Grade 5-1 and 5-2

Important Reminders! FUR TRADE CAFE The Fur Trade Cafe for Humanities class takes place tomorrow. Please bring your food items in the morning to Mrs. Croswell's room and be prepared to take them home tomorrow as well. Mrs. Croswell will supply plates, forks, napkins but if you need a serving or cutting tool please bring that to school as well. HUMANITIES QUIZ There will be a quiz on the Fur Trade, United Empire Loyalists, and Underground Railroad next Thursday, March 7th. Students will be allowed to use the "Questions to Know" sheets with any answers they have written on them. They have been encouraged to take notes throughout the time we have been covering this topic using guided questions provided to them. All the questions on the quiz have been taken from these "Questions to Know" sheets so there should be no surprises. Students are still welcome to study at home if they would like.

REMINDERS -Students are reminded that Feb 27th is Pink Shirt Day and we encourage everyone to wear a pink something to support us with working towards raising awareness about bullying in our schools, workplaces, and lives. There will be activities organized across the grades on Wednesday for students to participate in with their homerooms. HUMS -Remember that the Fur Trade Cafe will take place on Thursday next week! Make sure to bring your food and any serving utensils you may need. Leftover food and dishes will need to brought home that same afternoon please -We have wrapped up our brief look at the United Empire Loyalists and will be moving into the Underground Railroad next week. -We are over half way down "True Blue Scouts" and will soon be embarking on a journey to learn how to create graphic novel pages and we will use these new skills to turn "True Blue Scouts" into a graphic novel representation of the story! -Students have also begun creating their o...

In science for both classes we have been working on our classroom chemistry and busily performing experiments and demonstrations. One of the things we have been doing is growing crystals to see the different shapes we can make with various materials. We also have been using a DinoXcope Handheld microscope. These are fantastic little microscopes and we are so lucky as we had several purchased in the last years courtesy of the Parent Council. See some of the photos below! We also decided to take some photos of other things with the microscope! (Various pieces of clothing, geodes, diamonds etc) Kids have been challenged that if they find something cool at home and bring it in we will look at it under the microscope.

Information on the Fur Trade Cafe has been updated and posted on the "Humanities" page. Please give it a look over for next week when groups will be assigned their topics!

REMINDERS:  Students and parents are reminded that there is no school next week on Thursday and Friday due to Teachers' Convention. Monday the school is closed due to Family Day. Valentine's Day: Students can bring in cards for their classmates if they want. They have been asked to ensure that they have enough for their homeroom class. Please no candy or chocolates as we have allergies in both homerooms. HUMS: We finished the Fur Trade this week and are working on our Fur Trade Instagram posts. Students choose an important group from the fur trade and make a post from their perspective.  We will be doing a Fur Trade Cafe - more info to come next week! MATH: We worked on long division and fact families this week. Students are reminded that they should be continuing to work on their multiplication fact families over the weekend. This sums should be coming quickly if students are working on them. We also began working on 'Short Division'. This is very simi...