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Week of Dec 1-4th

This week:

-Dec 5th: PD day

Grade 5 AM group

Language - Fractured Fairy Tale presentations

Science - Human Organ Systems: Finishing up the Circulatory system

Math - Data literacy: Finishing up data with a final assessment (Stacked-bar graph); Starting new unit: Addition and Subtraction

Grade 6 PM group

Language - Novel study: A Long Walk to Water

Science - Finishing up Biodiversity

Math - Data literacy: Finishing up data with a final assessment (Broken-line graph); Starting new unit: Addition and Subtraction

Grade 5 Pyjama Day Friday

 The Grade 5s have earned a free block on Friday, November 27th. 

We will be watching a movie and the students have asked to wear their pjs. 

Week of Nov 24-28th

Thank you to all of the parents that attended the parent-teacher interviews last week. If you were unable to book a spot, please feel free to write a note in your child's agenda with preferred days and times, and we can schedule a phone appointment this week or next.

This week:

-Nov 27th: First Advent Liturgy with Father Kevin from St Isidore

Grade 5 AM group

Language - Good copies and peer editing of Fractured Fairy Tales and getting ready to present them

Science - Human Organ Systems: Looking at the Circulatory system

Math - Data literacy: Looking at different types of graphs

Grade 6 PM group

Language - Scary stories will be handed back this week; Novel study: A Long Walk to Water

Science - Invasive species presentations; Finishing up Biodiversity

Math - Data literacy: Looking at different types of graphs

Week of November 17-21

This week:

-Nov 18th: School Bus Safety Presentation, 2:30pm

-Nov 19th: Parent-teacher interviews, 4-7pm (I am fully booked as of now. If you did not get a time slot, please write a note in your child's agenda and I will schedule a phone call with you this week.)

Grade 5 AM group

Language - Finishing up our culminating task: Fractured Fairy Tales and getting ready to present them; poster task will be handed back on Monday

Science - Human Organ Systems: Looking at the Circulatory system

Math - Data literacy: Mean, Median, Mode quiz on Wednesday

Grade 6 PM group

Language - Scary stories will be handed back this week; new novel study: A Long Walk to Water

Science - Invasive species task (finishing up and presenting)

Math - Data literacy: Mean, Median, Mode, Range quiz on Thursday

Math quiz next week

Grade 5 - Mean, Median and Mode: Wednesday, November 19th 2nd block

Calculation: Finding the mean, median, and mode from a data set.

Inverse/Application: Working backward to create a data set that satisfies given conditions for the mean, median, and mode.

Grade 6 - Mean, Median, Mode and Range: Thursday, November 20th 4th block

Calculation: Finding the mean, median, mode and range from a data set.

Inverse/Application: Working backward to create a data set that satisfies given conditions for the mean, median, mode and range.

Grade 6 Mean and Median

 Friday's Textbook work questions #5-7

Grade 5 Mean and Mode

Friday's Textbook work questions #4-7

Pajama Days in November

Our school is excited to support CEFO (The Catholic Education Foundation of Ottawa) through two school-wide PJ/Cozy Day fundraisers!

When: Friday, November 14th and Friday, November 21st

Donation Amount: $4 for both PJ days

Please make donations through School Cash Online

Thank you for showing your school spirit and helping CEFO continue its important work!

*Please note that this is optional.

Click on this link to see the poster.

Week of Nov 10-14th

Monday - Grade 6 Classification make-up quiz for those that would like to take it.

Tuesday - Remembrance day. There will be no assembly this year, but each class will have videos, readings and activities to engage in.

Wednesday - Ottawa 67's game! Busses will leave promptly at 9:15am to head to the CT centre. Foam earbuds will be available to each student in my morning class. If afternoon students would like a pair, they are welcome to ask me.

Grade 5 AM group

Language - Culminating task: Fractured Fairy Tales

Science - Finishing up our human body tasks (digestive and respiratory)

Math - Data literacy: continuing mean, median, mode

Grade 6 PM group

Language - Letters to soldiers and sharing our scary stories 

Science - Invasive species task

Math - Data literacy: continuing mean, median, mode, and range

Grade 6 - Language and Science info

Hello grade 6 parents!

