Students will be bringing home their humanities duotang in lieu of the red journal. They will be sharing their writing piece on one of the seasons. They trying to create a visual of the season using different figures of speech. After they read you their piece please write one positive comment about their writing and one thing you think they could continue to work on.
Hope everyone has a great long weekend :)
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Happy Thursday!
Reminders:
- Report Cards go home today!
- Science Poster Due Monday February 4th
- Field Trip- Wednesday February 6th Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Math/Science:
This week in math we focused on traditional long division. Students spent most of the week practicing 2 and 3-digit by 1-digit division through games and practice problems. I have attached another worksheet link, this is the homepage and will allow you to choose the difficulty of the questions you want to practice at home. I would highly encourage students practice division over the weekend as it has been a difficult concept and requires repetition. Some students are finding the most success practicing the long division format using smaller numbers, 75 ÷ 3 instead of 275 ÷ 3, until they get more confident with the process, this is encouraged!
https://www.k5learning.com/free-math-worksheets/fourth-grade-4/long-division
This week in science we have been preparing for the open book unit test by creating and playing Study Jeopardy Games on google drive. The test will be on Tuesday (it is open book and there shouldn’t be any surprises). Students were encouraged to bring their science folders home over the weekend to review if they are feeling nervous about the test. Students can add more to their folder if they like as these will be the books they bring into the test.
Have a great weekend!
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Humanities
This week in class we have worked on creating a visual for our reader within our writing piece. For this activity, students picked a season to focus their writing on. In class, they wrote a rough copy and tomorrow they will be editing their work with a partner and adding additional details.
We have begun talking about First Nations within our country and traditions that some of the groups follow. We will continue this discussion throughout our timeline and discuss the impact that colonization had on the First Nations and Inuit. On Monday, we will start looking at the fur trade and the Metis culture.
We have begun talking about First Nations within our country and traditions that some of the groups follow. We will continue this discussion throughout our timeline and discuss the impact that colonization had on the First Nations and Inuit. On Monday, we will start looking at the fur trade and the Metis culture.
Monday, January 28, 2019
Field Trip- Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra
Hi Parents,
We are looking for a few parent volunteers to join our class on our Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra field trip the morning of February 6th. Please email myself, or Ms. Malinowski, if you are interested!
Thanks :)
We are looking for a few parent volunteers to join our class on our Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra field trip the morning of February 6th. Please email myself, or Ms. Malinowski, if you are interested!
Thanks :)
Friday, January 25, 2019
January 25th- Blog Post
Happy Friday,
Math/Science:
In math we continued learning different strategies for 3-digit by 1-digit division. Students began by working with the Partial Quotient Strategy to help them estimate quotients using comfortable numbers (Steps and pictures to help with this strategy have been added to the google shared with students Math folder). While working with this strategy students spent time learning about over and under estimations as well as mental math strategies for reasoning out possible quotients based on our knowledge of related multiplication facts. On Friday we briefly talked about traditional long division and made up riddles to help us remember DMSB- Divide, Multiply, Subtract, Bring Down. Students might like to share what they came up with to remember these important long division steps! Next week we will practice, practice, practice our long division steps through a variety of math activities.
In science we have been working on our Weather Infographics. Students have really enjoyed creating these using the research and weather data they collected. Students have had a number of classes to work on these and they will be due Monday February 4th. I will not be giving anymore class time for this work so students will need to either complete them at home or come in during the homework sessions on; Monday January 28th, Wednesday January 30th or Monday February 4th. I will be available for support from 8-8:30am on these days.
Health 5-3:
Health Cartoons are due Monday January 28th.
Wall of Kindness:
Have a wonderful weekend!
Math/Science:
In math we continued learning different strategies for 3-digit by 1-digit division. Students began by working with the Partial Quotient Strategy to help them estimate quotients using comfortable numbers (Steps and pictures to help with this strategy have been added to the google shared with students Math folder). While working with this strategy students spent time learning about over and under estimations as well as mental math strategies for reasoning out possible quotients based on our knowledge of related multiplication facts. On Friday we briefly talked about traditional long division and made up riddles to help us remember DMSB- Divide, Multiply, Subtract, Bring Down. Students might like to share what they came up with to remember these important long division steps! Next week we will practice, practice, practice our long division steps through a variety of math activities.
In science we have been working on our Weather Infographics. Students have really enjoyed creating these using the research and weather data they collected. Students have had a number of classes to work on these and they will be due Monday February 4th. I will not be giving anymore class time for this work so students will need to either complete them at home or come in during the homework sessions on; Monday January 28th, Wednesday January 30th or Monday February 4th. I will be available for support from 8-8:30am on these days.
