Not happy with your photo?

Our photo re-take day is Wednesday NOVEMBER 14th. Please let us know if you want another photo taken.

Thanks!

Spook-Tacular Week!

Ooooooooh, it's going to be a scary week! Math tests coming home to be signed, progress reports coming home...EEEEKK...oh, and of course...Halloween!
Students will be engaging in creative, Halloween themed activities on Wednesday. Some activities are math, some are literacy based and some are art.
Don't forget to wear Black and Orange on Wednesday to show your SPIRIT!

Bake Sale Tomorrow

Our class will visit the Grade 6 Fundraiser Bake Sale tomorrow morning. If you wish to purchase items and support their initiatives, please send in a dollar or two.

Thanks!

Miss.Sturgeon

Away Sick

Miss Sturgeon is away sick with the flu. She hopes to be back Wednesday afternoon. Some information as flu season approaches:

Coding Fun

Several parents have shown interest in coding with their children. Here is a site I love:

https://hourofcode.com/us/learn

Click on a theme you enjoy (Star Wars, Minecraft).

Choose BLOCKS instead of JavaScript for your choice if you have not done a lot of coding before.

My favourite is this Star Wars one:

https://code.org/starwars

Math Test Thursday

Our math test is on THURSDAY. Please refer to the study guide that should have come home last week. I noticed many students carrying it back and forth and working on answers or asking me questions over the last few days. This is wonderful.

Just make sure (parents) you have seen it so you know what your child will be tested on!

Our next math unit is Algebra. Here is a direct copy from the curriculum on the 3 main expectations we will be delving into:

In reading we will be placing focus on the goals below, especially inferring (1.5). Here are the curriculum expectations:

BOOK FAIR TOMORROW

Don't forget, tomorrow is our Book Fair purchase day! As a class, we will go to the library at 9:50am to buy books that we would love to read. If you wish your child to purchase a book, send in cash in a baggie or envelope for tomorrow. Student away at cross country can buy a book with me on Thursday, if they want to.

Free Pizza Thank You!

Our class donated the most (for the Grade 4-6 category) for our Terry Fox Run Cancer Research fundraiser. Well over 220 dollars!

As a result, we will be receiving a free PIZZA LUNCH!!

Good Job Grade 5!!!

The pizza lunch date will be posted as soon as we are informed about it from the office.

THANKS SO MUCH FOR ALL WHO DONATED and those eager students who gathered pledges or worked on cleaning their room, or washing dishes after dinner to earn some money.

Prodigy Math Homework

If you have time, or on weekends, please try to do some of our weekly questions in Prodigy. So far, half of our class has done so. Try your login at home. If you lost the page or it doesn't work, send a note in the agenda and I will re-issue the code page.

There are 30 questions entered into Prodigy game. They correspond with types of math we are discussing and working on in class. Currently, it is place value practice and decomposing numbers.

The practice is excellent for students to sharpen skills and the teacher feedback is wonderful, suggesting areas of need for you child and showing gaps in their learning that we can improve on.

Math Test Study Guide

We will be filling in our math test study guide this week, reviewing some of the big ideas we covered in math. It should be in your child's bag on Friday. The test will be next Thursday.

If you have not received your child's Class Dojo login information or Prodigy login information (both pages were sent last week), please write a note in the agenda.

Picture/Photo Day this Friday

Our school photo day is this Friday, October 12th. So get that hair combed and favourite outfit on. Plus, don't forget to smile. Let's not have photos that look like these classics: