Sports Day!

Sports Day was fabulous this year! Everyone had a great time and in our class, the children beat the adults ion tug-o-war. We participated in 8 super fun activities which got us jumping, throwing and running just to name a few. We don't know which house won yet, but there were great performances by learners in every team!
Here are some pictures Mr. Lowe took of the events...

 

We Love the Library!

Our library visit is every Friday and we just love the time to sit quietly and read for enjoyment our favorite books or to have Mr Shaun's help in discovering something new. Reading is such an important skill because it helps us to be lifelong learners, finding out information when we want on any number of topics! Some of us enjoy reading magazines, novels, graphic novels or nonfiction. What is your favorite book?

Learning to Blog

This year's group of Year 5s are learning to blog, many for the first time. Blogging is a great way to share our learning and to investigate the world around us. It helps to create connectons with new friends and extend our opportunities for learning.

To begin with though, we are looking at what makes a great comment. So, we've begun by creating paper blog posts about our holidays. We'll then be commenting on the posts using postit notes.
We've already covered the guidelines about what makes a great blog comment, which are:

1. Thank the writer for sharing their post.
2. Read the post carefully and try to find a connection with the writer or the post.
3. Always make sure you add to the conversation, by contributing what you know about the topic.
4. Ask the writer a question about the topic.
5. Edit your work carefully for spelling, punctuation and grammar.
6. End your comment with a thank you.
7. Write your first name
8. Click publish.

We've started our journey! :)

What other advice would you give for a good comment?
Do you have a class blog you'd like us to visit?

 

Out of My Mind by Sharon Draper

This week, Year 5 began reading the story of Melody, a girl who is wheelchair-bound with Cerebral Palsy, as part of our Unit of Inquiry. The Central Idea being "People have unique ways to express their feelings."

We are really enjoying the story so far and have just finished chapter 3!

 

This week in Year 5 06.12.13

This Week's Reflection (06.12.13)

This week in Year 5 we did lots of fun activities!

In P.E. we learn't how to do the scissor kick and the fozzbery flop. To do the scissor kick, you find you're stong leg. Then you run in a curved direction and jump on the strong leg and make you're legs kick like scissors. The flop is easy because all you do is run in a curved direction stay on your weak leg and spin, jump and flop onto the mattress. It was so much fun!

 In math we did fractions with unlike and like denominators. It's easy, all you do for unlike fractions is like when you subtract fractions, multiply the denominator and then do it on the opposite sides! With the like denominator its just the regular adding or subtracting. You just work out the numerators. It was challenging but interesting.

In UOI (our unit of inquiry) we created our own legends and made posters showing the features of a legend and fable. The features for a fable are that there is a moral, the animals usually talk and act like himans. In a legend, they usually have some truth or are started with something which really happened, it is easy to remember and repeat, set in the olden times, and usually has at least one human in. It was really cool because we could use our imagination to make the posters funky! 

When we did swimming we learn't that the dolphin kick also known as the mermaid kick (feet) is used in butterfly. We learn't how to do the swim properly and how to use the arm pull to help us breathe. We used the froggy swim arm pull. Our swim teacher made a funny way to remember the froggy swim arm pull; open the box, make the pizza, eat it (breath) and cut it in half. It is really cool remembering the weird arm pull.

In French, we were working on translating verbs. It was challenging but we succeeded! In Mandarin we were working on our speeches for the Chinese New Year Assembly.

By E. 

We're Baaack!

After a very long wait, our class blog is finally back online! Hurray!

Our children have been learning about fables, folklore, legends and myths which is also connected to our current Unit of Inquiry. As a result, some of our children created these fabulous posters which include their own fables and legends and the key features of each.

Here are some samples, enjoy! Please let the children know what you think by leaving a comment.