Mr. Junaid's Grade 5 Class

This week, before spring break, we were working hard to finish our science, social, and math projects. We completed our exploration of circuits, division, and black history month. The students all worked really hard on these projects, and their efforts show! We will be moving onto test prep for division, the history of immigration into Canada, magnetism, and our poetry book project after spring break. Enjoy the break everyone!

  This week, we continued our division anchor charts, the students will be moving into test prep next week, for our test after spring break. In ELA we continued with our smilie and onomatopoeia poems, moving into hyperbole and other styles next week. In science, we are building our circuit devices, and the students are getting creative with their carousels, radios, and robots. Lastly, we have been working on presentation prep for our presentations next week, before we learn about our next social section, which is the history of immigration into Canada. Have a great weekend everyone!  

This week, we continued our exploration of poetry with haikus and smilies. The kids were very creative, and had a lot of fun with them! For social studies, we are wrapping up our black history month projects, and moving on to practicing our presentations for next week. In science, we are keeping up with our dive into circuits, with a new project of creating a device or object that uses circuits. Lastly in math, we explored short and long division, with anchor charts starting next week, and some lessons in test taking for our math unit test coming up at the end of March. Have a great weekend, and see you next week! 

  Happy Friday! This week, we. navigated through a set of circuit stations, where the students got to explore parallel and series circuits. Next week, we will begin our research for our project yet to come! In math, we have continued with division, being quite successful in understandings and fluency. We even started exploring 2 by 4 with long division, despite having only started it a couple weeks ago. In social studies, we wrapped up the projects for black history month, and will practice presentations next week. Lastly, in ELA we kept up with our poetry unit, exploring the color poem this week. We will continue on with alliteration next week. The first picture is of our animal mash up art! We will plan to display these hopefully in time for parent teacher interviews. See you all next week!   -Mr. Junaid. 

 This week, in Mr. Junaid's Class This week, we focused on continuing our short division practice before moving into long division in the next week or two depending on how we are progressing. In LA, we have been focusing on poetry, with cinquain and acrostic being the types of poetry studied. We will move onto colour poetry next week. In social studies, we kept working on our presentations for Canadian black history month, and we will finish and present these projects next week. Lastly, we reviewed circuits, but will be continuing review and application next week. The photos show some puppet making from the residency here at the school, as well as some math games. I hope you all have a great weekend! 

  Welcome Back to Mr. Junaid's Blog! 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 on...

  Welcome to Mr. Junaid's Class! This week, we learned about Canadian black history month, circuits, poetry, and we reviewed multiplication and practiced through games. We also took some time for snack, but watched educational documentaries from national geographic for kids. We also had body break dancing, which led the kids to be much more prepared for their learning. We finished off with our weekly show what you know, and had a fun Friday. Next week we will continue our poetry, circuits and social studies learning, but also will be starting to look at division. We will be at this for 6-8 weeks, depending on student progress, and we will get lots of practice so we can feel more comfortable with it.   -Mr. Junaid.