Mr. Barrett's Grade 5 Classroom

May Newsletter

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Dear Parents,

We hope everyone had a wonderful April.  We now come to the month where we celebrate the most important lady in our lives. Happy Mother’s Day to all our wonderful moms. I hope you have a great day!  With less than 8 weeks to go, we still have much to do and learn. The year has gone by so fast! We will be having our Grade Five Science fair this month (May 13). Students will create their projects in class and present them at our fair later this month. A detailed email went home on this.

 Important Date:

 

May 17, 20 -No School

May 12 -Mother’s Day

 

Social Studies

  1. francophone history, culture and presence throughout Canada
  2. the history of different immigrant groups coming to Canada and their influence on our Canadian heritage and culture
  3. Irish Immigration

 

Language Arts- students will be:

 

  1. Spelling continues
  2. Poetry Unit starts
  3. Grammar unit continues
  4. Continue Book Club novel and starting novel assignments

 

 

Math

We will continue our ‘Patterns’ unit, followed by ‘Motion Geometry’ unit

 

Science

We are finishing up our Chemistry unit the first week, then starting our ‘Science Fair Project’ next, followed by ‘Wetlands’ near the end of the month

 

Art- Dotted Art,  sunset paintings, magic clay projects, Mother’s Day project

 

Religion- Living Rosary, Social Injustices

 

 

 

Homework

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20-30 minutes of reading at home daily

Science Fair materials needed for Monday

NHL Jerseys (art) due