Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful night! Tomorrow is a Day 5 (gym). Pick-A-Time forms (for Student-Led Conferences) were sent home on Monday. The site will open tomorrow at 10 AM. Please follow the instructions on the sheet to sign up for a Student-Led Conference time.

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. ONLY A FEW DAYS LEFT TO ORDER!!

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:

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 will begin the written component tomorrow. Presentations begin Friday morning.

We are inviting Grade 5 parents and family members to our Grade 5 SJA Museum of Ancient Civilizations Artefacts on Friday, November 30 from 2:30-3:15. We look forward to seeing you there! Please see the invitations sent home today. Thank you to Joshua and Aanika for creating the invitations.

HOMEWORK

-Finish creating your artefact

Our fantastic invitations!

Hard at work finishing up our artefacts!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we rounded decimals. We use our rounding skills when we estimate an answer. It is important that we pay close attention to what the question is asking us to round to, whether it be to the nearest whole number, nearest tenths, hundredths or thousandths. Our rounding rules are 0-4 round down and 5-9 round up.

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

Thousandths is located 3 spots after the decimal in the place value chart (0.000).

Fractions to decimals: 6/1000 = .006, 17/1000 = .017, 123/1000 = .123, 2 321/1000 = 2.321. **Remember that when saying the number the decimal = 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.

HOMEWORK

-MMS pg 50-51

Inquiry into Language

Today we worked on our Student-Led conference presentation. We did this in pairs and groups and continued to work on our UOI summative.  

HOMEWORK

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Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar