Ms. Vande Graaf

What a great start to the year we have had!! We have been busy building community and getting to know each other. We have been setting up our rules and routines and getting used to life in Grade 5/6. 

We have been working hard already this year. We have done a few different versions of All About Me Activities. We have done All About Me Art, All About Me T-shirts and All About Me writing. You can check them out in our classroom. We have been working on reviewing some of the fundamentals of writing and getting some ideas flowing with our quick write questions. There are such creative ideas in our classroom. 

In Social Studies, we have been talking about Canada and are learning about the provinces, territories and all their capital cities. We have been practicing using an atlas to find all kinds of different information and are working on a province and territory book that have all kinds of interesting information. We will share our books with you when we are done. 

We love to learn through inquiry in our classroom. We brainstormed all together and came up with a lot of the topics that really interest us and concluded as a group that we wanted to learn about the ocean. There are so many different things that interest us. We have decided to learn about space to start. We have brainstormed what we know and al the different questions that we have so far. We have posters up in our room so that we can keep adding our wonderings as they come up. 

Thank you to those of you who were able to make it out for Meet the Staff. If you could not make it and you would like to set up a time to meet, please call Ms. Vande Graaf at the school and we can make arrangements.