Weekly Updates

Week 1 : September 2 - September 6, 2019

Welcome to Grade 5! I am very excited to learn and grow with each of you this year.

Extended French - This week, we will be setting our learning goals for the year and working on our "Je me présente..." projects. We will also be completing some activities to assess our individual oral, reading, and written levels. Make sure you are practicing your dictée words for next Friday! You can find them under the "Dictée" tab.

Social Studies - We will be starting this course in October.

Music / Dance - We will be starting this course in October.

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Religion - This week, we came up with questions that we had about religion, life, family, ethics and values. We will be using these questions as starting points for our discussions in weeks to come. Great job, Grade 5/6s! I was very impressed with the questions you came up with.

Week 2 : September 9 - September 13, 2019

Extended French - This week, we finished working on our "Je me présente..." projects! We will be learning new vocabulary words and playing a game called "Trouve quelqi'un qui...". Make sure you are practicing your dictée words for this Friday! You can find them under the "Dictée" tab.

Social Studies - We will be starting this course in October.

Music / Dance - We will be starting this course in October.

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Religion - This week, we discussed what it means to be a responsible citizen and began our first lesson from "Samaritans on the Digital Road". We also had a class discussion on prayers and what they are for before starting our mini-assignment of creating our own prayers. These prayers will be bound together as a class book and will be displayed at our open house later this week!

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REMINDERS -

      • St. Leonard's Open House is this Thursday from 4:30 - 6:30pm! All are welcome.
      • French - Your "Je me présente..." projects will be collected this Wednesday.
      • French - You have your first dictée this Friday.

Week 3 : September 16 - September 20, 2019

Extended French - Make sure you are practicing your dictée words for this Friday! You can find them under the "Dictée" tab.

Social Studies - We will be starting this course in October.

Music / Dance - We will be starting this course in October.

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Religion -

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REMINDERS -

      • French - You have your dictée this Friday.