I hope everyone enjoyed the Victoria Day long weekend! The weather could have been a little more cooperative, but it was nice to have the extra day to catch up on some gardening!
Next week will be a short, but busy one. The Gr. 6 students will be starting EQAO testing on Thursday, so all junior students will be staying in their homerooms for the day to accommodate the Gr. 6 schedule. This means I will not see the Gr. 4 students on Thursday this week, as well as on Monday and Thursday of next week.
Math - both groups will be working on personal time lines, in which they make a time line of their lives and add in important events (first tooth, learning to walk, starting Kindergarten) from their personal histories. Grade 5 will also be required to add Canadian or global historical events to their timelines. Grade 4 will need to estimate the time elapsed from birth to each event on their timeline; Gr. 5 will need to calculate to the nearest day where possible. We will later be posing Fermi questions to establish the relationship between years and decades, decades and centuries. These two tasks will be the culminating tasks for our measurement unit.
Language: Grade 4 students are completing large posters demonstrating how actions can change the world for the better. It is the follow-up to the Book Club unit we have just finished reading, which you can read about in their Hapara Workspace. Each student was assigned to a book - either a novel or a non-fiction text, and had an assignment to complete each session with their group. We are looking forward to hanging the posters in the hallway when they are completed!
Grade 5 students have just completed a Vancouver and Burnaby Scavenger Hunt activity, learning how to read a map and follow transit routes around the cities of Vancouver and Burnaby, B.C. They are now making their own "Scavenger Hunt" for another group to follow and find! It was a lot of fun, finding our way around the sights and attractions of Vancouver!
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