Math: p. 93. Remember the mnemonic: Does McDonald's Sell Burgers. Divide, multiply, Subtract, Divide.

LA: Daily Paragraph Editing: week 10, Tuesday. Make sure you are caught up with DLR and DPE.

Science: continue to review.

Social read Chapters 1-6 over the next weeks.

Math: p. 90, 91. Basic facts.

Science: read powerpoint. Can you answer all the questions asked today? REVIEW!!!!!

Art: yes, art homework. For tomorrow: one properly drawn mountain goat.

LA: DAily paragraph editing, Week 10, Monday

Math: pages 86, 87. Four people still need to work on two digit by two digit multiplication. Work on basic facts.

Last week before Christmas. Let's make it a good one!

Math: pages 82, 83, 84,

Daily paragraph editing. Week 9, Thursday.

Science: Finish wind sheets - (What causes wind) - ALL the pages. NOT the new Brainpop pages.

Math: Division sheets - pages 78, 79, 80 and 81 for tomorrow. (NOT page 77)
Practice Two digit by two digit multiplication for a re-test tomorrow if you didn't do well the first time.
Basic facts.

LA. Daily paragraph editing week 9 Wednesday.

I had a great day today!

Math: Practice basic facts. IF you received a sheet on two digit by two digit multiplication, DO IT!

LA: DLR - Week 13, Monday

DPE - Week 9 Monday

Math: orange text, p. 75, 1-24. quiz on two digit by two digit multiplication.

We had a great time making our Christmas trees. Thanks volunteers for all your help!

LA. MAke sure you are caught up with DPE and DLR.

We had a fantastic week. Excellent behaviour and attitude 5C.

Math: mathletics. Orange textbook. P. 75, 1-12

LA: DPE Thursday, week 8


Coat Hanger Christmas Tree Supplies: (revised)

4 wire coathangers

Lots of twist ties or string

1 string of Christmas lights (35-50 bulbs) (lights are optional)

4 garlands (the thicker they are, the fewer you'll use) at least 24 feet.

Very small ornaments

Math: Mathletics. review two by one and two by two digit multiplication.

LA: Find your passage to share with the class. DPE Wednesday. Garrett - bring it to school.

Science: know your vocab. Tell your parents about thermometers.

Coat Hanger Christmas Tree Supplies: (revised)

4 wire coathangers

Lots of twist ties or string

1 string of Christmas lights (35-50 bulbs) (lights are optional)

4 garlands (the thicker they are, the fewer you'll use) at least 24 feet.

Very small ornaments

Math: Mathletics

LA: find a passage in a book that you like. It could be a paragraph or a page. Have it ready for tomorrow.

DPE: Week 8, Tuesday

On Friday, we MAY have a party if the behaviour continues to be as good as it has been so far this week. We will be having snacks and decorating our room. I would like for us to make coat hanger Christmas trees. Volunteers are welcome.

Coat Hanger Christmas Tree Supplies:

6 wire coathangers

Lots of twist ties or string

1 string of Christmas lights (35-50 bulbs) (lights are optional)

2 to 4 garlands (the thicker they are, the fewer you'll use)

Small ornaments

Welcome to December! Good thing I raked and got my Christmas lights up yesterday.

Math: Make sure you are done page 73 and 74. Quiz tomorrow on two digit by one digit multiplication AND two digit by two digit multiplication. Basic facts.
Mathletics: we are number one! let's keep it that way.

We discussed anemometers, thermometers, barometers and Maltaisometers. Make sure you know what each one measures!

Writing: Show don't tell. Use your senses. DPE week 8, Monday.

5C is great! I had a wonderful day today. So did Brayden and Brooklyn and Cody!

Math: Finish p. 73 if you haven't already. P. 74 for tomorrow.
Mathletics keep us in number one.

LA: Make sure you finish Daily Paragraph Editing, Week 7, Thursday.

Social Studies: Finish brown sheet first side, first row. Atlantic region.

I had a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious day.

Language Arts: We covered dialogue today. DLR make sure you are all caught up. Week 11, Wednesday.
Daily Paragraph Editing: Week 7 Wednesday.

Math: Two digit by two digit multiplication. Review how to do it. Page 73. Mathletics: work at home tonight.

Science: Review why we have seasons, be able to draw it. Read your notes.

I had a great day today.

Language arts:
Take DLR home. Make sure you have finished EVERY day from week 1 to week 11 Tuesday.
Daily Paragraph editing: Week 7, Monday, Tuesday.

Math: Mathletics work. Basic facts as usual.

Science: review.

Why do we have seasons? What is the sun? You should be able to answer these questions from today.

Language"
Animal article (5 paragraph essay) rough copy is due on Tuesday.
Daily Paragraph editing should be done for last week Monday to Thursday

Math:
Review two digit by one digit multiplication. Help keep us in the number one spot in Mathletics by logging on and working on math. We have no school on Monday while other places in Canada do so we could be easily bumped out of first place.

Have a great day off on Monday!

LA: DAily paragraph editing. Week 6 Monday to Thursday.
Animal Article (5 paragraph essay) is due on Tuesday.

Math: Make sure you know how to do 2 digit by one digit multiplication.
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Mathletics - we are number two in the country. Why aren't we number one?????!?!??!?!?

Science: reviewing your notes would be a really good idea

Go over your report card with your parents.

What are you doing well?
What can you improve on?
What good habits do you have in school?
Which habits can you improve?

We have a two week trial to mathletics. Each student has been given a user name and password. They can do work at home as well. Check out the site! We may purchase a license if we like it.

http://www.mathletics.ca/

Math: p 69. all. P. 70 questions 2,3,4. Practice basic facts....broken record.

