Good afternoon everyone,

Happy New Year and welcome back!

I hope you had a wonderful holiday season. We most certainly did…it was the best one to date. We began our holiday with a night in Toronto, where we saw the theatre production of Mary Poppins and went skating at Nathan Philips Square. We spent Christmas in Georgetown and hosted a New Year’s Eve party for our neighbours. Then we headed up to North Bay to do some winter activities. We skated at Arrowhead, rode snow mobiles, ice fished, tobogganed, and down hill skied. We also had a birthday celebration with Nana and Papa for Kase, who turns 5 on the 16th! It was just beautiful up north, despite one -32 degree day we had!!

Toronto!

Christmas Eve skate at Gage Park

The boys love playing with Charlie on his last night with us!

We must have been good!

Arrowhead!

We love North Bay!

  

Tomorrow is Year Ahead Day. My kiddos will be spending the day with Ms. Jaskolka next door. They will be keeping their lockers and will follow her schedule. They will not be having gym. Please keep in mind that although Ms. Jaskolka is teaching Grade 6 this year, it does not mean that she will be teaching Grade 6 next year.

Re-registrations packages have been sent home. All completed forms are due back no later than February 11^th, 2019, in order to save your spots. 

Important dates/items:

Thursday, January 10 – Year Ahead Day – The Grade 5 students will spend a day in Grade 6

Wednesday, January 23 – First ski trip

Tuesday, January 29 – Bake sale – we are hosting – please bring in nut free items and please avoid bringing in may contain items

Wednesday, January 30 – Bake sale and casual day

Unit of Inquiry

Today we began to learn about the respiratory system. We watched an introductory video, and completed one activity.

HOMEWORK

-Complete activity two - due Friday

Watching a video on the respiratory system...we saw real lungs!

Thanks for your action E!

Using the classroom resources!!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we wrote our Data Management and Probability pre-assessment. These two units are both short units and it is looking like our Data Management math test will take place on Monday, January 21^st and our Probability test will take place on Friday, February 1^st. There will be no review for Data Management, as students will be conducting their own survey and graphing the results.

Points to remember:

HOMEWORK

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Inquiry into Language

Today we began our second novel study – Shannen and A Dream For A School. We will be doing a literary circle for this novel. For the first three chapters we will be reading and writing a summary for each chapter. Once speeches are over in February, we will begin our literary circles.

Persuasive speeches - we will be beginning our persuasive speech writing next week. We will have roughly four weeks to write and memorize our speeches. The first week will be spent completing a guided writing persuasive speech. The weeks to follow will consist of editing, revising and memorizing. I have approved all topics. I have sent home an information package.

HOMEWORK

-Finish chapter 2 of Shannen - due Friday

-Sign and return speech information package - due Friday

Reading Shannen!

Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar