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September 26

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  ORANGE SHIRT DAY: September 30 Monday is Orange Shirt Day and we are encouraging our students to wear orange if possible.  This is a national day when we honour the indigenous children and their families who were impacted by the residential school system.  Division 5 created some orange shirts this week and read about a first hand experience within the book, I Am Not a Number.  Elsie Roy will be closed on Monday in honour of this national day of Truth and Reconciliation. MATH QUIZ: During our first few weeks, students have been reviewing and learning about the following concepts: less than/greater than, identifying place value, decimals and rounding.  We will have our first quiz in the coming days and I will send home an outline next week for students to use as a guide in preparation. STUDENT VOTE: Division 6 will be hosting the student vote at Elsie Roy this year.  This will run parallel with the provincial election and our students will have an opportunity to monitor the process.
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September 19, 2024

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  UNITS OF STUDY:   Division 5 has started the following units of study in the core subjects : Math:  Students are exploring patterns, place value and basic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplying and dividing) and problem solving. Language: Students are discussing the parts of speech followed by punctuation rules, sentence structure and paragraph writing. Reading:   Students are developing their reading skills:  skimming, summarizing, inferring and more.  Students have also begun independent Novel Studies and identifying the elements of a story. (Three Little Pigs Sample). Social Studies:   Students are reviewing our understanding of Canada geography before we begin our work with levels of government. Science:   Students have just launched into a unit of flight where will be exploring its history, the forces involved and conducting a number of related experiments. PUBLIC SPEAKING: Beginning in October, a few students will be assigned public speaking opportunities each week wit
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WEEK ONE DONE

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FIRST WEEK OF SCHOOL Hello again Div. 5 families.  We just finished our first week together and I was left with a great  impression  of our group,  I'm looking forward to learning more about division 5 in the coming months.  This week we worked on the following: engaged in team building with a variety of activities designed to build connections (friendship bingo, 20 questions, Frisbee Bocci, combined PE class with all grade 5 students.) reviewed  grade 4 Math units / concepts   began a unit on Flight/Forces in Science completed a map of Canada for Social Studies   started our weekly Spelling Program  completed some directed drawing activities in Art wrote in our Journals, a weekly activity I will send out our class timetable/schedule next week once it is finalized.  As we ease into the year you can expect us to begin regularly using two websites ( Get Epic! and   Prodigy  for math) to supplement our efforts. These can be accessed from home. Students will also be reviewing basic m
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