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Class Overview
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Grade 5
Welcome to Grade 5 at St. James & St. Ann’s School! This year is a pivotal time for continuing to develop essential character traits, leadership skills, and effective study habits. As students approach the upper end of the intermediate grades, they’ll find themselves gaining a deeper understanding of cooperation and teamwork, working effectively with diverse peers to achieve their goals.
Character Development and Leadership
In Grade 5, we emphasize the importance of being Christ-like and caring for our younger friends. Students are encouraged to embody kindness, responsibility, and empathy in their daily interactions. This year, we will focus on:
Developing Good Character: Embracing qualities like respect, honesty, and perseverance.
Enhancing Leadership Skills: Taking initiative, working collaboratively, and setting positive examples for peers.Technology Integration
Our curriculum includes a strong focus on technology and its applications. Students will become proficient in using various Google tools to enhance their learning experiences. These tools include:
Google Docs: For writing and collaborating on documents.
Google Slides: To create engaging presentations.
Google Forms: For gathering information and conducting surveys.
Students will use these applications to create impressive projects and presentations, integrating technology into their learning process effectively.Curriculum Highlights
The Grade 5 curriculum offers a rich blend of concepts and activities designed to engage students and foster their growth. Key features include:
Field Trips: Opportunities to explore and connect learning with real-world experiences.
In-Class Presentations: Platforms for students to share their knowledge and creativity with their classmates.Community Engagement: Tobor Court Visits
A highlight of our year is our regular visits to Tobor Court, a local assisted living facility. These interactions with the elderly residents are truly remarkable and provide invaluable lessons in empathy and compassion. Students will have the opportunity to engage in meaningful conversations, share their experiences, and learn from the wisdom of the residents. This experience not only enriches our understanding of community but also reinforces our commitment to being Christ-like and caring for others.
This year, we will strive to be the best version of ourselves, embracing new challenges and opportunities with enthusiasm and dedication. Let’s make this a memorable and successful year together!
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Class Objectives
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Christian Education
This year the children will be learning the meaning of worshiping God in community. The worship of God includes prayer and service. We give worship to God through the celebration of the Eucharist and Sacraments. Through the study of the liturgy, classroom discussions, priest visits, and much more, the students become aware of Christ’s work of salvation. They learn to participate more fully in order to give thanks and praise God.
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Language Arts
The Language Arts curriculum will focus on having the students read fluently, develop comprehension and respond effectively to questions. They will be practising identifying the main idea in stories and using creativity to explain how their learning is affected by what they read. Students will be challenged to make connections from what they read to their lives and experiences, and the experiences of people in their lives. Reading materials will be carefully selected. Opportunities will be given for students to develop their use of oral language through poetry recitation, Bible readings, and storytelling. Students will also be given an opportunity to improve their writing skills by writing poetry, various literary forms, and most of all they will learn how to write essays and short stories full of their own exciting ideas.
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Mathematics
In Grade 5 our focus will be on practising basic facts and increasing accuracy in computation. We will begin the year with patterns and equations then move on to whole numbers and place value. We will work on multiplication and division, measurement, decimals and fractions and then on to geometry. The year will conclude with statistics and probability, and transformations. Throughout the year, we will continue to practise solving word problems cooperatively and in large groups. A computer-based program called Athletics, which proved itself to be very popular among young students, is going to be one of the fun activities we are going to do during our exciting Math lessons and centres.
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Science
The Science curriculum focuses on force and motion, the human body and environmental Science. We will be considering environmental issues and sustainability. Students will be able to identify how we can conserve both living and non-living resources in our communities. In our unit on the human body, students will make models to represent body systems and parts of our bodies. We will be learning about simple machines and how complex machines are made up of smaller machines to make work easier. No Grade 5 Science program would be complete without lots of hands on exploration and experiments, and amazing field trips full of learning opportunities.
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Social Studies
The Social Studies curriculum focuses on Canada’s history, geography and the diverse mix of cultures that are here. We will talk about first peoples and the founding peoples, immigration, government, transportation and communities. The students will find opportunities to trace the contributions that individuals have had to the development of Canada. Hands on, projects, fun presentations, and a lot more is going to keep Grade 5s happy and occupied.
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Information Technology/Art
Students will be given an opportunity to learn a lot of different uses for Google in IT class. They will create artistic works collaboratively and as an individual using ideas inspired by imagination, inquiry, experimentation, and purposeful play. We will explore connections to identity, place, culture, and belonging through creative expression and explore a range of cultures, and the relationships among cultures, societies and the arts.
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Class Teacher
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Mrs. Zuzana Lavrikova
Grade 5 TeacherMrs. Zuzana Lavrikova
Grade 5 TeacherMrs. Lavrikova earned her Master’s degree in Education from John Amos Comenius University in Slovakia and furthered her studies in Sheffield, England. With 26 years of teaching experience across grades 1 to 10, she has had a diverse and extensive career. Within CISVA, she began her journey at St. John Brebeuf and later taught Grade 6 at St. James before transitioning to her current role as a Grade 5 teacher. Mrs. Lavrikova has also completed the Google for Education Fundamentals Training, enhancing her skills in integrating technology into the classroom.
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