January 24th

ELA: Students had to write scripts that were adapted from the short story, Ms. Awful.  The scenes are now cast and the students are busy working on their representation skills through acting.  Their performance in class time is on Tuesday, January 28th. 

FLA:

This week in FLA we finished our super-hero project. Some students are not done and have to finish it at home, I will collect them on Monday. We also continued Le Petit Prince. Next week, we will start learning the proper structure of a text (introduction, development and conclusion) and how to build a paragraph. We will also continue to improve our sentence structure and our knowledge on adjectives, nouns and adverbs.

Social Studies:

This week in Social we studied and got ready for our quiz on The Canadian Shield, had our quiz (marks on PowerSchool) and started to read the story of Pocahontas. Next week, we will finish the Disney version of the story and learn about the real story of Pocahontas. We will also be stating the chapter on The Interior Plaines.

Science
We finished our unit on Weather. The marks for the unit test are posted in Power School. Our new unit is on Chemistry. Next week, we will start talking about matter and the states of matter: gas, liquid and solid.

Math 5- Poirier

We are starting the unit of fractions in Math this coming week.  Your child will compare fractions with like and unlike denominators. 

You can do related activities at home and/or have your child involved in recipe and cooking.

See Alberta curriculum and expectations for fractions: https://www.learnalberta.ca/content/mychildslearning/grade5.html#3

There are the Math homework from Jan 27th – Jan 31th:

Lundi:       p. 168 # 1-2

Mardi:      p.169 # 5-6

Mercredi: p. 169 # 8-9

Jeudi:        p. 169 #10 and p. 172 #2

Vendredi:  Pas de devoir

SS - Study guide answers

Study guide - answers

January 17th

Social:

This week in Social we finished notes on The Canadian Shield and we started to study for ou quiz. The quiz will be next week on Wednesday, January 22nd. 

FLA:

This week in FLA we started to work on adjectives, we went to the library and we started a little project in which student have to create a superhero. Next week, we will continue working on the adjectives, the sentence structure and Le Petit Prince.


Science:
We are finishing up our Weather unit with presentations about climate. There will be a unit test on Thursday, January 23.  We will practice in class next week but students should bring their notes home to study next week. Here is a guide to help students prepare adequately.

MATH: 

Student have to review (Aire-Perimetre-Volume) as they are having a test Monday January 20th.  They received a sheet to complete over the weekend (review sheet).

There are the Math homework from Jan 20th – Jan 24th:

Lundi:       p. 153 # 2-3

Mardi:      p.154 # 5-6-7

Mercredi: p. 154 # 8-9

Jeudi:        p. 159 # 13-14-15

Vendredi:  Pas de devoir

January 7-10, 2020

Science:
We are learning about climates. We will start a short group project next week. We will then conclude our unit on Weather with a test during the week of January 20.

FLA:
This week in FLA we continued Le Petit Prince, we did a listening comprehension and worked on improving our writing of basic sentence and how to build them. Next week, we will continue to work on the structure of a proper French sentence and we will start to learn about adjectives.

Social Studies: 
This week in Social Studies we continued our notes on The Canadian Shield. We will finish this chapter next week.

Math 5- Poirier

We are finishing the unit of measurement (aire- Perimetre -Volume). 

Students will have a Math Test on Monday, January 20^th 2020.  This is what is on that Unit test:

-Mesurer des objets en cm, mm, dm, m

-Trouver combien les équivalences ( mm-m / cm-mm/ m-mm/etc…)

-calculer le périmètre et l’aire d’un rectangle

-Estimer des mesures

-Connaitre les abréviations (V=Volume, L=longueur, l= largeur, A= aire, P=périmètre, h=hauteur)

-Connaitre la règle pour calculer le volume ( V=L x l x h)  , Aire (A=L x l) et périmètre (+ tous les cotes)

-Problèmes à résoudre sur l’aire, le périmètre et le volume.

There are the Math homework from Jan 13th – Jan 17th:

Lundi:       p. 144 # 5-6

Mardi:       p.147 # 2-3-4

Mercredi:  p. 147 # 5  149 # 1-2

Jeudi:         p. 149 # 3-4

Vendredi:  Pas de devoir

December 19th

Social
This week in Social we continued learning about the Canadian Shield. We will continue this region after the winter break.

