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This week, we had a short week due to teachers convention. A show what you know will be given in routine again next week, as well as some reading assessments for the students! We are continuing to focus on division, practicing the strategies such as grouping, arrays, repeated subtraction and halving. The students are feeling more and more confident as we go on. We continued our poetry unit, we students beginning to design their own poems through the acrostic, and cinquain style. We also continued with our circuits unit in science, looking at online circuit building resources while we are getting our new circuit equipment in. Lastly, the students continued with their celebrating Canadian black history month. The students are presenting a biography on a figure of their choice, and they can do this through Minecraft world building, posters, websites, books, etc. 

As seen in the photos, we also had some time to explore student passions, with one student holding a switchboard that they designed, actually coding a video game out of it! We also got to finish some art, to represent the city of Calgary landmarks. They are on display outside of our room if you ever want to come take a look. I hope you all are enjoying your family day weekends, and tune in next week for some more updates of Mr. Junaid's Grade 5 class! 

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