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!