Language Arts: DLR week 10 Tuesday. (Alex). Daily paragraph editing. Week 6. Tuesday.

Review science: evaporation,precipitation, water cycle, how clouds are formed. Clouds types.
remember the water cycle song. I will post it to the blog.

Social: finish vocabulary sheet please. Great lakes chapter.

Math: Have you improved at your basic facts? Have you cracked the 20 mark? PRACTICE BASIC FACTS.
We learned multiplication of two digit by one digit numbers. Master it. p. 68 is for homework.

Quiz tomorrow on: condensation, precipitation, evaporation, water cycle. Check scholastic study jams under water cycle.

Daily paragraph editing. Week 6 Monday.

We finished two tests today, one in science and one in social studies. We also had our Remembrance day ceremony. Thanks 5C for your respectful participation.

No homework tonight. I will be sending math sheets home for the long weekend.

Tomorrow is pyjama day.
Bring a snack for our class party tomorrow afternoon after lunch.

Science: Chemistry test on Monday. Study Powerpoint you were given.

Social Studies: Finish "Looking Back" assignment. Quiz on Monday.

I had an awesome day today, did you?

Science: finish vocabulary sheet.

Daily paragraph Editing - Thursday.

We had a very busy day today!

Math: Page 66 and 67 to be handed in tomorrow.

LA: DPE - Thursday.

DLR Thursday.

Science: Vocabulary work due tomorrow.

Math: page 66, we will be finishing up some number concepts, moving on to multiplication of two by two digits and long division.

Science: know the terminology from our experiment and quiz today.
Define: variable, manipulated variable, fair test (controlled experiment), solution, suspension, solute, reversible and irreversible change, chemical, physical change.

Language arts: Daily paragraph editing, Week 5, Tuesday. Daily Language Review, Week 9, Tuesday.

We are now all caught up in math and LA.

For tomorrow, Daily paragraph editing (DPE). Week 5 Mon.

DLR Week 9, Monday.

Bring life savers to school tomorrow.

Sheets for absent students are on the blog.

I had a great day today.

Math: Make sure you are finished p. 33 1-12, p. 47 1-12.
Finish addition and subtraction page, both sides.

Basic facts - 10-15 minutes.

LA: Daily paragraph editing - Thursday.

Social Studies: finish rough copy of drawing for the Appalachian region.

Science Powerpoint due on Monday.

Swimming tomorrow!

Math: pg. 33 1-12 and pg 47 1-12.

The comment from parents always comes up...students say that they have no homework. Here's the real deal:

1. We have Daily Paragraph Editing for homework each day except Friday. If they get it done in class, that's fine but they should be finished up to week 4 Wednesday.
2. Daily Language Review is done every day in class but sometimes they fall behind. They should be finished Wednesday of week 8.
3. Spelling. All the spelling words are online at www.spellingcity.com. They can work from home, then simply upload the saved report to their folder. They should ALL know how to save a report. Follow the link on the right that says "access school files from home" and have them log in using their regular school log in. Then upload the files you've saved at home. Just make sure you put them in the right folder. We are up to list 10 as of today.
4. Speaking of spelling. We are still unable to spell all the provinces and capitals correctly. I will test this once again on Monday.
5. Math: They won't have much homework if they work quickly in class but I expect them to practice if they are shaky on a concept. If you look on the wiki, there are several pages on multiplying and dividing numbers by 10, 100, 1000, 10000. Please do some of these questions with your child to make sure they understand and can do this fluently. This was a problematic concept for many.
6. Speaking of math...our averages for basic facts are still quite low. They should be practicing this daily for 10-15 minutes. One thing you can do to make a student more successful in math for their school career is making sure their basic facts are automatic.

Thanks for checking the blog. Please email me with any questions or concerns and I will usually respond that day.
Mr. M

Lots of absences both yesterday and today, making it difficult to keep things on track. I will try to post as much of the work we're doing as possible to the blog and the wiki.

Math: we completed and corrected yet another sheet on dividing decimals by 10, 100, 1000, 10000. We will do a quick quiz on this tomorrow.

Science: We worked on powerpoints.

Language arts: We started work on a 5 paragraph animal essay.

LA: Daily paragraph editing, Monday, week 4. Make sure you are also finished Daily language review up to Week 8 Monday. Spelling lists: all students should be finished list 5.

Math: We're still having plenty of difficulty with multiplying numbers by 10, 100, 100, 10 000. Work on this! I will upload more practice pages to the Wiki tonight. We also need to work on division by 10, 100, 100, 10 000. The majority of the class is NOT solid on this concept. Practice!
Basic facts as usual.

We got our imail passwords so we can email assignments home or to our partners/group members when we need to.

Lots of useful math questions on the link below. Look for multiples of 10.
http://www.ixl.com/math/grade/fifth/

Math: We're still having trouble with multilplying and dividing by 10, 100, 1000, 10000.
Bring home and complete the multiplication and division sheet we worked on today.
Check the forms on the wiki or practice online. You could also create your own questions.
BASIC FACTS.

LA: We worked on our writing advice project.

Social Studies: aerial view of Canada. Know what the Appalachian region looks like.

Science: We have three more classes to finish our Powerpoint.

Math: master multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, 1000

Social studies: read chapter 1 continued.

Science: we cooked purple cabbage which is a PH indicator. We learned about acids, bases and neutral.

LA: DAily paragraph editing.

We had a great day today!

New files added to the wiki including more practice sheets for multipying and dividing by 10.

LA: we corrected all our daily paragraph editing homework. Finish Week 3, Wednesday for homework.

Math: practice multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, 1000. I'm going to try to post some practice sheets to the wiki tonight. Basic facts are improving. Class average for questions answered in one minute:
Addition:24.5
Subtraction:16.5
Multiplication: 17.3
Division: 17.4
I would like to see these averages climb to the 30s.

