Hello Parents!
I cant believe it's almost the end of November! This year is flying by.
Language Arts
Students have been busy the last 2 weeks finishing up their study of narratives by completing their Mr. men or Little Miss Books. Look for them to come home in their bragging binder soon! They will be sharing their with a few primary classes as well. We will be starting a book called Hana's Suitcase next week. As this book is non fiction and describes on girl's struggle being Jewish during WWII your child may have many questions about that time. Please know that the nature of our conversations will be at a grade 5 level and the book is written for the junior grades and is therefore "kid friendly". I have read it in the past and the students always have such rich conversations surrounding it.
Science
They have also been finishing working through the centers about the human body systems. They are now working in groups to become experts on one system and teach the class how it works through, models, visual aids and research. Their group will present their work to the class in a couple of weeks. Look for a permission form for a workshop to introduce our next unit on Matter and Materials to come home soon.
Math
We have completed our unit on place value. Students had a quiz on Monday that was marked and should have come home to be signed on Tuesday. Please be sure to ask your child for their test results.
We will be moving onto our data management unit. Students will be learning about various graphs and how to collect and analyze data.
For practice your child can go to www.lionktolearning.com and choose math then choose data management and probability. Students should focus on the websites that are concerning data and graphing (rather than the probability sites).
Social Studies
We continue to look at local government and are moving into provincial government over the next week.
Everything else....
Our genius hour projects are coming along nicely! We have students creating models, sewing clothes, creating websites, learning origami and so much more! I can't wait to see the final projects! :) I have dropped off the posters for the Remembrance Day poster contest. Thank you to all the parents that signed permission forms for their child's poster to be included. There were so many great artistic posters done.
Progress Reports will be sent home mid Dec. It was nice to meet with many of you during interviews. Once the reports come home, if you have further questions or concerns please feel free to contact me at the school.
Please check your students agenda each night. They are to write their homework in the agenda and I sign my initial each day. This will help you know what their work is that is due.
Also feel free to follow our class Twitter account @MrsCookesFab5s so you can check up on what were doing!
That's all for now. Take care!
Wednesday, 25 November 2015
Friday, 6 November 2015
Hello Parents,
I am happy to be back online and keeping touch! Students have been working well this term asand nd learning a lot. Here is where we are working on and what we are moving towards in our various subject areas.
Math-students have completed their work on patterning and have moved onto learning about place value to numbers in the hundred thousands. Students must be able to represent a 6 digit number in various ways. For example :
432 145 (standard form)
four hundred thirty two thousand one hundred forty-five (words)
400 000 + 30 000+ 2000+100+40+5 (expanded form)
Where we are headed....
Students are also learning decimals to hundredths. For example 54.3 or 54.32. Students are now learning to place numbers on a number line and will be moving towards learning to round numbers to the nearest ones, tens, hundreds, thousands and ten thousands. This will lead to adding and subtracting of large numbers.
Ways to help...
check out this website for some math games to play with your child
http://motionmathgames.com/how-to-understand-place-value-3-fun-family-math-activities/
Language Arts
We have been learning about the elements of a narrative story. We have been working on answering questions effectively including supporting our answers. After reading many books from the Mr. Men series, we have begun writing our own Mr Men or Little Miss stories. We have completed our organizer and have begun our rough copies. We will be publishing our books in the near future.
Where we are heading
We will begin reading a book called Hana's Suitcase soon as a class and have discussions around this book. It is a non fiction book about a child's experience during World War 2. There will be a lot of rich discussions during the reading of this book.
Science
Students are working through centers on the Human Body. Each centre is focussed on one of the 6 body systems. (Ask your child to tell you what the systems are called) Students will then be choosing a focus and preparing a project about a body system and a disease that can harm it.
Social Studies
Students have begun learning about local government and how decisions are made at the local level. They had to choose a side about a fictious skate park going in beside our school and had a small debate about it. They then wrote a letter to our mayor about what they think should happen and why. We will move on to learn about the provincial and federal levels and look at how 3 levels work together to help solve problems.
