Hello! Tomorrow is our Terry Fox Run! It was moved from Friday, due to potential snow (yuck). Our classroom has set a goal to raise $35 dollars for cancer research. We will all wear stickers and ribbons as we run on Friday to advocate and raise awareness for the Terry Fox Foundation. Friday is our Pillars of Care assembly. Our award recipients, who have done a wonderful job showing the Pillars this month, were sent home with slips today. Congratulations! We have library tomorrow. Please remind your child to bring back any books they may have at home. Today we got our new words for this week. This Friday will be our first spelling test. Here are the lists for this week, if you want to practice at home. We will be utilizing these words for word work all week. Students will know what group they are in. Blue Purple Orange Yellow Red hockey received neither believe achievement equality referee ple...
It was nice to get in contact with many of you today and find out how everything is going. I am sorry if I was unable to get ahold of you. Please check your email for some follow up questions regarding further information needed. You can expect to see a second email coming soon regarding Google Classrooms/Meet as well as further information about what is to come. For this week you can continue to do the activities listed on the website. https://sites.google.com/educbe.ca/grade5atbhs/home Thank you for your patience. Kind Regards, Mr. Mahon
Hi everyone, I hope this post finds you well. Today in our Google Meet we talked about racism and how we can be advocates and ally's. We watched 2 different read alouds and then had some discussion following each book and as we were reading. Here are the two books we listened to: A Kids Book about Racism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnaltG5N8nE A is for Activist https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIdCCKDGvF4 Below I have attached another book (we did not read this one as a group) that you may wish to watch and discuss as a family. Something Happened in Our Town This book follows two families — one white, one Black — as they discuss a police shooting of a Black man in their community. The story aims to answer children’s questions about such traumatic events, and to help children identify and counter racial injustice in their own lives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOhOFGcWm8 Here is a resource with a variety of different children's books that talk abo...
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