Feb 25 to March 1

Important Dates:

**Monday, March 11 from 6 pm to 6:30... parent information meeting 
for PINES CAMP - year end field trip
- confirmed dates for our trip are June 25 to 26.**
- if you would like to be a chaperone, please attend.
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Feb 25 - PAC Meeting

Feb 27 - Pink Shirt Day - Anti-bullying support

March 1, 4, and 5... Sharing of Genius Hour Projects

March 5 - Art Start Performance

March 14 - Report #2 Home with Students

March 18 - 29 is Spring Break 

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L. ARTS...

February is READING MONTH in our class...
WE WILL finish WITH THE NOVEL...

FATTY LEGS -an Inuvialuktun (Inuit) girl who attends
                         Residential School in the far north. 
Whole class study... daily reading, discussions, and written responses.

ALSO...

~ focus on fact finding in our own words and using non-fiction sources
~ writing will be integrated into every subject
~Poetry writing
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Word Work #22 - Words handed out on first day of each week
                            - five groups, at various levels
                            - TEST on Friday - 20 words.       
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Math - 
~Please practice your division facts
Division Vocabulary 

Division Monster

Dino Division

~ We are working on LONG DIVISION CONCEPTS
Test Wednesday!

Thursday, we start GEOMETRY CONCEPT ...
Lines, line segments, rays, angles, perpendicular and parallel concepts,...
Linear Geometry

Geometry House

More Geometry


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Socials - Motivations for Explorations and 
            first contact with Canadian aboriginals
 - videos, readings, research,... 

INQUIRY LEARNING...
~ topics... CONFLICT, IMMIGRATION 
~ includes power point projects and
 video journals using new headsets!
**Thank you PAC for purchasing these!**
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Science - Earth / Space
~MYSTERY SCIENCE - INQUIRY METHOD!
Concepts: 

~ plants and animals respond to seasonal changes

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AND...
Genius Hour... continues - choose a focus question.

Sharing of projects = MARCH 1,4, AND 5... several per day.

Click for CRITERIA...

Genius hour rubric and self assessment 

 Sign-up
Friday, March 1
Siennah, Carter, Dexter, Parker,
Leighara, Mac, Zane, Macey.


Monday, March 4
Gabby, Sydney, Lauren, Jailyn,
Jaxon, Emma, Natalia, Amara, Becca.


Tuesday, March 5
Daylen, Matthew, Taytum, Keaton,
Dayton, Talia, Payton, Ryker, Tyler.
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Health:
~tobacco: fact finding from 3 websites 
            
Grade 5's continue with D.A.R.E. with Constable Katie

"Bully Free Zone" 
Poetry entry this week!
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PE - Fitness Challenges + team games and partner games
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Technology - integrated with Genius Hour, writing, and socials.
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ART - spirit animal art - part one of mask-making.

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Congrats to SYDNEY for being the Worker of the Week last week! Nice job!