Homework

Hello parents,

I want to make you all aware that homework completion is becoming somewhat of a problem in our classroom. Homework usually consists of math worksheets that have been started in class and not finished. Students always have 2 nights to work on them.

I have begun doing regular checks and find that on average about 50% of the class is successful in completing the assigned work. I am now keeping close track and after 3 strikes, a phone call home will be made. Every month the students start fresh. This month I had a lot of students with 3 or more strikes and a lot that were on the cusp with 2 strikes.

On average, as per the school board's homework standards, grade 5s should be doing an average of 50 minutes of homework a night and grade 6s, 60 minutes. I have made the students aware that if they are unable to complete homework due to extracurricular activities or other commitments, they can simply ask mom/dad to write a short note in the agenda asking for an extension.

I am asking you to please be looking at the agendas on a daily basis and encouraging your son/daughter to take the responsibility to complete their homework.

Thank you for your support 😀

24-hour clock

Grade 5s need to know the following conversions:

Measurement test - Monday, February 3rd

Grade 5 Measurement Test 

Helpful items to study:

• Determining elapsed time, 24 hour clock and measuring temperature

• Metric staircase (know how to convert from one unit to another: km, m, cm, mm)
• Formulas for Perimeter of any polygon and Area of a square and rectangle

We will also do lots of review questions and word problems in class.

Grade 6 Measurement Test 

Helpful items to study:

• Metric staircase (know how to convert from one unit to another)
• King Henry Doesn’t Usually Drink Chocolate Milk
• Converting cm² to m² / m² to cm²
• Formulas for Perimeter of any polygon and Area of a square, rectangle, triangle and parallelogram

We will also do lots of review questions and word problems in class.

Spelling words for tomorrow's quiz

Unit 9 - eagle, field, year, dream, renew, cheese, complete, receive, exceed, region, please, each, believe, reasonable, achieve, series, thirteen, scene, conceited, clear

Unit 22 - action, mission, notion, attention, function, fiction, potion, tension, permission, lotion, junction, transition, position, commission, motion, illusion, operation, competition, confusion, decision

Holy Redeemer Church Youth group

Grade 5s and 6s can participate in the weekly youth group at Holy Redeemer Church on Friday evenings. This Friday, the group is going sledding!

RANT presentations

Students can choose to create a video presentation in Flipgrid using the code
https://flipgrid.com/7eec4a05

OR

Present in front of the class on Thursday, January 23rd

😀😊

Language

We are writing rants in our Language block. I will be assessing this task for an oral communication mark.

Click on the link to see the task.

RANT

Due date: TBA (probably the end of next week)

Math

We are currently working through the Measurement unit (length, perimeter, area). Here are a few summaries of what we are learning through the Math Up program.

Grade 5: Relating Length Units

Grade 5 - Estimating and Measuring Perimeter


Grade 6: Measuring Length

Grade 6: Constructing Shapes with Given Perimeters

Spelling words for this week

Group A: Lesson 8

knock, lost, rock, knot, song, chop, soggy, rotten, foggy, common, cotton, jogging, topple, honest, copper, pottery, convince, tropical, logical, cottage

Group B: Lesson 21

dance, France, sentence, chance, trance, patience, science, balance, glance, evidence, instance, romance, fence, confidence, distance, sequence, experience, stance, performance, audience