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Word Count Cinquains
Continuing on in our poetry unit, we wrote some word count cinquain poems. For anyone who does not know what a word count cinquain is, it is a 5 line poem generally about nature or some other concrete...
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Welcome to the 2012/2013 School Year
Hello parents and students! Welcome to another year at Tomahawk school! I am very excited to be back at Tomahawk and cannot wait to see what the year has in store for us. If you are visiting this blog...
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Fall Trees
Last week we worked on a fall art project. Students used “fall colors” to paint their backdrops. When the back grounds dried, they took watered-down black paint and used air blown through straws to...
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Writing Samples
In the wonderful world of grade 5/6 we have been working at following the writing process. Students, feel free to share your writing samples here in the comments section.
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Halloween!
Halloween, always a fun time of year. The grade five and six students enjoyed dressing up, playing some games, and of course, delicious treats. Take a look at some of the great costumes below (click on...
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Space: The Final Frontier?
Last Thursday morning, the grade 5/6 class had the opportunity to had the opportunity to hang out with their Kindergarten Buddies or “K.B.’s” as they are commonly referred to by some of the grade 5/6...
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Yee-Haw!
On Monday of this week, we were very lucky to have guest musician James Gordon with us at Tomahawk School. James has been a songwriter for many years and we really enjoyed having him in the building....
View ArticleSetting up your PSD Learning Portfolio
Grade 5/6 Students, Today we are going to be setting up our PSD Digital Portfolio’s. I have created a Google Presentation that goes through the steps I would like you to follow today. Later today, we...
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Space: The Final Frontier Part Deux!
This post is a bit overdue, but hopefully well worth the wait! A couple weeks ago I posted on the Grade 5/6 Kindergarten Buddy program that Mrs. Vanember and I have been doing this year. At that...
View ArticleImagination
Last month the Kindergarten and grade 5/6 class hosted a school assembly with the theme of “Imagination”. The two classes worked hard to make the assembly feel like a night at the theater. The students...
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