Thursday, September 22

 Hello Families,

This week we continued our work with place value and reviewed different ways we can represent numbers (place value, base ten, expanded notation, expanded form, standard form, and word form). Students demonstrated their understanding by making an anchor chart of different ways numbers can be represented. 

We read the book Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox by Danielle Daniel which is a Canadian Indigenous author. The book does an amazing job introducing Totem animals and their character traits and explains in the Anishinaabe tradition, everyone belongs to an animal clan and they are to strive to obtain the skills of their totem/clan animal to serve their tribe. 

Students wrote down the different characteristics each animals represent using both comprehension and inferring skills. Students then chose an animal that they felt best represented them and circled 3 of the characteristics that they connected with the most. We have spend the past week working on an art piece that represents their Totem animal and the character traits they feel best represent them.

We started if french unit by practicing "Can I..." (Est-ce je peux..) phrases for common asks around the classroom. Students worked in groups to create signs, so that we can get in the habit of asking for things in french. 

Last, the grade 5/6 students met their Kindergarten buddies. They helped them get ready to go outside and complete their first lap during the LBS Terry Fox Run! It was so great to see the kindness and care they had for their buddies. We are looking forward to working with our buddies throughout the year. 

Important Dates:

• Sept 23 - Organizational Day - No school for students 

• Sept 27 – Last day for Freezer Feastival ordering 

• Sept 29- Orange Shirt Day 
  

• Sept 30- Truth and Reconciliation Day - No School 

• October 3- Picture Day