April 28th Homework

Language: Students have been working on Inferencing. We did a really neat activity looking at a wordless picture titled "The Lion and the Mouse". Ask them to tell you the story in your own words.
Math: We are working on long division! Lots of students are having difficulty to please practice at home.
On Monday we are going to travel by bus to CSS to see their performance of Highschool Musical. The cost of the performance is $5 and the bus is $1. Forms will be going home tomorrow.

April 20th Homework

April 20^th Homework

It has been a very busy last few days!! Students have been working on amazing animal print artwork that I will get posted for you to see.

In language we have just begun our final “pathway for learning”. We are going to be looking at inferencing “reading between the lines”. This is a very difficult skill and we will be spending the next few weeks on it. Today we began by looking at a picture and students needed to tell me everything they could about it. They needed to draw inferences about what might have been happening. Make sure to ask your child what the picture was about. The following is the success criteria for Inferencing:

Learning Goal: I am learning to use stated and implied information (about characters /in text) to develop my own interpretation.

Success Criteria:

€        Look for clues that the author gives you in the text.

€        Connect with what you already know

€        Connect with your own experiences

€        Put your own experiences together with clues from the text to form your interpretation

€        Come up with your own ideas or conclusion about the text that is not told to you in the author’s words.

Chocolate Bar money is due back tomorrow!!

Wednesday, April 13th Homework

April 13^th Homework

Language: Students last Procedural Writing is due on Friday. Students were able to pick any topic they like to write their procedural writing on. Tomorrow students will have 50 mins to work in the computer lab on their assignment. Students have also been taking turns in class working on the netbooks to do some research for the assignment.

Math: Students have been working on the Transformations of shape. We have looked at Translations (slides), Reflections and Rotations. Today we focused on Rotations, which seem to be the most difficult. JUMP p. 295-297 was assigned.

Students also need a lot of practice with their multiplication. We are focusing on 2 digits by 1 digit. If you could please have them write out some questions about home to go over that would be helpful. 

Reminder: Quiz night is tomorrow night!!            

Thursday April 7th Homework

Thursday April 7, 2011

Language- Students have been working on their Public Service Announcement in Class. This is due tomorrow (Friday). Students have had plenty of time to work on the computer; they have also been given 3 different examples. Students have a yellow strip of paper with the Success Criteria for this assignment.

Due Monday will be student’s 2^nd piece of persuasive writing. This writing will be a recipe. Please review the success criteria for a good piece of procedural writing.

Math- Students are still working on Coordinate Graphing. Today in class students played a game all about coordinates.

Science- Students will have a quiz tomorrow about the various things we have learned in our Energy Unit so far. Students should have all their notes in their duotang and should review them tonight. Make sure students know:

1.       The difference between renewable and non-renewable energy and advantages and disadvantages of each.

2.       The different types of energy- ex. Electrical energy, light energy

3.       Where we get energy from- ex. Biomass, Hydro-Electric

Stay Tuned for Pictures of our Inuksuk

Reminder that Quiz Night is next Thursday. Get your teams of 4 ready for a fun night!!!

Newsletter

Here is a link to the newsletter. You need to have WordPerfect to download it. I will post the calendar soon.
https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B705Ivmmyn1oNzNlOWYwMmYtYTIyNi00MTE3LWI0YWYtYWExM2Y3ZmIzZmU4&hl=en&authkey=CNb7rbYE

April 4th Homework

April 4^th Homework

Language- Students are working on procedural writing. The following is the learning goal and success criteria for this type of writing.

Learning Goal: I am learning to generate, gather and organizer ideas and information to write a piece of procedural writing.

Success Criteria:

o   There is a clearly stated purpose

o   List of supplies or materials needed

o   Easy to understand steps in logical order

o   Lots of clear details

o   Word choice, for example (first, next, lastly)

o   Diagrams and pictures

o   Summary of the procedure and a “catchy” conclusion

Students next assignment will be writing out a recipe. Please allow students to bring in any cook books or cooking magazines that you have available at home.

Math- In math we are finishing up Coordinates. Students were assigned two pages today and may have some homework.  A great game to play at home that reinforces Coordinate Graphing is Battleship!

Tuesday March 29th

It has been a very busy week so far in Grade 5! 
Here a few quick updates and reminders:
Pizza money is due tomorrow


-Language-  students are completing their first assignment for procedural writing. Students have the success criteria in their notebook. I will also post it on here. The assignment is to write about how to play a game. The example that we wrote together in class was How to Play Crazy Eights. We are also continuing with our reading about Conservation of Energy. We have been focusing on the reading strategy of Questioning. Please discuss at home how important it is to question what we read to fully understand it.


-Math- Students should have brought home their Volume sheets over the weekend. Some students needed to do corrections and they are bringing those home with them tonight.
Today we looked at the relationship between Volume and Capacity. We found the volume of 3D objects in class by using water displacement. Ask your child to tell you all about it! Their homework was JUMP p.236