Handwriting R

Basic fact sheet.
Khan Academy math online!

Math: basic facts
Khan Academy

Long division: 3 digit quiz tomorrow!
Bring home DLR -catch up - review for a grammar quiz!
I had a great day today!

Math: finish the three digit long division sheet.
Read!
Basic facts -math
Write down the number of pages read and how long you practiced math in your agenda!

I had a great day!

Math: p. 127 and 128. division

Basic facts.
I had a good but noisy day today!

Practice long division!

Math: finish page 95. If you are confused, look back on the work we've already done. Please don't misplace this!
Basic facts - keep practicing. Mathletics or flashcards.
Toondoo-idiom cartoon. Some of you need to create a new idiom cartoon.
Practice the music for the Christmas concert.
Ski trip forms or notes need to be handed in.
I had a great day today.

Math: Review division!

Continue to practice basic facts. Flashcards or mathletics.
You can log in to epearl and improve your work. You can also work on improving your idiom cartoon.
I had a great day today!

Parent-teacher interviews continue tonight!
Math: Ensure that you have completed up to page 90.
Basic facts: all 4 Mad Minute homework sheets should be completed. Handwriting, up to and including letter P.
Please use Epearl!
I had a great day!
We have had our best week yet! If our great work and fantastic transitions continue tomorrow, we will have a party in the PM. Feel free to bring snacks and some G rated movies to choose from.Thanks for the hard work this week.
Science: Stephanie Barsby, meteorologist for CBC will be here tomorrow at 11:00! Please watch the 6:00 CBC news to see the forecast.

Math: basic facts practice. Math sheets - up to page 89! sign math quiz.
Watch the weather on the 6:00 news. Stephanie Barsby will be here on Friday!
 Handwriting O. One basic facts.

Math: Basic facts practice! Especially multiplication. Do one sheet of MM. Some of us still need some work on two-digit by two-digit multiplication.
Handwriting: up to N
I had a great day today!

Fifty percent of the class has mastered two-digit by two-digit multiplication. Others need to practice.
Basic facts are still not great! Practice!
Parent teacher interviews are tomorrow and Thursday.
Our classroom habits are improving, good job!

Science: watch the weather on the news
Math: multiplication quiz. Two-digit by two-digit on Monday, practice basic facts.
We had a very good day today!
PD day tomorrow.

It has been a busy week. I've been away for PD for our computer project. Report cards went home.
We've begun our Weather unit in science. We are working on multiplication of two by two-digit numbers. Practice! Basic facts are getting better but are still not where they need to be.
We'll be working on several computer projects for LA and social studies.

We worked hard today!

Homework duotang: Handwriting K, one m.m. basic facts math sheet.

Math:  Practice 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication. On practice sheet.

Science: Study review questions.

Social: Review Chapter 1 in green book. 

I had a great day today!

Science: Complete and study science sheets on chemistry.

Math and handwriting in Homework duotang: up to and including I, 1sheet of math both sides.
I had great day today!

We had a busy day working hard! The average on our  math quiz on multiplication quiz was 89%. Excellent work everyone!
Science: finish the review sheet on Crystals and Water! (9 questions)
We had a great day today!


Mr. Maltais is participating in Movember.

Remembrance day ceremony was today.

Finish multiplication: two-digits by one digit. Quiz tomorrow!

Finish Science questions on mixtures, solutions - 3 pages. Quiz coming up!


Thanks for your hard work today! I had a great day!

Math: practice multiplication; two digit by one digit.
First page of science review for the quiz on the first three outcomes.

I had a great day today!

Finish handwriting up to and including H.
Basic facts sheets - all four should have been completed last week.
P. 57 1-24.
I had a great day with a wonderful group of responsible individuals.

 Get math tests signed!

We had a very busy day!
We had a math quiz, worked on science review and did journaling.
Starting two-digit by two-digit multiplication on Monday.
Review basic facts!

We've been working hard on getting our math facts fluent. It takes a lot of practice. Speaking of practice, we've been doing handwriting every day. We will be doing two-digit multiplication next week and continuing with a project in social as well as more experiments and experiences in science.
I've embedded twitter in the blog and I will have students tweet about our activities throughout the day.
Swimming is on Monday P.M. And we will leave around noon.

http://www.avivacommunityfund.org/ideas/acf11084

Handwriting A and B.
Math: One sheet of math mad minute. (in the back of the handwriting book)

Scholastic book order due Friday.
Immunization form: due Friday.

