Ms. Roa's Class 2022/2023

  The 5/6 team would like to share with parents an invitation to a virtual session on  Understanding the Relationship between Social Media and Youth Well-Being, Tuesday May 2, 2023  from  6:30 PM to 8:00 PM.  The link to the Microsoft Teams Event is  here . There is also more information on the University School website about the presentation.  It was a great first week starting our Trickster residency. The students are creating a performance around the theme: How do we care for our land? The prop that we have been using is a crash mat! So much fun. There will be an opportunity to see the performance next Thursday, more information to come from Mr. Lang.  In math , grade 5 students have been exploring volume and measurement and have started planting a garden to help with measurement and graphing later on. Grade 6 students have wrapped up their understanding of angles, polygons and triangles. They are able to measure with a protractor as well as draw their own angles. They created a qui

  Students finished their book clubs on Wednesday and will be working on a project to show their understanding of their novel in both visual and written format. It was great to see our students start and finish a whole novel, have interesting conversations with their peers and challenge themselves to read something different.  In science we have moved onto a new unit of Evidence & Investigation. In this unit students will investigate and learn about a variety of evidence (fingerprint analysis, foot/tire/other prints, soil samples, handwriting analysis, paper chromatography, fabric/hair analysis and DNA) and link it to a possible source, observe human and animal footprints to infer the direction and speed of travel, and identify evidence of human and animal activity outdoors, and make inferences based on the unique characteristics of the evidence observed. We started the podcast The Disappearance of Mars Patel which ties in with our science unit and incorporates listening and com

  It was nice to have everyone back refreshed from spring break, although a short week it was jam packed.  ELA: we planned and started writing our informational essays this week. Published copies will be due next week Book Clubs are almost done, students will be working on a choice project about their books to show their understanding Math: converting decimals to fractions and the reverse has been our focus in math for grade 5 Grade 6 students have been working on algerbra and will be moving to geometry afterwards Science:   We are finishing up our Chemistry unit with having students make 4 short Bill Nye inspired videos to demonstrate their learning of the unit  Social: a continuation of looking at the Canadian Charter as well as beginning to look at local government. This tied into our presentation Wednesday afternoon.  We went on a community walk Wednesday morning and had Councillor Gian Carlo Carra from Ward  9 come in and talk to us about local government.  For Phys Ed, Alien In-