🌸 A purple financial statement was sent home with each child. Please call the office for further clarification if there is an amount owing and it doesn't make sense to you. Thank you.
🌸 Étude de mots: Use "letters" to make words from individualized word list. Spelling test is Friday.
🌸 Scholastic flyers were sent home last Monday. Orders and payments are due tomorrow. Thank you.
🌸 French Writing: Students are beginning to write their biography on a person he/she respects using the information that was collected from home, this week. Today, half the class presented their fictional biography through shared writing and presenting.
🌸 Math: Students are to practice their x2, x4, x8, x3, x6, x10, x5, x9, x7math facts (multiplication) for 10 minutes. Parents can assist their child using dice, cards, etc.
These are the outcomes that we are continuing to work on this week:
N1a: "Read and write whole numbers to 1 000 000."
N1b: "Describe personal referents for large benchmark numbers (100, 1000, 10 000, 100 000, 250 000, 500 000, 750 000, 1 000 000)."
N1c: "Flexibly express numbers in a variety of ways, including expanded notation."
N1d: "Describe the value of number digits and the pattern of place value."
Please note: In class, I have been ending the last few lessons with "exit passes" to inform me and you, the parents, of your child's comfort-level with place value language. I'm asking that the exit passes that are sent home, get initialed by a parent and returned to me. These will then be simply placed in your child's math binder for their personal reference.
Here are a few sample tasks or questions that could help your child review or prepare for the above outcomes as we continue through this week:
- Write out a large number and then ask your child to read the number out to you and then tell you the value of a particular digit in the number, and then the position of a particular digit of the same number (ex. 73 458 the value of the 3 is 3000 and the position of the 4 is "centaines".
- "How many unités de mille (thousands) are in a number like 354 871? The answer would be 354 unités de mille. I could ask about any position and its value, or the value of a position. These are tricky and it's all about the math language and its understanding. (We did a lot of this today in class and will continue to do so for a while yet.)
- Practice problems such as: "23 centaines et 42 unités" is equivalent to what? Answer 2 300 + 42 = 2 342
48 dizaines = ? 7 unités de mille et 32 centaines = ? 23 dizaines et 57 unités = ? etc.
* To do the above exercises, for now, students can use their "tableau de valeur de position" (place value chart) - your child should have this in his/her agenda or at home on his/her bureau. It should be in a page protector, so it can be reused as needed with a dry-erase marker.
🌸 "Carnet French Reading": For the period of Oct. 11th to 16th , there should be a total of 4 readings of 15 minutes done over 4 different days (see the short explanation on the right under "Items of note".) Carnet needs to be handed in completed on Monday, October 17th. Thank you.
🌸 Science: "La météo" (Weather).
- Students are collecting weather data the following websites: (copy and paste into a new web browser to access sites)
http:www.meteo.gc.ca/index_f.html and
http:www.meteomedia.ca
For this week collection dates are: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. There should be a total of 9 entries in by Monday, Oct. 17th.) Thank you.
🌸 Étude de mots: Use "letters" to make words from individualized word list. Spelling test is Friday.
🌸 Scholastic flyers were sent home last Monday. Orders and payments are due tomorrow. Thank you.
🌸 French Writing: Students are beginning to write their biography on a person he/she respects using the information that was collected from home, this week. Today, half the class presented their fictional biography through shared writing and presenting.
🌸 Math: Students are to practice their x2, x4, x8, x3, x6, x10, x5, x9, x7math facts (multiplication) for 10 minutes. Parents can assist their child using dice, cards, etc.
These are the outcomes that we are continuing to work on this week:
N1a: "Read and write whole numbers to 1 000 000."
N1b: "Describe personal referents for large benchmark numbers (100, 1000, 10 000, 100 000, 250 000, 500 000, 750 000, 1 000 000)."
N1c: "Flexibly express numbers in a variety of ways, including expanded notation."
N1d: "Describe the value of number digits and the pattern of place value."
Please note: In class, I have been ending the last few lessons with "exit passes" to inform me and you, the parents, of your child's comfort-level with place value language. I'm asking that the exit passes that are sent home, get initialed by a parent and returned to me. These will then be simply placed in your child's math binder for their personal reference.
Here are a few sample tasks or questions that could help your child review or prepare for the above outcomes as we continue through this week:
- Write out a large number and then ask your child to read the number out to you and then tell you the value of a particular digit in the number, and then the position of a particular digit of the same number (ex. 73 458 the value of the 3 is 3000 and the position of the 4 is "centaines".
- "How many unités de mille (thousands) are in a number like 354 871? The answer would be 354 unités de mille. I could ask about any position and its value, or the value of a position. These are tricky and it's all about the math language and its understanding. (We did a lot of this today in class and will continue to do so for a while yet.)
- Practice problems such as: "23 centaines et 42 unités" is equivalent to what? Answer 2 300 + 42 = 2 342
48 dizaines = ? 7 unités de mille et 32 centaines = ? 23 dizaines et 57 unités = ? etc.
* To do the above exercises, for now, students can use their "tableau de valeur de position" (place value chart) - your child should have this in his/her agenda or at home on his/her bureau. It should be in a page protector, so it can be reused as needed with a dry-erase marker.
🌸 "Carnet French Reading": For the period of Oct. 11th to 16th , there should be a total of 4 readings of 15 minutes done over 4 different days (see the short explanation on the right under "Items of note".) Carnet needs to be handed in completed on Monday, October 17th. Thank you.
🌸 Science: "La météo" (Weather).
- Students are collecting weather data the following websites: (copy and paste into a new web browser to access sites)
http:www.meteo.gc.ca/index_f.html and
http:www.meteomedia.ca
For this week collection dates are: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. There should be a total of 9 entries in by Monday, Oct. 17th.) Thank you.