Good afternoon everyone,

I hope you had a wonderful weekend. Tomorrow is a Day 1 (gym). We will be spending quite a bit of time over the next few weeks perfecting our Wizard of Oz Arts’ Night performance, so our alignment with the other Grade 5 classes may be off. We are trying our hardest to ensure our students are not missing important lessons! Aftercare invoices have been sent out. All payments are due by April 15^th. Please pay by this date to avoid interest being charged to your account!! Tomorrow after first lunch we will be heading over to the dome to watch the JK-Grade 2 Arts’ Night performance.

Important dates/items:

Tuesday, May 7 – JK-Grade 2 Arts’ Night

Thursday, May 9 – MYP Shakespeare Play

Tuesday, May 14 – Grade 3-8 Arts’ Night

Friday, May 17-Monday, May 20 – No School – Victoria Day Weekend

Thursday, May 23 – SJA Track and Field Meet

Monday, May 27 – Inner-School Spelling Bee at Sunnybrook

Wednesday, May 29 – Casual Day

Friday, May 31 –SJA vs TMA Track and Field Competition

Friday, June 14 – Last Day of School and Promotion Ceremony

Unit of Inquiry

Today we learned how to write our name using animation.   

HOMEWORK

-Send me your name tonight

Coding is so fun!

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today we began our rotational symmetry art. We will be continuing this tomorrow.

The Grade 5 Team has decided to push back this math unit. With all that is happening at the school, we are going to slow down this unit. We will be spending the rest of the week and part of next week completing the lessons. Beginning late next week and continuing the following week, we will be completing our reviews. On Wednesday, May 15^th we will take up the review and answer any questions. Students will write their math test on Thursday, May 16^th.

Points to remember:

Transformations

Don’t forget to include brackets around your coordinates (3, 5), the comma between the x and y coordinates (3, 4), and the apostrophe for the prime coordinates A’. Be sure to correctly plot your coordinates and lastly, ensure the image is the correct number of spaces away from the axis as the figure is when doing certain transformations.

Axis – the horizontal axis is represented by X and is the first number in the coordinates (3, 5) and the vertical axis is represented by the Y and is the second number in the coordinates (3, 5).

Translations – slide. After a translation, a figure and its image are congruent (same shape and same size) and they face the same way. We say 'A prime' and write A’ when referring to the points on the new image.

Reflections- flip. After reflections, a figure and its image are congruent and can face opposite ways. Remember any point and its reflection image are the same distance form the mirror line. Remember to label each new image and use prime (') on the new points.

Rotations - turns. After a rotation, a figure and its image are congruent and may face different ways. If a figure turns 360 degrees (a full turn), we will not use the prime (‘) symbol as with the full turn it is back to the original figure.

For any transformation, we have our original coordinates (x, y). For a 90 degree counter clockwise rotation, the formula/rule to follow is (-y, x). For example, if our original coordinates are (3, 5) then our new prime coordinate for our 90 degree counter clockwise turn is (-5, 3). For an 180 degree counter clockwise rotation, the formula/rule to follow is (-x, -y). For example, if our original coordinates are (3, 5) then our new prime coordinate for our 180 degree counter clockwise turn is (-3, -5). For a 270 degree counter clockwise rotation, the formula/rule to follow is (y, -x). For example, if our original coordinates are (3, 5) then our new prime coordinate for our 270 degree counter clockwise turn is (5, -3).

For any transformation, we have our original coordinates (x, y). For a 90 counter clockwise rotation, the formula/rule to follow is (y, -x). For example, if our original coordinates are (3, 5) then our new prime coordinate for our 90 degree clockwise turn is (5, -3). For an 180 degree clockwise rotation, the formula/rule to follow is (-x, -y) – the same as an 180 degree counter clockwise turn. For example, if our original coordinates are (3, 5) then our new prime coordinate for our 180 degree clockwise turn is (-3, -5). For a 270 degree clockwise rotation, the formula/rule to follow is (-y, x). For example, if our original coordinates are (3, 5) then our new prime coordinate for our 270 degree clockwise turn is (-5, 3).

90 degrees is a ¼ turn, 180 degrees is a ½ turn and 270 degrees is a ¾ turn. Clockwise follows a clock (12, 1, 2, 3, etc.) and counter clockwise goes backwards (12, 11, 10, 9, etc.).

Congruent figures are the same shape and size. They have the same angles and the same side lengths. Similar figures have corresponding angels equal and the side lengths of one figure multiplied by the same number are equal to the corresponding side lengths of the other figure.

Line symmetry divides a figure into congruent parts. Reflections can be sued to draw figures with one or more lines of symmetry.

Rotational symmetry  - a figure that coincides with itself more than once when rotated to a full turn or less has rotational symmetry. Some figures that have rotational symmetry are a + sign, a rectangle, a star, and an octagon. An example of a figure that has no rotational symmetry is a heart.

HOMEWORK

-Math test May 16th

Math art!

Inquiry into Language

Today we began our spelling lesson #30, a review, added items to our portfolios and completed our self assessment/reflection for both our biodiversity summative and our Hatchet literature circle. I hope to have these items sent home for you to review by the end of the week. We also shared some of the newspaper articles we wrote, and began improving an article that Mr. Conte wrote.

HOMEWORK

-Finish spelling lesson #30

-Finish improving Mr. Conte’s newspaper article

These risk-takers sharing their newspaper articles!

Have a wonderful night!

Love Mrs. Hocevar