Math: Basic facts - mathletics. Counting by multiples of 6, 7, 8, 9.
Memorize multiples, factors song

LA: Reading

Math: practice multiples - as part of our multiplication practice, we are counting by multiples up to 10. Do it in the car, on the walk home, on your bike. Basic facts-flashcards, mathletics etc. Finish P. 74. 75.

Science: How can you make a crystal?

I had a great day today!

Math: complete the practice quiz for tomorrow. Real thing tomorrow.
Basic facts: flashcards, mathletics, IXL math.

LA: hand in superhero trading card tomorrow. (4 people)

Science: dissolve something at home. Sugar, baking soda - how much will dissolve.

I had a great day!

TO BE SIGNED
math unit test
add and subtraction quiz
rounding
Grammar quiz
social quiz
swimming form
Chess?
I had a great day today!

Math: finish booklet on estimation. MAKE SURE YOU BRING IT IN ON MONDAY!
Superspeed math. Mathletics.
Math quiz on estimation on Tuesday.

Scholastic book order. Review DARE info.

Kidblog: have you submitted all assignments.

Have parents check Mr. Maltais blog this weekend. I will write a letter. with updates on our progress so far.

Math: Finish p. 58 and 59. Do Superspeed addition with your parents. Grammar quiz tomorrow.
We are finishing our unit on estimating.

Social: We will review ch.1 tomorrow. Quiz on chapter 1 on Monday.
DARE starts tomorrow. Tristan, Madi, Kaylie, BRING IN YOUR LETTERS!

Book order - Tuesday
I had a great day today!

Math: finish page 55 and 56.
Basic facts: do superspeed math with your parents. Get them to initial how far you get.

I had a great day today!

Math: p. 51, 52.

LA: What makes a hero paragraph. Finish if you haven't already.

Art: take home and work on our negative space exercise.

I had a great day today, but the volume was high. Are you part of the solution or part of the problem? TRANSITIONS!

LA: What makes a hero paragraph.

Math: BASIC FACTS! Make us number 1 in Canada!

I had an absolutely wonderful day!

Howdy all!

Math: Basic facts - please practice - mathletics, flashcards, rhymes, etc.
Social: review region information: Can I Please Get An Awesome Cherry Shake? What makes a region CPR, details on each of those things!
Review Science: 4 ways to separate solids.

I had a great day today!

Math: basic facts. Starting rounding and estimating on Monday.

DARE letters: please bring them in.

Thanks for a great week!

Math: review basic facts as always.
Addition and subtraction of larger numbers - quiz tomorrow.

Math: Review basic facts. Page 47, 1-12 (subtraction)

I had a great day today!

Links for Social Studies
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Social Studies: first two pages (both sides) on latitude and longitude.

Math: basic facts: mathletics, flash cards, etc. review addition and subtraction. Examples:
98769 +12344=
89007-12323=


I had a great day today!

Social quiz done! Some folks still need to review their provinces and capitals.

Math sheets on expanded notation.

Basic facts. Mathletics. Keep us in the top 20? Top 10?

I had a great day today!

Math: basic facts. Page 16, 17 sheets in your binder.

Social: Provinces and capitals quiz tomorrow.

Math: I will practice some basic facts tonight! Finish p. 14, 15.

Social: Provinces and capitals. KNOW THEM!

I had a great day today!

Math: do some Mathletics. Basic Facts practice.

The Terry Fox run was a great success. Thanks!

Science: Quiz Monday - I hope.

Social: Provinces and Capitals. Quiz next week.

I had a great day today!

Science quiz- moved because of fire drill. We'll do it tomorrow instead..

Social: study provinces and capitals.

Math: p. 69 1-25, p. 63, 1-25.

Terry Fox run tomorrow. You will get a free hot dog and water bottle. Donation of $2 is appreciated. Activity day afternoon.

Mathletics: 5 people. Please bring in payment ASAP.
I had a great day today!

Science: Review what we did today. You should be able to answer the questions from the quiz we did on the computers. We will do the paper version of the quiz tomorrow.

(QUIZ tomorrow.) What is chemistry, what is matter, what are atoms, what are the parts of an atom, what are the THREE :) states of matter?

Social: Provinces and Capitals. I am studying by:_________

LA: make sure you have a drawing for your story (draw-label-caption)

math: multiplying by 10, 100, 1000. Can you do it?
Toonie for Terry please!!!
Mathletics please!
I had an excellent day today!

MEET THE TEACHER TONIGHT AT 5:00 to 7:00

Social Quiz signed

Study provinces and capitals.

Mathletics payment, please.

Scholastic book order in by Monday, September 19th.

I had a great day today!

Tomorrow is a quiz kind of day!

Social: Continents and oceans! Sweet Home Alberta!

