In Science, we have been learning about the Wetlands and have been creating our own wetland and describing what role everything plays. In Social, we have been creating our own country. In English, we have been peer editing our stories. In math, we have been looking at shapes and writing attributes of shapes. In gym, we finished our inline skating unit.
Important Dates:
June 23: Minecraft Challenge
June 26: Grade 5 Ceremony
June 27: Bowling
June 29: Sports Day/Last Day of School
In English, we continued working on our fictional narratives. In math, we have been analyzing and creating double bar graphs and we have also been looking at probability. In Spanish, we have been doing a review of how to do gender-noun agreement. In Science, we have started our unit on Wetlands. In Social, we are learning about the Famous Five and WWI.
Important Dates:
June 9: No school
June 23: Minecraft Challenge
June 26: Grade 5 Ceremony
June 27: Bowling
June 29: Sports Day/Last Day of School
In science, we finished building our projects and will be presenting them on Tuesday! We had our first day of Inline skating and got to try some cool tricks. In social, we learnt about the North West Mounted Police and the role they played in shaping Canada. In Spanish, we started writing a diary entry to practice using the past tense. In math, we finished up our algebra unit. In English, we finished planning for our fictional narratives and will start our rough drafts.
Important Dates:
May 29: No School
June 2: Lego Challenge
June 5: Junior Achievement
June 6: Camp Riveredge
June 9: No school
June 23: Minecraft Challenge
June 26: Grade 5 Ceremony
June 27: Bowling
June 29: Sports Day/Last Day of School
This Thursday is our first day of Inline Skating. In Math, we are continuing with Algebra and practicing isolating variables to solve for the missing value. In Social, we are learning about the North West Mounted Police and will be creating a small graphic novel. In Science, we started creating our machines using circuits. In English, we looked at different points of view and read some example stories for each type. In Spanish, we have been continuing our book reports and will be looking at the "imperfecto" the other tense we use to talk about the past.
Important Dates:
May 25: Alien Inline Skating Begins
May 29: No School
In Spanish we are working on a book report. In social we learned about the Canadian Pacific Railway and finished creating a brochure about it. We didn't have an indoor recess today! In science we are making a machine that uses a circuit and/or magnets. In math we are doing harder algebra and learning to isolate the variable. We are also writing a fictional narrative story and talked about the important parts (setting, characters, plot, point of view, and dialogue), we have been doing lots of planning before we write. We got to have Gr. 2 buddies and they read their stuck stories to us and we gave them feedback.
Important Dates:
May 22: No School
May 25: Alien Inline Skating Begins
May 29: No School
In Spanish, we have been practicing conjugating verbs in the preterite and got to play a game of verb battleship. In English, we discussed settings and characters and got to start planning our own settings and characters for our fictional narratives. In math, we have been looking at algebra and creating expressions using variables. In social, we continued talking about confederation and the constitution. In Science, we had a test about electricity and magnetism.
Important Dates:
May 22: No School
May 23: Alien Inline Skating Begins
May 29: No School
Dear Grade 4 & 5 Dalhousie Families,
The Grades 4 & 5 students will begin instruction in Wellness with topics related to Human Sexuality starting on or after June 12th. If you have not received a letter via email please find it in the blog below. Should you choose to exempt your child, please follow the instruction in the letter. Please note that you only need to advise the teacher if you don’t want your student to participate.
Should you have any questions, please contact your child's teacher.
Thank you
Yesterday we started talking about middle school so our cubbies are now our "lockers" and we started using an "agenda" so we can be more independent when it comes to due dates. We are going to have a science test on Friday. In English we started talking about narratives and we are going to right our own stories. today we started looking at the different parts of a narrative and today we explored settings. In math we started algebra. And in social we are talking about confederation and the role that Macdonald and Cartier played. TOODLES!!!!!!!
Important Dates:
May 12: Fancy Day
May 22: No School
May 23: Alien Inline Skating Begins
May 29: No School
In Spanish, we conjugated verbs in the past tense.We practiced sketch-noting in English. Today, we also read about the Canadian confederation in Socials. In Math, we started algebra and practiced repeating and growing patterns. We also watched a Bill Nye the Science Guy video about magnetism. May the Fourth be with you. }:-)
Important Dates:
May 5: No school
May 12: Fancy Day
In math we are designing our own dream city and are using our knowledge of perimeter, area and volume. In gym we finished our gymnastic unit and today we got to go outside and enjoy the beautiful weather. In social we are watching the story of us and finished our loyalist letters. We also learned about S.M.A.R.T. goals and made our own smart goals for school and our lives. In Science we learnt about electromagnetic induction.
Qué Pasa is on Tuesday! Please check your child's backpack for their white shirts, wash it and have them wear it to school on Tuesday. Gracias! 😁
Important Dates:
May 2: Qué Pasa
May 12: Fancy Day
In Spanish we started to learn how to conjugate verbs in the past tense. In English we went outside and did sit spot journaling. In math we are learning about capacity. In social we are writing a letter from the perspective of a Canadian loyalist. In art we did a spring inspired art and made papel picado for the end of year Fiesta!
Important Dates:
April 26: Math Contest sponsored by MRU
May 2: Qué Pasa!