FLA
This week in FLA we finished our noun quiz, we played a little French game about nouns, verbs and French expressions and we watched the movie Pour toujours, les Canadiens. During the viewing, students had comprehension questions to answer (marks on PowerSchool). After the break, we will start working on the sentence structure and how to bring our writing from basic sentences to good sentences. We will also continue reading Le Petit Prince.

ELA
Students viewed the movie version of Bridge to Terabithia and discussed the differences from the book and evaluated whether the differences impacted the story or not.  Students that did not hand in their final project, need to complete it over the holidays.

MATH 

BONNE ANNEE 2020!
😊😃🎆🎇🎉😊😃

In January, we will continue calculating ‘’VOLUME’’. There are the homework for the first week of January (January 7th to January 10th):

Tuesday (Jan 7th):         p. 140 # 1-2-3 

Wednesday (Jan 8th):    p. 141 # 6-8-9 

Thursday (Jan 9th):       p. 143  # 1-2 

Friday (Jan 10th):          No Homework

December 13

ELA
Final project for Bridge to Terabithia is now due Monday.
Since students needed more time to complete projects, we had to postpone watching the movie to Monday and Tuesday next week.  Students are welcome to bring snacks for themselves or to share on those days.  Students that are not done their final project by Monday will have to complete their project instead of watching the movie.

FLA:
This week in FLA we worked on the noun and we had a quiz on Thursday. Some students will have to finish their quiz on Monday, we'll do a listening comprehension and some activities after.

Social:
This week in Social we presented our research to the class. You can see the marks are in PowerSchool, some students need to give me their paper version. We also started to work on our third Canadian region and we will keep learning about it next week.

Science:
We will use our last period on Thursday morning to play games. Students are welcome to bring a board game from home and a special snack on that day (nut-free please).

Math 5- Poirier

There are the Math homework from Dec 16th – Dec 19th:

Lundi:       p. 134 #5-6

Mardi:       p.137 # 1-2

Mercredi:  p. 137 # 3-4

Jeudi:        Joyeux Noel

Vendredi:  Pas de devoir

December 6th

Social
This week in social we completed our project and we will present it next week. All students need to be ready to present on Monday. Their presentations are in Google Slide. Next week, after presentations, we will start learning about our 3rd Canadian Region, the Canadian Shield.

FLA
This week in FLA we did our first reading comprehension, marks are in PowerSchool. And we worked on the noun. We will have our quiz on this subject on Thursday, December 12th. They can use this website to work on feminine or masculine & singular or plural. The need to be able to find all nouns in a sentence, change the sentence from masculine to feminine or from singular to plural. They will also have to write basic sentences with nouns in them and identify them. Over the weekend, they have to complete pages 1 to 4 in this document. Pages 1-3 should be done as we corrected them in class.

The song next week is Alors on danse de Stromae and the lyrics are here.

Next week, we will continue to work on the noun to be ready for our quiz on Thursday. We won't go to the library that week,. We will wait the week before Winter Break, so they all have a French book to bring home during the break.

ELA:
Students have started their final project for Bridge to Terabithia.  We will work on it till Wednesday and watch the movie Thursday and Friday.  Students that are not done project by Thursday, will have to complete it while watching the movie.

Math:
We will begin "aire"(area) and "perimetre"(perimeter) numbers in Math this week.

There are the Math homework from Dec 9th – Dec 13th:

Lundi:        p.129-130 # 1-2-3

Mardi:        p.130 # 4-5-6

Mercredi:   p.133-134 # 1-2

Jeudi:         p.134 # 3-4

Vendredi:  Pas de devoir

Science:
We had the chance to have meteorologist Jordan Witzel from Global come and speak to our students on Tuesday afternoon. We learned about how to forecast weather and about climate change. Thank you for your time Mr. Witzel!

Scholastics will be coming home on Monday. Those of you who want to make a purchase have to do it through scholastic.ca/canadaclubs
Parents pick a free book (worth $7 or less) when you spend $30 or more online. Coupon Code: CLIFFORD.

Thank you,
Mme Richard