Ms. Davis Grade 5 (2023-2024)

Hello families! This week, we finished our Holes novel read aloud. Students found the definition to unfamiliar vocabulary, and engaged in a small group discussion considering these three questions: how Stanley changed over the course of the novel, how Zero and Stanley supported each other when in the desert and how the author used flashbacks to deepen our understanding of character and their motivations. Next week, students will be completing a final project on the novel. Students practiced long division in math, and completed their final assessment. When we begin focusing on number after the break, we will be using all our addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills while exploring order of operations.  Students explored the First Peoples of Canada by region, and completed a map showing each region. We will be listening to a creation story from each region, and started this week with the creation story of the Salish (Northwest Coast region) called Raven Steals the Li...

Happy Friday! We just had our field trip to MNP Community & Sport Centre. The students had a blast playing basketball and volleyball! Today concluded our unit on volleyball in PE. In Math this week, we continued our work on division, learning the method of division with repeated subtraction. I encourage students to continue practicing their math fluency at home, playing math games or engaging in online math practice, as students utilize their skills of multiplication, subtraction and addition even when dividing. In Science, students completed a short circuit lab, making a short circuit with a D cell and a copper wire. Next week we will be making a variety of different circuits using batteries, alligator clips, light bulbs and switches. In Social Studies, students learned about the Indigenous seven sacred teachings (honesty, respect, courage, love, humility, truth, and wisdom) and created posters in a group for each teaching.  In ELAL, we continued our word work on prefixes and ...

Happy Friday families!  This week, students finished their Social Studies project and participated in a gallery walk. They welcomed the grade 5 and 6 students, as well as our grade 2 buddy class, to come see their projects. Mr. Turner and Ms. Peterson also came to check out the students work! Students did a fantastic job explaining their images and artifacts to their audience. We finished the week with diving into our next unit on the stories of Canada, where students researched important historical events in Canada. As Wednesday was Pink Shirt Day, students spent time learning about the origins of the day, brainstorming ways to combat bullying, and created anti-bullying acrostic poems. Some students shared their poems with the class. We also continued our novel study, and students created before and after images of Camp Green Lake, during the era of Katherine Barlow and the present day with Stanley. Students learned about electrical charges and static electricity in Science. They ...