Happy Tuesday!

Homework:

• Poetry Booklet - Finish Sonnets and Limerick sections in your poetry booklet
• Spelling - Take home "Dear Parents" for your spelling homework for Friday's test
• No math set homework today
• ART - "With Glowing Hearts" posters are going to be mailed tomorrow! If you haven't finished yours, tonight is your last chance! Here is the link to the Canadian Heritage Poster Contest.
  

Reminders:

• Tomorrow morning we will be listening all the "gold" speeches. At 12:00, we will be heading to Morven to see "Lucky Stiff". Hot lunch will be served at 11:40am for all grade fives.
• #1 uniform tomorrow
• I will having a tooth extraction tomorrow afternoon and will not be at school on Thursday or Friday. I will try to update the blog with reminders, but if not, you will find all the info you need in the upcoming dates listing!
  

Congratulations to Max, Jaden and Alex Buckley who all received Gold at the grade 5 speech semi-finals. They will all be presenting to the school at the Junior School Public Speaking Celebration on Wednesday.

Homework:

• Poetry - Finish the two "Haiku" pages in your poetry booklet
• Complete "The Avalanche" if you didn't finish it today.
• Spelling - Have your parents sign your test, fill in missed words, begin homework sheets.

Happy Birthday Michael!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Coming home tonight are your review sheets for our upcoming tests. Start making study notes and come to class with any questions.

11 school days left before March Break

We had our speech judging today and the results are in! The judges said they had a very, very difficult time making the decision and in the end decided their top three speakers were Jaden, Max and Alex B. Connor's speech left a big impression on them too and they gave him an honourable mention for his speech about "Buying a car".

Well done, everyone!
Your speeches were inspiring and I am very proud of all of your hard work!

Homework:

• Complete the rest of your Digestive System booklet
• Finish your spelling homework (bring folder with completed homework tomorrow)
• Any math set homework - Ms. Murphy's set - Decimals worksheet part 2
  

Reminders and updates:

• We have moved the following test dates:
• Poetry is now on Monday March 2 (instead of Feb 26)
• Respiratory and Digestive will be on March 4 (instead of February 27)
• Tomorrow please bring any donations for the Ivanhoe Relief fund ($5-$10)
• Tomorrow is Jump Rope for Heart. Wear your PE kit and bring your pledge forms.

Super Citizens!

5M was very well represented at today's House Assembly. Congratulations to Liam, Molly and Frazer who were all recognized for their contributions to the school and community.

Homework for tonight:

• Practice your speeches. Tomorrow is our judging day!
• Complete your spelling homework sheets. Test on Friday.
• Math set homework (Ms. Murphy's set - Read and complete the fractions to decimals page)

IMPORTANT - Read me!

There are only 14 school days left before March Break (and 15 school weeks until the end of grade 5 - aaah!) and they are JAM PACKED! Please make note of all of the upcoming events. The more organized you are, the more relaxed the next few weeks will be! :)

Upcoming dates:

February 17 - Ms. Murphy away at UBC swim meet all day
February 19 - In-class judging for speeches 11:00-12:30
February 19 - Early dismissal (1:55) for Parent-Teacher interviews (by request only!)
February 20 - Jump Rope for Heart (bring pledge forms on the day)
February 23 - Grade 5 Public Speaking semi-finals
February 23 - Problem Solving Test
February 24 - Girls B-ball play day (all day)
February 25 - Junior School Speech Celebration (a.m.), Watching Lucky Stiff at Morven (p.m.)
February 26 & Pink Shirt Day (anti-bullying day). Ms. Murphy away
February 27 - Ms. Murphy away
February 27 - Vancouver Opera (in-school visit)
March 2 - Poetry Test
March 3 - All classes to see Grade 4 Musical
March 4 - Class Photo Day, Respiratory & Digestive Systems Test
March 6 - Rodeo Day, Last day of classes before March Break

Homework:

• Share our new spelling program with your parents
• Work on Spelling homework
• Have your parents sign your spelling test
  
• Complete your science page about the digestive system
• Practice your speech
• Problem Solving - due Monday
  

Reminders:

• I am away at a swim meet all day tomorrow
  
• Wear your PE kit and bring your uniform
• Jump Rope for Heart pledges are due on Friday

Happy Valentine's Day!

I hope everyone is having a love-filled Valentine's Day with their families and friends!
Thank you to all the families who brought in treats for us to enjoy during our valentine exchange.

Remember: Judging for speeches is on Thursday, so try to find time to practice your speeches this weekend (and everyday)!

Speech day success! Wow!

Congratulations to 5M students who confidently presented their speeches before an audience of 5M parents. You did an amazing job - all of your hard work is really paying off!

