We have had another great week! I feel lucky to have such a wonderful group of students who are so eager to learn :)
A few reminders:
- Curriculum Night is this Wednesday October 3rd. Feel free to drop by our classroom anytime between 7-8pm. There will be no gym assembly this year. Parents & family members are invited to tour our classroom! Please email me at evita.massaro@tcdsb.org & let me know who plans to attend as I will have curriculum packages available, which explain what we will be learning this year! I hope that most parents are able to attend!
- Students have been given Scholastics forms- please provide cheques instead of cash. The cheque should be written out to - 'Scholastics'.
- Pizza forms have also been given out & are due back this week.
- Our ZOO TRIP is this Friday! Please ensure your child has a big lunch with enough drinks as we will not be buying food at the zoo (very $$$ & big line ups!). The students will be able to visit the gift store so they may bring money for that.
- I have been able to get in touch with most of you over the phone for a 'September hello'- I will try & reach the rest of you again this week.
Weekly Update:
- Ms. O.B & Sitara attended WE DAY on Friday! We are excited to hear about their experience!
- In Math, students have completed the numeration chapter with a test on Friday. Most students gave me a thumbs up as they handed in their test! Results will be in early this week! Students began working with their 'Math partners' this week, which means they team up with someone they are able to help or could get help from when taking up homework & beginning the text questions for the lesson. Workbook is usually for homework. Parents please note that in the workbook for each lesson there is a 'At Home Help' section, which briefly explains the lesson I taught in class.
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| Math partners |
We are beginning the patterns chapter this week. Please encourage your child to visit the Math group on Edmodo often & practice the Math links that are posted. Here are some links to review & help for this chapter:
Nelson Math
http://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-5/geometric-growth-patterns
http://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-5/increasing-growth-patterns
http://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-5/patterns-involving-addition-and-multiplication
http://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-5/numeric-patterns-word-problems
http://ca.ixl.com/math/grade-5/mixed-patterns-review
- In Language, we continued Daily 5 by focusing on COACHING OR TIME within the Read to Others station. 'Coaching or Time' encourages students to help their partner pronounce a word or understand the story by offering them coaching- strategies to help their partner, or time- allowing their partner some time to figure it out on their own. We discussed how many times we simply tell our reading partner the correct way to say a word or we give them the answer to the comprehension question, but this does not help us learn or improve! Students practiced working with their partners on 'Coaching or Time' & it was truly impressive to see the students become the teachers!
We also introduced another Daily 5 station called LISTEN TO READING- possibly the students favourite station! As I mentioned in my previous blog post, 'For the love of reading', students visit excellent sites such as TUMBLEBOOKS through the Toronto Public Library to choose from a huge variety of books that are read to them as they read along. It is important to remember that students must be reading along while the book is being read to them so that they practice their fluency! I was so happy to hear that many of the students were visiting TumbleBooks in the evening & even discussing the books on Edmodo- AMAZING!!! Students, if you would like to bring in your own earphones or headphones, we will store them somewhere safe!
- In Media, students continue to work on their current news presentations! Students had the option of choosing to display their current news using bristol board or PowerPoint. Presentations will take place Tuesday October 9th!
- In Social Studies, the students continue to learn about trade and Canada's connections to the rest of the world. The students participated in a trade game, led by Ms. O.B, which they really enjoyed!
- In Science, we continue to explore the living things kingdoms, vertebrates & invertebrates with Ms. O.B. Students viewed short video clips on each of these above topics this week in class & created classification charts for each. There will be a quiz coming up next week so please encourage your child to view these videos again:
Some fun pics:
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| So nice to see! |
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| Rock, paper, scissors for choosing a book |
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| Our crazy Daily 5 wall! |
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| Girls only!!! |
- Congratulations to our new student of the week, ALEX. N & to all of our Friday raffle winners!!!
Thank you for reading our weekly blog post! I am so happy to hear that students are checking out our blog with their parents as I believe it is so important to share our class happenings & to keep communication alive! I am looking forward to meeting with you all Curriculum Night!
Have a wonderful week,
Mrs. Massaro