Social Studies: Read/review chapter1 on the Appalachian region. We will be wrapping up this region and having a test soon. Know the climate, landforms, natural resources and people of the region.

Science: Powerpoint continued until Friday. Acids and bases will be covered tomorrow.

Math: pg. 65, 67. Multiples of 10 and mental math. Due tomorrow.

Language Arts: practice spelling capitals and provinces. We did not do well on the quiz and will try it again.

Science: worked on powerpoint.

Social Studies: review the Appalachian region. You should know the landforms, natural resources, etc. This will involve bringing your textbook home!

Patience= teaching 26 Grade five students how to do origami! :)
We made paper cranes after reading Sadako and the Golden Cranes. Only 948 more to make to reach our lucky 1000 according to Japanese legend.

Math: play crib for homework. Call grandma and grandpa if necessary.

Science: we are making Powerpoint presentations on classroom chemistry. It will take several classes. If you want to work on it from home, you can upload your files by clicking the list on the right and using your usual login.

Language Arts: We worked on spelling using the spelling city website. Click on "find a list" and type in "Maltais". Everyone should be finished list 3 and have saved their progress report.

Language arts: Make sure you've finished daily paragraph editing Monday and Tuesday. We read Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes today and made swans. We'll make cranes tomorrow.

Math: We worked on addition with cards. No homework.

Science: We learned how to make a powerpoint presentation on the computer.

Agendas were not signed as we had electricians working on our room and we had to find a temporary home. Our afternoon was a bit crazy as a result!

Math: finish p. 43, 44 on differences of 10, 100, 1000, 10 000. NOT in text.

LA: Daily paragraph editing Monday and Tuesday. Week 2.

Social: Review

Science: review

Art: Contour drawing or vases.

LA: We wrote a story together called, "The Sand Dollar."
Provinces and capitals spelling test - moved to Tuesday.
Spelling practice: go to this website. Click on "find a list", enter Maltais, practice and play games!
http://www.spellingcity.com/
Play superspeed.

Practice basic facts! All four mad minute sheets are now on the wiki as a PDF.

Social Studies: Who were the Acadians?

LA: spelling the provinces and capitals, Daily paragraph editing-Wednesday, Thursday,

Math: finish subtraction page 43. 1-30
Make sure you are a subtraction master.

Basic facts log

Bring in survey form for a pizza party.
We had a great day today.

Houston, we have a Smart Board! This was a major focus today. It is now up and running. Yay!

Math: page 29 in the orange textbook, questions 1-24. Almost everyone was very solid with 3 digit addition. Moving on to subtraction, finish p. 53 on new sheets. We will practice subtraction tomorrow. We will have a quick assessment (quiz) on our addition and subtraction skills on Friday.

Math: Finish pages 47-51 on regrouping (addition). Basic facts. Practice log continued.

LA: Daily paragraph editing will come home tomorrow. Superspeed practice is always good to get fluent with sight words. Provinces and capitals spelling test on Friday.

Social Studies: Two questions you should be able to answer: What is a symbol of the Appalachian region? What are three things the ocean provides? You should start considering the differences and similarities between the Interior Plains and the Appalachian region.

Science: Finish the sheet on separating mixtures based on the experiments today.

Math: We did a numbers sense quiz today. Finish pages 47 and 48 (handed out today). As always...LEARN YOUR BASIC FACTS! Remember to fill in your practice log.

Language Arts: We discussed symbols and read "Joaby."

Math: We worked quite a bit on:
What addition means, what subtraction means, what multiplication means (repeated addition; 2x5 instead of 2+2+2+2+2) and what division means. Students should be able to explain division. ie. which numbers represent how many you have, how many groups and how many in each group.

Social: Students should be able to define "landform" and give three examples of landforms in the Appalachian region. They should be able to tell you some things about the region (eg. which provinces it includes.) They should also be able to define "erosion".

What a great day!

Math: Finish all your mad minute sheets for tomorrow. Finish page 51. Practice as always.

Language Arts: We talked about writing by thinking abut an object and we also discussed symbols.

Social Studies: What do YOU know about the Appalachian region?

Science: Mentos and Coke...always fun. We also did some sheets on matter.

Art: Drawing our hands. Practice if you want to improve.

Language arts: We did Daily Language Review and paragraph editing.

Social Studies: Make sure all geography sheets are finished.

Math: Practice log - record time spent practicing basic facts. Extra practice sheet due tomorrow. All four mad minute sheets are due Friday. Review rounding large numbers and estimating sums.

Math: Do one of the mad minute pages-only time it if you want but COMPLETE them. All 4 sheets due by Friday. Finish rounding sheet. We did pages 46, 47 in class.
I sent home a basic facts practice log. Please record time practiced and have a parent sign.

Social: Make sure all Social geography sheets are completed.

French: Finish pages on the sounds of the alpahbet in French.

Math: Basic facts. Finish p. 45 in the textbook.

Social Studies: Finish all the sheets in your mapping/geography booklet. We start on the regions tomorrow.

Science: Baking soda and vinegar=chemical reaction fun. Need to know which gas is being produced and the 4 signs that a chemical reaction has occured.

Language arts: correct spelling for all the provinces by Friday.

Language Arts: We worked on the Show Don't Tell Sentences. Students were to write me a new paragraph based on their best sentence.

Social Studies: Weworked on the continents. Quiz on provnces and their capitals is tomorrow.

Science: We went to our ICT website to work on science. http://www.blackgold.ca/ict/Divison2/science5/topic_c.htm

Math: Basic facts as always. My pet peeve: when Grade six teachers complain that students don't know their basic facts. LEARN THEM NOW. THIS REQUIRES PRACTICE...LOTS AND LOTS OF PRACTICE. I may be sending home a practice log soon. Be caught up with all your sheets. I'll post page numbers and hopefully the page numebrs soon.

