October 7th - October 11th

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 Dragonfly Watercolour Art
Week of October 7th - October 11th

Happy Thanksgiving

The Grade 5 Team hopes that you have a wonderful long weekend and enjoy your weekend with your family and friends. We are thankful to have the opportunity to work with your child every day!

Highlights: 
Students continued to explore the regions of Canada.  We are exploring each region by looking at the capital cities in each, animals, natural resources, landforms and interesting facts.  We had a quiz on the Canadian Provinces, Territories and their Capital Cities.  Ask your child what their score was.

We started our math study of place value.  The students are looking at the ones, tens, hundreds, thousands, ten thousands and hundred thousands columns and will begin to regroup numbers when adding, next week.

This week the students had the opportunity to participate in the Buffalo Teachings with Ryan Jason Allan Willert and will continue to work with our Artist in Resident to create a mural in the multi-purpose area.

Dragonfly watercolour art is now on display in our classrooms.  We will be looking specifically at the dragonfly as one of the creatures of the wetland and how it is specially adapted to live in the wetland.

Baker/Fuller We had our first spelling test.  New words are up on Spelling City. Here is the link to the website https://www.spellingcity.com/users/jkbaker99

Reminders:
We are going to have the Simons Valley School Remembrance Day Assembly on Friday, November 8th from 10:30 am to 11:30 am.  There will be a  slideshow of family members of any SVS students or staff that have served the Armed Services.  If you have any pictures/ information, please it to send to Mrs. Reeve at lareeve@cbe.ab.ca.

If your child has a set of cheap headphones at home please send them to school. Many of our students enjoy having books read to them on EPIC and/ or listen to music and they are unable to do this if they do not have headphones.

 Upcoming:
Oct. 14th - Thanksgiving Day - No School
Oct. 16th - Photo Retakes
Oct 17th - Hot Lunch Little Caesars Pizza
Oct 22nd - In -School Wetlands Presentation from Weaselhead
Oct 25th - Halloween Hop 6:30-8:30 (a notice from parent council was sent out on Thursday)
Oct 31st - Pumpkinella (more details to follow)

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