Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful day. Tomorrow is a Day 5 (gym). Tomorrow is Casual Day and Electronics Day – do not forget devices!! A candy bar will be available during our electronics period, so please send in some change and I will send students down.

Congratulations to Munira, Karina, Ali, Aamna, Vanshi, and Maxime for making the Top 6 in Grade 5 spelling and to Ronit, Manny, Neel, Caitlyn, Suravi, and Aanika for making the Top 6 in Grade 6 spelling. They will compete on Tuesday, April 9^th in our SJA Spelling Bee Competition. Well-done!!

Congratulations!!

Spring Fundraiser is here and running all week long! There will be a popcorn day, ice cream day, PJ, day, electronic day, and dress up day. Students who choose not to participate in the Spring Fundraiser field trip are expected to be at school that day, as Mr. Conte will be sticking back to teach. To date we have Chesley, Elina, Himmat, Ronit, Munira, Rajan, Liliana, Joshua, Manny, Vishva, Aanika, and Aarnav who could have a chance to pie a teacher of their choice. I hear Ms. Samuel is a popular choice!! It was lucky old me yesterday and Mrs. Padovan who got the pie in the face…and boy did we get it!!

YUM!!

We are just shy of meeting our fundraising goal. We have more that half of our class attending the trip on April 12^th. If you would like to re-consider sending your child you can send the money with them tomorrow. Please note that the trip is not $40, but that the $40 is going towards improving SJA.

Important dates/items:

Monday, April 1 – Friday, April 5 – Spring Fundraiser

Friday is Casual Day & Dance Party (JK-Grade 2)/Electronics Day (Grades 3-6) - there will also be a snack bar

Thursday, April 4 – Grade 5 and 6 in-class Spelling Bee & Student-Led Conferences

Monday, April 8 – JK-Grade 3 Spelling Bee

Tuesday, April 9 – Grade 4-8 Spelling Bee

Friday, April 12 – Spring Fundraiser trip to Scooters (11:30-2:00)

Thursday, April 18 – SITS workshop & Easter Spirit

Friday, April 19-Monday, April 22 – No School – Easter Weekend

Tuesday, April 23 – Rock climbing, bake sale & summer uniforms begin

Wednesday, April 24 – Bake sale & casual day

Tuesday, April 30 – Silent Dance

Unit of Inquiry

Today we split up into groups and made tree classifications of invertebrates. We classified them by those that live in water vs those who live on land, those that have legs vs those that have no legs, shell vs. no shell, and those that fly vs those that do not fly.

Biodiversity is another short unit. We will have roughly 3-3.5 weeks of learning and 1/5-2 weeks for our summative, which will be due sometime during the last full week of April. More information to come in the upcoming weeks.

HOMEWORK

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Working on our classifications!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we examined rates. A rate is a ratio that compares two items measured in different units. For example, Ramona drew 52 stars in 1 minute. We say that her rate of drawing stars is 52 stars per minute and we write it like 52 stars/minute. Per means ‘for every’ or ‘in every.’ This is our last lesson of this unit. Next week we will be completing Show What You Know and math review.

Our math test will take place on Thursday, April 11^th. Our next unit will be transformation geometry, which will begin with a pre-assessment on Monday, April 15^th.

Points to remember:

Remember what we do to the denominator we must do to the numerator. If we multiply the denominator by 3, then we must multiply the numerator by 3 as well.

Remember to simplify your fractions and convert improper fractions to mixed numbers.

How to add/subtract fractions - if the fractions have the same denominator, we simply add/subtract the numerators. For example, 1/6 + 4/6 = 5/6 & ¾ - ¼ = 2/4 = 1/2. However, if the denominators are different our first step is to find the lowest common denominator. For example, 1/3 + ½ = 2/6 + 3/6 = 5/6 & 5/6 – ½ = 5/6 – 3/6 = 2/6 = 1/3.

