ANNOUNCEMENT

Hello parents/guardians, 

  This week the students have a music notes test for Mrs. Jones. They are also practicing their government vocabulary for their government test coming up next Wednesday. They will be getting a study guide this week and students will have a week to prepare for this test. At school we have started to discuss and explore Earth Day (April 22). Please connect with your child to see the learning we have been filling our brains with. 

I will continue to use the homepage to communicate classroom updates, weekly homework, and important dates, so please check on a daily basis.

CONTACT INFORMATION

At this time the best way to get in contact with me is via email jasjit_gill@sd33.bc.ca (8am-3pm) or phone call 604-794-7124 (before or after school, unless an emergency). Any emails to me after 2:45pm will be responded to the following day.

Mrs Jones (Science and Music) - shelley_jones@sd33.bc.ca

Mrs Boersema (Gym) - kimberley_boersema@sd33.bc.ca

If Home Due To Illness or Other Absence (Updated between 2pm-3pm on Mondays)

• Read 30 min. - read a book/magazine, comic, newspaper, etc. each day and tell a parent/guardian what they read. Parent/guardian can ask questions about the reading to ensure their child can comprehend and understand what they had read.
• Spelling words/Sight words- as you wait for your spelling words to come home, each day pick 10 different sight words (list in their planners) and write a sentence for each word. If not sure what the word means then the students can look up the word in a dictionary (https://kids.britannica.com/kids/browse/dictionary)
• Writing- Keep a book to write in each day. They should be writing for a minimum of 30 minutes each day. 
• Math- .Students can continue to practice their division facts and dividing larger numbers with the box method strategy (youtube videos show how to use this strategy) at home. 

**PARENTS/GUARDIANS- Please arrange to pick-up any missed work from their "While You Were Away" folder **

DAILY HOMEWORK (updated daily)    

Monday, April 15

• Read 15 min. 
• Spelling- New words for all groups
• Division Facts
• Gym tomorrow 
• Cereal Drive- PAC is looking for cereal box donations this month

Tuesday, April 16

• Read 15 min. 
• Spelling
• Division Facts
• Music tomorrow- students need to have their recorders at school 
• Music test- students have a notes test for Mrs. Jones
• Cereal Drive- PAC is looking for cereal box donations this month
• Freezies- $1 

Wednesday, April 17

• Read 15 min. 
• Spelling
• Division Facts
• Library tomorrow
• Cereal Drive- PAC is looking for cereal box donations this month
• Freezies- $1 

Thursday, April 18

• Read 15 min
• Spelling test tomorrow
• Division Facts
• Gym tomorrow
• Cereal Drive- PAC is looking for cereal box donations this month

Friday, April 19

• Read 15 min.
• Sight words- lists are in the planner. Students are to pick 5 words that stretch their thinking and practice them with an activity of choice. They have been introduced to various activities to use in class.
• Division Facts
• Cereal Drive- PAC is looking for cereal box donations this month

What Is Happening In Our Classroom?

In April ... 

Math- Students will be continuing to practice various strategies for division facts. Students are working on building their fact fluency for division facts. We have also started to look at different strategies to divide larger numbers (with and without remainders).

Language Arts- The students will continue to practice and learn reading strategies (connecting, visualizing, questioning, inferring, and transforming) while they listen the "Odder" novel (class read aloud). The students will be guided and supported to complete an independent novel study later this term. In writing we will continue to explore paragraph writing. The students will explore writing stories using various strategies and creating poetry books. At the same time, we will continue to learn and practice new spelling patterns that can be used in our reading and writing assignments across the curriculum.

Science- The students are working on the solutions unit with Mrs. Jones.

Socials- The students this term will be briefly looking at Canadian Confederation to transition into the Canadian government unit. 

French-  We will continue practicing at asking and answering questions in French. The students will be engaging in oral and written practice throughout the term.  Also, we will learn and practice communicating likes and dislikes in French. The unit will end with a summative project using the vocabulary learned during the entire school year.

Art/Career/Drama- The students will be engaging in different reader's theatre activities in the classroom this term. This will be time spent getting ready for our  reader's theatre performance that we will be putting together to present in June. We will have lots of opportunities through reader's theatre to learn and practice different dramatic forms.

Social and Personal Responsibilities- This will be ongoing learning throughout the school year. We all have jobs and responsibilities in the classroom and school. These allow us to learn and practice leaderships skills. Also, we will continue to work on adding mindful strategies to keep ourselves calm and learning most of the time. 

Scholastic Book Order- Class Code- RC155520

IMPORTANT DATES 

April 2- School re-opens

April 5- Peace Circle

April 9- Indigenous Art lesson (guest presenter)

April 12- Jeans Day- students can wear Jeans on the is day by donating a minimum $2 (BC Children's Hospital Fundraiser)

April 18- Indigenous Family Dinner

April 19- Casual Friday

April 23- Grade 6 Parent Info Night (6:00pm)

April 24- Grade 5 Bake Sale- fundraiser for our year end trip to Camp Charis

April 26- Pro D Day (NO SCHOOL)

April 30- Swimming Fieldtrip- Jones' and Gill's classes

**We acknowledge that we are privileged to live, learn and play on the unceded, traditional and ancestral territories of the Pilalt, Ts’elxweyeqw, and Sema:th First Nations.**