I would officially like to invite you to our classroom on June 27th, the last day of school, from 11:00am to 12:00 noon. This will be just after the year-end assembly which is in the morning before recess.

We have two field trip notices coming home today! One for swimming and one for Stanley Park. I saw there was one set left over in the class...so if you are missing one, please make sure to pick up a new one from the bulletin board outside the classroom! Merci!

What a fun week we have had so far!! 

Here are a few points to start some conversation. 

- Tuesday we had a 'body scientist' lesson from the Saleema Noon group. 

- Tuesday we also started our new (and last) social studies project. Be on the lookout for something big!

- Today we had a chance to visit the micro green fair and learn lots about micro greens! 

- today we also had a visit from the librarian from the West Point Grey library. She read us a great (and hilarious) book called 'I lost my hat' by John Klassen. The next book is called 'Fish' and I've heard it's wonderful!! 

She also spoke to us about the summer reading program at the local library, which I highly recommend!!

Four girls in our class organized a scavenger hunt for Monday's lunch recess. For those who signed up, here are the teams 

Visit to UBC

We had such a fun time! Here are some pictures from our afternoon. Thanks for all the parent help we had!

tomorrow's field trip

Merci for your patience in figuring out details for tomorrow's visit to the UBC chemistry department. Due to circumstances beyond my control, logistics were figured out today (eek!) but I now have information to share with you.

please do not forget to send your child with a car seat if they need it!

I am going to send an email to the addresses I have on file for you with plans for tomorrow.

Thanks again for your understanding!

- Mme Jessica

I have been absolutely amazed by the creativity and hard work that has been going into the comic strip projects. Yesterday, we spent the whole afternoon taking turns with the iPads and working hard on other work when it wasn't our turn. I was incredibly impressed! A few pictures of the hard work are attached. 

Today, we started our last 3 step write of the year. The kids worked really really well on their brainstorming page this morning, so this afternoon we had a fun cooperative game. They needed to build a structure with limited supplies that could hold my keys as high as possible. This activity was a good reminder for certain groups about appropriate behaviour when we do fun games, everyone eventually showed WONDERFUL group work and cooperation! I was very impressed!

New projects

While we are talking about new projects, the students have been working hard on their comic strip projects. Incase they didn't tell you, we will be using iPads to create our comic strips! They started working on their plans while I was away sick yesterday, and when I was looking at their work today, I literally had goosebumps. What they are creating is amazing!! I can't wait to see and share the final results!

We also have a new project that I am asking students to get started on. We will be doing personal interest speeches (art orratoire) coming up in June.

The work for next Wednesday, May 22, is is to come up with what they want to speak about, as well as a list (point form is ok) of what knowledge they ALREADY HAVE (please do not start any research. We will be talking about this at school).

As I said, they can do this about anything they want. When I was in school, I did mine on the life of a gymnast because at that time, I was training many many hours a week in gymnastics. My niece who is in grade 6 just did one titled 'a day in the life of my dance shoes' and even spoke for the Burnaby school trustees! Other ideas, are a pastime or sport they find interesting, a particular animal they like,or a hero. Another idea is to take something we have studied in class already (space, especially with Chris Hadfield's popularity, or a province or territory in Canada), and go more in depth in their speech. The possibilities are endless!

Happy choosing!

Today's update

Here are a few points of information for you!


In math, we have been doing self directed work. The students have been doing SO WELL!! Everyone has been working hard during our math times. I've attached a list of pages to read and do. I've told the kids many times not to be stressed out about all the pages to do. This is their time to work at their own pace. I want to emphasize the same thing to parents reading this. There is lots of time to get these pages done and we work on them in class every day.

One of our students had the idea to have a class vote today in correlation to the provincial vote. We didn't speak very much about what each party represented so students voted on what they already knew. The results were very interesting! Be sure to ask your child about it!

Also, we finally completed the class mural for our door! Check it out!

Weekend's math homework

This weekend, there is some math homework. Unlike usual homework, there is no set amount to do.

In class, we have been working on math at our own pace. I have been writing the pages to read and questions to do, and students work on their own. This has been extremely successful (kudos to the kids for working so well!). Unfortunately I forgot to take a picture of the list of pages on the board before I left school, so I am asking students to keep working on the page they had started, and if they want, they can move onto the next page. As I said, there is no set amount to do, so please don't stress over finishing the whole chapter. Just as long as some gets done.