5C at Northern Lights School

 Hello NLS Families, Today we: did our morning meeting did our word work practiced serving for badminton in gym class practiced math games, factors, multiples and prime and composite numbers read a book called "I'm trying to love math" did reading and literacy centres  did a science reflection began to write a descriptive paragraph about our favourite place in the world. 

Hello! Hope everyone had a great weekend. Today we: had our morning meeting did our word work played a doubling game in math and continued to practice factors, multiples, and prime/composite numbers did reading, reading groups and literacy centres did a survey to see how the grade 5 classes at NLS were doing (we did this on the computer) continued our discussion about reversible and irreversible changes as well as review about what acids/neutrals/bases are and the PH scale did drumming in music class!

Hello NLS Families! Happy Friday. Hope everyone has a great weekend. Today we: had our morning meeting did our word work/small group work practiced our basic facts and practiced multiplication facts did reading and literacy games were introduced to our new "Reading Response Journals" which we will begin next week (will be done as an option during literacy centres time and due every other week)  did our final observations on the borax crystals we made - though students began to ask interesting questions/making connections to previous science experiments (solution to recovery from last week)-- so we created an experiment on our own (will this evaporate or change back to borax and water?)  we will report back next week! See photos below. Hope you all have a great weekend! 

 Hello! Today we: had our morning meeting did word work practiced our basic facts in math and played a basic facts math game continued to learn about factors, multiples, prime and composite numbers did literacy centres and read to self did another science experiment (testing the PH of liquids) continued to work on our paragraph writing had another great conversation with Mrs. Brinson about how to problem solve during tough situations, how to read body language, and overall discussing how it feels to make good vs unkind choices. 

Hello! Hope you had a great Wednesday.  Today we: did our "morning meeting" and discussed the question of the day with our classmates did word work played a new game in gym class (we suggested a bunch of new names for it, but we don't know what Mr. Newton decided on yet) - but we practiced serving lots in it.  had a virtual author visit! We joined in with 5000 other students to listen to a book called "Little Owl" by Teoni Spathelfer (a Canadian Author) - this author visit was also surrounding topics of bullying and pink shirt day.  played a new math game practiced our basic facts and graphing in math today  did observations about our borax crystal (its growing!) learned about types of paragraphs and began to write a persuasive paragraph about "the best food in the world" 

Hello! I hope you all had a great long weekend!  Today we: did word work practiced pickleball skills in gym did basic fact practice in math learned about factors, prime and composite numbers in math  did reading, daily reading journals, reading groups (with Ms. Clark) and literacy centres  did another chemistry lab (today we made borax crystals) Reminders: Tomorrow is pink shirt day! 

 Hello NLS Families,  Today we: started off the day with our  "morning meeting" (first 5 minutes of the day, we discuss a variety of topics with our classmates) - our discussion question of the day was "would you want to change your name? if so, to what?"  did our word work  did balloon games in gym (practicing skills for tennis, badminton and volleyball) played a new math game  practiced various ways to achieve an answer in math - but we determined that some ways were faster than others (e.g., multiplication was faster than skip counting or tallying). Students brought home multiplication charts to practice their basic facts with.  did read to self and literacy centres today  finished our "solution to recovery" lab today and used a google form to fill out our answers. Reminders There is no school on Thursday, Friday for teachers convention and also no school on Monday for family day.  

Hello! Happy Valentine's Day to those who celebrate it!  Today we: started off the day with a new routine called "morning meeting" where Ms. Clark puts a discussion question up on the smartboard for us to talk about as we are getting organized for the day - it makes us talk to lots of classmates and think about different topics did our word work  did some tricks with balloons in PE did read to self and literacy centres (this is where some students are reading with Ms. Clark and other students are working at a variety of centres (including "work on writing" "partner reading/listening to reading" and "response to reading") revisited our science experiment from yesterday - we discussed it more in depth after we had all completed the tasks handed out our valentines to all of the staff at northern lights and classmates -- this was our community building project over the past few weeks we learned about parts of the djambe drum and we got to learn h

Hello NLS Familes, Today we: did word work had gym!  did a community building art activity  played a new math game did a "solution to recovery" science lab to learn all about what powders dissolve in hot water - see photos below! We had 9 different powders to test today. One of them even exploded! Ask me which one exploded, and how we conducted this experiment. 

 Hello NLS families, I just wanted to let you know that I am currently on a family emergency leave and that is why I haven't been at school this week (and why there are no new blog posts for this week).  I hope to return next week. Sorry for the inconvenience, but thank you so much for your patience and understanding.  -Ms. Clark

Hello! Today we: did word work did scooter soccer in PE learned about Canada and explored google maps to better understand the geography (we learned how far north, south, east and west our country goes, as well as, we learned about the equator, tectonic plates and a bit about world geography) - this was all in connection to great questions from our class discussion about geography did makerspace  played prodigy and learned more math games  did literacy centres, and reading groups with Ms. Clark played literacy games  Notes/Reminders: our winter walk was postponed again due to cold weather. New date is TBA. we had 2 indoor recesses today due to the cold weather NO school tomorrow!

 Hello! Happy Wednesday. We had a busy day today. We: did our word work played scooter curling in gym played a new power of ten math game, a multiplication dice game, and we played multiplication bingo! (see photos below) did reading groups and literacy centres learned all about Canada! We used a map of Canada (in puzzle form) to try and guess the location of all of the provinces (see photos below) - then we all got a copy of a map of Canada which we had to label and colour in - we did this because we are starting to learn about the people that live in Canada, and it's important to know the places in Canada for context and understanding.  Reminders: we unfortunately were not able to go on our winter walk today as it was too cold. We are hopeful that we can go tomorrow! Ms. Clark sent out another school messenger note about this!