Topics include:
reading and writing decimals, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division with decimals. Both the grade five and six textbook have revision pages at the end of the unit which will provide practice questions for the final evaluation. We have been having mini-quizzes this week to allow the students to check their understanding of these concepts. Here are some sample questions:
5,8 X 1 000 =
0,35 X 0,76 =
3, 26 + 7,8 + 34,472 =
100,34 – 23,992 =
9,4 divided by 4 (Don’t leave a remainder!)
Students have the responsibility to complete the following this week:
-Return signed discipline policy forms. (6 students)
-Return dentist forms if their parents don’t wish to have the dental assisstants check their teeth. (11 students)
-Complete their animal picture books. (7 students)
-Purchase a piece of bristol board for their country or environment project before Friday. Project due date is May 21st.
-Tell their parents that our play will be presented on Thursday, May 22 at the Carrefour theatre. The morning plays begin at 10:00 and ours is scheduled for 10:40.
-The grade six students need to tell their parents that provincial reading assessments will take place on Wednesday and Thursday this week.
_Tell their parents that we will be visiting the Scholastic 50 % off sale on Thursday afternoon. The sale is also open to the public on Wednesday evening. A notice was sent home today.
-Practice the type of questions that will be found on Friday’s math test on decimals. We had a quiz today and students forgot some very important facts when working with decimals!
-Look for a family favourite recipe for our bilingual cookbook. Bring it in to school with parent’s permission to produce a beautifully published copy.
-Research a fun children’s game or activity from another country that you will teach to your teacher and peers.
-Find England and New Zealand on a map of the world.
-Help around the house!
Thank you to all parents, grandparents, neighbours and friends who helped transport our students to and from school last week. I know many of you juggled your schedules to make this possible and I was very glad to see all of my students in class.
Today in our class meeting we discussed the game of four square and this led into a discussion about friendship. We talked about our problems and solutions to these problems. We found we were able to be open and honest with each other and tried to see things from others’ perspectives. We also talked about the importance of treating your friends the way you want to be treated by your friends. We decided to take up a collection for a new class ball and to play the game of four square as a class . I would also like the students to research other active games from other countries around the world.
Today we read a recipe found in the Acadian newspaper and used it as a model to create our own. Tomorrow we are going to conduct research in the lab to find delicious recipes. The students are enthusiastic about baking while reading French recipes. Perhaps we will also publish a bilingual cookbook of our favourites!
Thank you for juggling your schedules today. If you could please write a note to indicate the plans for your child getting home safely tomorrow, (and possibly for the duration of our present situation!) that would be most appreciated.
The government has made a decision to cancel the bus transportation this Thursday and Friday due to safety concerns. Please listen to the radio or watch Compass at 6:00 for further details. (I know I will be!) The school will be open and I will continue to teach. The French Drama Festival will be rescheduled and I will inform you of the new date as soon as I am made aware.
Our evaluation of the skills addressed in our decimal unit will take place on Friday, May 16th. The topics will be addition, subtraction, multiplication and division using decimals. The students have a comprehensive list of pages and are expected to learn how to tackle the problems on these pages. They do not need to calculate the answer to every single question. Often completing the even or odd numbers will give them a good amount of practice for each type of question.
Students have recently been given two notices for your information. The first is a letter outlining our discipline policy which requires reading and signing (both parents and students). Please return this form asap. I have received only three to date. The second notice outlined the procedures we use for our Dental clinic. If your child does not require a screening in our clinic please communicate this information to me asap. If I do not hear back from you about this clinic, your child will be screened and a form will be sent home outlining suggested treatment procedures. These procedures will not be performed without your written permission.
On Thursday, the grade six students will be receiving a notice outlining the procedures for the provinical reading assessment which will take place on May 14th and 15th.
We are very excited to begin our May reading challenge. Mr. Hogg has challenged each one of us to read for a MINIMUM of 1 000 minutes during the month of May. In school we will be reading a minimum of 30 minutes each day in English and 20 – 30 minutes of French reading. (depending on morning arrival time). Students are asked to read at least 15 minutes nightly and 20 minutes each day on the weekend. The home reading may be in either language. Each student is responsible to complete their reading calendar of minutes and keep a list of book titles and authors read. The calendar should be signed by a parent or guardian on a weekly basis. There will be prizes awarded, however, the ultimate prize is the development of a lifelong passion for reading!
