Wednesday, April 6, 2022

 

Today we: dug more into understanding decimals using a resource called Math-Up. This resource seemed to confuse a lot of students, so tomorrow we will break it down more, take it through smaller steps, and hopefully students will be less overwhelmed by the concept. I will attempt to clarify the chart that outlines tenths, hundredths, and thousandths and we will use base ten blocks to add a visual for deeper understanding. A big part of the job is adjusting the plans to better suit the needs of the class, and today was certainly one of those days! 

We have been reading The Jumbies every day, but today is a day 4, so they were expected to record in their visual journals and write predictions for the next chapters. The children in the story finally managed to capture the opal stone for Mama D'Leau but they lost a mermaid friend along the way. The plot thickens and 5A is eager to see where our characters go next.

I'm looking forward to seeing everyone's reading responses with the exciting books they checked out of the learning commons today. The rule for one chapter book with one graphic novel is proving to be effective. Happy to see students challenging themselves.

We ended the day with a fairy tale kahoot to see what everyone knows about some basic fairy tales. I was hoping to gauge their understanding of how fractured fairy tales work, and whether they could guess how the stories get spun based on point of view. The class had a very hard time staying calm through this, so there will be no more kahoot games for a while... 

Please remember to send your kiddos to school with a proper jacket - the mornings are still quite cold and they should be prepared for any type of weather change for their walk home.  

See below for a notice about a field trip in May:

Potential Grade Five Field Trip to Fish Creek Park on May 26

Hello Grade Five Parents and Guardians, We would like to have our Grade Five classes go to Fish Creek Park for a field trip on Thursday,  May 26 but we need to ensure that we have enough cleared volunteers that are able to go  in order to move forward with the planning. If you would be free on that day to go on the trip, please email Michelle Brinson so we can track  if we have enough adults to make our ratio.   All volunteers require a current security clearance.  Clearances are good for five years. If you have not applied for your security clearance yet, please fill in the  CBE-Annual-Volunteer-Registration-Form.pdf and send it back to Mrs. Brinson so we can get the  process started for you. If you have had security clearance at North Haven, Coventry Hills or another CBE school that  has not expired, we can pull you over to our school once I have the  CBE-Annual-Volunteer-Registration-Form.pdf  from you. Thanks so much!