Week of February 21st - February 24th

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 Hello families,

This week we had Pink Shirt Day! The students have been paired up with someone in the class to create posters of the other person as a superhero. They need to interview the person and create a backstory/origin story and decide what their super power is. I want the students to dig deep with classmates they haven't spent as much time with to learn something new about them. This task is also encouraging them to talk about the great qualities they see in themselves and to share what they think their strengths are. 

Students have been presenting news articles to the class this week and we have started off really strong! This is helping students summarize as well as exposing them to newspaper structure as we have been writing newspaper articles in class. All students have the chance to pick an article at this point so ask them about what they might have chosen and when they are presenting! They have to pick an original article so remind them to email me the link so I can double check the date is within two weeks of the presentation and that no one else have selected it. 

Grade 6's have continued their work with fractions and ordering and comparing fractions with unlike denominators. Grade 5's are working through different methods of division and practicing their long division skills. 

The students wrote their unit test yesterday for our Sky Science unit. I released the grades before the end of school and it was released to their gmail account. This should also show students the correct answers to questions to see what they may have missed. 

Have a wonderful weekend! 

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