• RE - Read-a-loud with reflection journal entries (Wonder)

• RE - Independent Reading Program / Monthly Reading Log/Fluency

• WR - Writing lessons (how to bump-up your writing with figures of speech) 

• WR   - Letter to Myself

- Memoir writing

• OR - Presentation/oral communication skills and memoir presentations

• Poem of the month - Autobio Poem

• Begin “Personal Safety and Injury Prevention" Unit  *Bullying

  • Supports – injury prevention, emergencies, bullying, violence 

  • Strategies – threats to personal safety 

  • "Mental Health Literacy" - How to help others, when to seek help

• Begin “Human Organ Systems” Unit

• Cont. Read-A-Loud (Wonder)

• Oral communication - Memoir presentation/speeches (cont'd)

• WR - descriptive writing activities 

• RE - reading comprehension activities 

  • • demonstrate understanding of a variety of texts by summarizing important ideas and citing supporting details 

• Poem of the month - 5-Senses Poem

• Complete "Personal Safety and Injury Prevention" Unit *Bullying

• Complete “Human Organ Systems” Unit

• Introduction to - Heritage and Identity: Interactions of Indigenous Peoples and Europeans prior to 1713, in What Would Eventually Become Canada 

• WR - Short Story Writing with focus on descriptive writing

• RE - Short Stories - analyze texts and explain how various elements in them contribute to meaning (e.g., narrative: character development, plot development, mood, theme; report: introduction, body, conclusion)

• OC - Reading Fluently - read texts with expression and confidence, adjusting reading strategies and reading rate to match the form and purpose 

• Poem of the Month - HAIKU Poems (x2)

• Introduction to "Nutrition" Unit

• "Forces Acting on Structures and Mechanisms" Unit

•  WR - Short Story Writing (cont'd) 

• OC - use a variety of appropriate visual aids (present Forces on Structures Project)

• Poem of the Month - 

      "Forces Acting on Structures and Mechanisms" Unit Cont'd.

      Nutrition Unit - cont'd

• "Substance Use, Addictions, and Related Behaviours" unit

•  "Matter" Unit

•  "Substance Use, Addictions, and Related Behaviours" unit (cont'd)

• "Growth & Development" Puberty Unit