Health 5-3:
Health Cartoons are due Monday January 28th.
Wall of Kindness:
Thursday, January 24, 2019
Humanities
This week is humanities, students learned about the explorers who came to what is now known as Canada. We watched a few videos that gave mini bios on Henry Hudson, Samuel de Champlain, Jacques Cartier and John Cabot. We also researched from the textbook and on the internet for additional information on each explorer.
With their information students created Instagram pages for two of the explorers, with their own hashtags. In addition they picked the explorer that they believe was the "best" explorer and wrote an opinion paragraph on them. They used the OREO format to help organize their information.
Next week, we will be looking at some of the First Nation groups that lived in Canada prior to the Europeans arriving. We will than look at the interactions that took place and how the fur trade came to be.
Friday, January 18, 2019
January 18th- Weekly Blog
Happy Friday,
Math/Science:
In math this week we continued our work with division, 2-digit by 1-digit, and briefly discussed strategies for 3-digit by 1-digit (Partial Quotient). Students had an opportunity to teach each other about remainders and create their own division number sentences with and without remainders. Next week we will get further into 3-digit by 1-digit computation, looking at the traditional long division algorithm as well as mental math strategies for estimating quotients.
In science we continued graphing our cities high, low and average temperatures for 2018 using a triple line graph. Students did very well with this and were exited to discuss the trends and patterns within their given city. Next week we will start our infographics for our given cities, focusing on "selling" the benefits of our city using the best seasons to travel to this city and the things you could do while you are there.
Health:
Over the past week students have helped create a "Wall of Kindness" within our classroom. Students created a list of kind acts and wrote them on slips of paper to be taped to their self portraits once complete. This project was designed to help students show and participate in the concept of "volunteerism" by completing selfless acts that improve our learning community. I will be posting a picture of our "Wall of Kindness" every Friday before we take down the acts of kindness and start fresh on Monday. Well done 5-3, our wall is very full of very kind acts! (see picture below!)
Math/Science:
In math this week we continued our work with division, 2-digit by 1-digit, and briefly discussed strategies for 3-digit by 1-digit (Partial Quotient). Students had an opportunity to teach each other about remainders and create their own division number sentences with and without remainders. Next week we will get further into 3-digit by 1-digit computation, looking at the traditional long division algorithm as well as mental math strategies for estimating quotients.
In science we continued graphing our cities high, low and average temperatures for 2018 using a triple line graph. Students did very well with this and were exited to discuss the trends and patterns within their given city. Next week we will start our infographics for our given cities, focusing on "selling" the benefits of our city using the best seasons to travel to this city and the things you could do while you are there.
Health:
Over the past week students have helped create a "Wall of Kindness" within our classroom. Students created a list of kind acts and wrote them on slips of paper to be taped to their self portraits once complete. This project was designed to help students show and participate in the concept of "volunteerism" by completing selfless acts that improve our learning community. I will be posting a picture of our "Wall of Kindness" every Friday before we take down the acts of kindness and start fresh on Monday. Well done 5-3, our wall is very full of very kind acts! (see picture below!)
Friday, January 11, 2019
Humanities
Hope everyone had a great first week back to school.
Next week, we will be starting a new unit focused on Canadian History. During our field trip to Fort Calgary, students were given a little taste of this unit already. I am excited to see the connections they are able to make from what they have already learned.
Have a great weekend :)
January 11th- Blog Post
Happy Friday!
Math/Science
In math we have started our division unit, focusing only on numbers that relate to our basic multiplication facts to 81. In working with our fact families, students have been able to see how division and multiplication are inversely related, using one operation to "check" the other. I would encourage students to work for 10-15 minutes a couple times a week on basic division facts outside of school. I have attached a link to some worksheets below.
In science we have started our Weather Graphing and Data Collection task. Students have started the data collection stage of the task.We will start graphing our data and making Tourism Infographics in the coming weeks.
Have a wonderful weekend :)
Math/Science
In math we have started our division unit, focusing only on numbers that relate to our basic multiplication facts to 81. In working with our fact families, students have been able to see how division and multiplication are inversely related, using one operation to "check" the other. I would encourage students to work for 10-15 minutes a couple times a week on basic division facts outside of school. I have attached a link to some worksheets below.
In science we have started our Weather Graphing and Data Collection task. Students have started the data collection stage of the task.We will start graphing our data and making Tourism Infographics in the coming weeks.
Have a wonderful weekend :)
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