Grade 4/5 News

May 14,  2017

What a wonderful week we had last week!   Burgoyne Bay was fun and we had a wonderful experience at school on Thursday with the wheelchairs and the time spend with the grade 4/5 class from Pender.  Thanks to Tim Frick (wheelchair coach) and Claude Kennedy (teacher) for helping to make it a great day.
This week we have two classes with Camilla from GISS doing some lessons from a human body kit.  Tomorrow afternoon the GISS robotics team comes for a visit to the school.  On Wednesday the grade 5s go to SIMS for the day to participate in mixed activities with grade 5s from the other schools.  Another busy and exciting week!

Subjects

Math:   We have started a unit on measurement and are working with linear measures with mm, cm, m, and km.   
   "Math is the science of patterns."

Reading:   Reading and rehearsing Robin Hood is our focus for the next few weeks.  We practice reading parts daily at least once.  We do continue with the word sorts twice a week.     

Writing:    I began to teach the class how to make websites last week.  The websites will be a learning site and students will be creating pages that show their learning in subject areas.  

Science: We begin using the district science kit (Human Body) this week with Camilla from GISS.
Tech:  Teams have finished (mostly) their robot and habitat with the lego jr kit.  They are now doing research about their animal and will be displaying their work when finished.  I will let you know when you can come to see their robotics display.

Art:  We're designing art for our lego posters this week.  

PE:  Students continue to do weekly fitness stations.  We will be starting track and field this week.  The track meet is May 30.

French:   Students did a great job labelling the parts of the body on an outline--very colourful and creative!

You are welcome to phone me or email me if you have  any questions about what is happening in class.  250-537-4962  or jlightfoot@sd64.bc.ca