A quick lesson on reading directions, led to a lesson on knowing one's mailing address...which led to a lesson on filling out forms... w...

Here we are performing "Loser Like Me" from Glee as part of the Spring Fling Lip Sync afternoon! We picked this song because it...

These two characters were among the many that came to our classroom this week. They weren't robbers... more like "Robbers Munsch...

The following 3 entries are about the books we read in groups for Guided Reading. Maybe you will enjoy them...   -------------------------...

How do we use technology in our classroom? Well, let’s write a blog post about that… That’s right. Blogging on our class blog is one o...

January 27th is literacy day in Canada. We will be celebrating this special day all morning in our classroom. The theme for Literacy Day ...

We researched weather/storm predictors that happen  or are talked about in our families. Here are some of the sayings/ predictors that we t...

Hey, guys! Hope you're enjoying the snow day! I received  tweet this morning from CBC NewsWorld saying they were going to mention us ...

We spent time thsi afternoon tracking the pending snow storm for Atlantic Canada. We collected information (data) using:  tweets from Twit...

Mrs. Fennemore's class in Newfoundland posted questions for our class on their blog.  Here are our answers: Ellav asked: Where are we ...

This morning we tweeted with a class in Ontario about the Little Prince as part of the Global Read Aloud project: The students we tweeted ...

Learning about the planet -- Asteroid B612 How does the plane land on the planet if it's so small BAOBABS!!!!!!!! tiny, little planet...

We are taking part in a Global Read Aloud . We are reading the book "The Little Prince" with students from all over the world. Our...

Here we are back at school for another school year. This is going to be the blog where our grade 5/6 class keeps the world up to date on wh...

... but here are our covers! Here are the books we're reading independently to end this term:

We've taken a different perspective on writing poetry. Using this website , we've used pictures and put them to our words. We feel t...

Students were asked to write a poem about their rooms. What better place to write about than their little havens! (activity adapted from Nan...

A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. W. H. Auden We've begun a unit on poetry, and...

See the following videos which tell of the athletes whom our students are cheering for! (Each student was required to research a Canadian O...

         Katherine Macleod is an astonishing runner, who ran with the torch. She was generous enough to take the time to explain to us the ...