Have a great weekend!

Important Contact Information:

Lindsay Kawohl will continue to be the primary email contact for Grade 5/6 at Cambrian Heights School. Here is the contact information for all Grade 5/6 teachers at this time.

-    Lindsay Kawohl likawohl@cbe.ab.ca

-    Michelle Halter mjhatler@cbe.ab.ca

-    Parminder Kandola pskandola@cbe.ab.ca

Science:

In Science this week, students finished up their animal and plant research on the swamps, bogs, marshes and fens in a wetland ecosystem.

Students began preparing a proposal for their culminating project. Each group decided on sharing their learning through a green screen script, PowToon, PowerPoint, poster, comic strip or a children’s storybook. These projects will be underway for the next two weeks as students consolidate their learning.

Math:

This week in Math, we reviewed multiplication strategies that we reintroduced to students last week which were: box method, traditional and partial products.

We starting looking at collecting data, interpreting graphs and designing our own graphs this week. We warmed up our brains by creating a single bar graph to show teachers what we remember about graphs using data on film preferences.

Then, we interpreted graphs about voter turnouts from 1867 – 2015 by answering the following questions:

-    What information is included in the graph?

-    What information is not included in the graph?

-    What patterns did you notice about the data?

-    What can we conclude from the data provided in the graph?

Then we looked at creating a visual representation to compare voter turnout data from 2011 and 2015. Next week, we will be dissecting the data from our Federal Election results.

Humanities:

This week, we researched political parties and created inspirational speech videos and slide shows to convince people to vote for our party. We watched the videos and slideshows. Students engaged in an official “Student Vote.” Mrs. Kawohl and Ms. Halter will send the information to the government! These results will be shown at the election results on Monday evening through the “Student Vote” results.

Zones of Regulation

In Health this week, students began looking at the size of the problem. They each wrote a sticky note related to a problem they are currently experiencing in their lives. We dissected what a Level 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 problem is and the size of these problems. Then we went through everyone’s problems that they posted and re-evaluated if they were really a Level 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5. We will be using this language consistently in our classroom for the duration of the school year.

Career and Technology Foundations

We signed up for CTF sessions this week. This is replacing what was formally known as C.A.D.

Library Exchange

Every Thursday morning! Make sure you remember to bring your books to school!

Ask Me About:

-  What did I learn about the election party platforms this week? Who did I end up voting for and why?

Practice:

-  Basic Multiplication Facts!

-  Read nightly =)