It was really fantastic to meet all of you at conferences last week and to  have an opportunity to share your child’s strengths and goals.  After two more conferences this week we will have had 100% attendance in 5KP which demonstrates the value you place on your child’s education.  Thank you for your support!

Keep an eye on my calendar which is located at the top left of your screen. It is the best place to look to keep up to date with all the goings on of 5KP and the Elementary School in general.

Reader’s Workshop

Students will be bringing their Reader’s Notebook home once a week to show you how they are progressing. The notebook is a place for them to record their responses and thoughts to what they are reading in class during Reader’s Workshop and also at home each night. They have all been assigned a day when their Notebook is due to be handed up to me and it will be the following evening that they will bring it home for you to see how they are processing their thoughts on literature.

Writer’s Workshop

I know the class are excited about getting back into the swing of things with their second personal narrative this week after a couple of disruptive weeks with IOWA tests, conferences and our Cultural Studies Project taking a lot of our writing time.

Math

We are well underway on a very short unit on Division. It is never too early to start revising for the next assessment so below are the skills that will be covered on the unit four test:

*divide decimal numbers by whole numbers with no remainders
*write and solve number sentences with variables for division number stories
*find the quotient and remainder of a whole number divided by a 1-digit whole number
* find the quotient and remainder of a whole number divided by a 2-digit whole number
*make magnitude estimates for quotients of whole and decimal numbers divided by whole numbers
*interpret the remainder in division number stories
*determine the value of a variable; use this value to complete a number sentence
*know place value to hundredths

Science

Tomorrow we begin our amazing unit on Nutrition. Get ready for lots of discussion on what is going into our bodies, what happens when it is in there and even how it comes out as we explore our digestive system and more in this great learning experience designed by Ms Yick and Mr Toa. In past years I have found the students really enjoy learning about their health and so do I.

Social Studies

I received a great deal of positive feedback regarding the learning journey your child went in our Cultural Studies Unit. Expect to see assessment rubrics coming home within the week. Thanks for your support of the unit and for the time and effort you allowed your child to put into the project and thank you to Mr Power and Mrs Boyer for their many hours of hard work in the research stage.

Let’s enjoy the next 6 weeks before Winter Break 5KP…the time is just going by so quickly…