Welcome back. We hope all our families had wonderful Christmas celebrations and relaxing holidays. We also hope you enjoyed the gifts the children made and brought home for you. They were extremely proud of their tealight poinsettias and of their wooden ornament creations. Recognition and thanks to Mike and Mary Kaercher of Kaercher Projects & Construction Ltd. for donating all the wood pieces for the projects. Also, thanks to Izzy Kaercher for sanding each piece of wood before bringing them to the classroom. Finally, thank you for all your cards, treats and gifts the last week of December...thank you cards went home in agendas yesterday.
We have a busy week and month ahead...here are the events and reminders for this week.
Math: With Mrs. Brown: We begin our unit on subtraction of whole numbers to 1 000 000. With Mr. Lurie: This week, Grade 4/5 students will review concepts in measurement and practice converting units before moving on to a new unit.
Writing: This week we begin our unit on the parts of speech. Our focus this week is on nouns. Students will learn the definition of a noun and will come up with different examples of nouns. They will also be required to find nouns in various writing pieces. In addition to the work on nouns, students will write a recount of their Winter break activities.
Reading: This week we will be reading chapters 32-40 in our novel, Holes. Students will be completing various reading response activities.
Socials Studies: Students will begin an inquiry project (along with other intermediate classes at Brentwood). The goal is to dig deeper into understanding indigenous/settler relations in North America. The launch this week includes the following rotations: empathy, perspective/influence, trade/power, competition and integration. Students will log their findings in a Field Notebook throughout the unit.
Science: We will begin our unit on the phases of matter.
Physical Education: For the month of January, we will be completing a gymnastics unit using various equipment and foam shapes set up in the gym.
Dance: Starting this week, we will be receiving dance lessons from Mrs. Eng. Mrs. Eng plans to take the children to the "Fine Arts Festiva"l in May and will be having a whole school performance for parents to attend and see their child's progress.
Reminders
Report Cards Envelopes: If you have not done so already, please return report card envelopes.
Stelly's Climbing Wall - We will be heading to Stelly's Climbing Wall next Tuesday, January 16th. Permission forms will come home this week.