Percents - we want to keep the number 100 in our mind. When changing a fraction to a percent, we use the numerator to help us. For example, 23/100 = 23 percent. If we have a fraction that is over 10, 20 or 25, we need to make it over 100. We will need to multiply 10 by 10, 20 by 5 and 25 by 4. Remember to do the same to the numerator. For example, 6/10 = 60/100 (10 x 10 and 6 x 10) = 60 percent. We also looked at decimals. Remember if it is out of 100, then there will need to be two spots filled in after the decimal point. For example 23/100 = 0.23 and 7/100 = 0.07.

Estimating a percent - remember when we think of percent, we need to think ‘out of 100.’ Here is an example

–> Sylvie has a collection of 197 sports bobbleheads. About 25 percent of them are hockey players. Estimate the number of hockey players.

Step 1) Round 197 to 200.

Step 2) Find 25 percent of 200.

Step 3) Find an equivalent fraction with the denominator 200…25/100 = 50/200 (25 x 2 and 100 x 2). Therefore, 25 percent of 200 is 50.

->Of the 30 students in Larry’s class, 14 of them take the bus. Estimate the percent of the students who take the school bus.

Step 1) Round 14 to 15, which is ½ of 30. Therefore 14 is almost ½ of 30.

Step 2) ½ = 50/100 (percent is out of 100 – 2 x 50 and 1 x 50)

So, almost 50 percent of the students take the bus.

A ratio is a comparison of 2 quantities with the same unit.  A ratio can be used to compare a part of a set to another part of the set or to compare a part of a set to the whole set. For example, there are 9 rabbits; 4 brown and 5 white. The ratio of brown rabbits to white rabbits is 4 to 5. The ratio of 4 to 5 is written as 4:5. This is a part-to-part ratio. An example of a part-to-whole ratio is 4 brown rabbits to 9 whole rabbits, or 4:9, or 4/9.

Equivalent ratios - you can find equivalent ratios by multiplying or dividing the terms of a ratio by the same non-zero number. For example, Kim is planting a border in her garden. She plants 5 marigolds for every 3 geraniums. The ratio of marigolds to geraniums is 5:3. How many geraniums would she need to plant for each number of marigolds 10, 15, and 20? One way to find out is to use a table.

Marigolds	Geraniums	Ratio of Marigolds to Geraniums
5	3	5:3
10	6	10:6
15	9	15:9
20	12	20:12

We went up by 5s for marigolds and by 3s for geraniums. We multiplied 5 x 2, 5 x 3, and 5 x 4 for the marigolds and for the geraniums we multiplied 3 x 2, 3 x 3, 3 x 4.

Therefore, 5:3, 10:6, 15:9, and 20:12 are all equivalent fractions.

  

HOMEWORK

-MMS pg 130-131 if not completed in class and checked by me

Inquiry into Language

Today we completed our second role for Hatchet and completed our DRA (Diagnostic Reading Assessment) reading survey. We also completed our in-class Top 6 Spelling Bee and had some independent reading time.

Hatchet Literature Circle - This time we have added two other roles. There will no be a summariser, connector, literary critic, discussion moderator, and word wizard. Each week students will individually read the assigned chapters and complete their role in class. At the end of the week each group will come together and share with their group.

The groups (for sharing) – all work will be done independently:

Group 1 – Vishva, Aarnav, Div, Aanika, and Joshua

Group 2 – Ronit, Emana, Manny, Liliana, and Himmat

Group 3 – Mitansh, Jasmeet, Munira, Chesley, and Elina

Group 4 – Eva, Rajan and Willem

Due dates:

Chapters 1-3 due Friday, March 29^th

Chapters 4-6 due Friday, April 5^th

Chapters 7-9 due Friday, April 12^th

Chapters 10-12 due Thursday, April 18^th

Chapters 13-15 due Friday, April 26^th

Chapters 16-19 will be a culminating activity with due date to be announced.

HOMEWORK

-Spelling test tomorrow

-Finish Hatchet role for tomorrow

Practicing for tonight's Student-Led Conferences!

Have a wonderful night.  

Love Mrs. Hocevar