Leaping into March - Feb. 29, 2020

It is hard to believe that February is now over and we are embarking on the last four months of the school year.  We have had many exciting things happen recently and covered a great deal of material, but we still have lots left so we continue to work hard and still have fun.  We are popping into the next four months...

Here are some of the other highlights:

Feb. 21, 2020 - Field trip with the Grade 6 Students.  This field trip took place at the YouthLinks, Calgary Police Interpretive Center and was focused on Crime Scene Investigation techniques and tools (Grade 6 science.)

Feb. 25, 2020 - In Grade 5, we wrapped up our Chemistry topic in Science and we will be moving onto Electricity and Magnetism.  Here is the last experiment we did testing Acids and Bases.

In Social Studies we have been working on some Greek vase designs as we are wrapping up the topic of Democracy in Ancient Athens (Grade 6 Social Studies.)  All students are participating in this task.  The designs are meant to incorporate not only the past (what was in Ancient Greece) but also the future (what we live now.)  This is just an initial sampling:

In ELA, students wrote their own books based on the "Bartholomew and the Oobleck" book by Dr. Seuss.  I will post a few of these soon.  We will try to make time to read some to our classmates once I return them to the students.  We have also started to read our next Novel Study book: Pay it Forward.  We will get the chance to see the movie as well when we are finished. 

For French, we worked on some beautiful menus for our imagined French restaurants.  I will post some pictures of these as well at a later time.

To top it all off this week, we also had some delicious pancakes on Shrove Tuesday.  Thank you to the parent volunteers and the Knights of Columbus for the wonderful, fluffy and absolutely delicious pancakes. 

Happy Leap Year!  

Here's a short video on why we have Leap Years and how they work :)

 

Student Conventions & Happy Valentine's Day - Feb 13, 2020

On Wednesday, the students at our school were treated to a great convention of great presenters.  Our class had the privilege of hosting Constable Moore.  He was quite fun and the students had so many amazing questions.

We also made some Valentine's Day presents.  Hope this does not spoil it for anyone :)).  We did some work too - we worked on our Stories for ELA, had a spelling test and we even did  a skit to learn all about Valentine's Day.  We laughed a lot thanks to many of the students who were really good at playing their part. :)

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY

Latest Raven's Review: Ravens Review February 12.pdf 

Coding Fun - Feb. 13, 2020

While we are participating in Coding Quest, we have also had the privilege of using a variety of other tools for practicing our coding skills and in particular our ability to think like computers do, be able to break down complex problems into simpler ones and not only solving problems as we encounter them but anticipating problems as well.

We first had University of Calgary Minds in Motion teaching us about programming a spherO to travel a predetermined path.  This opportunity helped us review angles in math as well.

We also had a webinar with KidsCode, where we learned how to code Microbits.  Unfortunately, I did not get a lot of photos, but this was really fun and the students were complimented on how quickly they learned how to do the tasks and how to code Microbits.  We even got to keep the Microbits for our class, so we will likely pull these out again to stretch our understanding further.

Students can continue to try their coding at the following site: https://makecode.microbit.org/#