This is a reminder that the students' Suspenseful Narrative stories, which were originally due tomorrow, have been extended until Monday, November 10th. Please ask your son/daughter to show you their story on their workspace.

Also, a makeup Science Classification quiz will be offered on Monday for those who would like to take it. The original and new grades will be averaged out for the final mark.

Week of Nov 3-7

*PD day Friday November 7th 

Grade 5 AM group

Language - Finishing up fictional narrative unit - culminating task

Science - Life Systems: Human Health and Body Systems (respiratory system)

Math - Data literacy (mean, median, mode)

Grade 6 PM group

Language - Suspenseful narrative writing - peer editing and final copy

Science - Life Systems: Biodiversity; Classification quiz handed back on Tuesday

Math - Data literacy (mean, median, mode, range)

Calculators

We use calculators almost daily in our math block. Our current shared class set has unfortunately been dwindling, which leaves some students without one.

It is highly recommended that each student acquire their own personal calculator (with basic functions) to ensure reliable access during lessons and quizzes.

Thank you!

Week of Oct 27-31

 SPIRIT WEEK!

*Halloween bake sale on Friday. Bring cash for treats.

Grade 5 AM group

Language - Continuing fictional narrative unit - deep dive into Hansel and Gretel

Science - Life Systems: Human Health and Body Systems (respiratory system)

Math - Patterning unit tests will be returned; beginning Data

Grade 6 PM group

Language - Suspenseful narrative writing and Media task "The Hollow"

Science - Life Systems: Biodiversity; Classification quiz on Wednesday

Math - Patterning unit tests will be returned; beginning Data

Week of Oct 20-24

Reminders: Junglesport forms due on Monday. Students will be attending the event a total of 3 times this week.

Grade 5 AM group

Language - Continuing fictional narrative unit (Fairy tales)

Science - Life Systems: Human Health and Body Systems (respiratory system)

Math - Patterning unit test (Tuesday) New unit: Data

Grade 6 PM group

Language - Suspenseful narrative writing unit

Science - Life Systems: Biodiversity

Math - Patterning unit test (Tuesday) New unit: Data

Patterning Unit Test next week

Grade 5s and 6s will be having a patterning unit test next Tuesday, Oct 21st.

Grade 5 concepts: identifying, describing and creating repeating, growing and shrinking patterns, pattern rules that include one operation, using pattern rules to extend patterns, patterns in T-tables, graphing patterns

Grade 6 concepts: identifying, describing and creating repeating, growing and shrinking patterns, pattern rules that include one or two operations, pattern rules that include a variable (n), using pattern rules to extend patterns and solve for unknown values, patterns in T-tables, graphing patterns, creating an appropriate scale for the graph, describing what's going on in the graphs

*review sheets will be sent home on Friday.

Week of Oct 6-9th

Reminders:

Monday, October 6th - Picture day!

Thursday, October 9th - Thanksgiving liturgy 9:20am

Friday, October 10th - PD day

Monday, October 13th - Thanksgiving Monday

*Please return 67's forms if you haven't already done so.*

Grade 5 AM group

Language - Sharing some autobiographies (optional). Final copies were due last Friday. Starting a fictional narrative unit (fairy tales).

Science - Life Systems: Human Health and Body Systems 

Math - Patterning: tables of values and graphing patterns

Grade 6 PM group

Language - Presenting biography slideshows. Final slideshows were due last Thursday. 

Science - Life Systems: Biodiversity

Math - Patterning: tables of values and graphing patterns

Week of Sept 29 - Oct 3

Reminders:

Monday, September 29th - Patterning quiz for grades 5 and 6

Tuesday, September 30th - National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (orange shirt day)

Thursday, October 2nd - Terry Fox run from 2:45-3:15pm

*Scroll down to the bottom of this site to see our class calendar!

Requests:

To support your child's learning, I'm asking that students please bring their own headphones or earbuds to class. This will allow them to listen to videos and audio readings independently at their own pace without distractions. Thank you so much for your help!

Grade 5 AM group

Language - Finishing our Autobiographies this week. Final copies due Friday. Please look on your child's Hapara workspace if you'd like to see more details.

