We had a fantastic Catholic Education Week! Thank you to the parents, grandparents and volu. teers who came out to help with and participate in the various activities of the week!
*On Monday, Mrs. Rayner's Grade 6 class made a 10 stop Kindness mission to Pay-It-Forward and thank various community helpers. You can see the details of their stops on the school Twitter feed. It was amazing! Our class read Barbara Reid books with our Gr. 1 reading buddies in Mrs. Fitzpatrick's class.
*On Tuesday, we celebrated a lovely Easter Mass with Fr. Matthew. Thank you to the parents and grandparents who came to receive Communion with us. In the afternoon, all of the junior students participated in Math/Science STEM challenges in their classrooms. We flew paper airplanes with coin cargo, among other things, and had a great time!
*On Wednesday, the dance team participated in Dance Showcase, and everyone participated in the Principal's fundraiser - Zumbathon! It was a blast! Check Twitter for the pictures!
*On Thursday, everyone was invited to our muffin breakfast! I hope you had the opportunity to see our recycled material Canada symbols that decorated the gym - our class made the Parliament Buildings. Then, with the help of many parents and thanks to your generosity, the junior students made and donated almost 2 000 sandwiches, plus muffins, pastries and juice to the Shepherd's of Good Hope! Mr. Leslie from the Shepherd's came to talk to the students about philanthropy, and helping others. In the afternoon, we had a presentation from Louis Mercier, a very entertaining French singer/storyteller who had the audience of Junior students enthralled with his stories!
*On Friday, the students participated in French bingo as a school-wide activity over the intercom, and enjoyed Popcorn day!
Next week will be a little more low-key, back to our regular programming! There is an Ultimate Frisbee tournament on Wednesday, good luck to the team! Let's hope the rain lets up!
Our next math unit will be a short measurement unit on time, elapsed time, and units of time (minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years, decades, centuries). Grade 4 must measure time on an analogue clock to the nearest minute; Grade 5 to the nearest second. Both grades must be familiar with elapsed time.
In Language Arts, Gr. 5 will continue with the Sequencing unit by reading The Sword in the Stone as a shared reading. Grade 4 are working on their novel studies in book club, and have completed Session 3. We are really encouraging the collaboration and discussion within the groups of book club, so that they can learn not only from the text, but from each other and their individual interpretations of that text.
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