Dat e

Event

January 6

Early Dismissal

January 14

John Howard Society guest speaker

January 15-16

Boys Basketball Tournament

January 22

Klondike Ragtime Show

January 22-23

Girls Basketball Tournament

January 25

Mental Health Activity Afternoon

January 26

Assembly Book Character dress up day

January 29

PD Day - No School

February 3

Early Dismissal Winter Survival Toque Day

5H JANUARY NEWSLETTER

basic facts each day. Ten minutes of practice on XtraMath and completing their Problems of the Week are daily practice items for students. Reviewing previously learned concepts, such as multiplication and division is also beneficial. Science -Electr icity

Welcome back to the 2016 portion of our school year! We ended 2015 with a bang! Students in 5H were in the spirit of giving and contributed to the 5 Days of Christmas campaign, organized by our grade 6 classes. We enjoyed a day at Fred John's park building our teamwork skills. Finally, 5H entertained our school community on the Christmas concert! Here is a quick update on what we are doing and what you can expect in the upcoming weeks! EL A - Tr ickster Tales We finished up our Bridge to Terabithia Novel Study before the winter break. Currently, we are studying Trickster Tales. Students have a new collection of stories from all over the world. They will be using their reading comprehension strategies to read Trickster Tales and will being writing a tale of their own in the next week. Students should be practicing their

spelling words at home each night for our weekly spelling tests. All spelling lists (including dates each Unit is studied) can be found at http://www.spellingcity.com/ahubenig. M ath - Tr ansfor mations We are close to finishing our transformations unit and will be moving back into our numeracy strand with the study of decimal numbers and equivalent fractions. Students should be working on their

Our Electricity Unit has passed the halfway point. We are close to finishing the teaching and demonstration portion of our Science Unit and will be moving into the hands-on, project-based portion soon. Save the Date - February 26 will be our 2nd Annual Toy Fair where students will develop a prototype toy using their knowledge of electricity to put on display! Social -The Stor ies of Canada Students are just starting to learn about the events that took place as Europeans started coming to Canada. We will be doing many interactive, inquiry based tasks throughout this unit.