Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful day! It sounds like the Grade 5s had a great day yesterday with Ms. Jaskolka. Monday is a Day 6 (music and reading buddies).

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. 

A note from Mr. Foster, Ms. Gandy, and Ms. Brasil:

As part of our summative assessment the Grade One classes have decided to open a market to complement our organization unit. The market will include fruits, vegetables, drinks, and other healthy snacks. It will be held in rooms 25, 28 and 29. The market will take place all day Thursday, January. 24^th and Friday, January. 25^th. All profits made will be donated to the Sick Kid’s Hospital.

Important dates/items:

Wednesday, January 23 – First ski trip

Thursday, January 24 & Friday, January 25 – Grade 1 market

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 continued learning about the respiratory system. We completed a word scramble of important parts of the respiratory system and reading activity, which included learning about diseases that affect the respiratory system. Monday we will build the respiratory system.

HOMEWORK

-Finish UOI (activity 3, 4 and 5) if not completed in class including good copy poster

-Study respiratory notes

Reading information in UOI!

Love how they are using the classroom resources!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we completed our first Data Management lesson – interpreting data. We studied different graphs and then inferred and drew conclusions from each.

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, graphing the results and inferring conclusions.

Points to remember:

HOMEWORK

-MMS pg 68-69

-Data Management test is Monday, January 21st

-Probability test is Friday, February 1st

Inquiry into Language

Today we read chapter 3, 4 and 5 of Shannen and wrote a summary of the first five chapters. For the next few weeks, students will only be reading Shannen at home on the weekends.

We will be doing a literary circle for Shannen and the Dream for a School. For the five three chapters we will be reading and writing a summary. 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. Students should have any research needed for Monday.

HOMEWORK

-Speech research

-Finish reading Shannen chapter 5 and writing a summary of chapter 1-5

How lucky we are...ask me about Shannen and what we have read so far.

Have a wonderful weekend!

Love Mrs. Hocevar