Science: science questions. What is chemistry? What is matter? What are atoms? What are the parts of an atom? PEN. What are the three states of matter? Do not remember the other ones whatever you do!!!!!

LA: parts of speech song.
I had a very warm day. I had a great day today!

Math: basic facts practice!

LA: parts of speech - some of you still don't know the song. Paragraph hand: what makes a good paragraph?

Social Studies: Know the continents and oceans. Quiz soon. Provinces and Capitals are next.

Science: Review questions from yesterday!

I had a great day today!

Parent homework: Letter from parents about you. Mathletics.
Math: Finish page 32, 33 tonight.

LA: Parts of speech song.

Social: geography, the continents, provinces and capitals.

Science: review vocabulary. Answer questions from today.
1. What is chemistry?
2. What is matter?
3. What are atoms?
4. What are the parts of an atom?
5. What is a molecule?

I had a great day today! I hope you did too!

Response from parents. (letter home)
LA:
Parts of speech song. READING! By the lake or elsewhere!
Social:
Continents, oceans, provinces and capitals.
Math:
Basic Facts practice.
Art:
Doodles and noodles!
I had a great day today!

We had a great day today.
LA: Memorize parts of speech song.
Review Study methods.
Go over procedures and letter home!

5C is the best! I am so excited for this year.

Thinking about school yet?

Sorry for the lack of blog updates lately, we have been busy. Here's what we have been up to this week.

Science: We're been learning about wetlands and are prepared to identify many of the plants and animals that we will see on our field trip on Monday.
Be sure to bring: sunglasses and a hat, bug spray, sunscreen, a bagged lunch (no items requiring a microwave)

Social Studies: we're working with 5B on the final outcomes in social studies. Topics include, WWII, the creation of our flag, the Charter of Rights and Freedoms and more!

Math: Finish the algebra review pages. Algebra test on Wednesday.

LA: We've been doing some intense journaling nad writing 200-300 words per day.
As always, we continue to work on grammar and vocabulary. We're also working on a novel study.

Art: We're working on portraits: Come see our study of noses posted in the hall near the library. We've started working on eyes.

Math - pages 24, 25, 27, 28

LA: Read chapter 4, do chapter 3 and 4 work.

Science: memorize insects.

Studying makes people really, really, really awesome!
(song, mnemonic, picture or drawing, rhythm, reading, repetition, action)

I had a wonderful day today.

We've been working on algebra and some of it was too hard to send home for homework. We will finish the unit this week or early next week.

We're reading a new novel, "From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler." It is a a Newberry Award winner.

We're working on creating a virtual debate using a site called, "Goanimate."

We've started our last Science unit on wetlands. Everyone should know the class vocabulary (learned with the camping game) and can review our notes so far.

Math: finish pages 13-16.

Science: Test on electricity tomorrow.

Tiles: these will be on the walls for years. Come up with a good idea. This year's theme is acceptance.

Math- page 1 - patterns

LA: Mixed up Files Novel - character traits of three main characters. Chapter 1 questions.

Science: Electricity review-due Thursday.

Field trip form - due ASAP

I had a great day today!

Happy Monday!
Math, page 1-7. Algebra!

Math: page 216 in textbook.

Math: Subtracting decimals sheet.

Registration form: please fill it out and bring it back for tomorrow.

We've been very busy working on our digital stories for social studies, finishing and reviewing fractions and decimals and now adding and subtracting decimals. We've written a story in LA, finished our novel study for Bridge to Terabithia. In art, we've been working on shading with charcoal. We will have a quick quiz on our museum trip tomorrow. We are also collaborating with a grade four class for education week.

Math: make sure you are done p. 181, 182. Finish p. 189.

LA: read Hamlet.

Farewell to Hailey - she is leaving today!

If you have internet access, search for pictures for your project. You can upload them to your school folder by following the link on the blog. Reviewing fractions and decimals is a good idea!

math: page 231, 232 in Jump math.
Tomorrow we are watching Bridge to Terabithia and comparing it to the book. Bring in snacks.
I HAD A GREAT DAY TODAY!

BTT: chapter 8,9 bookmark and discussion question.
Math: p. 229, 230

• Math: p. 226, 227, 228 - Jump math. YAY!


• Write on Stationary orders due tomorrow. Second time receiving this


• Scholastic book order for April due tomorrow.


• Field trip for museum due ASAP. We need 5 parent volunteers.


• Yearbook forms.

I had a great day today.

• Math: p. 178, 179.


