Mundy

 Happy Holidays!!!  We had a very busy and fun-filled week!  We wrapped up our unit in adding and subtracting decimals in math. We wrapped up our Vlog projects for the Climate & Weather research projects. We wrapped up our Regions of Canada paragraphs, too!  We played some festive games in PE, and we celebrated our Read Aloud by watching Out Of My Mind with all the grade 5 classes. Today, we walked to our sit-spots at the storm pond to do some seasonal sketching, and then we went to the Senior home to deliver cards. We got to stay and sing a couple songs as well.  See everyone back here on Jan. 6 :) 

 This year grade 5 students will be given an opportunity to participate in a Science Fair! This is an OPTIONAL project in which most work is completed at home, with some check-ins and support at school.  There are two levels of the Science:  Level 1 : NLS Science Fair  Level 2 : Opportunity to proceed to a Calgary wide Science Fair (judges choose 3 projects to advance to a Calgary-wide Science Fair)  Find more information HERE Students who are interested are able to compete as a single person or a pair.  This break, if you are interested, brainstorm ideas of problems that you would like to try to find answers/solutions for! 

  Important dates: December 17 – SPIRIT DAY: Festive Sweater Day December 18 – School Council Meeting at 6:00 – Please come to have your voice heard on where ~$20000 of Casino Fundraiser money will be spent. The grades two and three teachers will also be presenting. December 19 – Popcorn Day (orders due by December 14 through healthyhunger.ca ) December 20 – SPIRIT DAY: PJ Day December 20 – Last day of classes before Winter Break January 6 – First day of classes after Winter Break Our week at a glance: This week we worked on more adding and subtracting of decimal numbers. We got to go to 5D to complete a scavenger hunt with the other grade 5 students. Math problems were hidden around the room.          We continued with paragraph writing for Social and ELA this week. The students completed one more paragraph with a buddy, this time it was on the Appalachian region of Canada! Did you know that the Appalachian mountains are older than the Rocky Mountains in t...

 Shout outs:  Happy Belated Birthday Kadenza  Happy Early Birthday Pennelope!  Important Dates:  Tuesday Dec. 10: Leadership Application forms due                                        Spirit Day (Festive socks or festive hats day)  Thursday Dec. 12 = Dance Performance 10:00 - 10:35 - Parents are invited to view :)  Highlights this week:  Writing/Social Studies: We completed some research about the Cordillera region of Canada Did you know the Cordillera region is 16% forest? It makes sense that their biggest industry is forestry (lumber and paper)! Parts of the Yukon and Alberta, and all of British Columbia make up this region! It holds MANY National Parks like Jasper, Banff and Yoho!  We are working on turning our research into paragraphs with a friend. Math: We have continued practising addition and subtraction of decimal numb...