Newsletter March 19 - 23

Weekly Newsletter Grade 5
Dates: March 19-23         


Dear Parents,

Curriculum Information for this Week:

Literacy: Students continue to learn about Social Issues and Human Rights through historical fiction, biography and autobiography texts. We will focus on Informational text throughout this unit.  Students will revisit informational and opinion writing in this unit.

Math: The students will begin the unit titled Order of Operations. We have been practicing this skill using daily warm ups, so they are familiar with these skills. Students will evaluate how to use numerical expressions with parentheses, brackets and braces.  They will explain how to use these symbols in order to identify, write and describe simple numerical expressions.

Unit of Study: We have started our Social Change unit by tuning in to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights as well as looking at the UN Sustainable Development Goals.


**Both the reading and writing units are very high interest for the students as we begin to explore social issues in the world and talk about what WE can do as change makers in our own community.

UDHR video (Universal Declaration of Human Rights)-Video
(A Call for Action)-Video

There are also lists of books in the library that will support conversations with your child about social issues and how THEY can be advocates.  Just ask Mrs. Suji our librarian and she will be happy to help!


For more information and ways to support your child please visit the Parent Learning Connection page.

Important Reminders/Information: (also see GLC Updates)
Tuesday, March 20-Body Changes Talk
Friday, March 23-Terry Fox Run-wear your Terry Fox shirt or Pink to support the cause
Break-March 24-April 2

Highlight last week:
Track and Field day was a day of celebration.  What joy to see students doing their personal best, smiling and cheering on classmates.

Newsletter March 5- March 9th

Weekly Newsletter Grade 5

Dates: March 5-9             

Dear Parents,

Curriculum Information for this Week:

Literacy: Grade 5 students will be celebrating their writing by sharing it with other classes.  Check out the flipgrid to hear some blurbs from their writing.  They will be finishing up their fantasy book clubs and taking end of unit reading assessment.  Next week will be the writing assessment.

Math: The students continue working on Unit 5: Multiplying & Dividing Fractions. The focus continues to be on conceptual understanding of these skills using a variety of manipulatives and also drawing models to show their thinking.

Unit of Study:  As we move from our science unit to our social studies unit, we will be using our unit of study time to prepare for parent conferences.

For more information and ways to support your child please visit the Parent Learning Connection page.

Important Reminders/Information: (also see GLC Updates)
March 7 & 8 - Parent Conferences
March 9 - MS will be visiting our students to begin the transition process. This meeting will be an introduction.  More information will follow.

Highlight last week:
Book Week was wonderful with many activities.
We also had a great science share to end the Human Body Unit.  You will see these at parent conferences!