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Week of May 29 – June 2, 2023
Hello Grade Five Families! I hope that you all had a wonderful weekend in this beautiful weather! Today, as we celebrate the Feast of Pentecost, I love Fr. Nick Meisl’s words, “At [...]
Week of May 22 – 26, 2023
Hello Grade Five Families! I hope that you are all having a fun long weekend! At last Wednesday’s Assembly we celebrated both the Crowning of Mary and Fr. Felix. I would like to thank the Grade [...]
Week of May 15 – 19, 2023
Hello Grade Five Families! Happy Mother’s Day to all of the wonderful Grade 5 moms! May your day be filled with love and joy! We hope that you can join us on Wednesday for our Assembly which [...]
Week of May 8 – 12, 2023
Hello Grade Five Families! Tomorrow we will have our annual track meet at Minoru Track with St. Joseph the Worker School. Please read Mr. Kelly’s two blog posts about the event for detailed [...]
Week of May 1 – 5, 2023
Hello Grade Five Families! I hope that you were all able to spend time outside and enjoy the beautiful weather this weekend! As we begin the month of May, dedicated to Mary, please send in a rosary [...]
Week of April 24 – 28, 2023
Hello Grade Five Families! It was wonderful to see everyone at the Student-Led Conferences on Friday and watch the students show you some of what they are learning and exploring right now in Grade 5. [...]
Week of April 17 – 21, 2023
Hello Grade Five Families! Today we celebrate the Second Sunday of Easter – Divine Mercy Sunday! Thank-you to everyone who already signed-up for the Student-Led Conferences on Friday. For those [...]
May
Areas of Study: comparing the Early Church and the current Church our role in the mission of the Church to spread the Good News of Jesus Open Parachute = “Perseverance, Goal-Setting and Overcoming Anxious Patterns” perspective taking on the use of natural resources in British Columbia the human body and how organ systems interact with […]
April
Areas of Study: reflections on Holy Week vocations (priesthood, religious life, married life, single life) Open Parachute = “Perseverance and Goal-Setting” First Nations in Canada (residential schools, treaty agreements, government) the human body and how organ systems interact with each other and the environment multiplying and dividing two and three digit numbers describing/classifying quadrilaterals solving […]
February
Areas of Study: the Paschal Mystery and the Mass (until Ash Wednesday) Open Parachute = “Anger, Family Violence, and Creating Systems of Support” immigration and citizenship the human body and how organ systems interact with each other and the environment whole numbers to 1,000,000 (expanded notation, computation, rounding etc.) and moving onto multiplying and dividing […]
January
Areas of Study: the Paschal Mystery and the Mass Open Parachute = “Bullying and Addictive Behaviours” immigration and citizenship finishing some learning about simple machines beginning our learning about the human body whole numbers to 1,000,000 (expanded notation, computation, rounding etc.) novel study = “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (figurative language, vocabulary development, character study, […]
December
Areas of Study: Advent whole numbers to one million (to be continued in January) opinion paragraph writing the electoral process (as explored through our class pet project) federal government simple machines (ending with a closing project to build a marshmallow launcher for their Grade One buddy) Supporting Learning at Home: spelling will resume in January […]
November
Areas of Study: saints and the process of canonization review of the liturgical seasons as we prepare for and begin the season of Advent Open Parachute ~ worries and resilience spelling and word morphology paragraph writing ~ opinion, informative, and narrative whole numbers ~ to 1,000,000, estimation, estimation strategies to add, place value the structure […]
October
Areas of Study the rosary our relationship with God through creation and signs of God’s presence problem-solving and decision making strategies using RACES (restate/answer/cite/elaborate/summarize) as a guide for answering questions in a paragraph using personal experience and knowledge to make and elaborate on personal, text, and global connections to the morals in fables the roles […]
September
Hello! As I mentioned at “Meet the Teacher Night” this is a modified/less detailed version of how the curriculum and homework for each month will be shared. At this time, homework is meant as an opportunity for the students to gather or expand their knowledge of topics that we at exploring at school. Areas of […]