Good afternoon everyone!
I hope you all had a wonderful day! Tomorrow
is a Day 4 and gym.
Please ensure students are dressed in their gym uniform ready to board the bus
with proper gym shoes at 9:00 AM.
Students will change into their school day uniform after gym. Today is the Family
Shopping Event for the Book Fair. Families are able to shop anytime between
2:30 and 6:00 PM. Don’t forget to enter for your chance to win a $25 book fair
prize!
Student-led Conferences are just around the corner. They will happen on Thursday,
December 5th. Pick A Time sheets have gone home with all of the
required information. The system will go live on Thursday, November 28th at 10:00 AM. Please be sure to
correctly follow the login information using the information at the top right
hand side of the paper. Please note that all conferences will last 10 minutes
and an alarm will be used to keep everyone on track. If you are late for your
appointment, only the remaining time will be given. I thank you in advance for
your cooperation.
Our Christmas Concert
rehearsals are well underway. We are dancing to Justin Bieber's 'Santa Claus is
Comin to Town’. Please see the link below for our song and the finale song, ‘So
Good to Be Bad’
Santa Claus is Comin to Town
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MB3TCiA1rgI
Good To Be Bad
Important dates/items:
Monday, November
25-Friday, November 29 – Book Fair
Friday, November
29 – Term 1 Report Cards Go Home and Polar Expressions Poems due
Friday, December 6
– Polar Expressions Short Stories due & December hot lunch payments due
Monday, December 2
– Term 2 Begins
Thursday, December
5 – Student Led Conferences
Tuesday, December
10 – JK-Grade 2 Christmas Concert
Tuesday, December
17 – Grade 3-8 Christmas Concert
Wednesday,
December 18 – Casual Day for those students who have paid the $20 casual day
fee
Thursday December
19 – Christmas Spirit Day
Friday, December
20- Tuesday, January 7 – No School – Christmas holidays
Wednesday, January
8 – First Day Back After Christmas Holidays
Unit of Inquiry
Today
we continued working on our summative. Summatives are due tomorrow.
Presentations will take place tomorrow as well. We are inviting Grade 5
families to join us on Friday, November 29th from 2:30-3:15 PM for
our Grade 5 Museum of Ancient Civilizations. We look forward to seeing you
then.
Homework
Summative
due tomorrow and presentations begin
Inquiry into
Mathematics
Today we estimated sums and differences.
Just as in yesterdays lesson, there are three ways we can estimates; rounding
to the nearest whole number, to the nearest tenth and to the nearest hundredth. Remember when it asks you to find the sum you add and when it asks you to find the difference you subtract.
As of now our test will be Friday,
December 13th.
Points to Remember
Most
large numbers are written in short form instead of having to write
the large number in standard form. For example, 5 ½ million is
written in standard form as 5, 500, 000. 42, 400, 000 can be written as the
decimal 42.4 million. Keep in mind the rounding rules; 0-4 round to the floor,
5-9 round to the sky.
Exploring
thousands
and writing them as fractions and decimals. We used a place value chart to help
us.
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Ones
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Tenths
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Thousandths
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We also used base ten blocks to help.
Please see picture below. A fraction is written as 314/1000. We say it as
three-hundred and fourteen thousandths. The decimal would be 0.314.
There are three ways we can order and compare decimals; using base
ten blocks, using a place value chart and using a number line.
When rounding decimals you must remember the rounding rules – 0-4 you
round down and the number doesn’t change and 5-9 you round up and the number
will change. If rounding to the nearest whole
number there will be no decimals. If rounding to the nearest tenth there will be only one number
after the decimal. If you are rounding to the nearest hundredth there will be two numbers after the decimal.
Homework
MMS.
52-53
Inquiry into Language
Today
we continued to work on our Student-Led Conference package, and visited with
our reading buddies.
Typing Club Website
Please visit this page to reference back
to when making citations:
French – Mme. Sarah
The
Grade 5s will be attending a French theatrical presentation ‘Les Insectes Sur Scene’ on Tuesday, March
31st from 9:30 to 11:30 AM.
Spelling Words for
French
Homework
Have a
wonderful night!
Mrs.
Hocevar
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