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 1st and November 30th 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 19th
and the due date will be Thursday, November 29th. 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
-
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
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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
