Important Dates and Reminders
Friday, Nov. 9 No School Monday, Nov. 12 No School Monday, Nov. 19 Report Cards go home Thursday, Nov. 22 & Friday, Nov.23 Student Led Conferences Math In math we worked on 2 estimation strategies, front end estimation and rounding. Estimation is a skill that helps with mental math and evaluating if answers are reasonable. Looking ahead: multiplication! Your child should be well versed in their multiplication facts before heading into more complex calculations and problem-solving questions. You can support them at home by talking about numbers and playing math card games such as multiplication war with them (rules to cards games can be found in the Oct 5th post on our grade 5 blog). Science Students reviewed wetlands and completed a check-in on the concepts we have been working on so far this year. We will discuss the results of this check-in next week. Next week we will be investigating how humans have affected wetlands in both positive and negative ways. Humanities We completed part 2 of our read aloud novel and students completed an “AEIOU” as a quick assessment of understanding. This can be viewed on Seesaw. Students started the research for their Canadian Identity TED talk. They are collecting information on a google doc. Feel free to ask them to see it and talk to them about their topic. We will wrap up the research phase on Tuesday, Oct 30th. Students will use their research to write a script. We will begin presenting TED talks in class on Nov. 6th.
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Important Dates and Reminders
Thursday, Oct. 25 Book orders due (5.3 will bring them home Monday, online orders are placed with Mrs. Stevenson until Mrs. Piper is back) Friday, Oct. 26 No School Friday, Nov.2 Mrs. Piper is back full time Friday, Nov. 9 No School Monday, Nov. 12 No School Monday, Nov. 19 Report Cards Humanities: This week we started our Global Read Aloud novel study. We introduced ourselves to our partner classes using flipgrid (5.4) or padlet (5.3). We completed the week 1 readings. Students are sketching and writing headlines as we follow the stories of 3 different refugees, in 3 different time periods. In Social Studies we learned about the Famous 5 and were introduced to some of the requirements of the first independent guided inquiry. Coming up, students will choose an event, person or group and begin their inquiry and we will continue reading, “Refugee." Science: This week in science we explored how energy is transferred in the ecosystem through food chains and food webs. We also looked at what niche an organism has in its food chain. Students have been working on making a food chain for their adaptations research organism. This assignment will be due on Monday afternoon. Students will have a couple more periods to complete this work however your child may have taken their iPad home this weekend to do a little extra work on this. Looking ahead to next week there will be a Wetlands check-in on Thursday. We will be working together in class to prepare for this. Math: This week we looked at regrouping. Students have been challenged to write a number in more that one way using regrouping. This challenge has been posted in Seesaw and is due on Monday. They will have class time on Monday to work on it. Our next topic of study will be estimation and rounding. Important Dates and Reminders Oct 8-12: Fall Break Oct 15: Balzac Meat Orders Due It was wonderful meeting with so many of you at parent teacher interviews. We hope you have an amazing fall break. Humanities: We had a fantastic day at Fort Calgary. We practiced some sketching skills that will help us over the course of the year. We also worked as archeologists and uncovered artifacts from groups that lived in Calgary over 100 years ago. In the classroom we continued to look at events that impacted Canadian identity and examined WWI. Coming up after the break we will begin our read aloud novel study and participate in this year’s Global Read Aloud. We will be reading, “Refugee.” We have a couple more events to cover in post confederation Canadian history. After this, students will begin an inquiry into an event, group of people, or individual that they feel made an impact on our current Canadian identity. Science: Students worked hard this week to finish up their Wetlands Research Project. Please take some time with them over the break and have them share their hard work, and understandings of wetlands and adaptation. Math: This week in math we completed our final check-in on place value and number forms. Looking forward to after break, we will be looking at regrouping. We have included a resource of "War" card game variations that will help build math fluency in a fun way.
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