Ms. Vande Graaf

What an amazing opening of the school year with the grades 5s and 6s from our room. We started by recalling different classroom routines, expectations and policies for everyone to be guided as we sail along. Reminders are given to help us become successful throughout the school year. In Mathematics we are reviewing addition, subtraction, multiplication and introduction to place value and graphing. For language art, daily reading and writing is evident in our class with some games and spelling incorporated. We also started learning about nouns and adjectives as part of our writing activities. One of the highlights of our Social Studies class is the making of different provincial flags of Canada and it is so amazing that it coincides with the Meet the Staff day as parents were able to see the students’ works displayed on the bulletin board. Thank you so much for the ever supportive parents who took time to meet the staff.

Science is always a dynamic and interesting topic for the students. We started by observing the environment and finding out about living things and the nature of their habitat. As for the coming month of October, we will enhance the writing ability of the students by focusing predominantly on the different key writing approaches like persuasive writing, informative writing and opinion writing. Thank you so much dear families and staff for the collaborative effort.