't want to put the book down! We have done a number of reading responses that are really making us think in different ways about the book and are starting to work on creating a picture for something that we have read in the first 15 chapters.
MATH
We have been working like crazy fiends on our Nerd Candy math throughout this week. Our central questions has been, "Is it possible to eat a million of one thing in a sitting?". We worked on looking at Nerd candies (small and sort of easy to count!) and identifying how many were in each box based on colours. Different groups within the rooms all have different amounts and we have worked on trying to figure out how many boxes we would need to have a million Nerds. We also talked about the sheer space that a million Nerds would take up. We worked on finding an average for the amounts of Nerds between the different boxes so we could work with that data as well. From here, once we figure out how many boxes we actually need we can start to look at the volumes of Nerds as well as the theoretical weight that a million Nerds would weigh. Lots more to come!
SCIENCE
Students began working on a small project focusing on climate change. Our driving question is: "How can we teach others about greenhouse gasses and global warming, making suggestions to ensure that future inhabitants of our planet are safe from the consequences of global warming?" Through the lens of being an Environmental Advisor to the Prime Minister of Canada, we are going to teach him about greenhouse gases and global warming and make suggestions ensuring that future inhabitants are safe from the consequences of global warming. We began with researching three key questions and collected jot notes.
Key questions
- What is the greenhouse effect?
- What human actions have been
linked to the greenhouse effect?
- How can we reduce the greenhouse
effect?
Once the jot notes have been finished we will be writing a letter
to our PM outlining some of the challenges and how we as Canadians can
contribute to a solution for the challenges surrounding climate change.
ART 5-2
Fall is still upon us (even though it looks like Winter outside!) so we have started a Fall art project! We are making pumpkin zentangles to work on our ability to create realistic looking forms, shading to create dimension, and using a variety of patterns. We are still at the pencil-to-paper part of this project but soon we will be adding water colour and black ink! Stay tuned! 5-1 will be starting this next week.
FRENCH 5-1 and 5-2
We have been learning/reviewing our colours and numbers in French! Through songs and worksheets, we are becoming more familiar each day! In 5-2 we also sang Je Suis une Pizza today just for fun! It is important to know the sounds of the French alphabet too! If you want to listen to the songs at home, here are the links:
Numbers 1-20 Numbers 20-50 Silly Colour song
Je Suis une Pizza Alphabet
C'est bon!