T.W.A.S. (April 8-12)

This Week At School (our first week back from Spring Break!)

NF - We had a Spring Concert on Thursday.  We played ukuleles and 3 songs.  Our class wrote the lyrics to a song, called "The Video Gamin' Blues." The recorder club played a song and other Grade 3, 4, and 5 students performed.  We are sharing the concert with the school today (Friday).

HS - For art, we used chalk pastels to create a Northern Lights picture.
KT - We watched a video that showed how the Northern Lights are formed by the electrons and solar winds.

MA - Our class met with our buddies to practice skipping and hula hooping outside.

AE - For Language Arts, we have begun to work on poetry.  So far, we have practiced Haiku, Diamante, and Acrostic Poems.  We will be creating our own Poetry Anthology with these.

OR - We have also started a new novel called Iqbal.

NC - in Science we had to write down all the things in our house that use electricity. 

This Week At School - April 15-18

We continued experimenting with different types of poetry this week; Limericks, Free Verse, and Found Poetry.  We may have had the most fun with Found Poetry - here are some examples from the students:

Today, some very kind students gave up their lunch play time to dawn a pair of gloves and pitch in to clean up garbage from the back field.  The school thanks you for your help!

Diversity Conference

The Grade 5 students were fortunate to be able to participate in the 15th Annual Diversity Conference at Bob Edwards School.  The day started with a keynote address in the gym featuring speakers and dancers from 4 different cultures.  From there, our class took part in 2 different workshops: My Language, My Rules; and World Peace Village. 

Not only did the day give us some great information and conversation, it was an opportunity for the Grade 5's to experience their "next year home"; which is an important step in the transition process.  While they may feel nervous, they hopefully were able to see the theme of the conference in action:

                   "We Walk As One"

Parent Teacher Conferences

Hello families of Room 17,

Just a reminder that conferences are this week Thursday evening from 4:00 pm until 7:30 pm and Friday morning from 8:00 am until 12:00 pm. I would love a chance to sit down with you and talk about how your child is doing in school. If you need help booking a time please call the school.

Thank you and looking forward to catching up later this week.
Ms. Rutland

To Conduct or Not to Conduct...

We started our last 2 combined Science topics for this year, Electricity and Magnetism last week. In the lab below, we had to predict whether different materials would be a conductor of electricity (allow electricity to flow through it) or be an insulator (not allow electricity to flow through it).  We also learned why resistors are used with circuits. 

Science Research Websites

Click on the links below to access websites about electricity!

Online research day

• Online interactives 1 2 3  - vid vid vid
• 1  2  3 Amazing Notes  D2learn

Story Beginnings

We have begun working on our the beginning paragraph of our animal stories.  The beginning paragraph should introduce the setting, main character, and problem.  Once students have finished, they are working through a checklist to see if all the elements are there.  Below is a sample of a story that the class wrote together, and students can use parts of it to help them craft their own beginning.