Goodbye 5M & LVS!

I have had the pleasure of teaching at LVS for 6 years and I couldn't have asked for a better way to end my time here. I had an extraordinary class this year, and I had a great time working with these kids and I look forward to seeing them when they enter PCI! Have a safe and enjoyable summer grade 5's and always remember to choose kindness!

Dog Day!

Our balloon for Thursday was dog day in 5M! I brought my two girls Calamity and Mayhem to spend the afternoon with the kids. The kids played soccer and the dogs ran up and down the field with them. 5M tired those dogs out because they would not get out of bed this morning! My old man Chaos is going to join us tomorrow afternoon in the classroom.

Stop or They'll Shoot!

 

The grade 5 classes at LVS had the wonderful opportunity to learn archery skills yesterday afternoon. Students were taught the proper techniques for archery and had the opportunity to practice their skills! We had a couple of bulls eyes and balloon popping! We definitely have some sharp shooters in 5M!

Time is Flying!

It's hard to believe that we only have 2 1/2 more months together! Time is certainly flying! Pictured above is students participating in a fur trading activity. This activity kicked off our new Social Studies unit of the Fur Trade. We have started our last set of units for the year. Social Studies is the fur trade, Science is the human body and matter, and our final math topics will be measurement, fractions, and graphing. We also have additional activities and field trips planned for the remaining months. It is going to be a busy few months in 5M!

Festival du Voyageur!

The grade 5's definitely had a cold day at Festival du Voyageur, but they certainly made the best of it. We started out the morning with an interactive quiz show that tested the students knowledge of the Red River Settlement. Our afternoon consisted of a trip through the souvenir tent, a sleigh ride and some free time on the hill. Everyone managed to keep warm and to have a great time!

Happy Valentines Day and Happy Louis Riel Day!

We hope that you have a safe and enjoyable long weekend celebrating both Valentines Day and Louis Riel Day on Monday! Look forward to seeing you on Tuesday!

Kicking off 2015!

Happy New Year and welcome back 5M! It has definitely been a chilly start to 2015, but hopefully it warms up soon so the kids can go on the hills at the back that have been added to recently. We started the 2015 discussing new goals to set and accomplish this term. I am looking forward to the next 6 months of hard work with this class!

Student Led Conferences

During this short week of school students have been busy putting together their portfolios and practicing sharing their portfolios with one another and other students in other classes. For the Student Led Conferences, students will share their portfolios with their guests, and then students and their guests will have a quick discussion with me to go over the students academic and behaviour checklists. The students in 5M have been working hard all term and are excited to share their progress! Reminder that their are 3 families scheduled at a time, so there can potential be several people in the room at once so it is important to come at your scheduled time so as not to have more than the 3 families as it can become crowded and difficult for students to share their portfolio. 

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! This afternoon 5M enjoyed some free play time which involved some pretty sweet dance moves doing Just Dance on the Smartboard, a sock-hop at recess and finished the day with Minute to Win it games. It was a great afternoon with a great bunch of kids! I hope you had a safe Halloween evening gathering all sorts of goodies. Reminder that there is no school on Monday so you have an extra long weekend to gobble up those treats! 

The Minute to Win it tie breaker! The Hallo-Weiners pulled through and defeated the pirates in the Face the Cookie challenge. Awesome job to all competitors! 

5M's First Swim!

Great time had by all at the pool on Wednesday! The tubes were out, we had tag in the lazy river, and laughter could be heard bouncing off the walls in the PCU. I'm looking forward to the upcoming times we have in the pool!

Mulvey's M&M's, the Brain and Twitter

Our classroom name was chosen by the students and we are Ms. Mulvey's M&M's. The past few days we have been working together and building a safe classroom community. Part of this team building has been acknowledging and celebrating our differences - our strengths and our struggles. We all have different strengths and we can help each other out with our struggles. One of the activities that we did to acknowledge and celebrate our strengths is create a classroom brain.

Every student has a wrinkle on our classroom brain and they have claimed that wrinkle with their name and their highest multiple intelligence (as determined by a survey). We are all different kinds of smart and as a class we work together to strengthen our smarts and to help each other out with our struggles.
Our Twitter account has been set up and is running - you can follow us at @MsMulveysClass. Students will be tweeting weekly and I will also send out tweets with reminders of swimming, and any other special events coming up.

Welcome Mulvey's M&M's!

The first 2 days of school last week just flew by! There is so much to do and so many routines to get established! Our classroom name is Mulvey's M&M's and we are looking forward to a great year together. This blog has important dates listed, as well as internet games that the students can use to practice their skills. I look forward to working with you all this year! I will post about our Twitter Account as soon as it's up and running!

Time is Flying!

It's hard to believe that in 2 short months this year will be over! We have many exciting things coming up in the upcoming weeks (swimming, track and field, science olympics, etc) So students need to ensure that they are bringing their agenda back and forth to school and making sure it is seen. We want to ensure that you are aware of the many activities that are to come!

Have and Safe and Enjoyable Spring Break!

Well hopefully Spring starts to show it's face during the break! We are finishing our week making some purchases at the Mulvey's Sharpe Shop this morning and watching Percy Jackson and the Sea of Monsters this afternoon. The kids made some truly wonderful Percy Jackson board games this week, so we are celebrating the end of the book and board games by watching the movie and eating treats!

Wishing you a safe and enjoyable break and we will see you on April 7th!

French Poetry Contest

A huge congratulations to the 4 students in 5M who were brave enough to perform their poem to a crowd at Ecole Arthur Meighen School last night. All 4 students did a wonderful job, you represented our school well, we are so proud of you! Special shout out to Jacinda Houle who placed 3rd in the Grade 5-6 category! Well done 5M!

Festival du Voyageur!

The grade 5's had a great day at Festival du Voyageur yesterday! We had great weather, good activities and lots of time to roam around, shop, play and compete in a little tug of war...which we won! A huge thank you to all the kids who were so wonderfully behaved for such a great day!

Olmpics at LVS

A few weeks ago we participated in the LVS Winter Olympics in honour of the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics. Students competed in curling and broomball. A fabulous time was had by all! We look forward to keeping an eye on our Canadian Olympians and their achievements! Go Canada Go!

Mulvey's Minions Have Joined Twitter!

Our class has just made a classroom Twitter account and our user name is MulveysMinions. We have just started tweeting today! There are many ways that we can use Twitter in the classroom, and there are certainly some ideas of how we will use it, but to start it off we will be posting interesting facts found by the students. Everyday one student will be selected to use the ipad to find an interesting fact and to tweet it for the class. I may also use the Twitter account to tweet reminders for the classroom  things such as swimming, etc. If you have Twitter account, I encourage you to follow our class!

Happy Holidays!

It's hard to believe that the end of 2013 is upon us! The past few months have flown by and for the past week we have been having a great time doing Christmas activities. Today we delivered the "warm fuzzies" that we prepared for each other and it was great to see the smile on the kids faces when they read what the other kids think of them.

We ended the day with some Christmas Minute to Win it Games which was a hoot!

 Tomorrow the Mulvey Store will be opened in the morning for the kids to go shopping with the money they've earned and we will end the day relaxing with a movie. I'd like to wish you all a safe and happy holiday and a Happy New Year! See you in 2014!

Dear Santa...

Students were hard at work preparing letters to Santa today! It's hard to believe that there are only a few weeks left until the holiday break! We are looking forward to winding down the next few weeks with some festive activities and good times. This Christmas season I am truly thankful for the amazing class I have, they make my home away from home a wonderful place to be!