Mr. Junaid's Grade 5 Class

 Hello All! This week, we have been busy starting our time capsule project for our school time capsule from 1996, each student has been put into groups, and they have chosen items that interest them. Eventually, they will be leading a gallery walk in the gym in mid June, with the items having summaries and research. We have also ended our Canadian Immigration story unit, and will be now moving onto the shaping of Canada. In Math, we have been having fun starting our probability unit, with likely, unlikely, certain and impossible situations, and our probability dice roll and rock paper scissors activity. Next week, we will be continuing probability learning about bar graphs. In science, we have been wrapping up our classroom chemistry unit, and will be doing our crystal borax experiment on Monday. Lastly, in Language Arts, we have been working on our plans for our story, and have started the rough copies. Next week we will be peer editing, and possibly stating our good copies on com...

Hello All! This week was a busy week in our classroom. The students have been enjoying prodigy math games online for studying for their fractions and decimals quiz on Monday. We halve also been putting on our lab coats and conducting fun experiments for our classroom chemistry unit, getting ready to end our unit in the next few weeks. Our social studies has had us continuing our exploration of immigration into Canada stories from all kinds of different cultures. Lastly, our story writing has been progressing well, breaking down all aspects of a story, with our own story writing process beginning next week. Here are a few pictures of our adventures this week, including prodigy and our community cleanup. Have a great weekend everyone! -Mr. Junaid 

Hello again everyone! This week was a busy week, but we are progressing really well! In math, we have covered fractions and percents, and will be moving into review next week before a small quiz! After this, we will be moving on to statistics and probability! In science, we have started our classroom chemistry unit, and the students have had a blast with their solutions and mixtures! In social, we tried working with history scripts, and it was a lot of fun from what they had said! I always want to make subjects as fun and engaging as I can. Lastly, in ELA we have been working hard at our story writing, breaking down all parts of the story before writing and editing our stories in a couple weeks! I hope you all have a lovely weekend :). -Mr. Junaid

Hi everyone! We have had a busy week! We transitioned after our math test on division to doing decimals, and at the end of the week we started to cover fractions. I am proud of all of the students, as this is not easy work, but they are doing great! We are finishing up our magnet unit this week, moving into classroom chemistry next week, which I know all of the students are really excited for! We have gotten into our story writing unit, and have been covering the introduction part of the story in depth, next week, we will be moving into the rising action part of the story. Lastly, in social studies, we have been continuing our deep dive into Canada and it's history of immigration with story perspectives from people who have immigrated into Canada. I hope you all have a lovely weekend! -Mr. Junaid. 

 Hello All! This week, my grade 5s wrote their first unit test with me for multiplication and division, and I am so proud of them because the mark are looking great! We have also began working with decimals, converting them from remainders, and will continue with fractions next week. For science, we had our first official experiment using a lab report according to the scientific method. The kids were happy to have some time with the magnets, and this knowledge of how to complete a lab will serve us well for our next unit, which is classroom chemistry, being heavy in labs. For social studies, we are beginning our stories of Canada unit, where we have looked at Francophone and British immigration influence, as well as some First Nations and Metis mapping and legends. Lastly, we have been finishing our poetry books for our poetry unit, and we will be starting story writing next week! I hope you are all have a great weekend with your families! -Mr. Junaid. 

This week, we settled back in from spring break, starting our poetry books before we begin our story writing unit. In social, we have begun our exploration of the history of immigration in Canada. Science had us beginning our short magnets unit before we begin classroom chemistry. Lastly, we have been studying and playing multiplication and division jeopardy to prepare for Tuesday! Have a great holiday everyone!!  -Mr. Junaid. 

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!