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Sunday 20 October 2013

End of October


Time continues to fly! It is almost the end of October and I am looking forward to our Open House at Irma Coulson P.S. We continue to focus on the 6+ 1 writing traits in language and the students will start to use their dot jots (thoughts) to write me a letter this week to display their understanding of their book they are reading during read to self.



In math we are moving into multiplication and division. Continuing to solve word problems using our problem solving pencil.

Grade 5
*divide three-digit whole numbers by one-digit whole numbers
* multiply two-digit whole numbers by two-digit whole numbers
*solve problems involving the addition, subtraction, multiplication of whole numbers, using a variety of mental strategies
* multiplication tables to 12

Grade 4
* divide two-digit whole numbers by one- digit whole numbers, using a variety of tools
* multiply to 9* 9
*divide to 81/9

 * multiply two-digit whole numbers by one-digit whole numbers, using a variety of tools
* multiply whole numbers by 10, 100, and 1000, and divide whole numbers by 10 and 100, using mental strategies

*solve problems involving the multiplication of one-digit whole numbers, using a variety of mental strategies (e.g., 6 x 8 can be thought of as 5 x 8 + 1 x 8);