Current Topics

Homework: Read 20+ minutes each day.

Reading: We continue to focus on story elements as we read fiction books. We will be checking in about the main characters, setting (where and when), plot (beginning, middle, end), conflict, and resolution. These are good elements of stories you can ask your child about when they finish their reading for the day.

Writing: We will be working on our paragraphs for our Social Studies artifact display on Friday.

Students will receive a personal dictionary this week to keep throughout the year and support their spelling goals this year.

This week, grade 4 students will continue finishing their FSAs for mathematics which is due on Friday, November 6th. Grade 5 students will also continue to work on mathematical problems that are similar to FSA problems. 

A gentle reminder for students to please continue completing their online homework on Mathletics. 

They need to complete both the activity and the quest that are assigned to them each week. This homework supports the math topics that are being taught in class. 

Each set of math homework is due on Friday. 

Please let us know if there any issues with login or any other technical problems regarding computers. 

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Thank you for helping your child login in from Mathletics at home. Please reach out if you cannot login at home. It is the same login that the kids use at school, but they must access Mathletics through the school link. We will send home QR codes that might be better for those looking to use the app.

New Mathletics homework assignments will be posted every Friday. Students will then have the entire week to complete their work before it’s due the following Friday.

Thank you for your support in encouraging your child to stay on top of their weekly assignments!

To sign in to Mathletics: 

1. Google “Saanich student links”

2. Select the Saanich Schools website titled “Student Links”

3. Scroll down to Mathletics under Elementary and Middle Schools

4. Sign in with their student number and password (the same login they use for school computers)

We have started our first unit in Social Studies on immigration. We will be exploring how immigration and multiculturalism continue to shape Canadian society and identity and will be looking into Canada's policies and treatment of minority peoples having negative and positive legacies. 

We will be finishing up the Story of our Name paragraphs, working on our immigration poster, and creating a tent card for our family's artifact.

Students will create their display on their table in the classroom on November 6.  Please help your child to choose an artifact (defined as a memento, something of remembrance/reminder) to share as part of their display.  By Monday November 2, students will need to know what artifact they will share, and be prepared to answer these questions about it:

• Where their family is from

• What the artifact is

• What they would like people to understand about their culture by seeing the artifact

Artifacts will be on display in the classroom without direct supervision.  Please choose an artifact that is not highly valuable or fragile.  If your child chooses something that is breakable and valuable or too large to bring to school, please send a printed photo instead of the actual item. Artifacts should come in by Thursday so it is ready for Friday.

This week, students are studying mixtures and solutions in matter. The class will also learn about solutes, solvent, and solubility in solutions. We will continue to look at lab reports and how they are written during science experiments. 

We will be doing our first-hands on experiment involving salt and water this Thursday.