🎒BACK TO SCHOOL👨🏽‍🦽🚶🏻‍♀️🚶🏿🧑🏻‍🦯

 We are very excited to have students back in the school this week. Here is a short video from our Principal to show you what to expect. See you very soon!

🧡 Getting Ready For The Return To School🧡

School is starting next week. It's been a long time since we've been in the school and you might be wondering how it will feel. Here is a short slideshow for parents and students to talk about together.

Coping With Back-To-School 

I'm excited to meet everyone.  See you next week!

🧡 September Support 🧡

 This new school year brings more changes than ever before. If you choose to do on-line learning from home or in-person learning at school, the teachers are here to support you. 🧡 I want to assure you, students and families, that our focus will be on helping you stay healthy. 

There are a lot of unknowns right now. We don't know who will be in which class or what the routines will be like. It's normal for all these unknowns to cause anxiety and worry. I want to offer some links to a couple of resources that might be helpful right now. 

Back-to-school checklist during COVID-19

Breathing Balloon

I will try to keep everyone informed when I get more information about what Grade 5 will look like this year. 

Until then, take care everyone!🧡 👩🏻‍🏫

Your Average Grade 5 Student

As part of our measurement unit, students worked in small groups to measure parts of their bodies and find the average (mean) of the numbers.  They then reviewed rounding by rounding each number to the ones place.  Then the average numbers were used by each group to create a paper person.

Gingerbread Cookies

Having fun forming different shaped cookies from the gingerbread dough.

After the cookies were baked, the students decorated them with candies and icing sugar.  Yum!

This is the recipe that I used this year:

Safety First:  Students, please ask an adult to help you with baking these cookies.

1 cup light-brown sugar

1 1/2 tsp cinnamon

1 1/2 tsp powdered ginger

1/4 tsp salt

3/4 tsp baking soda

1/4 cup boiling water

1/2 cup unsalted butter

1/4 cup molasses

2 cups all-purpose flour

1. Place sugar, spices, salt and baking soda in a large bowl.  

2. Stir in boiling water until sugar is dissolved.  

3. Stir in butter until melted, then add molasses. 

4. Gradually stir in about 1 1/2 cups of flour.  

5. Continue stirring in remaining flour a little at a time until stiff.  

6. Flour hands and knead dough.  

7. Wrap in parchment or plastic wrap and refrigerate (I refrigerated it over-night) until ready to form into cookies.  Place cookies on parchment lined cookie sheets.  

Bake in 300F oven for 15-20 minutes until edges are firm.

Allow to cool before decorating with sugar icing and candies.  Store in a covered container at room temperature.  

Makes 30 (very small cookies)  I doubled the recipe for a class of 26 students.

Patterns In Art

We learned a lot about patterns in Islamic art at the Aga Khan Museum this week.  Students created clay tiles with calligraphy, floral, shape or figurative patterns.

Students enjoyed exploring the gallery and learning about searching for gold in Africa and they used lego to build their own civilization.

The Aga Khan Museum offers free admission every Wednesday evening from 4 pm to 8 pm.  

Hockey Game Trip

Guest Reporter: U.

"I'm so excited," I said.
"I am too. I bet it will be great!" said S....
"There is a hockey game on Thursday," I said.

[On] the day of the trip, "I couldn't sleep yesterday!!" S. said. Our teacher told us to find a partner.  I was with S. Soon we were at the bus.  Then we had to catch a train. "How much longer?" I said in my mind.

We were there [at Varsity Stadium].  It was a bit cold but I was dressed up warm.  We entered the rink and sat on our seats.  I was ready.  [For] the first three minutes a machine called a zamboni drove across the ice to make it slippery.  After that the two teams showed up.  The crowd cheered, "Woooo!" The teams were York Lions and U of T (University of Toronto).

The game started.  The first period was just passing and trying to shoot.  [In] the second period, the U of T team passed around the puck and managed to score.  The whole crowd cheered, "Wooooo!"  While the third period was about to start, there were some skaters (three of them) dancing on the ice.  They spun around and jumped. Then the third period started.  One of the team mates of the York Lions did a slap shot and got it in.  Here goes another crowd of people cheering. The same thing happened with the U of T team and got it in. "Woooo!!!" Then the big buzzer went off, "BEEP!"  And the TORONTO TEAM WON!!!  All of the people cheered.  It sure was a great time.  I totally enjoyed it! *Thumbs up*