Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful night! We have another day switch this week. Tomorrow is a Day 3 (gym). Thursday we will be back to our regular schedule of a Day 5. Please note we will have back-to-back gym days on Wednesday and Thursday.

Chip and candy sale and casual day is tomorrow.

Oakwood Academy is holding a Poinsettia fundraiser for the holiday season, to raise money for some new sensory items. The Poinsettias are red, pink or white and make a wonderful holiday gift, and are a nice way to spread holiday cheer. Order forms were sent home today. The class that sells the most Poinsettias will win a $50 gift card!! Order between November 1^st and November 30^th by cash only.

Hot lunch program: The website is up and running for December hot lunch. The site will close on Friday, November 30 at 3:00 and will not be able to re-open. **Please remember to correctly order under the right grade and teacher. **

Ms. Hayward is holding her ‘Pinkalicious’ Ornament Contest again this year. Please see the flyer below for more information.

Important dates/items:

Wednesday, November 28 – Chip and candy sale & casual day

Friday, November 30 – Term One report cards go home

Monday, December 3 – Term Three begins

Thursday, December 6 – Student-Led Conferences

Tuesday, December 11 – JK-Grade 2 Christmas concert

Tuesday, December 18 – Grade 3-8 Christmas concert & bake sale

Wednesday, December 19 – Casual day & bake sale

Thursday, December 20 – Christmas Spirit day and last day of school before the Christmas break

Unit of Inquiry

Today we continued working on our summative. For our ancient civilization summative, students will be required to re-create an ancient artefact from one of the three civilizations we learned about. An information package and rubric was sent home. We will begin our in-class summative on Monday, November 19^th and the due date will be Thursday, November 29^th. A kind reminder that all work is to be completed during class time only, unless other wise stated. We should be completing our artefacts and moving onto the writing component.

We are inviting Grade 5 parents and family members to our Grade 5 SJA Museum of Ancient Civilization Artefacts on Friday, November 30 from 2:30-3:15. We look forward to seeing you there!

HOMEWORK

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Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we explored thousandths, and ordering and comparing decimals. Thousandths is located 3 spots after the decimal in the place value chart (0.000) and is represented by a single cube if working with base ten blocks. When using base ten blocks and decimals, we work the opposite of whole numbers. For example, a thousands cube represents a whole number (1), tenths is represented by a 100s block (0.1), hundredths is represented by a 10s block (0.01), and finally thousandths is represented by a single cube (0.001). Here are some examples of changing fractions to decimals; 6/1000 = .006, 17/1000 = .017, 123/1000 = .123, 2 321/1000 = 2.321. **Remember that when reading the decimal in words, we use and. For example, 2.123 = two and one hundred and twenty three thousandths.**

When comparing and ordering numbers, we need to remember that as we go from tenths to thousandths the numbers get smaller. So 0.406 is smaller than 0.457, and 6.0 is bigger than 5.976.

Points to remember:

4.9 = 4 and 9/10 (tenths)

4.99 = 4 and 99/100 (hundredths)

4.999 = 4 and 99/1000 (thousandths)

¼ = 0.25

½ = 0.50

¾ = 0.75

- 2.25 million is written in standard form as

2, 250, 000.

As a decimal we write it as 2.25 million (2 whole million + 0.25 million) and as a fraction it is ¼ of a million (25 is ¼ of 100).

Place value decimals:

4.623

Tens	Ones	.	Tenths	Hundredths	Thousandths
	4	.	6	2	3

Expanded Form:

4.623

4 + 0.6 + 0.02 + 0.003

HOMEWORK

-Math worksheet

Inquiry into Language

Today we filled out the last page of our report cards, worked on our Student-Led conference packages and completed the first two pages of our DRA packages – the reading engagement. We also visited Ms. Hayward in the library.

HOMEWORK

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Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar