Week of May 25th - 29th

 This week:

- Wed, Thurs, Fri PM music workshop for French Immersion student

- Friday, May 29th: Track and Field Meet

Grade 5 AM group             

Language /Science - Forces Acting on Structures: project

Math - Fractions, Decimals & Percents continued (unit test next week)

Grade 6 PM group

EQAO

Grade 5: Science Project

The Grade 5s will be building pinball machines for a science project that combines our topics of simple machines, energy, and forces & motion! We are collecting the following household items—please feel free to send in anything you can find:

-Toilet paper rolls 

-Plastic bottle caps 

-Rubber bands 

-Popsicle sticks 

-Plastic spoons 

-Wooden chopsticks 

-Clothes pins 

-Cardboard (e.g., old cereal or granola boxes) 

-Aluminum foil 

-Empty egg cartons 

-Plasticine (modelling clay)

-Marbles

*We already have pipe cleaners, brass fasteners, coffee stir sticks, and plastic straws in the classroom. We also have pizza boxes for the students to use. If students would like to bring in their own pizza box, they may do so.

Converting between Fractions, Decimals and Percents

 

Week of May 19th - 22nd

 This week:

- May 19th: Track and Field Day (PM)

- May 21st: Field trip - Ottawa Titans Baseball game

Grade 5 AM group             

Language /Science - Forces Acting on Structures: simple machines

Math - grades for fractions quiz have been emailed to students; Fractions, Decimals & Percents continued

Grade 6 PM group

Math - grades for fractions quiz have been emailed to students; Fractions, Decimals & Percents continued and EQAO prep

Friday's Math quiz: FRACTIONS

Grade 5s need to know:
- representing fractions in different ways (e.g., on a number line, area models - colouring parts of a circle)
- equivalent fractions (e.g., 1/2 = 4/8 = 5/10)
- adding and subtracting fractions with like denominators (including adding one whole to a proper fraction and subtracting a proper fraction from one whole)
- converting improper fractions to mixed and vice versa

Grade 6s need to know:
- comparing and ordering fractions (e.g., least to greatest as well as greater than and less than symbols)
- equivalent fractions (e.g., 1/2 = 4/8 = 5/10)
- adding and subtracting fractions with like and unlike denominators (including mixed fractions)
- converting improper fractions to mixed and vice versa
- simplifying fractions

Week of May 11-15th

 Grade 5 AM group             

Language/ Science - Forces Acting on Structures

Math - Fractions; quiz on Friday

Grade 6 PM group

Language - Advertising & Marketing

Science - Electrical Phenomena, Energy and Devices

Math - Fractions; quiz on Friday

Week of April 28 - May 1

This week:

- Book fair (Thursday/Friday)

Grade 5 AM group             

Language - Persuasive writing (finish up)

Science - Forces Acting on Structures

Math - Algebra quizzes returned; new unit: Fractions, Decimals & Percents

Grade 6 PM group

Language - Advertising & Marketing

Science - Electrical Phenomena, Energy and Devices

Math - Algebra quiz (Tuesday); new unit: Fractions, Decimals & Percents