March/April
Math
Fractions and Decimals
Students will:
Language
We are currently continuing to work on procedural writing and will then be moving on to persuasive writing (commercial announcement).
**Please continue to have your child read aloud to you.
February 2020
Math
We have completed our Data Management unit and we are moving onto Measurement.
Measurement:
Students will:
Key Words in Math: seconds, SI notation, speed, volume, cubic centimetre, milligrams, tonnes
Language
We will be working on procedural writing and writing instructions.
January 2020
Math
We will be working on our unit Data Management. Students are encouraged to continue working on practicing multiplication facts up to 12 as well as division.
Data Management
Students will:
Language
We have been doing some creative writing about our Christmas holidays and New Year Resolutions. We will be moving onto Media Studies- specifically looking at applied and overt messages. We will also be working on procedural writing (writing and reading directions on maps).
December 2019
Math
We have just finished off a longer unit in Number Sense and Numeration. We are moving onto Geometry. Students are encouraged to continue working on practicing multiplication facts up to 12.
Geometry:
Students will:
Key Words in Math: polygon, equilateral triangle, isosceles triangle, scalene triangle, acute triangle, right angle, obtuse angle, perpendicular, acute triangle, right triangle, obtuse triangle, regular polygon, irregular polygon, net
Language
In Language we are finishing up descriptive writing and will be moving onto procedural writing (Instructions - maps).
Synthesizing - combining new ideas with what I already know to get something new and different from the text.
November 2019
Math - Grade 5
We will be continuing our work on the numeration unit and then will begin geometry.
Geometry:
Students will be:
Language
In Language we will be working on visualizing in reading and descriptive writing.
Visualizing – creating a picture in my mind. Using all of my senses to connect to the text.
October 2019
MATH
Numeration:
Students will be:
LANGUAGE
In Language we will be continuing to work on recounts (Biographies) and will be starting descriptive writing.
September 2019
MATH
Patterning:
Students will be:
Key words in Math: Input/Output machine, operation
LANGUAGE:
In Language we will be working on Fix-Up Strategies Reading and Recount (Biographies) in writing.
Fix-Up Strategies:
Fix-up Strategies assist students to understand when reading.
Strategies to use:
1. Skip It - Back Track
2. Sound it out
3. Picture clues
4. Chunk it
5. Look for patterns
6. Hidden words
Math
Fractions and Decimals
Students will:
- read, represent, compare, and order decimal numbers to hundredths, proper and improper fractions, and mixed numbers;
- relate fractions to decimals;
- understand equivalent fractions.
Language
We are currently continuing to work on procedural writing and will then be moving on to persuasive writing (commercial announcement).
**Please continue to have your child read aloud to you.
February 2020
Math
We have completed our Data Management unit and we are moving onto Measurement.
Measurement:
Students will:
- Estimate, measure, and record temperature change, time and elapsed time and money amounts.
- Determine the relationships among units and measurable attributes.
Key Words in Math: seconds, SI notation, speed, volume, cubic centimetre, milligrams, tonnes
Language
We will be working on procedural writing and writing instructions.
January 2020
Math
We will be working on our unit Data Management. Students are encouraged to continue working on practicing multiplication facts up to 12 as well as division.
Data Management
Students will:
- Collect, organize, display, read and interpret data using charts and graphs
- compare similarities and differences between sets of data
- calculate the mean for a set of data
Language
We have been doing some creative writing about our Christmas holidays and New Year Resolutions. We will be moving onto Media Studies- specifically looking at applied and overt messages. We will also be working on procedural writing (writing and reading directions on maps).
December 2019
Math
We have just finished off a longer unit in Number Sense and Numeration. We are moving onto Geometry. Students are encouraged to continue working on practicing multiplication facts up to 12.
Geometry:
Students will:
- Distinguish polygons and other two-dimensional shapes;
- measure and construct angles using a protractor;
- construct triangles;
- construct nets of prisms and pyramids.
Key Words in Math: polygon, equilateral triangle, isosceles triangle, scalene triangle, acute triangle, right angle, obtuse angle, perpendicular, acute triangle, right triangle, obtuse triangle, regular polygon, irregular polygon, net
Language
In Language we are finishing up descriptive writing and will be moving onto procedural writing (Instructions - maps).
Synthesizing - combining new ideas with what I already know to get something new and different from the text.
- Now I understand that...
- This gives me an idea...
- This compared to...
- That was different from...
November 2019
Math - Grade 5
We will be continuing our work on the numeration unit and then will begin geometry.
Geometry:
Students will be:
- Distinguish polygons and other two-dimensional shapes;
- measure and construct angles using a protractor;
- construct triangles;
- construct nets of prisms and pyramids.
Language
In Language we will be working on visualizing in reading and descriptive writing.
Visualizing – creating a picture in my mind. Using all of my senses to connect to the text.
- I visualized…
- I could hear (smell, taste, feel)…
- I could picture…
- A mental image I had was…
October 2019
MATH
Numeration:
Students will be:
- representing, comparing and ordering whole numbers to 100 000;
- adding and subtracting 3 and 4 digit numbers;
- multiplying 2-digit numbers;
- dividing 3-digit whole numbers by 1-digit.
LANGUAGE
In Language we will be continuing to work on recounts (Biographies) and will be starting descriptive writing.
September 2019
MATH
Patterning:
Students will be:
- creating, identifying and extending patterns;
- making a table of values for a pattern that is generated by adding, subtracting, multiplying or dividing a number to get the next term;
- making predictions related to growing and shrinking patterns.
Key words in Math: Input/Output machine, operation
LANGUAGE:
In Language we will be working on Fix-Up Strategies Reading and Recount (Biographies) in writing.
Fix-Up Strategies:
Fix-up Strategies assist students to understand when reading.
Strategies to use:
1. Skip It - Back Track
2. Sound it out
3. Picture clues
4. Chunk it
5. Look for patterns
6. Hidden words