Exploring Newsela.

Science - Life Systems: Human Health and Body Systems (continuing digestion)

Math - Patterning: looking at input and output machines and going deeper with word problems.

Grade 6 PM group

Language - Finishing our Biographies this week. Final slideshows due Thursday. Please look on your child's Hapara workspace if you'd like to see more details.

Exploring Newsela.

Science - Life Systems: Biodiversity

Math - Patterning: looking at input and output machines and going deeper with word problems and more challenging pattern rules.

Finding the Pattern in a sequence of numbers (07:06 - 12:48)

 

Week of Sept 22-26th

Grade 5 AM group

Language - Continuing our Autobiographies this week. Please look on your child's Hapara workspace if you'd like to see more details.

Science - Life Systems: Human Health and Body Systems

Math - Patterning: *Students will have a quiz on Monday on identifying and extending repeating, growing and shrinking patterns as well as writing pattern rules*

*Friday, we will be taking part in a Humane Society Presentation at 11am.

Grade 6 PM group

Language - Continuing our Biographies this week. Please look on your child's Hapara workspace if you'd like to see more details.

Science - Life Systems: Biodiversity

Math - Patterning: *Students will have a quiz on Monday on identifying and extending repeating, growing and shrinking patterns as well as writing pattern rules*

Week of Sept15-19th

Open House Night:

Thursday, September 18th from 4:30 - 5:30 pm. We will start in the gym and then move to the classrooms for parents to take a tour and meet the teachers.

Grade 5 AM group

Language - Working on our Autobiographies this week. Please look on your child's Hapara workspace if you'd like to see more details.

Science - Life Systems: Human Health and Body Systems

Math - Finishing up Place Value (quiz Monday) and moving onto Patterning

Grade 6 PM group

Language - Working on our Biographies this week. Please look on your child's Hapara workspace if you'd like to see more details.

Science - Life Systems: Biodiversity

Math - Finishing up Place Value (quiz Monday) and moving onto Patterning

Fun Place Value Math Games!! 5/6

Ordering numbers

http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/ordering-game.php

Place Value Pirates 

http://mrnussbaum.com/placevaluepirates

Expanded Form Matching

https://www.quia.com/mc/279741.html

Link that will quiz students and provide answers as well as explanations if the answer is wrong:

https://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-5/place-values

“Who Wants to be a Hundredaire?” (challenging: includes decimals and goes up to billions!)

http://www.math-play.com/Place-Value-Millionaire/place-value-millionaire-game.html

Place Value Quiz - Monday, September 15th

Grade 5 - representing numbers to 100,000 in standard, expanded and word form; comparing and ordering numbers to 100,000 (no decimal numbers)

Grade 6 - representing numbers to 1,000,000 in standard, expanded and word form; comparing and ordering numbers to 1,000,000 (no decimal numbers)

*extra practice sheets will be sent home on Friday. They are not mandatory, but completing them can be a great way to reinforce what we've learned in class.

Week of Sept 8-12th - Curriculum info

Grade 5 AM group

Language - We are finishing up some small tasks and going to be getting started on an Autobiography unit this week.

Science - Life Systems: Human Health and Body Systems

Math - Place value: - read, represent, compare and order whole numbers to 100,000

Religion is taught by Mrs. LaBerge every Thursday morning.

Grade 6 PM group

Language - We are finishing up our summer recounts and going to be getting started on a Biography unit this week.

Science - Life Systems: Biodiversity

Math - Place value: - read, represent, compare and order whole numbers to 1,000,000

Religion is taught by Mrs. Kam every Tuesday afternoon.

Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025

Hello and welcome to the Class Blog!

This blog is another place for us to stay connected. You can check here for important reminders, curriculum updates, and a glimpse into our classroom.

Our first week will be all about community building and settling in. We'll spend time getting comfortable with one another and going over our classroom expectations. We'll also kick off our first writing task by sharing stories from our summer adventures.

Today, students will be bringing home their new agendas and a classroom newsletter from me! Binders, notebooks and textbooks will stay at school unless students have homework or need to study.

Looking forward to a great year!