In other news...
Our class is getting a Smartboard!! Google it or check it out on youtube to see this classroom tool in action.
Thanks also to parent volunteers. With guitar club, running club, choir and soon, chess club. I appreciate the lunchtime supervision so that I can eat! :)

Language Arts: The 100 most common words in English make up over 50% of what we read and write. Practice Superspeed with your parents to become fluent with these words. Discuss the ones you don't know the meaning of.
Show don't tell sentences are due tomorrow.

Math: math sheet handed out today is due tomorrow. I will post them all soon.

Social Studies: Quiz on provinces and capitals is Friday. Learn your continents and oceans as well.

Science: We reviewed all the experiements we've done so far and talked about chemical reactions. You should have brought your crystals home. It is important that everyone knows the procedure for making a crystal and also what they are. (key words-molecules formed in a regular repeating pattern) We tried the hydrogen peroxide and yeast reaction again and got it up to the roof. This is an exothermic reaction.

Language arts: Students should know: synonyms, antonyms, prefixes and suffixes. Everyone was to play superspeed with their parents.

Social Studies: Know your continents - we're getting through lots of basic geography before we dig into the study of Canada's regions.

Science: Kid safe elephant toothpaste. Fun stuff. I'd do the bigger experiment but it requires stronger hydrogen peroxide (6%, 8% or even 30% for big reactions) We made hydrogen peroxide react with yeast ot make a great chemical reaction. (H2O2 forms H2O and O2.) It shot to the roof and you can burn the bubbles. We also mixed borax with water to make crystals. We'll see how they turn out tomorrow. Mr. Maltais did not make a mess in class.

Math: All math pages due tomorrow. Basic facts still need to improve. When will it happen? Practice, practice, practice!

French: Students should know the objects in the classroom, bonjour, comment ca va, etc. Je m'appelle etc. As well as Est-ce que... questions

Social Studies: We had a practice quiz on the capitals. Most people did fairly well. A little more practice is required though. Real quiz on provinces and capitals on Friday.

Math: New place value sheet is due tomorrow. Basic facts as always.

Science: I made some "lava lamps" to show the density of liquids.

Language Arts: My First Three Weeks of School writing assignment was handed in. Thanks, they were very entertaining.

New files and powerpoints in the math and science sections on my wiki. Click on the white link that says My Wikispace just over thattaway >.

Science: We talked about surface tension of water and we broke surface tension with Mr. Stinky Feet. Actually...just soap.

Social Studies: We worked on the computers on the capitals of the provinces and sang the Name the Capitals song.

Language Arts: Due on Monday is a three paragraph piece of writing; My First Three Weeks of school. Remember to make SANDWICHES for paragraphs and PAINT A PICTURE with your words. Make your audience feel something. Your audience is me...No BARE BONES writing.

Math: Place value sheet is due Monday. I will post all three sheets to the Wiki as soon as I can.

We also learned how a chess board is set up, the rules and how the pieces move.

Hello everyone!

We did some excellent writing today in Language Arts. Remember, we're trying to paint a picture in our reader's mind and make them feel something. Use description of the senses...what you feel, hear, see, smell or taste.

Math: We worked quite a lot on addition. No homework other than practicing basic facts.

Social Studies: Learn the capitals of the provinces ASAP (as soon as possible).

Science: Go over in your mind what you learned today about dissolving and tempertature.

Art: You could always practice your shading.

Language arts: We practiced writing, moving from bare bones sentences to painting a picture. Discussed show don't tell and using our senses to make our reader feel emotion.

Math: place value sheet number 2 is due tomorrow.

Social Studies: We are almost perfect with our provinces. Now for the capitals, continents and oceans.

Science: We talked about mixtures and how to separate them using distilling, decanting, filtering, sieves, floatation, magnets etc. Mr. Maltais did not drop a beaker and cut himself.

Thanks to all the parents who came in to say hello. Thanks also for all the wonderful feedback!

Check out the new files on my Wikispace. Hear our class singing The Parts of Speech song in the Language Arts section.

Hello people of 5C and parents of wonderful children!

Math: Hey...do you know your basic facts? Math worksheet on reading and writing numbers up to one million due tomorrow. You need to understand how to use place value charts, how to read and write big numbers and how to write numbers in expanded notation.

Language arts: Be caught up in DLR up to and including Monday of week 2.Parts of speech song should be mastered.

Social Studies: EVERYONE should be getting 100% on this. Those who didn't get them all right today will do it again tomorrow.

Science: Properties of a solid, liquid and gas. Know what a mixture is and be able to tell me what is the most common gas in air.

Just a reminder http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/ is an excellent site for geography practice as well as for all the other subjects.

What should I be doing for homework? – for the week ending September 11.

Hello students of 5C. I would like you to spend your time at home thinking about what we covered in class, reviewing the information, coming up with questions about it and PRACTICING! Homework assignments will increase as we go on, especially in math.

What you need to be spending time on:

Math: Basic facts – addition, subtraction, multiplication and division (0-9) These should be automatic. In a timed test, your goal should be to keep improving until you can answer 30-40 in one minute. I would suggest at least 10 minutes a day practicing these.

Social Studies: So far we’ve been improving our basic geography skills before we study Canada in depth. You should know:
The provinces of Canada
The capitals of the provinces
The continents and oceans (coming up right away…get a head start)
Latitude and longitude and how use them to find a location

Science: Classroom chemistry is a lot of fun. Having a good understanding of the things we talk about in class will help with not only chemistry but also our weather and electricity units later on. You should be able to tell me:

What is chemistry?
What is matter?
What are atoms and molecules?
What is density?
What happens to stuff when you heat it up or cool it? (think soap and balloons in microwave)
What are the states of matter?
How do molecules act in each of the states?

