🌸 Our District literacy, grade 5 fall assessment, should be finished by this Monday.
🌸 Math: Students are to practice their x2, x4, x8, x3, x6, x10, x5 math facts (multiplication) for 10 minutes. Parents can assist their child using dice, cards, etc. (No math homework over the weekend unless a parent wishes to reinforce the concepts of this past week.)
These are the outcomes that we are presently working on:
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."
Here are a few sample tasks or questions that could help your child review or prepare for the above outcomes:
- 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 Sept. 26th - Oct. 2nd, there should be a total of 5 readings of 15 minutes done over 5 different days (see the short explanation on the right under "Items of note".) Carnet needs to be handed in completed on Monday, October 3rd. Thank you.
🌸 Science: "La météo" (Weather).
- Students started collecting data daily at home using the data collection sheet yesterday. The sheet should be in your child's agenda until it needs to be returned to class. Students are noting current weather conditions, by visually observing weather and searching through 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: Thursday and Friday. (If your child did not gather data on one of these days, he/she can do so over the weekend to have a total of 2 entries in for Monday.) Thank you.
🌸 Enjoy a lovely weekend!