• Social: New France Test on Monday. To study - look at fakebook for Samuel de Champlain. Social: Practice history tellers. Review pages 120-130 in the text on New France in textbook- we will have a test on it! Key points: Look for bolded words, pictures, maps.p. 120 Samuel de Champlain, first French settlement. (Reader's theatre we did) p. 122 - What was life like in New France - 123. New France expands - gets bigger - Montreal 124, 125. seigneurial system - long strips of land, seigneur means lord 126. Habitants - their jobs 130 - filles du roi- daughters of the king, population of New France grows.


• Research for immigrant group. Finish.

Bridge to Terabithia: chapter 6 and 7 - bookmarks - (summaries and discussion questions.) Math - two sided sheet on decimals Social: research the first two questions. We had a great day today!

Social: Test on New France on Friday. Study from the Fakebook entries we made for Samuel de Champlain.

Math fraction reviews sheet. Test on Friday. Language Arts: Bridge to Terabithia chapter 5 summary, discussion questions.

Worked on BTT. Finish summaries (bookmarks for chapter 4) Prepare for book club discussion on chapters 1-4 tomorrow. Math - Fractions test on Friday.

Review fractions. We will have a test this week. Review how to do fakebook. You can work on it from home. Bridge to Terabithia: we are looking for connections as we read. Text-to-self, text-to-text, text-to-world. We are on chapter 4.

Tomorrow is beach day. We are also walking to the swimming pool in the afternoon so don't forget your swim gear and a lock if you want to lock up your things. Dress appropriately for the walk.
Finish Bridge to Terabithia first assignment for chapters 1-3.

Math: fractions - textbook page 173.



Science: Finish AIM 2, 3, 4 if you want to do the experiment tomorrow.



Social: Practice history tellers. Review pages 120-130 in the text on New France in textbook- we will have a test on it!

Key points: Look for bolded words, pictures, maps.p. 120 Samuel de Champlain, first French settlement. (Reader's theatre we did)

p. 122 - What was life like in New France -

123. New France expands - gets bigger - Montreal

124, 125. seigneurial system - long strips of land, seigneur means lord

126. Habitants - their jobs

130 - filles du roi- daughters of the king, population of New France grows.

fur and fish fights: $$$$$$

Confrontation: Huron and Iroquois, French and Hurons, England and France,

Hurons crushed: by the Iroquois

Math. P. 70, 71, I will copy

LA: Bridge to Terabithia: finish bookmark ch.1 . Read ch. 2 and add post it notes to good imagery. Start ch. 2. bookmark.

Science: Finish AIM 2

I had a great day today!

Math. Page 211, 212, 213, 214, 215, - we worked hard on fractions today. Make sure you have these pages done.
Social - re-read pages 122, 123, 124 - make notes, make sure you understand.
Tristan has an agenda!
Report cards tomorrow.
No microwave lunches tomorrow.
I had a great B-day today!

Get interview request sheets filled out.
Math: review fractions. Do pages 204, 205.

Science: review electricity. Quick quiz tomorrow. Didn't have one today.

Social: Explorers quick quiz. Where did they come from (who did they explore for)? Where did they go? What happened to them on the way?



I had a great day today. Wait for a stamp!

Math: review fractions. Finish pages 203, 204

Science: review electricity. Quick quiz tomorrow just like the practice one today.

Social: Explorers quick quiz. Where did they come from (who did they explore for)? Where did they go? What happened to them on the way?

History tellers (plus).
I had a great day today but Edward was grumpy.

Math: First two pages of fractions booklet.

Social: Finish all the explorers sheets. Quick quiz on history, explorers, etc. On Wednesday.

Science: Another quick quiz- symbols for circuits, conductors, resistors etc. what is electricity?, review your notes.

New unit in math tomorrow: fractions.

Review electricity. Quiz on symbols, resistors, conductors, insulators, how to make a circuit.

Social: Jacques Cartier.

Some people still need to get their tests signed.

Tomorrow: math quiz on transformations. On what? Transformations. What's a transformation? Rotation, reflection, and translation. AKA turns, flips, slides.
We have completed our measurement unit. We will now do fractions. Still to come, decimals, patterns (algebra) and statistics and probabilty.

Field trip form is due March 11.

Click here to see the science quiz.
http://mrmaltais.wikispaces.com/Science

Still 3 people who need to hand in test signed.
Math: p. 96, 98.
We did not finish all the math I wanted to. Geometry test MONDAY. Quadrilaterals, parallel, horizontal, perpendicular, etc.

Mini-science quiz Friday on parts of the light bulb and how to light it. Yup...happening tomorrow.

Social: Thank-you for good work on the paragraphs.

I had a great day today.

Most people had the measurement test signed! Thanks!

Geometry test Friday. Quadrilaterals, parallel, horizontal, perpendicular, etc.
Mini-science quiz Friday on parts of the light bulb and how to light it.

