September Learning Update

Hello Families,

We hope you are enjoying this fall weather! It has been a great start to the school year. 

Each month you will receive a classroom update. This will provide an overview of topics and concepts covered in class and will outline learning activities for the upcoming month.

For the month of September, students: 

• Established our three class values. Be kind, Be Respectful, Be Honest 

• Discussed and practiced using different parts of speech such as, nouns, verbs, adjectives, and conjunctions in their speaking and writing

• Wrote in their journals to jumpstart a writing routine and build their writing stamina

• Explored similes, metaphors, hyperbole, personification, onomatopoeia, and alliteration and practicing how to incorporate these techniques into their own writing

• Students have been reviewing and identifying word patterns and applying their understanding to sentence writing to support their spelling development

• Reviewed place value up to 1 000 000 000 using base ten blocks, and practicing writing numbers in expanded form i.e. 5 678 written as 5 000 + 600 + 70 + 8

•  Learning about what it means to be a scientist and the steps involved in the scientific process.

Students put their learning into practice through a scientific experiment investigating the strength of different brands of paper towel. Students developed questions, made predictions, tested their ideas, observed results, and used evidence to draw conclusions

• Learned about the provinces, territories and regions of Canada

• Painted trees using water colours and oil pastels to explore perspective taking 

Next month we will be:

• Practicing reading comprehension strategies, such as making connections and predictions and identifying character feelings, through various class read aloud books

• Focusing on using descriptive words in writing pieces 

• Starting our unit “Living Systems” in Science

• Continuing to build number sense, practicing place value and beginning to solve addition and subtraction questions

Ask your child: 

1. What are Treaties?

2. Can you give me an example of a simile?

3. What are the three class values in your class and can you tell me more about them?  

Kindly,

Ms. Mac & Ms. Garcia

Grade 5/6