🌸 French Writing: In the upcoming weeks, students will begin writing a biography about a person he/she respects. Each student should have now chosen the person that he/she will write about. In order to write the biography, students should be able to collect information on the person that was chosen, i.e. date of birth, important dates and why these are important, etc. (Because a lot of information is needed, the person chosen should be a real person i.e. grandparent, uncle, aunt, neighbor, parent, etc.) Thank you in helping your son or daughter be prepared for this upcoming writing assignment.
🌸 Because yesterday we started the District literacy, grade 5 fall assessment, our biography writing lessons will be on hold for a few more days.
🌸 As you are aware, the Fun Fair is tomorrow. Parents of grade 5 kids, wishing to give us a hand, are encouraged to help us with this fundraising activity by contributing towards our cake walk. Your support and generosity is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
🌸 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.
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.
- 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"; a clearer explanation can be found in your Parent Package that you received last Monday). Carnet needs to be handed in completed on Monday, October 3rd. Thank you.
🌸 Étude de mots: Spelling test is Friday.
🌸 Science: "La météo" (Weather). Our new unit started yesterday!
- In class today, we modeled how to collect the data needed for our weather assignment. Students will collect data daily at home using the data collection sheet given to them today. It is best to keep this sheet in your child's agenda until it needs to be returned to class. Students will be noting current weather conditions, by visually observing weather and searching through the following websites: http:www.meteo.gc.ca/index_f.html and http:www.meteomedia.ca . For today, students should show their parents how and where they will collect the data. Thank you for your support!
🌸 Because yesterday we started the District literacy, grade 5 fall assessment, our biography writing lessons will be on hold for a few more days.
🌸 As you are aware, the Fun Fair is tomorrow. Parents of grade 5 kids, wishing to give us a hand, are encouraged to help us with this fundraising activity by contributing towards our cake walk. Your support and generosity is greatly appreciated. Thank you.
🌸 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.
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.
- 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"; a clearer explanation can be found in your Parent Package that you received last Monday). Carnet needs to be handed in completed on Monday, October 3rd. Thank you.
🌸 Étude de mots: Spelling test is Friday.
🌸 Science: "La météo" (Weather). Our new unit started yesterday!
- In class today, we modeled how to collect the data needed for our weather assignment. Students will collect data daily at home using the data collection sheet given to them today. It is best to keep this sheet in your child's agenda until it needs to be returned to class. Students will be noting current weather conditions, by visually observing weather and searching through the following websites: http:www.meteo.gc.ca/index_f.html and http:www.meteomedia.ca . For today, students should show their parents how and where they will collect the data. Thank you for your support!