Language arts: Know the 8 parts of speech. Use the narrowing funnel to come up with a story idea. You can also practice your high frequency words.

Art: You can practice blind contour drawing, regular contour drawing, and doodles with patches, concentric lines or pinwheels.

Vocabulary we have used in class:
1. slab
2. dame
3. rhetorical
4. contour
5. matter
6. chemistry
7. atoms
8. molecules
9. solid
10.liquid
11.gas
12.transition
13.table of contents
14.pronunciation guide
15.index
16.mnemonics
17.Social Studies
18.doodle
19.pinwheels
20.concentric

Math: Continue basic facts practice. 10 minutes a day minimum for homework. Place value continues.

Science: Today we made Ivory soap and balloons expand. Words of the day: expand and contract, density, dense.

Language arts: You need to know the 8 parts of speech from the song. We came up with two ideas for a story using the FUNNEL.

Social Studies: We worked with lattitude and longitude. Remember what they are and in which direction they run. We had a practice quiz on the provinces. Yikes! Better learn them!

Math: Continue basic facts practice. Place value continues.

Science: Know the meaning of your science words: matter, chemistry, solid, liquid, gas, states of matter, atoms, molecules.
We made a non-Newtonian fluid today. Fun!

Language arts: You need to know the 8 parts of speech from the song. We discussed ideas and the FUNNEL for narrowing ideas for writing.

Social Studies: Same as before. Know the parts of your text, map, table of contents, index, glossary and pronunciation guide. You need to know your provinces and territories. Mnemonic for the provinces: Billy And Sally Made Our Queen Nervous Playing Near Needles. You're Not Nice.
We are having a practice quiz tomorrow!

Math: Continue basic facts practice. We discussed Roman numerals and started on place value.

Science: Know the meaning of your science words: matter, chemistry, solid, liquid, gas, states of matter, atoms, molecules.

Language arts: vocabulary words you need to know: rhetorical, slab, dame, mnemonic, and the others you wrote down in your agenda. You need to know the 8 parts of speech from the song.

Social Studies: Know the parts of your text, map, table of contents, index, glossary and pronunciation guide. You need to know your provinces and territories. Mnemonic for the provinces: Billy And Sally Made Our Queen Nervous Playing Near Needles. You're Not Nice.

Language Arts: We worked on Daily Language Review and word ladders.

Math: Practice basic facts. Addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. We did some baseline testing.

Science: Review what we learned today. What is chemistry? What is matter? What are the states of matter and what are they like?

Social Studies: We worked with the five parts of our Social text that help us find information. Table of contents, index, maps, glossary, pronunciation guide.

Art: We did blind contour drawing today.

We had a fantastic first day. This is going to be a great year.

To do: letter to me regarding learning strengths and styles
Practice basic facts: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division

Bring a sock or and eraser for whiteboards.

Please review procedures and rules with your parents.

Welcome to Grade 5! You are going to have an excellent year. You and your parents can use this blog to check your homework, find out about upcoming events and to review what was covered in class. I will update the blog several times a week.

SUMMER!

Math: Measurement test tomorrow. Pages 195, 196 in algebra/patterns booklet.

Science: Finish booklet -except for last page. Due tomorrow (Wednesday)

Social: Quick quiz tomorrow on the topics covered in the last week. Includes: 1870-1914, the railroad, immigration, industrialization, urbanization. New inventions and changes. The causes of WWI (I. A.M. N.I.C.), Women's right to vote and the Famous Five. - Know their names (HI LEN) and what they did.

Math: we are working on patterns and algebra - Measurement test on Wednesday. (Converting cm to mm, m, etc, perimeter and area, using appropriate measurements. Finish page 187, 188 for tomorrow.

Science: Finish Wetlands booklet for Wednesday. Know your insects for the field trip.

Social: Causes and effects of WWI.

LA: Editing, DLR - you should be caught up. Hand in your letters to the new Grade five students tomorrow.

Math: Know your vocabulary. Also, page 256 on cm etc.

Social: We are studying the Canadian Pacific Railroad.

Science: Finish your adaptation assignment. Know the material relating to wetlands.

Have you handed in: life cycle and food chain drawings, your NWMP recruitment poster.

Math: We've been working hard on geometry. Students should know: right angles, acute angles and obtuse angles, how to use a protractor to measure and draw angles. Other vocabulary we have covered include parallel, intersecting, perpendicular, vertical and horizontal lines. We've also covered quadrilaterals. Squares, rectangles, rhombus and parallelograms. Measurement continues.

LA: Students should know the types of sentences; simple, compound and complex.

Science: Wetlands - students should know the functions of a wetland, the three categories of animals, all about food chains and photosynthesis, life cycles as well as adaptations.

Social Studies: Students should know the reasons for building the railway, difficulties in its construction and changes it brought to Canada. Being able to pronounce Craigellachie would be an added bonus (in addition to knowing why it is important)

Math: We are working on geometry. Know angles for Monday as well as how to use a protractor properly. Finish the sheets on time up to page 134.

LA: We are working on writing a new story.

Social: Canada post-confederation. British Columbia joins and the creation of the North West Mounted Police.

Science: Know life cycles and adaptations of wetlands animals. Be able to identify the insects on your sheet.

Math: Angles: be able to identify right angles (90 degrees), acute angles and obtuse angles. P 151 on angles.

Science: Food chains. Know your producers, consumers, decomposers

LA: Still working on our editing skills.

Math: We completed the test on area, volume and perimeter and the average was quite high. Good job everyone!

