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 Welcome to our 2022-2023 agenda/blog. I am so excited share what we are doing in our classroom community through this platform. Each week, myself or a student will update the learning of that week. Sometimes we may include photos, videos and/or student work. Similarly, we'll include important dates, homework and to do items. Looking forward to a great year with you and your child.

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June 9, 2023

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  We took advantage of the beautiful weather and spent time outside journalling with our buddy class. Grade 6 students can do practice PATs on the website  https://questaplus.alberta.ca/app/practice-test-access There is also review material in the Google Classroom under PAT REVIEW. MATH:   in math grade 5's looked at 2D Shapes and did a reflection on our year as a mathematician Grade 6's worked on decimal place value and will be reviewing for the upcoming PAT  it is recommended that students practice calculation skills  SCIENCE: we did an experiment analyzing soil characteristics and will be doing an experiment on analyzing chromatography and then bringing all of the concepts we've learned together in a final project there will be a review test on Friday the 16th or Monday the 19th depending  SOCIAL: Continuing to learn about the Provincial government and their role in Alberta ELA :  Continued with our Multi Genre project. Ask your child which topic and genres they chose. 
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June 2, 2023

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  Even though a short week, it was busy as usual. Had a lovely walk to the hospital on Wednesday afternoon where we wrote 7 Directions poems and sketched.  MATH:   in math grade 5's fnished up with probability and started Shape & Space Grade 6's are finishing up their surveys and had another practice computation PAT. Some students need work on lining their numbers up properly when adding & subtracting. They will be bringing these home if they need to work on things.  SCIENCE: we did an experiment analyzing fabric characteristics SOCIAL: talked about the election results  See our schools results at  https://studentvote.ca/results/district_results/53/7/25 discussed how laws are passed in the Provincial Government  ELA :  continued our work on figurative language and learned a new term (Oxymoron). Ask your child an example of it. In connection to this we wrote some Haiku's  in preparation for the reading PAT we examined & analyzed comics and poems started our Multi
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Friday September 9, 2022

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Welcome to Ms. Roa's grade 5/6 weekly blog. Every Friday a new blog will be posted with some snippets of what we have accomplished in the week. A link to this blog will be posted in your child's Google Classroom (starting next week) and on our school website. You can alternatively bookmark or save the link on your device. I look forward to sharing our learning with you throughout the year.  What a great 6 first days of school! We even had an assembly lead by Mr. Lang and Mrs. Bonnano, it felt great to gather as a whole school community and see everyone in one place.  We took the opportunity to be outside journaling, looking at natural objects. Students were introduced to the journaling strategy "Compass Points" where they reflected on four different feelings. In our art journals, we also practiced upside down drawing which was a good challenge, even for the teacher! We have been building up our stamina in both reading and writing this year. We began the novel "
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