Geometry

Congratulations to the students for putting on a wonderful performance at the Good Spirit School Division Standards Track Meet yesterday. We had many happy faces!! Students who have been asked to participate in the Showcase meet on Friday, April 3, were notified today. If your son or daughter received an invitation today. Congratulations to those students!!

We began our day by completing Day 3 of Centers. Students continued to work on The Greedy Butchers and Rajah's Rice at teacher table. Folder table included a review for perpendicular lines, vertical, horizontal, and right angles.

Students began working on a partner poem that incorporates both students' voices.

After lunch, we discussed the remaining definitions in our Geometry Dictionairies and used these definitions to help complete numbers 1,3,5,6, and 7 on page 232 and 233.

Our Social Studies test has been bumped back until Tuesday, March 31 as we had some students absent today for the review. The Explorer unit review is due on Monday, March 30.

Have a great weekend!!

We began another week with Day 1 of a new set of Centers. Students have been working extremely hard on the many short stories we have been concentrating on.

We reviewed one of the problems that we completed last week using the Use or Make a Picture or Diagram strategy. Great job on this problem ladies and gentlement!!

After lunch we worked in partners to complete the Explore activity on page 222 in our text. Students used Geoboards to create shapes that followed specific rules. We then took the remainder of the class to define perpendicular, horizontal, vertical, and right angle in our Geometry Dictionaries.

Students did an excellent job presenting their Diary of an Explorer assignment. Great job in creativity...and thank you for not buring down any houses!!
Students will be having a unit test on Friday, March 27.

* Remember the track meet on Thursday. Please pack a lunch.

Students began the day by handing in Center activities from the previous 4 days. We then worked on a new math problem solving strategy: Use or Make a Picture or Diagram. Students completed one problem in a small group and one problem with a partner.
The math unit test for Fractions and Decimals was returned. Students are to fix their errors over the weekend and return the test to school. Students can use their notes and textbooks to fix their mistakes.
We then read Finn McCool as a whole class and worked on a partner activity for the story.
Students finished the day with an afternoon of skating with Mr. Leidl!
Enoy the long weekend!! Remember that the Diary of an Explorer assignment is due on Monday!!

Students worked to complete Day 4 of Centers this morning. All Center activities are due tomorrow. We then took some time to finish up our Creative Writing Fairy Tale stories. The final draft of these stories are also due for tomorrow.

Students continued to work on attributes of shapes in math. Students were assigned page 223-225 (1-7). I have also posted a link to the Geometric math site that students have been trying to solve. Try it out!

We worked on our Diary of an Explorer assignment this afternoon and ended our day at the Book Fair!

We began our Tuesday by comleting Day 3 of Centers. Just a reminder to students...work on the activities that you don't get completed. Don't leave them all to the last day.
We began discussion pertaining to our next unit in math: Geometry. Students were asked to define a few words to kick off our unit. We then took some time to explore with geoboards and try to configure shapes that have only two parallel lines. The geometry unit is a fun filled unit with a lot of hands on activities and Smartboard exploration!!

Welcome back to yet another busy week!! With interviews ahead this week and a day off on Friday we have a lot of work to do!
We started the day off today by working on our Diary of an Explorer assignment. This assignment is due a week from today. We worked again on this assignment at the end of the day.
After recess we completed Day 2 of Centers.
Students completed their Fractions/Decimals unit test after lunch.

Just a reminder...the Book Fair will be available at our school during interviews. Our class scheduled time is March 18 from 3-3:30.

We are also missing a math textbook. Please remind your child to do a quick check around the house for this textbook. Thanks!

Welcome to yet another snow day! March has come and we're still experiencing this crazy weather!!
We began the morning by completing Day 4 of Centers. Those students who were not here will have until Friday to complete the Center activities to hand in.
We then worked on our Fairy Tale voice assignment in Creative Writing. Students are doing a wonderful job!
We corrected yesterday's math assignment this afternoon. Students will receive the review for the fractions and decimals unit test tomorrow. The test will be on Monday.
Have a great day everyone and stay warm!!

We began this morning by completing Day 3 of Centers. Students are continuing to work hard at each center!
In Creative Writing, we took some time to review the Voice trait in writing. I read a different version of The Three Little Pigs that is written from the wolf's perspective. Students are now to choose a fair tale and write the story from the perspective of one of the characters.
Students are working on practicing subtracting decimals. The assignment is page 208 (2,3,4,5,6,10,11). Students will be writing a Fractions/Decimals unit test on Monday, March 16.
We spent the last hour of the day researching our explorers for the Diary of an Explorer project.

Welcome to another Monday!! Students began the day with Day 2 of Centers. Student corrections for The Tiger and Anansi are due for tomorrow. The chart for A World of Tricksters is also due for tomorrow.

Students were given the Diary of an Explorer assignment this morning as well. Each student was assigned an explorer. The students have been ecouraged to be creative with their diary as they are to pretend they are the explorer. The diaries are due Monday, March 23.

We corrected Friday's assignment in math and introduced adding decimals. Students were assigned page 202-203 (2,3,4,5,6,7) due for tomorrow.

This morning began with Day 1 of a new set of Centers. Students are working on a new short story, "A World of Tricksters." We will continue with the questions on Monday.

We watched a video about Henry Hudson in Social Studies and worked on a set of questions that are due Tuesday.

Students were introduced to estimation of decimals in Math. We discussed two strategies for estimating using decimals. Students were assigned page 198 (1,2,5,6,7). Students are to also completed the Reflect question in their Math Journals. This assignment is due for Monday.

Congratulations to Taylor D. for winning our World Math Day challenge! He edged out his fellow students and managed to score the highest point total in the class!!

Students began their day with a health presentation from Mr. Leidl and Mrs. Schentag. After recess students worked extremely hard to finish up their February break stories and their Fables. The final copies of both of these stories are due for tomorrow.
We correctly yesterday's assignment in math and will be gearing up for a unit test next week. Students will be provided with a review to study from.

Just a reminder...please encourage your child to bring their center folders home with their unfinished work throughout the week. Some students are leaving all of their incomplete work for the night before it is all due and then not finding enough time to complete it.

March 4 is World Math Day. The students have been entered into a competition against other grade 5 students from around the world. The students each have a sign in name and a password. They can access the game at www.worldmathday.com.

We began our morning completing Day 4 of Centers. All center activities from this set are due to hand in tomorrow.
We read another chapter in our read aloud, "Hatchet," and continued to work on our Creative Writing stories describing our February break.
Students are working on pages 192-193 (1,3,5,8,10, and 12) in math. These questions are due tomorrow.
Students began an Explorer timeline that we will continue to add to as we learn about other explorers. Students are working on a set of questions for Jacques Cartier that are due on Wednesday.