June 19th Update

Our 5C international potluck will be this Thursday, June 22^nd at 11:30AM. Please do not forget, if you are planning on bringing something, we have a severe nut allergy in our class! 

We have our Weaselhead Wetlands field trip this Friday, June 23^rd – Dress appropriately for the weather. This could include wearing a hat, proper footwear, and warm layers. We will be walking outside all day, so make sure to wear shoes that are comfortable. Currently there is a slight chance of rain in the forecast for Friday, so you may need to bring a rain jacket. 

There are still some students who have not returned their forms for the Cochrane Movie House field trip on Thursday, June 29th. Please check and make sure your child brought back their form! 

In Math we have been learning about characteristics of quadrilaterals. For homework tonight, students need to complete page 96-97 in their math workbook.

Please have a look at your child's Measurement test and sign it in the next couple of days. 

Students also received their mark for Part B of their Religion Achievement Test.

Poetry

This week we started to study poetry, and we had a discussion about the ways that people use language to manipulate the ways we see the world. 

Lewis Carroll wrote a poem called The Jabberwocky, which uses nonsensical words to tell a story of a mythical creature called a Jabberwock. 

If students did not complete the following questions, it was assigned for homework this weekend:

1. What is this poem about?

2. How do you know? In what ways does the writer give you clues about the content? 

3. Choose three nonsensical words (words that were made up by the writer, and do not make sense in English) and write a definition for each. 

Jabberwocky

BY LEWIS CARROLL

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves 

      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: 

All mimsy were the borogoves, 

      And the mome raths outgrabe. 

“Beware the Jabberwock, my son! 

      The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! 

Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun 

      The frumious Bandersnatch!” 

He took his vorpal sword in hand; 

      Long time the manxome foe he sought— 

So rested he by the Tumtum tree 

      And stood awhile in thought. 

And, as in uffish thought he stood, 

      The Jabberwock, with eyes of flame, 

Came whiffling through the tulgey wood, 

      And burbled as it came! 

One, two! One, two! And through and through 

      The vorpal blade went snicker-snack! 

He left it dead, and with its head 

      He went galumphing back. 

“And hast thou slain the Jabberwock? 

      Come to my arms, my beamish boy! 

O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!” 

      He chortled in his joy. 

’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves 

      Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: 

All mimsy were the borogoves, 

      And the mome raths outgrabe.