LA: Self-assessment of our last writing. (In-class work)

Science: Food chains in the wetlands. Be able to define a producer, consumer, and decomposer and give wetlands examples of each.

Social: Confederation cont. Why was Sir John A. MacDonald important?

Math: Finish up the measurement booklet and review pages 110, 111, 134, 135. All to be handed in. Quiz on measurement will be moved to Monday so we can finish all the review work. You also need to know the measurement song for Monday.

Social: We are creating posters of Sir John A. MacDonald, George Etienne Cartier and George Brown.

Science: You should know the three main functions of a wetland. Coming tomorrow (Friday) you will learn and need to know about producers, consumers and decomposers.

LA: More editing. We will be working to edit and improve our own past writing assignments.

Math: Finish up to page 290 in your math booklet. Test Friday.

LA: Know editing symbols.

Social: Biography info on fathers of Confederation.

Science: Wetlands continued.

Math quiz this Friday on measurement: Know how to find perimeter, area, volume, as well as knowing about mass and capacity.

Social Studies: Biography info on Fathers of Confederation

Science: Wetlands has begun.

Language arts: Our newspaper is almost complete, look for issues this week or early next week. We have been working on editing and proof-reading.

Math: Measurement continues. Perimeter, area, volume. Know your stuff!

LA: Year-end baseline writing assessment is tomorrow. I hope that you've improved as a writer this year!

Science: Tests are complete as are the electricity units. Wetlands begins just in time for another snowfall in May.

Social: Underground railroad. Tomorrow...confederation.

Math: Measurement song. Pages 271-274 on perimeter. Know perimeter, area and volume, how to find it, what it is measured in (cm2 etc.)

LA: We are creating a class newspaper. Whole school final writing assessment is Wednesday.

Science: Electricity practical final was today. Great work! The written portion is tomorrow.

Social: history of Canada continues.

Math: Number sense tests have been returned. We have now started measurement. You need to know the song and to know what perimeter, area and volume are and what units we measure them in.

We are having DS period for math tomorrow.

Social: Social tests have been returned. Great migration, war of 1812 and confederation are the current topics.

LA: We are making a newspaper. Pull your weight and make good decisions about what you will do for this. I will be leaving responsibility with you.

Science: Review electricity. Unit test is on Monday.

A practice math test went home today. Be ready for the real thing tomorrow.

Homework for LA: We talked about meter as well as stressed and unstressed syllables. For tomorrow: find four words (or pairs of words) that follow the two patterns. DA da - stressed, unstressed (ex. giraffe, horseshoe) and da DA unstressed, stressed (goodbye, New York )




Evan is a good poet and writer. So are you.

We are caught up and have completed all our big projects including our famous Canadian posters.

Math: We are finishing up our number sense unit. The unit test will be on Tuesday. Students should finish the booklet to page 124 by then. Look over pages 1-124.

We took quite a bit of time today to finish our three projects.

We are now working on our famous Canadian posters who has had an impact on our history and culture.

Trying to simplify long division, I seem to have made it more difficult. Practice continues tomorrow.

We have DARE from 9:00-10:00.

Projects that you should be finishing and handing in:

1. letter from a loyalist
2. Inventor baseball card
3. Five paragraph essay

You should have also chosen a Canadian who has had an impact on our history and culture and researched their life. We are creating a poster with the info and pictures.

You should be able to multiply two digit by two digit numbers with no problem.

Take the initiative to master long division as we will be practicing it in class. It is one of the most commonly forgotten skills as students go into Grade six.

Despite lots of practice in class, many students are still not fluent with basic facts in math (broken record). This is an essential math skill that requires PRACTICE! Personal math trainer for the DS is a good game. There are many websites with math games and paper and pencil works too.

I was away yesterday.

Math: Review long division. Finish up to page 100.

LA: 5 paragraph research project. If you are not finished, you may need to work on this at home.

Social: Letter from a loyalist.

Science: Inventor baseball cards need to be finished.

Choose a famous Canadian to research. Also, find your pulse. It was surprising how many students have never taken their pulse. We discussed resting, maximum and target heart rates today.

Math: We have finished up to page 90 in the booklet. Make sure you are very good at two digit by two digit multiplication. We need to review long division. Math basic facts practise sheets will be coming home until our average goes up. This actually requires practise and work!!!!

LA: 5 paragraph research project. If you are not finished, you may need to work on this at home.

Social: Chapter 7 and 8 - New France and the fur trade test tomorrow.

Science: Inventor baseball cards. Due Friday.

We had DARE today with Constable Smith. We are lucky to have her in our community. Topics covered should be discussed with parents.

Math: We missed math today up because of DARE. Make sure you are caught up (to page 85 in booklet.

LA: 5 paragraph research project. This is coming along nicely.

Social: Chapter 7 and 8 - New France and the fur trade practise tests are due Monday. Test will be next Wednesday. We read the book "Charlotte" about a loyalist family.

Math: up to page 85 in booklet. Despite lots of work in class, some people are not showing improvement in their fluency with basic facts in math. Extra sheets will be sent home.

LA: 5 paragraph research project. This is coming along nicely.

Science: Students should be experts at building circuits by now. We created resistance circuits today.

Social: Chapter 7 and 8 - New France and the fur trade practise tests. Test will be next Wednesday. We will be doing a poster on an influential Canadian for education week.
Students should be familiar with the Acadians and the Loyalists. (Who they are and their place in Canadian history.

Math: Page 78, 79 in booklet. We drilled basic facts quite a bit today. Keep working at it.

LA: 5 paragraph research project.

Science: Students should be experts at building circuits by now. We created short circuits today. We will finish the electricity unit by the end of the month.

Social: Chapter 7 and 8 - New France and the fur trade practise tests. Test will be next Wednesday. We will be doing a poster on an influential Canadian for education week.

