Dear Parents,
We have had another fun and productive week in Grade 5 filled with Poetry, Perimeter and Pasta 🙂 ( your child will explain what I mean about the pasta ).
In literacy we have enjoyed starting the Global Read Aloud connections, we read the first 5 chapters of ‘The Fourteenth Goldfish’, then ‘blogged’ our thoughts, and today we have skyped a class in Akron, Ohio. We discussed the book, our thoughts and predictions. The class also enjoyed hearing about fall leaves, ice skating and snow 🙂
In numeracy we continued on with Measurement – finding and measuring area. This week the class learned about 3D shapes with our guest teacher Ms. Babb.
In Science we have studied classifying living things. Today we have completed an experiment to see how the backbone is structured in vertebrates.
Please ask your child the following questions –
1. What did you discuss about the class novel with the class in Akron ?
2. What is a face of a shape ? What is a vertex ?
3. How many faces does a rectangular prism have ?
I look forward to meeting with you next week during the mid-term conferences,
Thank you as always for your cooperation in the education of your child.