Remembrance Day
Students will be practicing for our Remembrance Day assembly next week. The assembly will be on Wednesday at 10:00 am in our gym. Parents are welcomed to join us. The assembly is put on solely by the grade 5 students.
Students are entering a poster contest surrounding Remembrance Day. I will be taking these posters to the Brampton Legion and they will be entered in a contest to win a prize.
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Progress Reports and Interviews
Information regarding these 2 topics will be sent home early next week. Please check your child's agenda each night for any information.
That's a quick update for now! Hope this updates you on what we've been doing lately in class. Please always feel free to contact me should you have any questions or concerns!
I am happy to be back online and keeping touch! Students have been working well this term asand nd learning a lot. Here is where we are working on and what we are moving towards in our various subject areas.
Math-students have completed their work on patterning and have moved onto learning about place value to numbers in the hundred thousands. Students must be able to represent a 6 digit number in various ways. For example :
432 145 (standard form)
four hundred thirty two thousand one hundred forty-five (words)
400 000 + 30 000+ 2000+100+40+5 (expanded form)
Where we are headed....
Students are also learning decimals to hundredths. For example 54.3 or 54.32. Students are now learning to place numbers on a number line and will be moving towards learning to round numbers to the nearest ones, tens, hundreds, thousands and ten thousands. This will lead to adding and subtracting of large numbers.
Ways to help...
check out this website for some math games to play with your child
http://motionmathgames.com/how-to-understand-place-value-3-fun-family-math-activities/
Language Arts
We have been learning about the elements of a narrative story. We have been working on answering questions effectively including supporting our answers. After reading many books from the Mr. Men series, we have begun writing our own Mr Men or Little Miss stories. We have completed our organizer and have begun our rough copies. We will be publishing our books in the near future.
Where we are heading
We will begin reading a book called Hana's Suitcase soon as a class and have discussions around this book. It is a non fiction book about a child's experience during World War 2. There will be a lot of rich discussions during the reading of this book.
Science
Students are working through centers on the Human Body. Each centre is focussed on one of the 6 body systems. (Ask your child to tell you what the systems are called) Students will then be choosing a focus and preparing a project about a body system and a disease that can harm it.
Social Studies
Students have begun learning about local government and how decisions are made at the local level. They had to choose a side about a fictious skate park going in beside our school and had a small debate about it. They then wrote a letter to our mayor about what they think should happen and why. We will move on to learn about the provincial and federal levels and look at how 3 levels work together to help solve problems.
Remembrance Day
Students will be practicing for our Remembrance Day assembly next week. The assembly will be on Wednesday at 10:00 am in our gym. Parents are welcomed to join us. The assembly is put on solely by the grade 5 students.
Students are entering a poster contest surrounding Remembrance Day. I will be taking these posters to the Brampton Legion and they will be entered in a contest to win a prize.
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Progress Reports and Interviews
Information regarding these 2 topics will be sent home early next week. Please check your child's agenda each night for any information.
That's a quick update for now! Hope this updates you on what we've been doing lately in class. Please always feel free to contact me should you have any questions or concerns!
Friday, 18 September 2015
Welcome Back!!
Hello Parents!
Welcome back to a new school year. I am sorry this has taken a bit for my first post but the first couple weeks have been hectic! This blog will be used to communicate updates now and then about what we are working on in our classroom. I will send you an email with a link to the new blog post so that you can hopefully read it from your phones or tablets at your convenience. Feel free to leave comments on our posts but just know that all parents who access this can read the comments so anything of a personal nature is best discussed directly with me. :) Please note that I usually attach photos with the posts but we have not received back all photo permission forms yet.
Getting to know you!
The first two weeks have been getting to know your students through various activities. It has also been working on building our classroom community. I believe in building a student led classroom. This means that the students have a lot of responsibility in how the classroom is run. Please ask you child what types of things we are doing in class to reinforce this idea. (ask about the morning greeter, afternoon closer and REARJMKL and Gimme 5s to start ) So far the students are embracing this idea and working very hard to help build a class community.
