Dear Parents & Guardians,

In weeks with 4 school days, I will update my blog at least twice. 

On weeks with 5 school days there will be a minimum of three blog messages.

In class, we are continuing our work around our school's Five Pillars of Care.

Care for Self

Care for Others

Care for Place

Care for Learning

5th Pillar (This month's theme is Respect).

In groups, students have brainstormed examples for each of the Traits and created a Pillar for

our DL -Board outside the classroom. This work is part of the Health and Life Skills curriculum.

Each month students demonstrating the values will receive an award at our school assembly. For now, 

these assemblies continue to be virtual only.

In math, students wrote a short 30 questions math test named the MIPI. This test will determine their entry level of understanding for grade six. Our first math unit, is place value paired with adding and subtracting whole and decimal numbers.

In LA, we continued our review of nouns and added adjectives to the mix. 

There will be a short check-in tomorrow to see where students are at in regards to understanding the main word classes of English (e.g.  nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, articles, pronouns, prepositions).

With our federal elections coming up on September 20th, we will be participating in the Student Vote. 

This is a mock vote to teach students about the process of forming a government and learn about the

responsibility each citizen has to cast their vote mindfully. Government is the focus of grade 6 in social

 studies.