Message from Mdm Carragher:

Parents of Grade 5/6,  

In your child's FSL class, we have been corresponding with a class in Chalon-sur-Saone, France in (eastern France, south of  Dijon).  Each student has a pen pal from that class and we have written back and forth at least 4-5 times this year.  All emails have been sent from the teacher's email, never the students.  

Their teacher, Mme Lesouder, has asked if  some of our students would like to continue the correspondence by personal mail/email over the summer and on.  If you would like to do this, please email me or contact me for more information.  

Mme Carragher

Upcoming Event: Swimming!

Swim Lessons Coming Soon!

Parents- our class is booked into Red Cross Swim lessons at Aqua Fit the following dates:

• Monday, April 4 (First day back after Spring Break)
• Tuesday, April 5
• Thursday, April 7
• Friday, April 8
• Monday, April 11

Your child will bring home permission forms on Thursday, March 3rd.  

Please return forms signed by Monday, March 21st.  

Payment is $44.00, which can be paid: 

• through our Online ACORN/Powerschool
• or by cash 
• or cheque

Valentine's Day

Valentine's Day Fun:  February 12, 2016

On Friday, February 12th, our class will have some fun with Valentine's Day.

• Students may wear pajamas all day.
• Students may bring treats for the afternoon fun time. (This is not required!)
• Students may bring Valentine cards for the whole class. (This is not required!)

Here is a list of students in our classroom:

	Marissa
Sarah	Sargam
Hannah	Dara
Jared	Matthew
Ethan	Maxwell
Fawwaz	Samantha
Bella	Xavier
Athena	Tanner
Maia	Sahib
Presley	Muskan
Regan	Cameron
Alexander	Brooklyn
	Maximus

Island of the Blue Dolphins, By Scott O'Dell

February 1st- Book Handout.  Students have adopted a novel and are tasked with the responsibility of keeping the book safe from damage, and to use the book to gain some important understandings. 

Two Big Tasks:

1:  How is humanity affected by the actions of others and by ourselves?  How can humanity overcome adversity and teach us important lessons about ourselves?

2:  How can studying vocabulary from this novel help me grow as a reader and consumer of literature?

Important Dates:  

Due February 13

• Part 1 Chapters 1-9. Pg. 1-58 (58 pages)

Due February 26

• Part 2 Chapters 10-19 (65 pages)

Due March 11

• Part 3 Chapters 20-29 (56 pages)

Students are encouraged to make a reading plan in their agenda, to help them manage the chapters that have been assigned.

Students will be asked to complete Vocabulary Previews before they read. They are to self-manage this task and ensure that all previews are completed.

Students will also be asked to complete certain Chapter Vocabulary Activities. Not all students will complete the same assignments, they will be given according to student need.

If Governments Disappeared

Welcome to January!  In Social Studies we are beginning our look at provincial and local governments, and how where a person lives affects the kinds of services they might require from their governments.

January 5th  
We began our unit with this question:

If our governments disappeared overnight, would your life be better or worse?

Your child will come home with this question for you to consider together.  They will share some of their thinking from class, and get your opinion to add to our class discussion. Thank you for your participation and your thoughts on this topic. 

  

A Message From French Class

Mme Carragher's Christmas Letters:

Bonjour Parents.  

In your child's FSL class, we have connected with an elementary school in Givry, France to exchange emails with their students.  Each student here has a student in Mme LeSouder's class in College Le Petit Pretan and we practice writing in our second languages. We have received two emails from them and we have written one letter to them.  The students are learning about cultural traditions and daily life in France and we are sharing ours as well.  

To ensure PRIVACY, ALL student emails go through the teachers and no personal information is revealed from OUR end.  I have advised students that no personal email addresses, last names or photos can be sent.  We have located the school and Givry, France using Google maps and Google Earth and have noticed how small France is compared to the grandeur of Canada.  If you are interested, please ask your child to look on his Gmail account to see the correspondences. 

Please let me know if you have any concerns, comments or questions. 

Joyeux Noel et Vive la compagnie!

Mme Carragher 

Better Late than Never!

Here are a few pictures from Mr Patrick that didn't get to the blog but should have. 

The class in September.  

Halloween Festivities. 

Halloween Jedi Teachers

Remembrance Day Celebration

Science Balloon Launch!

Movember Mustache Mayhem

Preparing for the Christmas Concert

Mayday! Mayday! Flying Airplanes across the Flex Space all for the sake of Science!

Book Fair Leaders

Book Fair Leaders

After a suggestion from Mr. Trueman that  each grade group would get to choose 2 books for our classroom library, Matthew and Alex took the challenge and the leadership role of collecting titles suggested by their peers.

The students then voted on their top 2 choices for each grade.  Here are our Book Fair leaders with the bounty they helped to organize and choose.

Grade 5 Titles: 

• 50 Things You Should Know about the Second World War
• My Friend, the Enemy

Grade 6 Titles: 

• Regenesis
• The Babysitter''s Club Graphic Novel

Parents, if you have any youth novels around your home that may need a new home, our class library is always looking for donations, be it chapter books, non-fiction books, comics, and graphic novels, to name a few!

Social Quiz Home Reflection

Social 5 Landform/Quality of Life Quiz Home Reflection

or

Social 6 Democracy Quiz Home Reflection

Look for your child's quiz, along with a request for student reflection Wednesday, December 9th!  