The students participated in various team building activities. They had to make a monster called a grebigol out of art supplies without talking! then they had to stack cups into pyramids using only string and elastics. They did fantastic at both activities!
Language
We have been reading a series of books about bullying called WEIRD, TOUGH and DARE its the same story told in three perspectives. We had some great discussions about bullying and the students wrote a reflection about who they identified with in the story. Students have done their first 2 blog posts on the blog site www.writeabout.com Ask them to show you their posts!
Math
We have begun patterning in class and students have done a partner math activity and some individual activities. We also have been practicing our multiplication tables at home so that we can master them and be able to use them for many math strands this year.
Homework
We will not have a set homework plan. The students will often have to post to the blog for homework as well as finish up classroom work. I encourage them to read each night for 20 mins or more and to go on the blog to do some writing. Also they can practice math skills on various websites such as www.mathisfun.com in the evenings. Any major projects or homework will be posted on the blog to update you.
Agenda
Check your students agenda each night to know what is expected of them for the next day. This could be reminders or homework or finish up work.
Science and Social Studies will start next week. Students will have me for Social Studies and Mrs.Jamieson for Science. We will begin with Canadian Government in Science they will be learning about The Human Body.
That's all for now if you have any questions, concerns or comments feel free to contact me at the school.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. L Cooke :)
Welcome back to a new school year. I am sorry this has taken a bit for my first post but the first couple weeks have been hectic! This blog will be used to communicate updates now and then about what we are working on in our classroom. I will send you an email with a link to the new blog post so that you can hopefully read it from your phones or tablets at your convenience. Feel free to leave comments on our posts but just know that all parents who access this can read the comments so anything of a personal nature is best discussed directly with me. :) Please note that I usually attach photos with the posts but we have not received back all photo permission forms yet.
Getting to know you!
The first two weeks have been getting to know your students through various activities. It has also been working on building our classroom community. I believe in building a student led classroom. This means that the students have a lot of responsibility in how the classroom is run. Please ask you child what types of things we are doing in class to reinforce this idea. (ask about the morning greeter, afternoon closer and REARJMKL and Gimme 5s to start ) So far the students are embracing this idea and working very hard to help build a class community.
The students participated in various team building activities. They had to make a monster called a grebigol out of art supplies without talking! then they had to stack cups into pyramids using only string and elastics. They did fantastic at both activities!
Language
We have been reading a series of books about bullying called WEIRD, TOUGH and DARE its the same story told in three perspectives. We had some great discussions about bullying and the students wrote a reflection about who they identified with in the story. Students have done their first 2 blog posts on the blog site www.writeabout.com Ask them to show you their posts!
Math
We have begun patterning in class and students have done a partner math activity and some individual activities. We also have been practicing our multiplication tables at home so that we can master them and be able to use them for many math strands this year.
Homework
We will not have a set homework plan. The students will often have to post to the blog for homework as well as finish up classroom work. I encourage them to read each night for 20 mins or more and to go on the blog to do some writing. Also they can practice math skills on various websites such as www.mathisfun.com in the evenings. Any major projects or homework will be posted on the blog to update you.
Agenda
Check your students agenda each night to know what is expected of them for the next day. This could be reminders or homework or finish up work.
Science and Social Studies will start next week. Students will have me for Social Studies and Mrs.Jamieson for Science. We will begin with Canadian Government in Science they will be learning about The Human Body.
That's all for now if you have any questions, concerns or comments feel free to contact me at the school.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. L Cooke :)
Monday, 5 January 2015
Day 75 Happy New Year!
Happy New Year Parents!
I hope you all had a relaxing and joyful holiday spent with family and friends!
Wow I can't believe we are almost half way through the school year! This week we will be focussed on getting back into routines and reviewing what we left off learning in December. A reminder that all students should make sure they have their indoor shoes at school as I know many students took them home over the break.