Math: Page 72 in the antique textbook. Make sure that two digit by two digit multiplication is rock solid for next year!

LA: We are doing a new research project on a topic of your choice. We will be following the usual 5 paragraph format. Make sure you are caught up on DLR (week 28, Tuesday) and CS up to page 35.

Science: We experimented with liquid conductors today and Mr. Maltais did not shock himself.

Social: Chapter 7 and 8 - New France and the fur trade practise tests. We will be doing a poster on an influential Canadian for education week.

We had an excellent trip to the museum. Thanks once again to our parent volunteers.

Language arts: Daily Language Review - finished up to week 27 Monday. We wrote about what we did this spring break then discussed what to avoid in this type of writing (writing a "list", lack of detail, not connecting to your audience.) and what you can do to make it interesting. (adding detail, connecting to others by writing about things they can relate to, and giving just one moment in time in depth, not an entire trip in one paragraph.

Math: Are you a basic facts master? If not, why not?! Finished page 63.

Social: New France and the fur trade. Know this material, it comes back in Grade 7 and we will be having a test on this next week. Review questions will be coming home shortly.

Science: Make sure that you have your electricity reading for Monday done. No excuses!

Parent teacher interviews tonight.

We had a speaker come in this afternoon. I thought that he was excellent and kept our entire school engaged. You can check out his website.
http://www.davidbouchard.com/

Math: Finish up to page 60. BASIC FACTS

LA: BTT 4 paragraphs.

Social: New France and the fur trade. Know this material, it comes back in Grade 7. Review ch 4 and 5 in Our Land and People as well as the pages in Early Canada.

Science: Take your electricity reading over spring break.

Math: Continuing our number sense review. Finish page 56. Basic facts still need to improve.

Social: We read Early Canada and discussed the fur trade companies, Henry Kelsey etc.

Science: Try taking a reading of your home electricity meter. Look at your parents' bill to find the kilowatt hours.

LA: C.S. p. 29, 30, 31. Make sure you are caught up on DLR.

Field Trip to the Provincial Museum on Friday for wetlands and aboriginal studies!

Math: up to page 50 in our number sense review -regrouping. We also learned how to do a Sudoku puzzle

LA: Bridge to Terabithia 5 paragraph essay.

Social: We played the fur trading game and had oral quizzes on New France and the fur trade.

Science: We spent a lot of time going over dividing and multiplying multiples of 10 in preparation for figuring out kilowatts used. We will continue to go over kilowatt hours and energy efficiency of appliances.

Math: up to page 48 in our number sense review

LA: Bridge to Terabithia 5 paragraph essay

Social: We don't Social Studies on Day 5

Science: On Monday we will go over kilowatt hours and energy efficiency of appliances

DARE continues. Our next DARE class with Constable Smith isn't until April 17.

Math: We are continuing to solidify number sense concepts. We have completed page 42.

LA: We watched the movie, Bridge to Terabithia and will now write a 5 paragraph essay comparing the book and the movie.

Social Studies: Les voyageurs.

Science: We will take a look at energy efficiency and kilowatt hours next.

Hello all!

Language arts: We have finished Bridge to Terabithia and should be done all the work up to chapter 13.
Grammar terms you should know: synonym, antonym, prefix, suffix, declarative, exclamatory, imperative or interrogative sentence, possessive as well as the parts of speech and punctuation marks. (? ! " , . ; : -) No that's not a happy face, it's a colon and a hyphen.

Math: We are spiralling back a bit and reviewing some number sense concepts in our new booklet. You should be finished up to page 35.

Social: Voyageur sheet. Students should be familiar with the terms and concepts in chapter 8. We have discussed quite a bit and learned a new voyageur song, En Roulant ma Boule Roulant.

Science: We continue to explore the wonderful world of electricity.

Whoa! A whole week went by. Report cards, report cards, report cards.

Social Studies: We have been studying New France and are now beginning the fur trade.

Language Arts: We practised the play, "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and it was a lot of fun to see it performed!

Math. We have been studying patterns. Everyone should be up to page 16 in their booklet.

Science: We have been doing experiments with static electricity. For homework, rub your feet on the carpet and touch someone!

Hello all,

Math: We have finished our fractions unit in math and are now starting with patterns and a little algebra. Great job in the last unit. Pages 1-6 should be done in the new booklet.

Social studies: We are well into our history unit and are actually way ahead because of HIstory Tellers.

Science: Electricity continued. We have been making a variety of circuits and electromagnets. (Some of our telegraphs didn't work that well though.)

LA: BTT chapter 11

Sorry for not posting...busy week.

Language Arts: Memorize I have a dream. Bridge to Terabithia, chapter 9

Math: Basic facts as always. Fractions booklet- we have been racing through and everyone is doing well. Good work! Finish up to (and including) page 34.

Social Studies: Regions test was today. Explorers sheets. Finished Jacques Cartier and Martin Frobisher.

Science: We made motors today. It was pretty cool! Review electricity info.

Language Arts: Animal article due on Monday.

Math: Basic facts as always. Fractions booklet- finish up to (and including) page 22.

Social Studies: Aboriginal people research was due on Friday. Know History Tellers as well as world history cartoons. Regions test on Wednesday

Science: Know your circuit symbols

Language Arts: Bridge to Terabithia Ch. 7 and 8 due Thursday. Animal article due on Monday.

Math: Basic facts as always. Fractions booklet- finish up to (and including) page 18.

Social Studies: Your personal timeline is due tomorrow. Aboriginal people research due on Friday. Know History Tellers as well as world history cartoons.

