Mrs. Higgs and Ms. Dick grade 5/6

 This week in gym we got to do lacrosse for 2 gym classes. The person who was teaching us was a player from the Roughnecks. We learned how to scoop up the ball, throw and catch. It was fun! We had a field trip to the Saddledome  on Wednesday. It was the Hitmen vs. the Winnipeg Ice hockey game (the Hitmen lost :( ). It was for Pink Shirt Day which is a bullying awareness day. Most schools that went wore pink shirts. We did a dance to Katy Perry's song "Roar". We all got Mike Vernon bobble heads. In writing we are working on our Wonderopolis projects. We are reasearching a topic and answering questions about that topic by taking jot notes. We are then going to turn our jot notes into paragraphs for our Wonderopolis pages. In science the grade 6's made star maps. We shared the constellation stories that we researched (both the Indigenous and Greek stories). The grade 5's learned more about chemical reactions and the periodic table of elements.  In social studies the

 This week in writing we researched about a topic. We had to put jot notes about the information that we needed. We organized our notes into categories and put them into paragraphs.  In math, the grade 6's multiplied fractions by whole numbers. We used calculators to find a percentage from a fraction. The grade 5's added and subtracted fractions and had a fraction check-in. Ms. D's group had a fraction check- in too.  In science, the grade 5's learned about carbon dioxide. We did an experiment and found out that carbon dioxide is heavier than air and it will put out fire. The grade 6's made a planet display. We had to figure out the sizes and how far each planet is from the sun. We also started learning about constellations. We will be researching 1 constellation each to find out the Indigenous story and other stories about that constellation. On Tuesday we went on a winter walk. We were looking for signs of winter and making observations using our senses. In social