Social: Paragraphs on the potlatch - as a story.

I had a great day today.

Pink shirt day was great! We had 18 out of 25 students in our class wear pink.

Measurement test signed!

Unit 6 review sheets. P. 92, 93, 94, 95.
Geometry test Friday. Quadrilaterals, parallel, horizontal, perpendicular, etc.

I had a great day today.

Pink shirt day tomorrow! Wear pink. Borrow a shirt if you don't have one.

Math: measurement test will happen tomorrow .

Classroom habits still need to change. Are you a part of the solution or part of the problem.

We did our weather test today. We begin our electricity unit tomorrow.

Math: Our first measurement test didn't go so well last week. New measurement test tomorrow.

LA: Kidblog on Valentine's day.

Field trip to the Winspear tomorrow. Dress nicely! Bring a bagged lunch-no microwaves available.

Science: We have completed our weather unit. Test will be next Tuesday. We begin electricity on Wednesday!

Social: potlatch - What was it? Why was it important? Why was it banned?

No school Thursday and Friday for teachers' convention.

Math: we will finish pages 232, 233 tomorrow in class. You need to know: rhombus, rectangle, trapezoid, parallelogram, square, kite, arrowhead. Identify and draw.

Science: Please finish the practice test up to page 146.

Social: If you can find some legends to read, that would be great!
http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html-Legends/Legends-AB.html#Blackfoot

Field Trip: Wednesday AM. We can only have one volunteer.
Pink day: February 23.

Well, the math test will actually happen tomorrow. We're ready, we're set. In social, our dioramas are going in the front display case of the school so we need to continue our research of our groups in order to create information sheets, posters, etc. to accompany our fabulous shelters. We will be finished our weather unit soon and have begun to review. We will start electricity in the near future. We continue with geometry in math. Terms to know: parallel, perpendicular, diagonal, horizontal, vertical, intersecting.

I will be away for the next two days so look for homework information on the blog on Friday. Have a great week!

Math: Extra practice 3, 4, 5, 6,

Science: know the cloud stuff from the quiz today.

Social: read about your aboriginal people
Finished dioramas! Hallelujah!

LA: Read, children!

Liam had a fantastic day!

We have been studying the aboriginal people of Canada in social studies and as part of our examination of their lifestyle (before Europeans came to North America) we have been building dioramas of the shelters used. Examples include igloos, wigwams, and tipis as well as Iroquois and Haida longhouses. This has been a lot of work but the end product is turning out great. Pictures will be posted soon.

We will soon be finishing our weather unit in science and will be doing tests and quizzes for those concepts over the next couple of weeks.

In math, we are completing the first part of our shape and space unit which involves measurement. One more review booklet went home today and we will work on it tomorrow, over the weekend, and on Monday with the test coming on Tuesday.

In language arts we are completing a five-paragraph essay on an animal and continue to work on becoming better readers and writers.

Mr. M

We had immunization needles today. :(

Math: Test on Friday- measurement.
Science:review types of clouds, how lightning is formed, how to calculate how far away a lightning strike is.
Social: Bring anything you need for dioramas. Twigs, bark, rocks.

Math: Show what you know. 158, 159 for tomorrow.
Measurement test on Friday. Units of measurement, area, perimeter, volume, capacity etc.

Social: Bring in supplies for diaorama.

WINSPEAR FIELD TRIP: Please bring in the form by tomorrow!
Sorry for the short notice.

Math: page 293 - capacity.

La: plan for animal article needs to be completed! (should already be close).I had a good day !

Today we:

Correct math, did more work on volume with cm cubes, building shapes and calculating their volume.
We finished our social studies project on National Parks and should be able top discuss them.

Tomorrow: we will work on our animal article. All research should be finished and you should be ready to write.

We had a great day today!

MAth:

287, 288, 289, 290. KNOW VOLUME, PERIMETER, AREA.

Math: Sheets on Area
276, 277, 278.

Indoor Recess continues!!!!

Homework for tonight:

Math: p. 271, 272, 273,
Science: didn't have science make sure you are done the booklet (AIM 6, 7 and 8)
I had a great day!

Hello 5C.

Homework for tonight:

Science: Finish the booklet we worked on in class today. AIM 6, 7 and 8. Try making your own Anemometer at home!

I had a great day but indoor recess is not too much fun :)

Math: Please finish page 124 and 125 in your math textbook.

Measurement booklet. Make sure you are finished up to and including page 261.

I had a great day today!

Happy new year! Welcome back. It was great to be back at school with you wonderful people.

Math: review sheet 2.

Today was a great day!