Homework:

• Study for your Fractions Test (happening tomorrow!)
• You must know how to add, subtract, multiply and divide fractions (there will be word problems as well). Remember that to get full marks on your test, you MUST show your work and answer word problems in full sentences.
• If your Respiratory booklets were incomplete - please finish them tonight

Reminders:

• Tomorrow afternoon we will have some little Valentine's Day festivities in class. Please remember the rule - if you bring a treat for one person, you need to bring one for everyone else as well!
• I have confirmed that SPEECH JUDGING DAY will be on Thursday the 19th, from 11:00-12:30. So keep on practicing those speeches!
  

Homework:

• Practice, practice, practice your speeches!
• Complete any unfinished sheets in your Respiratory booklets
• Ms. Murphy's math set - Pg. 86 word problems, correct your quizzes and return your signed tests tomorrow

Reminders:

• Tomorrow 11:00-12:30 Speeches in class with parents
• Fractions Test on Friday (see yesterday's post for the breakdown!)
  

Happy Birthday Cale!

Cale was lucky to celebrate his birthday on Monday! Hope you had a great day!
Homework for tonight:

• Complete you Cinquin - two pages in your poetry workbook
• Practice your speech tonight - use the notes from your classmates. Tomorrow will be our final rehearsal before the presentation for your parents!
• Music - Recorder compositions (some of these were returned and are due on Thursday)
• Music - Several people didn't hand in today's homework. Ms. Deighton is expecting it tomorrow if you didn't hand it in today.
• Bring in a bottle for the lung models!!

Reminders:

• Thursday - Speech presentation in-class - 11:00-12:30
• Friday - Fractions Test - All sets will be tested on adding, subtracting, multiplying, and dividing fractions. Students will also be required to answer word problems using each of the operations above.
  

Alina turns 11!

Alina gets a long weekend for her birthday! Lucky girl.

I hope you all have a restful and relaxing weekend.

See you on Tuesday!

Note:
You don't officially have any homework, but I would recommend practicing your speeches a few times to keep them fresh in your mind!

Also -if you haven't brought in your plastic bottle for our lung model, please remember to bring it for Tuesday.

Homework:

• Finish your Narrative Poem - Remember to have someone double-check your spelling. Please write in cursive, or type it up.
• Go over your Circulatory Systems test with your parents, have them sign it and return it tomorrow.
  
• Problem Solving is due for Ms. Gould tomorrow
• Bring in a bottle for our lung models
• Memorize your speeches ASAP
  

Reminders:

• PE strip tomorrow
• No school on Monday
  

Wonderful Wednesdays

A few things today...

1) Today we were very lucky to have three visitors from the imagine1day organization. We met Sapna Dayal, the Executive Director, Seid Aman the Ethiopia Country Representative and Yeheyis Berhane, the Program Coordinator. They all share the common goal of building sustainable schools in Ethiopia. Our connection to this wonderful group is through Molly, who, at Christmas time, asked for a donation to be made instead of receiving presents.

Their website it a lot of fun to explore and you can see all the bits and pieces that actually go into building a school. Also, under their "Community" section you can look at the "creatributions" that people have come up with by combining their creativity and passion to make contributions. It would be great if as a class and/or a grade we could spend some time thinking about our creativity and passions and see what we could do to help!

2) The choir has been invited to sing for the "One year until the Olympics" celebration on February 12, and so, we have had to adjust our speech presentation times.

Speeches will now be on February 12, from 11:00am - 12:30pm

3) We have been working on speeches and my biggest tips when practicing your speeches at home, is to consider your voice. We have seen the huge difference that a great voice can make. Four key ingredients to a great speech voice:

• volume
• pitch
• stress
• tempo

4) Homework:

• Respiratory System vocabulary sheet
• Problem Solving due Friday
• By Tuesday: bring in a plastic bottle for our "make a lung model" project (2L is preferable, but smaller bottles are fine). If you don't have any bottles at home, don't worry - some students said they could bring in extras!
  

Reminders:

• CHOIR: If you are participating in the Olympic Celebration concert you MUST have you forms back tomorrow.
• No school on Monday
  

Dissection Day

We all learned a lot from our pig heart dissection today. Thank you so much to Charlene and Shelley for sharing your expertise and answering all of our questions. It was great having your help!

Homework tonight:

• Pig dissection paragraph- due tomorrow
  
• Ms. Murphy's math set - Addition and Subtraction fraction wheels

Dissection tomorrow!

Hi folks,

Hope you all recovered from our super fun sleepover at the aquarium - it was a great time!

Homework:

• Complete Current Events - Missiles package
• Bring a smock/old shirt to wear during tomorrow's dissection