Homework

This week's homework will be pages 146 and 147 in the regular textbook. They are graphing analysis questions. Students will also get a small practice worksheet on Wednesday for graphing basics review. It should not be difficult! Students should be able to complete work mostly on their own.

Homework

This week's homework is practicing multiplication...basic times tables and one step beyond.  Try pages 52, 53 and 54 in the text this week.

We are kicking off our school wide WITS anti-bullying program this week. Please see the official website for the information about the program. It is great to use at home with arguing siblings!

Scroll down a tiny bit for the Link List for No Bullying. ------------------>

BITSTRIPS FUN!

Miss.Sturgeon's first Bitstrips comic.

Bitstrips!

Our Class is now on Bitstrips! Have fun creating and sharing comics about a variety of topics, both fun and educational. Our class login code is:

Rocks!!

FYI:
Our username is Our Class. That way, altogether is says Our Class Rocks!!  :)

During our computer block students will be working on uploaded assignment tasks. If a task is not finished by an assigned date, it can even be worked on at home! Have fun!

Black and Orange Day

Tomorrow is Black and Orange day...same as every Halloween! We will also have a mini party, so bring nut free treats if you can!

Homework this week is really small to allow for Halloween fun...page 47 # 1 to 12. Subtraction practice.

PJs...

Yes, its true! You are allowed to wear your Pajamas TOMORROW, if you bring in 50 cents (or more) for Shepherds of Good Hope charity.

Don't forget, we have an assembly at 1:15 tomorrow. A few students will read their settings from their stories out loud to the school.

Many students have been asking about Google Earth since we used it in class. I have added a link to download it for free. It is right under the Math/Language/Creativity link list if you scroll down a bit on the right. Have fun! You can now explore oceans, the Titanic wreck, Mars, the Moon...and explore cities in 3D. Pretty impressive! Of course, you can find your house too.

Homework # 7- Adding Accuracy

Homework this week will be to focus on adding basics. We are working through patterning in class, as well as accuracy improvement in addition and subtraction.
Practice: page 32 (read) do page 33 # 1 to 20.
page 37 # 1 to 4 AND Bits and Bytes Word Problems 1 to 3

Side Note- We are looking for any student in our class with a 'talent' or something to show for our Friday assembly. If you made a short video, play guitar, violin or can sing a song, let Miss. Sturgeon know and you can perform for the school! FUN!

Homework # 6

The homework for this week is as follows:
page 27 # 1 to 17 (practice with adding basics and estimating/rounding skills)
page 29 # 37 to 39 (word problem basics)

PHOTO DAY- Is this week on Thursday! Don't forget to dress nicely.

WATCH LIVE: Red Bull Stratos Jump- Sunday at 2pm.

Here is the link to watch the live record breaking jump from space, by Felix Baumgartner. If you are home on Sunday...pretty cool to watch! Look over to the side for the link here!

Computer Class Today

Since Miss. Sturgeon is away sick, you will be with a supply teacher. Once you have logged on to this site after recess and snack, you are to be doing only the games in the box beside this note. -------------------------->
You will try each of these games for at least 5 minutes. At 11:25 you will be allowed free time. The teacher will tell you when! Have fun practicing all that math!
Don't forget to study for your MATH TEST tomorrow!

Miss. Sturgeon sick

Miss. Sturgeon is away sick with a very bad cold/flu. She is expected to be back Thursday. Students are encouraged to take advantage of bonus Math Test study days and review their study guide. The test will be Thursday morning. There is no 'regular' textbook homework.

Homework # 5

Homework this week is twofold. There is a text component due on Friday (as usual), and also a Study Guide to review at home until after Thanksgiving. Students will fill in the study guide in class to make sure their answers are correct. Answers are posted on the Smartboard. Students check their work. The Study Guide will come home Monday night with the regular homework.

Students should re-read and quiz themselves on the questions on this Study Guide all week and when possible on the 4 day long weekend. The test is made from the guide. If your child reviews the types of questions, they should be successful on their unit test!

The test is Tuesday October 9th after Thanksgiving allowing for lots of re-reading time.

Text Homework this week:
Page 24 CHECK-UP # 1 to 21 (whole page)
Page 219 # 1 to 19

Soccer Tomorrow- Boys Team

Boys on our Soccer team...don't forget good food and good shoes for your trip tomorrow! Good Luck!

Homework # 4

Homework due Friday:
page 19 (all)
page 20 # 1-6

Library Newsletters (blue page), Musical Theater news (yellow page), Terry Fox newsletters and a Field Trip (orange page) permission newsletter should have all come home this week. Ask your child if they are hiding them in their desks if you have not seen these notices!