Science: Know your circuit symbols

Language Arts: Bridge to Terabithia Ch. 7 and 8 due Thursday

Math: Fractions booklet finish up to (and including) page 16

Social Studies: My personal timeline is due on Thursday

Science: Know your circuit symbols

Science: Electricity: you should know the symbols for battery, lamp, switch, resistor, etc.

Math: Fractions unit: Finish up to page 14

LA: Animal arcticle should be almost finished.

Social: Know your world history cartoons and history tellers. Research on Aboriginal group will be due Thursday.

Happy Valentines Day! Thanks to everyone who gave out valentines and treats.

Science test on Weather was done today. We will be covering circuits and electrical symbols tomorrow.

Social: World history continues. Practice history tellers.

Math: You should all know how to add and subtract fractions.

LA: Animal article continued.

Social Studies: You will be tested on History Tellers soon! Know it! History of the World continues on Thursday.

Math: fractions, fractions, fractions

LA: More great work today on topic sentences. Make sure you have the animal article topic sentence and the "cold" topic sentence completed.

Science: we have started our electricity unit.
The last two questions on the exam tomorrow are:

17. How does weather affect the way we live? /4
18. You are a water droplet. Describe your journey through the water cycle. Make sure to use the correct words to describe what is happening to you. /10

Practice chess, drawing and recorder!

LA: We wrote some excellent topic sentences for our animal articles today. Keep working on "I have a dream."

Math: We learned about binary code today. 110101.

Social Studies: We are almost through history tellers. Make sure you know it well! Sheet for researching aboriginal group should be completed.

Science: We have started studying electricity. Weather unit test on Wednesday.

Our staff attended teacher's convention on Thursday and Friday. I participated in some great sessions and feel inspired!

Language arts: Bridge to Terabithia - chapter 6 work due Monday plus work on "I have a dream."

Social Studies: know your History Tellers.

Science: Weather unit test on Wednesday.

Homework habits are slipping folks!

You have until tomorrow to ensure your homework duotang is complete.

Math: Be sure you understand equivalent fractions as well as how to compare and order fractions (finding the lowest common denominator).

LA: research for 5 paragraph animal article. It MUST look like this:

Paragraph 1.Introduction, your three big ideas. Concluing
Paragraph 2. Big idea number one with three supporting details.
Paragraph 3. Big idea number two with three supporting details.
Paragraph 4. Big idea number three with three supporting details.
Paragraph 5. Conclusion. Something general tied to the first paragraph idea. Is the animal endangered? What can people do to help the animal? etc.

Science: Weather unit test coming soon.

Social: Did you hand in your regions project? This week: aboriginal peoples of Canada and World History in a nutshell.

Not much new- the homework duotang is due Monday as we have no school on Friday. Hand in a word ladder of your own if you didn't finish one with a partner. Start research on the five paragraph animal article. Make sure you are caught up on Bridge to Terabithia - up to ch. 5.

Tomorrow (Thursday) we are having an activity day in the afternoon.

Homework duotang is due Friday

Math: fractions - Sheets R27-R32 should be completed.

Social Studies: The Social project is due on Thursday. Remember, for each of the regions, you need three symbols representing the natural resources, three symbols representing the landscape and three symbols representing the climate.

Language Arts: Bridge to Terabithia chapter 5 work is due tomorrow.

Science: Have you been keeping track of the weather?

Math: fractions - See Math 5-live on the link to the right for more help.

Social Studies: Continue working on the Social project.

Language Arts: Bridge to Terabithia - work up to chapter 4 is due Monday

Science: Review science. We are nearing the end of our weather unit.

Art: Practise contour drawing

Music: practise the notes on the recorder.

Math: fractions - See Math 5-live on the link to the right for more help.

Social Studies: Continue working on the Social project. Remember, for each of the regions, you need three symbols representing the natural resources, three symbols representing the landscape and three symbols representing the climate.

Language Arts: Fill in the sheet with advice from "Nothing ever happens on 90th street" sheet.

Science: Review science for more weather questions. Do you know the dates of the solstices and equinoxes, the effects of direct and indirect rays from the sun, and the water cycle?

Art: Practise contour drawing

Music: practise the notes on the recorder.

Math: fractions -p.374-375 numbers 1-16 in your text. See Math 5-live on the link to the right for more help.

Social Studies: Continue working on the Social project. Remember, for each of the regions, you need three symbols representing the natural resources, three symbols representing the landscape and three symbols representing the climate.

Language Arts: Bridge to Terabithia, chapters 1-3 should be completed. Are you caught up on DLR?

Science: Know your clouds! We will be looking at tornadoes tomorrow and finishing our powerpoint on clouds.

Art: Practise contour drawing

Music: practise the notes on the recorder.

Weekend homework

Math: make sure you are a long division master.

Social: Continue working on the Social project. Remember, for each of the regions, you need three symbols representing the natural resources, three symbols representing the landscape and three symbols representing the climate.

Language Arts: Bridge to Terabithia, chapter 3 work

Science: know your clouds!

Art: Practise contour drawing

Music: practise the notes on the recorder.

Current topics

Math:
Continue your journey to become a basic facts ninja! Our goal is to be able to do 40 operations in one minute. We have been working on long division and will be having a quiz on it on Monday.

Language Arts:
We have been writing a lot, working on "Mr. Linden's Library." We have started our Bridge to Terabithia novel study and students should be done the work for chapters 1 and 2.

Science:
We are still working on our Weather unit. Students should be keeping a daily log of the weather. So far we have built 2 different types of anemometers, a weathervane and a barometer. Students should know why we have seasons, what causes wind, the water cycle and more! Learn your cloud types this week.

Social Studies:
We are working on a project to summarize the regions of Canada. It is a map of Canada with the regions labelled and with three symbols representing the landscape, natural resources and climate of the region. (3 symbols for each one!)

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