Please review the Social Studies Quiz Home Reflection (Grade 5 and Grade 6 versions are in this link) with your son or daughter.  I have encouraged them to bring their quiz and all support documents home so you could examine and discuss their results with them.

Please check into Powerschool to see your son or daughter’s mark, along with a comment for them about their results.  

Students have until Monday, December 14th to return their responses to the quiz.

Grade 5 parent/ guardians: you will also see another assignment listed, a targeted list of spelling terms taken from their quiz, which your child will use as a basis for improving their personal spelling strategies.  

December 7-11

EDMS Parent Newsletter for December

Here is a run-down of our important events this week:

Monday-Thursday

Scholastic Book Fair in the Library.  

Students can visit the Book Fair all week.  Parents are welcome to drop by.  Evening visits Wednesday and Thursday 6:30-7:30 (during Christmas Concert evenings) 

Tuesday

Social Studies Charter Superhero assignment is due.  

Coming this holiday season to a Christmas tree near you... the NEWEST, Most AMAZING SUPERHERO yet...

The “Charter of Rights & Freedoms” Action Hero-

Defender of Canada’s Democracy

Task: Create a superhero for our Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Be sure to explain:

• Your superhero’s name and origin story. (How is their origin connected to the Charter rights they protect?)

• What 2 rights does your Superhero guarantee to protect? (Yes, you can protect more than two.)

• What specific superpowers help your Superhero defend these 2 Charter rights?

• Who is your superhero’s arch nemesis and how does this villain meddle with the Charter?

• Batman has Robin. Wonder Woman has Wondergirl.  Your Charter superhero has what sidekick?  
• Who helps your hero to defend the Charter? Make them into a sidekick for your superhero.  
• How do they help defend the Charter?

See Mr. Trueman if you need more time.
Please make sure you have both the Self Assessment and the Peer Assessment completed.

Thursday

Christmas Concert for 5/6 

Our class poem: 

The Decoration of Sam, the Tree

Our class's performance is Thursday evening.  Here is the complete schedule:

Social Quiz

Social Quiz: Tuesday, December 1st

Here are study notes to help students prepare for their quiz next Tuesday, December 1st.  

Social Studies 6- Democracy Quiz

To assist you in studying for your upcoming quiz, here are some important things to consider:

• I know how to explain each of the following terms:
• consensus
• direct democracy
• equality
• equity
• freedom
• justice
• participation
• representation
• representative democracy
• responsibilities
• rights
• voting

• I know how to explain examples of these terms.

• I can identify and explain examples of the 4 pillars of democracy.

• I know how the Charter of Rights and Freedoms protects Canadian citizens.

• I know how the Charter is protected from any one group making changes to it.

• I understand the difference between direct democracy and representative democracy.

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Social Studies 5- Regions and Quality of Life Quiz

To assist you in studying for your upcoming quiz, here are some important things to consider:

Part One:

• I know how to explain each of the following terms:
• physical characteristics
• landforms
• climate
• weather
• resources
• non-renewable resources
• renewable resources
• communities
• employment
• quality of life

• I can identify examples of these terms in our region.

Part Two:

You will compare two different regions and determine which would have the best quality of life for a new Canadian.
GET TO KNOW OUR NEW CANADIAN! Familiarize yourself with Nafeesa, an immigrant coming to Canada. You will choose a region for her to live, based on her wants and needs.

• I can analyze how much a person’s quality of life is impacted by where they live.
• I can make a decision and support it with information gathered, to answer a research question

I Am What I Eat

Health- Food Tracking Part 2: Graphing My Food
Due December 2nd

Students are asked to graph the food and drink they recorded on the sheet "I Yam What I Yam" (see below).  They have one graph to complete for each of the four food groups.  These graphs are due next week, Wednesday, December 2. 

Here is a sample graph to follow.  Ensure that each graph is labeled neatly and appropriately. 

Health- Food Tracking Due November 25th. 

Students were asked to record all of the food and drink they consume in any three days in the upcoming week.

What do you eat and drink each day?  Do you think you eat mostly healthy foods?  Let’s find out!

Record all the food and drinks you consume for three days.  

Write down everything!  Also record if you consumed a small, medium, or large serving of that food or drink.

Record the portion size behind each:              Large    Medium   Small

                              

example:

What's Up? November 16-20

What's Up? November 16-20

Language Arts

Use worksheet "Feelings, Emotion and Mood II"  Due Thursday

Task: Complete the last question which asks: 

Write several sentences that describe the face that you drew for Part D so well that anyone who reads them can tell what the person was feeling. Do not use any emotion words that were already in the 
sentence. 

Example: Sentence #5:

5. A furious teenager is walking toward a bedroom after being grounded.

Minimum 3 new sentences to add to the feelings, emotions and mood:  

His hands were clenched tight.  His body shook with anger. His nostrils flared as he breathed.  

What's Up? November 9-10 Week

What's Up? November 9-10 Week

Tuesday: 

Language Arts:  

• Any student planning on revising and improving their Newspaper Articles, they are due Tuesday.   
• Please hand in your newly revised copy, as well as your original work and marking rubric to Mr. Trueman. 

Social Studies 

Written Response on Democracy is due Tuesday. 

Students will peer edit and revise prior to handing in for marks.  

Writing Rubric for Social:

Mathematics 

Quiz Tuesday: 

• Grade 5- Multiplication and Division
• Grade 6- Order of Operations and Decimals

Wednesday:

No School- Remembrance Day 

Thursday-Friday

No School- Fall Break

Enjoy the break from routine- with an extended weekend.