Week of October 24th - October 28th

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 Hello families,

This week we had the opportunity to take a walk to the pond and really assess the trees around us. The students observed the difference in needle bundles, margins, leaf types and arrangements. We also dived into tree cookies and students practiced looking at a cross section of a tree to find the various information you can learn from the tree growth shown. 

In Social Studies we have looked at the 4 pillars of democracy in Canada and have started an image project for students to create images to represent each pillar. We will be wrapping up our understanding of democracy so we can move into historical models of democracy. 

In Math this week, Grade 6 students wrapped up Factors, Multiples and Prime Factorization with a quiz. They have been challenged with word multiplication and division problems and order of operations throughout the week. Grade 5's, continued working with multiplication and applying the box method strategy for 2 by 1 multiplication and relating it to expanded form. 

In ELA, we broke down how to write a sentence and the difference in writing simple, complex and compound sentences. By the end of the week, students were practicing putting these sentences into a paragraph and adding various ways to start sentences to keep their writing interesting for the reader. 

The students have been participating in fitness this week for PE. We had our first beep test of the year to challenge the students on their endurance. Students have been going through various fitness challenges both inside the gym and outside. We will be spending one more week on this and returning back to it at various parts of the year. It is important for the students to be able to set fitness goals for themselves and push themselves to improve throughout the year.

Upcoming Dates:

October 31st: Halloween (if your child would like to dress up!) 

November 3rd: Grade 6 Vaccines 

November 8th: National Indigenous Veteran's Day

November 10th: Remembrance Day Assembly 

November 11th: Remembrance Day - No School

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