May 6 to 10

Important information...
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May 7 - Fire Drill @ 9am
           - HIGHLANDS RUN

May 2, 16, 23 are confirmation dates for "WE BIKE" program
        -  3 one-hour sessions (12:45 to 1:45)
        -  bring bike and helmet (bikes provided if needed)

May 21 - class photos

May  22 = Highlands Track Meet at COTR.
                 (back up date = May 24)


May 24 - celebrity day

May 17 and 31 - No School - Fridays

May 28 and 29 - 12:50 Dismissal time - it's
STUDENT-LED CONFERENCES FROM 12:50 to 2:50
- Open house format - parents invited to see student projects,
areas of study, and progress. Welcome all parents! Pick your 
own time to see the learning opportunities in our class... led
by your child! Hope to see everyone on these two days! 

June 3 - due date to hand-in the pink form and the white form
             with your money for our PINES CAMP trip
            - if you need financial support, please talk to Mr. B...
            ... I can help.
 
June 4 - District Track Meet  - COTR
           - Back-up date is June 11

June 14  - Pro-D Day


June 21 - all chaperones have complete the P.I.C. forms
                 from the RCMP and handed them into Mr. B.

June 25 - 26 = PINES CAMP TRIP

June 27 - 9am to 11am last day of school
              - assembly and reports sent home.
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L. ARTS...
Reading - Short stories... theme of "Mystery"
              -  The Mystery of the Big Foot and Ogopogo or Loch Ness Monster!
              - Lots of reading integrated with our Socials and Science units

~ literary devices will be studied... alliteration, personification, and hyperbole.


Writing  - integrated into all subjects...
- we are ready to commence "dialogue writing"
 (3 short mystery stories - we publish our best one) 
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Word Work - CHANGED!!! The focus for the rest of May and June will
be on VOCABULARY and sentence composition. 
~Student receive a vocab. list on Monday and need to hand-in 10 
sentences, with the correct usage, by Friday.        
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Math - New unit... Fractions, decimals and percentages.
           -representing fractions, equivalent fractions, mixed numbers,...
Intro plus games

Fractions Lessons / Games

Sheppard Software Fractions

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Health:  DARE -  ONLY Graduation remains after this...
*Gr 5's have homework... write a letter to their future self
and hand it in to Mr. B by April 30th.
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Science -  Digestive System: note-taking, videos, diagrams, functions
hands-on activities,...

TEST MONDAY!

Digestion Tutorial

Digestion Game 1, 2, quiz

Digestion Video

Digestion Rap
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PE - Track and Field skills and strategies
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Technology -integrated into all subjects
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Socials - Conflict projects almost finished!
             - Mrs. Merkel will team-teach
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 Career Ed - PAST, PRESENT, and FUTURE CAREER Projects are ...

COMPLETED! AWESOME WORK, STUDENTS!

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Also... - work at your goal you indicated
           - continue to earn $ toward your trip to Pines Camp
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ART - Mother's Day ART - it's a mystery... still!

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Congrats to DAYLEN for being the Worker of the Week last week! Ten H.T.P.'s!