Here is a brief preview of our fall term:
READING:
Reading Power: Strategies that good readers use:
- Connecting
- Visualizing
- Questioning
- Inferring
Novels - Self-selected
Reading Log
Daily home reading
Class novel - Cariboo Runaway - Discussion, reading strategies, writing and thinking in role
WRITING:
Poetry - variety of forms
Information writing - in other subject areas
Stories - Use a graphic organizer to plan your own story, developing a main character, problem, solution
Spelling - Canadian Spelling program - focus on weekly patterns
MATH:
Patterns and Functions, Coordinate graphing
Large numbers - reading and writing numbers up to the billions
- understanding Place Value
- rounding and estimation
Operations - addition, subtraction
- multiplication
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Gold Rush - location of gold rushes
- boom and bust economies
- effect of gold on settlement patterns
- Gold Fever
- methods of mining for gold
- people in B.C.'s history involved in the Cariboo gold rush
SCIENCE:
Rocks and Minerals - 3 categories of rocks and how they are formed
- Layers of the earth
- Identification of minerals
- Panning for gold
FRENCH:
Review of basic vocabulary about ourselves
Numbers
Unit on school objects, using the story "Juno a l'ecole"
DRAMA:
This is for all the Grade 5's and for the Grade 6's who
are not in First Year Band.
The goal of drama is to gain confidence in speaking in front of our peers
and to have fun experimenting with different roles.
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