Grade 5 Comes Alive : March 16-20

Important dates this week:
Monday- Spellathon money due (5 students got 100%!)
- New spelling words
- Book Fair begins

Wednesday
- No library. Book fair preview.
- Student led conferences from 3:30 to 7:00. Please arrive no later than 6:15 to have enough time to complete each center with your child. I also ask that you try to make other arrangements for siblings in order for your child to have your full attention.

Thursday - Field trip to Telus World of Science. Be sure to arrive at school on time in order to catch the bus.

Friday- PD Day for teachers, spring break starts for the students.

Dental visits start the first week after spring break for those who signed up for fluoride treatments.

A look at our week:

Math: We have been using non-standard units of measurement to measure ourselves and various items in the classroom. We have been working to remember the order of the months of the year and singing a couple of songs to go with as well as playing games to help us. The class solved a tricky problem about how much money they would get paid if they were dog sitting for a neighbour and used a calendar to help them.

Language Arts: We continued to work on our Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs stories. I don't think they will be done in time for conferences but your child will be able to show what they have completed so far at least. Ask your child what they named their town and write it in their agendas for this weeks blog question. We also completed a persuasive piece on Tuesday describing why we do or do not believe in leprechauns. These are hanging outside our room for you to read.

Social Studies: The class has been learning about the different aspects of the Ukrainian culture in Saskatoon (as one of our focus communities). This week we are going to be learning about the different natural resources found in our focus communities and the jobs that are created as a result of each resource.

Zones of Regulation: This week I began introducing the Zones of Regulation to the class. The zones are an approach to teach self-regulation by helping students recognize how they feel and giving them a toolbox of strategies they can use to to get back to a calm, ready to learn or to solve a conflict. There are 4 zones (green, blue, yellow, red). This week we discussed the green and blue zones.

The green zone is a calm state. Words to describe the green zone are focused, content, happy, calm and ready to learn. This is the zone we want to try to keep our bodies in.

The blue zone is used to describe when we are sad, tired, sick or bored. This week we started exploring what it looks like and feels like to be in the blue zone, what we feel, what others think of us and how others feel about us when we are in the blue zone. We also talked about it being ok to be in the blue zone sometime and that it is actually expected when sad things happen in our lives or we are hurt or sick. This week we are going to continue with the blue zone by looking at strategies to bring us back to the green zone when we are blue.