June 17-21

Learning Outcomes

Listen to poems to identify beauty or emotion.

Recite or sing a poem from memory.

Examine figurative language that can be experienced for its beauty or emotion.

Investigate poetic structures that contribute to creative expression of ideas, including stanzas.

Make connections between features of land and personal experiences.

Create written texts for a variety of audiences and purposes.

Create written texts in a variety of forms and structures.

What Did Students Do?

This week, students delved deeper into poetry. Students read a variety of poems and shared their favourite with their class. Students also explored and incorporated figurative language devices such as personification, alliteration, mood, and rhyme to create poems. Students also created shape poems utilizing figurative language and descriptive detail. 

Ask Your Child About:

-Oobleck - a non-Newtonian liquid - What is it? How did we make it? What is the science behind it?

-Bouncing Bubbles! - What is it? How did we make it? What is the science behind it?

(See photos below)

-A Rover's Story Novel Study

-Sky Battles - an Indigenous game that we played earlier in the week

Upcoming Events:

June 25th – Grade 5 Farewell (10:00 – 11:30) June 26th – Report cards are visible to parents through PowerSchool   June 27th – Last day of school for students (11:30 dismissal)