November 26th

Did You Know…? 40 million years ago there was a species of penguin which was 5 foot 7 inches tall.

Good evening,

Today we had our Monthly Virtues Assembly. Virtue of the Month? Self-respect! We were actually the hosting grade for this Assembly. We worked hard last week to decorate the Apple Schools Board (Colour Your World). We also had some student presenters from our classroom at the assembly today. Each grade 5 classroom selected some students to share a positive adjective about themselves at today’s assembly. We had words like creative, loyal, kind, etc. Thank you so much to the students for all their hard work (whether you were a presenter or a host) and congratulations to all our monthly award winners!

Students also received their second book report today. This book report will be due on December 17th. I’ve attached the assignment sheet below. Students will be building a “tower,” connecting the different elements of their book (setting, characters, conflict, and resolution). Each card has instructions for one of these story elements as well as an illustration. Students should construct their last card with the three different types of connections that we have studied over the past few weeks – text-to-text, text-to-self, text-to-world connections. Please look over the assignment sheet and attached rubric with your student this evening, and don’t forget to get them handed in on time!