What
an exciting week! I was very impressed with how respectful and responsible the
students were during our assembles, special guest speakers, Right to Play Day,
Family Night, and the rest of our Opening Celebration events. Many students
displayed leadership skills on our RTP Day taking care of their younger group
members and ensuring everyone got a chance to participate in the game. Great
work 4-1 FI and 5-1 FI!
We
also had the opportunity to be a part of a Guinness World Record. As a class we
read “I Can BELIEVE in Myself” and blogged our opinions about the book. Here is
the link stating that we achieved the record!
http://us3.campaign-archive1.com/?u=3c585adfd37de3cb6720c2f00&id=458a71df8a&e=1da0f6deff
LANGUAGE
WRITING
We
are continuing to work on our descriptive writing unit. Students did a great
job revising their own poems once hearing their peers’ descriptive writing in
their “I am from” poems oral presentations.
READING
The
students are doing a great job having discussions about their literature books..
A reminder that students need to complete their weekly tasks in order to fully
participate in their group discussions.
* Reminder of
Literature Circle Tasks *
To be completed individually before each
Wednesday for Grade 4’s and before each Thursday for Grade 5’s:
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Read assigned chapters
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Complete your role worksheet (e.g. questioner, connector, etc)
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Write a summary of the assigned chapters
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Complete your word detective sheet
MATH
We have started our
probability and money unit. Students are using their prior knowledge of
fractions to help determine possible outcomes in probability experiments.
Grade 4 Probability
and Money
- predict
the frequency of an outcome in a simple probability experiment, explaining
their reasoning; conduct the experiment; and compare the result with the
prediction (Sample problem: If you toss a pair of number cubes 20 times
and calculate the sum for each toss, how many times would 75 you
expect to get 12? 7? 1?
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- read and represent money amounts to $100 (e.g., five
dollars, two quarters, one nickel, and four cents is $5.59);
- add and subtract money amounts by making simulated
purchases and providing change for amounts up to $100, using a variety of tools
(e.g., currency manipulatives, drawings);
- determine, through investigation, how the number of
repetitions of a probability experiment can affect the conclusions drawn (Sample
problem: Each student in the class tosses a coin 10 times and records how
many times tails comes up. Combine the individual student results to determine
a class result, and then compare the individual student results and the class
result.).
Grade 5 Probability
and Money
– read and
write money amounts to $1000 (e.g., $455.35 is 455 dollars and 35 cents, or
four hundred fifty-five dollars and thirty-five cents);
– determine
and represent all the possible outcomes in a simple probability experiment
(e.g., when tossing a coin, the possible outcomes are heads and tails; when
rolling a number cube, the possible outcomes are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6), using
systematic lists and area models (e.g., a rectangle is divided into two equal
areas to represent the out- comes of a coin toss experiment);
- add and subtract decimal numbers to
hundredths, including money amounts, using concrete materials, estimation, and
algorithms (e.g., use 10 x 10 grids to add 2.45 and 3.25);
- represent, using a common fraction, the probability that
an event will occur in simple games and probability experiments (e.g., “My
spinner has four equal sections and one of those sections is coloured red. The
probability that I will land on red
is 14 .”);
–
demonstrate an understanding of simple multiplicative relationships involving
whole-number rates, through investigation using concrete materials and drawings
(Sample problem: If 2 books cost $6, how would you calculate the cost of 8
books?)
– pose and
solve simple probability problems, and solve them by conducting probability
experiments and selecting appropriate methods of recording the results (e.g.,
tally chart, line plot, bar graph)
E-Text pages
Grade 5 pages p. 378 - 399
Grade 4 pages p. 398 - 419
A reminder, Math
Help is every Wednesday and Friday and is open to all students in my Grade 4
and Grade 5 class. As well after any quiz if a student would like a re-quiz
they should be coming to math help and asking for help in order to do the
re-quiz.
Reminders
Friday Folders need to be handed back in on
Mondays. Some students have not returned their Friday Folders in a long time.
