Ms. Roa's Class 2022/2023

  Another busy week leading up to our last week before winter break. In Science, we reviewed how seasons are created by the earths tilt, as well as learned the different phases of the moon. Students practiced retrieval skills of the phases through different activities. They culminated their knowledge by making the phases with Microbits and/or scratch.  In Social students are learning about the different important places in Ancient Athens & are exploring some Greek Mythology through readers theatre.  Students have been working space & shape in Math & some review of multiplication & division.  We had buddies this week where we helped our grade 1/2’s with accessing Minecraft, went on a community walk, building our stamina of walking longer distances & had a winter read aloud with Mrs. Smith. Thank you to all parents who have signed up for our open Mids field trip on January 23-26th. We still have a few spots available. Here’s the link to sign up  https://www.signupge

Here is the link to our volunteer sign up for Arts Commons field trip in January. We are still in need of parent volunteers with police clearance. Please sign up if you can.  https://m.signupgenius.com/#!/showSignUp/60b0b49aeae29a5f85-arts  

  This week was our student teacher Ms. Brown's last week. We have been so grateful to have her in our class and be a part of the interesting work that she has been doing with us.  In math we practiced our multiplication with another 5 minute frenzy on Friday. There are still a lot of students in grade 5 & 6 who can practice their multiplication at home. Here are two links that may be helpful: https://www.math-drills.com/multiplication/multiplication_five_minute_frenzy_right1_0212_001.php and https://mathigon.org/multiply (this one you can change the difficulty by selecting the ? mark). We tried the skyscraper puzzle to work on our visual spacial skills.   It was Code Canada week, in grade 5 math we worked with Microbits ( is  a pocket-sized computer that introduces you to how software and hardware work together . It has an LED light display, buttons, sensors and many input/output features that, when programmed, let it interact with you and your world). Students went through s

Thank you parents for taking the opportunity to speak with me regarding your child's learning during conferences and other meetings. I always love celebrating the process each student makes. During this extra cold week we have: learned about the Earth's rotation and made sundail's  Started exploring the phases of the moon. Each student has been given a moon tracking sheet to be completed at home for homework daily between now and winter break learned about how the citizens in Ancient Athens participated in decision making had an opportunity to free write now that we have finished our fractured fairy tales unit began looking at sugar in terms of our health and learning about free/natural sugars continued developing our multiplying and dividing skills, applying to word problems had a combined 5/6 math with all 3 classes to explore the Collatz Conjecture on Jersey day it was so nice to see so many kids wearing differnt jersey's and red for Canada, we watched some of