Week 5 is here! PARENTS' OPEN HOUSE this week on Thursday, May 8 from 7:45 until 8:30!

We are over the halfway point in the Grade 5 Exhibition of 2014 this week! This week students are continuing to research into their issues, either through interviewing primary sources (experts), going on field trips, or looking into secondary sources of information in the form of books, websites, movies, and each other's notes!

Students, in their issue groups will:

• Be brainstorming and doing research about their issues on the internet and with other secondary sources; 
• Be meeting with parents who come in for our Parents' Open House on Thursday morning at 7:45; 
• Be reviewing how to accurately record bibliographic information using Easybib and Google documents; 
• Be deciding what roles and tasks each student in the issue group must take on for this week and next; 
• Be sending out more letters for the purpose of asking local or international experts for interviews, visits, or Skype meetings, and for thanking those same experts for their attention (if they have met with students already); 
• Be meeting with guest speakers and experts from a variety of fields either on field trips or at school 
• Be summarizing the knowledge they get from each Primary or Secondary source; 
• Be sharing these summaries with other group members at the end of the week; 
• Be writing a reflection on the fifth week of the Exhibition about working on research and with their mentors, and about the status of their group work; 
• Be brainstorming about ideas for presenting what they have learned during the actual Exhibition nights and days; 
• Be coming up with new questions they have been developing based on their issues, and arranging those based on concepts in their journals; 
• And will be brainstorming about ideas for action with issues groups and the whole year group.

SPECIAL NOTE FOR MENTORS

Mentors, please check out our For Mentors section of this blog for a list of ideas to work on with your issues groups.

SPECIAL NOTES FOR PARENTS

Parents, please remember that we have a Parents' Open House on Thursday, May 8 from 7:45 until 8:30 in Mr. Jon's room and Ms. Bridget's room. Please come and be prepared to meet with various issues groups to discuss and share what these students have been doing and learning during their inquiries as part of our Exhibition this year. We will send out a reminder as we get closer to the day. 

Also, please remember that Friday, May 9, there is no class for students due to professional development for teachers on that day. 

Finally, please check out some of the reflections students have been writing after meeting with guest speakers and taking field trips on our Useful Links section of this blog and our latest photos on our Photos and Media page!