Holiday Cards

We spent some time this afternoon making some holiday cards for our friends at Huronview Home for the Aged. The holiday tunes were on and it was a pretty relaxing environment. (I'll take it with 4 days left until the break) 

Last week before the break!

It's the last week and I just wanted to remind everyone about a few events this week.

Thursday- Is wear red and green day, we will also be going skating from 11:30-12:45. Students are to attend and need to bring skates and helmet. We have skates at school for those who don't own any.

Friday- Our class and a few others will be doing a PJ spirit day so kids can be comfy the last day before the break.

Quiz Reminder. We will be completing our science unit on Matter and will be having a quiz. The students Area and Perimeter "Garden Project" is also due Friday.

Wishing you all a safe, happy holiday and Merry Christmas!

Move for MOvember

It's the last day school day of Movember and the students have done a great job this month trying to move more than usual during the day. We have worked on our max push ups, sit ups, played various games, did some workouts in class..along with our gym time and recess. Their Move for Movember writing about their favourite ways to move and stay active turned out amazing. Over hearing some students talking about what "Move for MOvember" is really about and it's importance to students in other classes was a personal highlight for Mr.Chaput. Today student's rocked their staches to celebrate an amazing Movember and since they stuck to their movement goals....Mr.Chaput will be having to rock a purple "stache" Monday. 

Field Trip - Huron County Museum

This coming Tuesday (November 19th), our class along with Mrs.Knox 5/6 will be travelling to the Huron County Museum to experience two different educational tours. The cost of the field trip is covered by milk and pizza sales. Please return the permission form ASAP (Friday the latest) thank you!

Tour 1:
Huron County and The World Wars:

Learn about life in the trenches and on the home front for the men, women and children of Huron County. Investigate how the World Wars changed Huron’s industrial, agricultural, social and everyday life. Includes investigative spotlight on soldiers and nursing sisters, and exploration of the Museum’s Military Gallery.

Tour 2:
If These Walls Could Talk:

Discover life behind the stone walls at the Huron Historic Gaol. Follow early inmates from courtroom to cell and compare the life of prisoners with the life of their governor.

Upcoming assignments

We have wrapped up our Data Management unit in Math and students spent time looking at different types of data (primary, secondary, discrete and continuous). They created a survey and went to other classrooms to collect data and compiled a project that included a title page, survey, results table, bar graph, line graph and conclusion paragraph. 

This project was due today and a few students still have to finish up for homework this weekend. 

We are also working on paragraph writing and this is an area, as a class, we need to improve on this year. The students are currently working on a paragraph about either their favourite season, or favourite person. These paragraphs are being typed on google docs so students can access them from home to complete. The first copy is due Tuesday morning so we can begin the editing and revising process Tuesday afternoon. 

- Thanks for checking in with your child at home to make sure they get completed. Students are always aware of due dates and what is homework, they also know by Grade 5, it's their responsibility (not Mr.Chaputs or Mom,Dad,Grandma, pet dog) to get unfinished work completed and handed in.  :) 

Election 2019

In Social Studies we have been working hard and having great conversations in our Government unit. Students have been looking at the rights and responsibilities of Canadian citizens, various types of government, the 3 levels of Government, the importance of voting and how to vote. Recently we have been looking at the various political parties and their platforms on issues that the grade 5 students are affected by. Yesterday we used a youth compass app from Elections Canada. The app asked student appropriate questions and after the 30 questions it showed students where their views lined up with certain political parties. It was a great eye opener for students to see which political party they were closest to when they answered truthfully and we didn't let things like others, fake news, or social media sway our thoughts.

Today, students got to go through a realistic simulation of what a polling station looks like and how the voting process works. Students had to bring their "ID" with them to make sure it matched the names on the voters list and eventually cast their ballot. Students will find out Monday who the majority voted for to be our new Prime Minister.

FORE!!!!

We had a 8:50am tee off time. Today students had some fun playing mini putt. We will be using their scores and using that as our data over the course of the next week. In math we are doing data management and students will be using their scores, as well as their partners to create various types of graphs over the next week.

Place Value

We continued our unit on place value today by using base 10 blocks to represent numbers in a different way. Students got some time to create anything they wanted, but had to represent the number of base 10 blocks they used in various forms. It was almost like they forgot they were doing math :)

Terry Fox Run and Donations

Just in case this didn't make it home last night in their backpacks. Information regarding donations will be coming home today or Thursday and we will be collecting up until the day of the race. Thanks everyone.

OPEN HOUSE

Just a reminder that C.P.S open house is tomorrow! Come say hi and enjoy a hot dog from 5:30-7pm. The book fair will also be open during this time.

86,400 dollars everyday!

It was a great day 2 with lots of team building and again reviewing procedures and finishing up some stuff for our time capsule. We also had a great discussion at the end of the day after we watched the first minute of the below video. We talked about how could we spend our 86,400 we get everyday in a positive way. Everyone had great answers, but the past part of our conversation and the part I hope sticks the most is when I asked them what they would do if someone took 10 of their dollars (seconds)? Would they waste the rest of their money (time) trying to get that back when they knew they were going to get another 86,400 tomorrow? We came up with a list of strategies about what we should do when someone "steals 10 seconds" away from us.

WELCOME

Welcome to our class blog! Please Remember to subscribe with your email. We will be spending a good chunk of our first couple weeks getting to know each other, learning that everyone can have success in Math and learning various procedures to make our team work well together so everyone can feel valued and be successful.....and to keep Mr.Chaput sane.