Ms. Roa's Class 2022/2023

  Our week was a bit hampered due to the smoke (no walk and being stuck inside), however students were very adaptable.  A reminder that cell phones should not be out/visible during school hours.  The first PAT on writing was a success grade 6 students worked hard. The next ones are not until the end of June. We are so proud of their hard work. We hope that the smoke clears up and we are able to do a walk next week on Wednesday morning.  ELA:  students reviewed newspaper writing before the PAT  started poetry and will continue with poetry for the rest of May getting close to finishing Mars Patel podcast: Ask your child what they liked about it? What character they connected with most?  MATH: we continued with probability, experimenting with dice and spinners  Students learned about theoretical and experimental probability  next week we will continue with probabilty and some more experiments SCIENCE: looked at tires  How do scientists analyze tire tracks?  Tire track impressions are ret

Mr. Lang & Mrs. Bonanno had a meeting with all of the grade 5/6 community on Wednesday afternoon to remind students of the expectations of an elementary school. With big class sizes and new students still coming in lunch time and classrooms have been too chaotic lately. There have been many reminders and redirections that have been affecting classroom dynamics. Clear expectations of lunchroom rules were reiterated.  We have been exploring Asian History month by watching videos about different Asian countries and Asian Canadians as well, this will be done throughout the month of May.  On Monday afternoon we met Elder Harley at the pond and learned about the surrounding area and some of the plants (Wolf Fat & Bergamont) that are native to the area.  ELA:   this week the grade 6's did a practice ELA picture prompt PAT online. This will help them for the actual one on May 17th . Grade 5's did the same prompt in a google doc to get the feel for the expectations for next y