May 12: Fancy Day
Today in math we had a quiz about perimeter, area and volume. In Spanish we did a Blooket about Earth day words in Spanish. In gym we started doing bars in our gymnastics unit and next week hopefully will do mission impossible. In science, we continued learning about magnets. In social, we are learning about the loyalists. In English, we finished our Newspapers.
Important Dates:
April 26: Math Contest sponsored by MRU
May 2: Qué Pasa!
May 12: Fancy Day
In art we learnt about Cubism and Pablo Picasso and got to do our own art inspired by it. In health we are learning about healthy eating. In math we are learning about volume and how to calculate the volume of a rectangular prism and cube. In gym we are doing our gymnastics unit and got to use the equipment.In Spanish we are continuing to practice using direct objective pronouns. In english we are presented our literacy circle posters. In science we are learning about magnets and electromagnets.
Important Dates:
April 21: Earth Day! (Dress in Earth Tones)
April 26: Math Contest sponsored by MRU
May 2: Qué Pasa!
We did a challenge today with tangrams. We are learning about area and perimeter in math. In Spanish we are learning about "objetos directos - direct object pronouns". In science we started learning about magnets. In English we are doing our own newspaper about an animal of our choice. In gym we started our gymnastics unit. Today we did the blog. :)
Important Dates:
April 21: Earth Day! (Dress in Earth Tones)
April 26: Math Contest sponsored by MRU
May 2: Qué Pasa!
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dalhousieschoolparentsociety@gmail.com – email us if you have questions about anything!
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***FAMILY FIESTA***
Family Fiesta will be returning to Dalhousie this June! We are searching for donations for our silent auction, so if you know of any businesses or individuals who would like to donate, please contact us at dalhousieschoolparentsociety@gmail.com
We will be needing lots of volunteers to help out on the day of fiesta, so please watch out for the sign up genius link as we get closer to the date!
***PLAYGROUND***
Check out the sign up if you are interested in becoming part of the playground committee!
***FUN LUNCH***
Volunteers need to have police clearance to volunteer for fun lunch, please email dalhousieschoolparentsociety@gmail.com if you would like us to confirm.
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! We have some spots from now until the end of the year. Sign up here
If your child will be absent and you‘ve already ordered fun lunch please email dalhousieschoolparentsociety@gmail.com before 11:00am and let us know if you’d like to:
-Pick up the order from the office after 12:30pm
-Donate it to the amazing Dalhousie staff
-Have it sent home with a sibling
Upcoming dates:
April 18 – Mucho Burrito
April 26 – Fat Burger
May 2 - Boston Pizza
May 10 - Tim Horton’s
Yearbook: Deadline to purchase a yearbook is Friday, April 28. The cost is $21. If you want to purchase additional books per student, please contact the office Dalhousie@cbe.ab.ca It is an optional purchase and can be paid for through your MyCBE account.
With the change in weather conditions, please ensure that your child is appropriately dressed for the weather and any changes in weather. Additionally, please send an extra change of clothes with your child to school to be kept in their backpack. This should include a top, a bottom, change of socks and underwear. Recess and lunch is a great opportunity for fun and play in the snow and slush, resulting in wet clothing. The office has a very limited supply of clothes. Thank you for helping us keeping your child happy and dry.
We are so excited to have parent volunteers back in the classrooms! Please ensure your police clearance has been correctly uploaded prior to signing up for one of the many volunteer opportunities. If you are unsure of your status please reach out to our lovely office team who will be more than happy to assist you with this process.
Monday, April 17th - New Principal Day! Please welcome Sr. Jeff Belcher to Dalhousie!
Friday, April 21st -Earth Day – students to dress in Earth tones and classes will participate in earth friendly activities.
In Math, we started looking at area and how to calculate the area of rectangles. We also explored how different rectangles that have the same perimeter can have different areas. In Spanish, we started learning about direct object pronouns. In English, we started writing a rough draft for our newspaper article. In science, we did a review of everything we have learnt about electricity so far. In art, we created a larger group version of our "roll a Miró" activity.
Important Dates:
April 7 - April 10: No school
April 11: Minecraft Video Due
April 26: Math Contest sponsored by MRU
May 2: Qué Pasa!
A reminder that there is no school tomorrow, Friday, April 7 and Monday, April 10. We look forward to seeing everyone again on Tuesday, April 11.
Our next parent Society meeting is on April 12 via Teams. Everyone is welcome. We hope to see you there! Link and password will be sent out to parents on Wednesday morning.
Our movement unit will start on April 11. Please see the separate email sent out regarding appropriate clothing and safety precautions.
Dear Dalhousie Families,
From April 11 – April 28, 2023, students will be participating in a movement/Mission Impossible unit in physical education. Within all physical education units, students have opportunities to develop their individual skill level, share their accomplishments and experience the satisfaction of teamwork in a safe and non-threatening atmosphere. In order for students to stay safe and have an enhanced learning experience, we ask that students follow the expectations listed below. We would like each student to review these guidelines with their parents as it will help them better understand the importance we place on safety.
Student Expectations:
Student safety is of the utmost importance at Dalhousie. Please review these expectations with your child.
Thank you for your support,
Dalhousie Teachers
