October 30 - November 3

Important Dates:

October 31 = Orange and Black Day

November 10 - Remembrance Day Assembly @10:45am
November 13 - Stat Holiday

Friendly reminder... $35 for School Supplies at the office.
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What we are studying....
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Language Arts - We've finished our SSR Literature Study.
Please retuen all novels!
                          
New Novel Study....
            Among The Impostors will begin Tuesday!!!!


Writing: November is Sensory Imagery Writing month.
               ~ Daily writing, lessons... focus on writer's voice, 
                  word choice, variety of sentence lengths and 
                  beginnings, sentence structures, punctuation, 
                  and editing skills.

Staying Sharp with words 
  
~Word Work - Unit 7 test is in their books
                      - Unit #8 distributed Tuesday, TEST on Friday morning.
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Math - Menu Math - TEST Wednesday.
          - problem solving approach using restaurant menus
          - organizing data and using number calculations

Matho

Mental Mission 


New Math Unit starts Thursday... 

Number Patterns: sequences of numbers, pattern rules, t-tables,
input/output patterns, simple expressions, and equations. 

Number Patterns and Sequences

Patterns - T-Tables Grade 5 
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Health - "Keep Moving" unit... study the benefits of 
                 being physically active
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Socials - Mapping unit - online components...
PRACTICE THESE SITES at school and HOME!

1. Continents - spatial awareness

2. Continents and Oceans

3. Canadian Capital Cities

4. Super Challenging Countries of the World

~Students are working at various mapping skills CARDS (in booklet form)
 Overdue Assignments DUE ASAP!

~Mapping Skills this week is Latitude & Longitude

Map-skills-worksheets

Latitude / Longitude Treasure Hunt 

 INQUIRY for students... next week.
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Science: question about bats and WHY IS GREEN
ALGAE SO IMPORTANT TO PLANET EARTH?
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PE -Volleyball Skills: Proper underhand volleys,
overhead volleys, digs, serves (two types), positioning, 
rules, ...
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French - Madame Vording

Music - Mr. Dureski and Mrs. Peters.
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ART -  integrated into daily work / learning
         - NEW lesson = Surrealism...

Surrealism "Eye-Deas"

Finish by Friday for new lesson: Layering ART... 

Layering Art  

More Layering 
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Congrats to BRONWYN for being Worker of the Week last week!
He earned 10 House Team Points for the FRIENDLY COUGARS.  
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P.O.W.

You are in a bathroom with stone walls and no windows. You start to run a bath when the handles come off and there is no way of turning the tap off. You can't escape because the door is locked and there are no windows. The room will flood and you will drown. How can you save yourself?
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