SKI TRIP
The first of our 2 ski trips days is THIS THURSDAY. Students went to a meeting today about expectations for the trip. Please talk to your child about what they were told. Students that are not going on the trip will hbe doing some activities at school that day. Next Thursday they will have the opportunity to snowshoe at the school. Look for the permission form to come home this week.
MATH
Students have begun learning about 2d shapes. We did a large sorting of various shapes before the break and learned some new words to describe shapes such as regular and irregular, concave and curved. We talked about different kinds of triangles and the names we give them based on sides and on angles. Ask your students to tell you what they have learned. Students received their math test back in patterning today. Some students will need to do a retest. The retest will happen next week. Please sign the tests and have your child return them as soon as possible.
100 WORD CHALLENGE
Students have chosen their favourite 100 Word Challenge they have done so far. They are adding another 100 words to it and doing a polished copy of it to be assessed. Students have had practice writing their challenges all year. We will continue with this but it will become part of our literacy centres which will start later this week.
LANGUAGE
We will be starting our literacy centers later this week and will focus on the author Chris Van Alsburg for a few week.s He has written and illustrated many interesting picture books for students at a junior level. The books often have an element of mystery and thus appeals to both girls and boys. Always a great choice if you're looking to buy an interesting picture book for an older student. you will hear more about these books and this author in the upcoming weeks.
ILLNESS
We had and continue to have many students off each day due to illness. I have reminded the students the importance of staying home when they are ill and getting better before returning to school if at all possible. I also reminded them of the importance of handwashing etc. We could really, really use some boxes of kleenex as we go through about a box a day at this point with all the illness. If you have some you could send in that would be very helpful and appreciated.
**Please note that Jan 19 is a PD day for students.**
Thats all for now. Have a great first week and hope everyone settles into 2015 nicely!
Mrs Cooke :)
I hope you all had a relaxing and joyful holiday spent with family and friends!
Wow I can't believe we are almost half way through the school year! This week we will be focussed on getting back into routines and reviewing what we left off learning in December. A reminder that all students should make sure they have their indoor shoes at school as I know many students took them home over the break.
SKI TRIP
The first of our 2 ski trips days is THIS THURSDAY. Students went to a meeting today about expectations for the trip. Please talk to your child about what they were told. Students that are not going on the trip will hbe doing some activities at school that day. Next Thursday they will have the opportunity to snowshoe at the school. Look for the permission form to come home this week.
MATH
Students have begun learning about 2d shapes. We did a large sorting of various shapes before the break and learned some new words to describe shapes such as regular and irregular, concave and curved. We talked about different kinds of triangles and the names we give them based on sides and on angles. Ask your students to tell you what they have learned. Students received their math test back in patterning today. Some students will need to do a retest. The retest will happen next week. Please sign the tests and have your child return them as soon as possible.
100 WORD CHALLENGE
Students have chosen their favourite 100 Word Challenge they have done so far. They are adding another 100 words to it and doing a polished copy of it to be assessed. Students have had practice writing their challenges all year. We will continue with this but it will become part of our literacy centres which will start later this week.
LANGUAGE
We will be starting our literacy centers later this week and will focus on the author Chris Van Alsburg for a few week.s He has written and illustrated many interesting picture books for students at a junior level. The books often have an element of mystery and thus appeals to both girls and boys. Always a great choice if you're looking to buy an interesting picture book for an older student. you will hear more about these books and this author in the upcoming weeks.
ILLNESS
We had and continue to have many students off each day due to illness. I have reminded the students the importance of staying home when they are ill and getting better before returning to school if at all possible. I also reminded them of the importance of handwashing etc. We could really, really use some boxes of kleenex as we go through about a box a day at this point with all the illness. If you have some you could send in that would be very helpful and appreciated.
**Please note that Jan 19 is a PD day for students.**
Thats all for now. Have a great first week and hope everyone settles into 2015 nicely!
Mrs Cooke :)
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