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Mrs. Wood’s Interview J

Erica, Paige, Krystal, Kayla:   
Q: What is your full name?
Mrs. Wood:          
A: Patricia Kelly Mackenzie Wood
Erica, Paige, Krystal, Kayla:    
Q: When is your birthday?
Mrs. Wood:
A:  August 4^th
Erica, Paige, Krystal, Kayla:     
Q: What are your favourite hobbies?
Mrs. Wood:           
 A:  Reading or doing stain glass art
Erica, Paige, Krystal, Kayla:    
Q: What would be your dream vacation and why?
Mrs. Wood:           
A:  6 months long trip to Amazon and Machu Pichu
Erica, Paige, Krystal, Kayla:     
Q: What’s your favourite animal?
Mrs. Wood:            
A: Wombats
Erica, Paige, Krystal, Kayla:     
Q:  What are best things that ever happened to you?
Mrs. Wood:            
A:  Becoming a mother and going back to school to be a teacher

Leo

Personal Identity Project

 We are currently working on our first integrated project: the Personal Identity Project. Through this assignment, we have been working towards several Social Studies, English Language Arts, and Visual Art targets, including:

•learn about personal heritage and identity
•respect the cultural diversity in our classroom

•recognize factors that shape personal and national identities
•manage and communicate ideas
•write properly organized and formatted paragraphs
•follow the writing process
•create original art to communicate ideas
•practice collage technique
Students may be bringing home their writing drafts to work on over the next week or two.  Watch for photos of finished work to be posted as we complete our art work.

UNICEF

Our school is raising money for UNICEF for the kids in Africa. We are raising money by making hemp bracelets. We have fun making them. Grade 5 and 6’s are hoping to make 300 hemp bracelets! We are presenting videos to other classrooms to teach about UNICEF so they can help us raise money for UNICEF. The younger grades help by bringing money. Last year we raised over 300 dollars. UNICEF is a great program. That’s worldwide. UNICEF helps kids in Africa get food, water, education and bikes to ride to school. It costs 20$ for kids to have pens and pencils. 60$ can buy a whole school supply of soccer balls. 109$ can buy a kid a bike to ride to school with. 217$ can buy kids school supplies. 509$ can buy a community a water pump. 1966$ can buy a school tent for if they live to far away from a school. Sign up for UNICEF and help kids in Africa.

 by Abby & Cali

Overview of Curricular Areas

English Language Arts 

All students will continue to develop effective strategies for reading and writing through daily instruction and focused practice. Please encourage your students to read at least 20 minutes a day at home every day. Any kind of reading is fine – information books, comic books, newspapers, magazines, novels . . . and will benefit your child more than any other academic activity.  We will be investigating different formats of writing this year, including personal narratives with proper paragraph organization, informal letters, and information writing. Students will follow the writing process for major assignments, including pre-writing, drafting, revising and editing.  

Math

There are three main components to our math program.

The first area is computations. Students in the middle years are expected to be flexible in working with numbers and have a solid understanding of mathematical operations. Students will develop a variety of personal strategies to solve operations. We will be working on computations throughout the year. 

The second area is new concepts.  Grade 5 and 6 students will work on the same key learnings within each concept area but with slightly different targets. Our first unit will focus on patterning and algebra. Students will learn to recognize and identify patterns in number relationships, create algebraic expressions to represent these patterns and predict future outcomes.

The final area is Problem Solving. Problem Solving will be integrated throughout the math program and is an important format for applying new concepts and computation strategies.

 

Social Studies

The grade 5 and 6 Social Studies programs both have “citizenship” at their core – and involve skill and knowledge components. This year we will use the inquiry model and project based learning to explore some of the significant factors, people, and events that have contributed to Canada’s growth as a nation.

 

Science

 The middle science curriculum provides opportunities for students to investigate various branches of science, including Biology, Earth Sciences and Physics. The focus for our first unit of study will be “Living Things”. The science program includes knowledge targets as well as scientific process skills.

 

Welcome to our Classroom Blog

The beginning of the year is a very busy time. We are currently working on getting to know each other, settling into our new routines, reviewing key concepts from last year, and starting assessments --  all while developing a safe and supportive classroom community where everyone can learn.

 You will notice some of the necessary administrative paper-work coming home with the agenda. Thank you in advance for sending those items back promptly.

As the year progresses, there will be regular updates posted on the blog, including projects, field trips, assessments, and other significant events. Samples of student work may also be posted for friends and family to see at home.

Please feel free to email me at any time at kwood@pembinatrails.ca.

I am looking forward to a great year!

Kelly Wood