Week 4 Spelling

Spelling Words

1. thrown
2. stole
3. clue
4. dew
5. choose
6. rule
7. boast
8. cruise
9. stroll
10. route
11. mood
12. loaf
13. growth
14. youth
15. slope
16. bruise
17. loose
18. rude
19. flow
20. flute

Challenge Words

1. subdue
2. pursuit
3. molten
4. reproach
5. presume
6. there
7. their
8. a lot

Academic Words:

associative

commutative

compatible

compensation

hypothesis

observation

landform
region

Week 4 Update

5^th Grade Weekly Update

Dear Parents,

Welcome to the end of our second full week. Thank you to those of you who came out to our Parent Introductory meeting last night.

What we learned This week

Math: Topic 2 – Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers and Decimals

Literacy: Realistic Fiction. Summarizing/Narrative Elements.

Science: Part One – The Nature of Science: How Do Scientists Investigate?

Social Studies: Ch. 1 The Land  - Landforms/Land Use/People and Regions

What we will learn Next week

Math: Topic 2 – Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers and Decimals/Multiplying Whole Numbers

Literacy: Realistic Fiction. Descriptions/Styles of Narrative – Journaling(Dear Mr. Henshaw)/Personal Narratives  

Science: Part One – The Nature of Science: How Do Scientists Collect and interpret data/support their conclusions?

Social Studies: Ch. 1 The Land  - Landforms/Land Use/People and Regions

Announcements:

Student of the Week: Well done to Yolanda Lee. Please see the blog for details.

Dojo Masters:  Please visit the Dojo Masters page on the blog to find out who obtained the required 50 points this week,

Reminders

1. Please ensure that your child logs in to Achieve 3000 every time an article is assigned as homework before signing the homework book.
2. Also ensure that your child logs in to his or her RAZ-Kids account as often as they possibly can and make sure that they understand what they read.

Have a good weekend!

Mr. Robus

Week 3 Spelling

Spelling Words

1. speech
2. claim
3. strike
4. stray
5. fade
6. sign
7. leaf
8. thigh
9. thief
10. height
11. mild
12. waist
13. sway
14. beast
15. stain
16. fleet
17. stride
18. praise
19. slight
20. niece

Challenge Words

1. campaign
2. describe
3. cease
4. sacrifice
5. plight

Weather Vane Project

Tips for completing your STEM activity questions:

1) A WIND vane and a WEATHER vane are the same thing.

2) Answer the questions as though you planned the Weather Vane before building it. Answer them with the weather vane you built in mind.

3) Question 3: 'evenly distributed' means balanced or equal.

4) Question 5: Constraints means things that limit or make it difficult to design a working weather vane.

5) Question 10: Prototype means the first weather vane that you built today.

See below for photos of today's Weather Vane Project!

Weather Vane Designers

Week 2 Update

5^th Grade Weekly Update

Dear Parents,

Welcome once again to the new school year and to Grade 5 at HIS.

The first two weeks have been spent familiarizing the students with our routines in Grade 5. We have worked together to ensure that every student is aware of the need for organization at this grade level and the students have done well to adapt to the organizational systems we use in our classroom.

It has been good to see the level of interest in learning exhibited by each of the students so far and I have certainly enjoyed getting to know them better since the start of the school year. Now that our initial diagnostic and formative assessments are mostly completed, I am happy for us to start tackling the curriculum in a more in-depth fashion and I look forward to all of the work the students will produce in the coming year.

I look forward to meeting all of the new parents and seeing returning ones next Thursday, September 14^th, at 6:30PM for our Parent Introductory Evening. Parents will be invited upstairs to the Grade 5 classroom after our welcome formal introductions to all staff take place in the B1 Auditorium.

What we learned This week

Math: Topic 1 –  Place Value

Literacy: Realistic Fiction/Sequence of Events/Narrative Perspective   

Science: Part One – The Nature of Science

Social Studies: Ch. 1 People and Geography

What we will learn Next week

Math: Topic 2 – Adding and Subtracting Whole Numbers and Decimals

Literacy: Fiction/Non-Fiction. Predicting outcomes/Narrator’s Perspective/Personal Narratives  

Science: Part One – The Nature of Science

Social Studies: Ch. 1 People and Geography

Announcements:

Student of the Week: Congratulations to YunJu Paek. Please visit the Student of the Week page on our blog to find out more about each week’s recipient.  

Dojo Masters:  After our first week of familiarizing ourselves with Class Dojo and how it works in Grade 5, I am happy to note that all of the students are Dojo Masters this week. Now that everybody knows the rules and routines, the honour of Dojo Master is going to become a little more difficult to obtain each week. Only the most organized and dedicated Grade 5s will see there names on the list from now  on .  

Reminders

1. Please be sure to log in to Achieve 3000 and complete the Thought Question each time it is assigned as homework.
2. Log in to your RAZ Readers as often as you possibly can and make sure that you understand what you read.
3. Keep rehearsing our morning routine and classroom rules to be sure that you are ready to start learning at the start of every lesson each day.

Have a fantastic weekend!

Mr. Robus

What is a weather vane?

What is a Wind Vane? - Physics for Kids | Mocomi

A wind vane, also known as the weather vane, is one of the earliest invented meteorological tools used to show the direction of the wind. It has a pointer that freely rotates on the top of a fixed vertical rod and shows which way the wind is blowing.

Groups for Friday's Weather Vane Project.

Team 1

• Ryota
• Raby
• Leo
• Leonore

Team 2

• Celina
• Andrew
• Kotaro
• Daniel

Team 3

• Isaac
• YunJu
• Yolanda
• Pepijn

Team 4

• Art
• Rikuto
• Terry
• Adrian

Team 5

• Florence
• Christine
• Amy
• JuHyuk
• Morris

What does this video have to do with Social Studies...and Science?