Please make sure you are caught up with handwriting-up to H

Math: basic facts. Review subtraction. Subtraction quiz on Monday (most likely)

Toonie for Terry Fox run. We've raised $24 so far, let's raise $56 for our class.

I had an awesome day today!

Please bring in a toonie for the Terry Fox run if you can!
Handwriting: H
Math: Keep honing you skills with basic facts.
Our average on the addition quiz today was 98%. Excellent work everyone. Let's hope we can achieve similar results with subtraction, multiplication and division!
I had an awesome day today!

Three students from our class ran at the Cross Country Run today and they did a great job! Thanks for your participation.
Homework:
Handwriting G
Math: Basic facts-all 4, Superspeed practice. Review addition of larger numbers!
I had a great day today!

Your homework is to review science. We will do the quiz soon...
Math: practice addition and subtraction.
Terry Fox run next Friday!
I had a great week!

Handwriting: please do E
Please practice basic facts with superspeed, mathletics or flashcards. Be above 20 in addition tomorrow.
science quiz will actually happen tomorrow!
I had a great Thursday today!

Math: Expanded notation sheet p. 39 and 40.

Science: Study notes!
Things to study: What is an atom? What are the parts of an atom? What is chemistry? What are the states of matter? (Don't remember Plasma or BoseEinstein condensates.) changes of state-melting, evaporation, condensation freezing, sublimation, What is the difference between physical and chemical changes?

I had a great day today!

DARE letter: Jackson, Kaiya
Handwriting: letter D
math: exploring one million sheet (p. 16, 17)
science: Study notes!
Things to study: What is an atom? What are the parts of an atom? What is chemistry? What are the states of matter? (Don't remember Plasma or BoseEinstein condensates.) changes of state-melting, evaporation, condensation freezing, sublimation, What is the difference between physical and chemical changes?

I had a lovely day today!

Important: DARE letters need to be in by Wednesday morning at the latest in order to participate.

Math: finish homework sheet on numbers up to 100 000. Remember to either add zeros or take them away, simple!
Handwriting C!

Hello again everyone! I hope you are ready for the week ahead. We spent time this past week doing more testing to get information about your kids and to find out what skills and concepts we need to focus on right away this year. We have done testing of vocabulary, spelling, reading comprehension, reading fluency, math concepts, math basic facts and general geography.
This week:
In language arts, we will be working on sentence construction and addressing some common problems in writing. Students will also be recording themselves reading short passages and work to improve their reading fluency. You will see some spelling come home as well. You can always check the work they have been doing by looking at their writing on our class kidblog. Your child can give you their password and you can log in under their name at: http://kidblog.org/MrMaltais2012-2013/
In math, please continue to have your child work daily on basic facts...they need it. We are now up and running on mathletics and you can log in through the parent portal,(see Friday's letter) again with their username and password. Our class was in the top ten in Canada last week, so let's encourage our kids to get us there again! We will continue to work on mental math strategies this week as well as more number sense concepts, such as expanded notation.
We will continue our study of Canadian geography and history this week in social studies and we continue to have exciting experiments in our chemistry unit in science.
Please email or call me if you have any questions or concerns.

School fees. If you have paid, ignore invoice!\
scholastics orders by next Friday.
Math: addition facts above 20 for Monday.
Handwriting B!
Mathletics: parent portal.

Handwriting one full page - (second page)
Math: timed tomorrow. Increase addition by at least 5. Superspeed!
Mathletics: practice basic facts on math live, finish assignments on reading and writing numbers.
social: practice quiz on provinces and capitals tomorrow.

I had a great day today!

Practice math facts.
Study provinces and capitals.
Great day today!

LA: Read!
Math: practice basic facts by doing Superspeed orally (out loud) with parents. DON"T WRITE ON THE SHEET!
Reading and writing numbers up to 999 999.

Social: show your parents the practice quiz. Get its signed - study the mnemonic for provinces. Billy And Sally Made Our Queen Nervous Playing Near Needles. You're Not Nice.
What is a region?
Science: experiment
I had a great day today!
Meet the creature 5:30 - 7:00

LA: Chapter book! Read! Handwriting - first page. Write it several times.

Math: All 4 basic facts. Not timed.

Social: provinces and capitals (practice) test on Monday.

"MOM, DAD, DID YOU KNOW THAT MR. MALTAIS HAS A BLOG?"

Meet the teacher on Monday from 5:30 to 7:00!

Math: orange text. finish p. 4, 5. sheets: finish page 33.

LA- Chapter book at school. Think about what makes a sentence.

Social: Start studying geography! Agenda-last page. Provinces and Capitals.

Science: on Monday, NOT tomorrow - we'll make a non-Newtonian fluid!
Mathletics $15
parent letter or email about you if they haven't already sent it in.

I had a great day today!

LA: make sure you have a chapter book! We are not yet in the habit of reading...get on it.

Math: Review your notes. P. 32 is for homework. Place Value.

Science: Finish gluing notes! Review atoms!

Social: Provinces and capitals. Google the Canada song by Stompin' Tom Connors. OR Camren...use your agenda to study them. (OR both!)

Go over and have parents sign internet agreement.
Mathletics $15
parents have homework - letter to me about you!

Hello 5C!
This is the homework blog, where I will write what needs to go in to your agenda. While I type in the blog, you can fill it in under the proper subject.


Reading: I need a chapter book!

Language Arts: memorize the parts of speech song.

Math: Start practicing basic facts

Science: watch some Bill Nye if you can!

Social Studies: in your agenda, start studying the provinces and capitals.
Mathletics money $15
Parents: letter about you! 
You did a great job today! This is going to be a fantastic year! I had a great day today.

Mr. Maltais