math

The grade 5 and 6 students will have their math test on Friday Oct 18th. Next week we will be completing the  'Show What You Know' sections in order to prepare for the test. They will also be completing the end of unit Assessment Task. This is a good way to review because it incorporates a lot of the concepts that we have been discussing during the course of the unit. I will also encourage them to practise their multiplication facts, 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication for grade 5's and 3 digit by 2 digit multiplication for grade 6's. If you have any questions just put a quick note in the agenda.

Colour and line

Working on using complementary colours  and line to create emotions and movement in art. I'm sending this home to finish tonight.

LEARNZILLION ISSUES?!?

Hello Everyone,
Some students have approached me about not being able to view the videos in the learnzillion website. I plan to use this site throughout the school year and it's important the students can get to the site consistently. Video problems usually have to do with software being out of date or not upgraded. Please take a minute to visit the site with your children and make sure that they can access the information. Usually it's best to use Firefox or Google chrome when working with these sites. If you are still having problems, please just send me a quick note.

FLIPPING THE TRADITIONAL CLASSROOM

Parents and Guardians,
Many of you have asked how you can support your student’s learning at home. Here is an important way you can do that.

Go to www.learnzillion.com. LearnZillion is a website that provides teachers and parents with video lessons showing what your student needs to learn each year. The videos include a 3-5 minute "teaching" video and as we get accustomed to the site, a short 'practice' video. Your student can watch the videos alone or with you.  Have your student take notes while watching. Create a notes sheet by taking a piece of paper and breaking the front page into the following sections:

• What is this lesson about?
• Review
• Mistakes to avoid
• The main thing to learn

Eventually the students will be given a username and password for the site. This will allow them to log onto the site, watch the video and try the 'guided practice video' that follows the video lesson. For now, I will be  giving them a link to the video and a sample problem to try on the class blog. They are required to bring this  in to school the next day completed.

Thank you for supporting your student’s learning at home. Let me know if you have any questions. 

GRADE 5 VIDEO

MULTIPLICATION VIDEO

THE SAMPLE PROBLEM FOR THEM TO TRY IS : 35 X 27 MAKE SURE THEY USE THE AREA MODEL TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM.

GRADE 6 VIDEO

LONG DIVISION 
THE SAMPLE PROBLEM FOR THEM TO TRY IS 3894 DIVIDED BY 15 MAKE SURE TO USE THE VIDEO AS A GUIDE.

PLEASE BRING IN YOUR NOTES WITH PROBLEM ANSWERED ON THE BACK. PLEASE WRITE YOUR NAME ON THE PAPER.

Suspense & mystey

We are starting our first longer piece of writing. The grade 5's will be creating a mystery story and the grade 6's will be working on suspense. Writing starts at the end of a long process that actually begins with reading. We continue on to learning the conventions and characteristics of the particular text form we are working on. Then, we model and co-create examples of the type of text we will be working on. The last steps are actually using organizers to focus our ideas and then we begin to create our stories. We also create Learning Goals and Success Criteria that the students can refer to throughout  the process. Look at the pictures below for the charts we created for this assignment.

Science review & test

The students were told on Friday that they had a science test on Friday, October 4th. I attached a review sheet for  both grade 5 & 6 into their agenda. The grade 6 students also received an additional question sheet to help guide their studying. 

Wiggly Fun!

Grade 6's started observing their meal worms today. A few screams and squeals, but eventually we got down to work. They will be creating a labelled diagram, observing it's mouth structure and then doing so additional research.