Homework # 3

Homework number 3 will be assigned Tuesday, as Miss. Sturgeon is away sick today with a bad head cold.

Reminder- Bring Terry Fox donation money this week. We are hoping for one dollar per child. If you can spare more, even better! Let's help cancer research!! The Terry Fox run is THIS FRIDAY AT SCHOOL!!!

Homework #2

This week's homework is the following:
Math textbook
Page 9 Letters A to E (in the problem solving box).
Page 10 # 3 to 17
Page 13 # 1 to 13 and # 23 to 31.

All the math work is due Friday in your notebook.

BBQ

Don't forget our school BBQ, complete with classroom 'tours' and outdoor bouncy castles, will be this Wednesday. The weather looks promising, and I hope to see you all there!
------------Monty and Miss. Sturgeon

Speed Check Place Value Challenge

The game we played at the end of the lesson today is now on this site. Speed Check: Place Value can be done at home for those who wanted to be faster at entering the place value of the digits. Watch the timer at the bottom of the game! How fast can YOU get?? Don't forget to click check for your answer!

Homework #1

We begin our homework this week! A textbook will come home assigned to your child, along with a notebook of lined sheets to write the answers in. Please keep it neat: put the title from the textbook page at the top of the notebook page, and include the page number in the corner of the page. Answers should be numbered or lettered to match the textbook.

The textbook covers math fundamentals and basic skills needed for Grade 5. More difficult problem solving tasks are done in class. This means your child should be able to complete a lot of the homework without parental help. This builds confidence and independence with homework skills, which become essential as students move towards high school. If your child seems consistently to find the homework easy and excels at the math concepts, please write a note requesting the Grade 6 text. Several students last year were able to use the reach-ahead text, as their number sense skills were solid enough to try the challenge.

Please see the note regarding homework that is coming home on Monday. It will be glued to the front of each student's homework notebook.

Monday's homework, due by Friday:

Read the first few pages at the start of the text and the Place Value chapter cover page about Cora Hind.
Do pages 4, 5 and 6 (all questions)
Read page 8 and Do page 9 # 9 to 14 and # 17 to 20

First Week Task

Students- Your first job this week is vote for your favourite subjects, here in the poll on the right. --------->

Welcome Back!

Hello to all my new students out there! This website will have information for you and your parents, as well as fun game sites for all areas of interest. It is a good idea to practice your times tables every night using the game links on here, especially if you are finished your regular homework.

-----Miss Sturgeon

Parents- Homework will be in an older math textbook that you can keep at home all year. It is a book that focuses on basic concepts and skills, as well as math vocabulary. They are math activities that students should be able to complete relatively well on their own, with less of the more complex problem solving that is taught in the classroom. This ensures foundational concept review as well as builds confidence in homework skills. On Mondays in the agenda, students will copy the page number and questions they are to complete for the week. They complete the work in their homework notebook and return it by Friday. This allows for budgeting of time if students have extra activities and commitments at home. Very rarely will there suddenly be more work on another day of the week, unless a student has lots of catch-up from the day due to a flare up of the sillies or mis-behaviour.

This year we have a lot of movement: There are Grade 5s with Miss Sturgeon in the morning, and a mix of Grade 4 and 5 in the afternoon. Some of the original Grade 5s stay with Miss Sturgeon, while others move next door to the Grade 6 class with Mrs. Fleury to create a 5/6 in the afternoon. Desks will not be used to store any personal items. Everything needs to move with your child. Items and belongings should be kept at a minimum. A pencil case is really all they need, filled with pencils, erasers and a pair of scissors.

Last Notes..

As the school year winds down, a few notes.
1. Please keep sending your child to school. We are finishing up a Poetry Book Project that is work AND a keepsake for the year. It will be completed and brought home Wednesday with report cards. We are not 'doing nothing' next week. Students will also be finishing graphing activities in math. We make every day count!
2. Send in extra grocery bags when possible. Students will be bringing home extra articles of clothing that have been accumulating, as well as extra shoes, notebooks and duotangs.
3. Return the class Math homework text by tomorrow (Friday). Otherwise I WILL be coming to your door this weekend/and early next week to pick it up.
4. Students will be presented their Ontario Dividers Licence next week. They will need it for the last day of school to get into our last block party. Don't leave it at home!

Divider's Licence

The students wrote their Ontario Dividers Licence exams today. They will come home in the yellow duotang for tests and quizzes on Wednesday. Make corrections and restudy to write the test again if you did not earn your licence this time! Students: You need it by next week to get into the end of the year party. Practice, practice!

Cool Free Download

Check out Helium Frog easy free download! Install, hook up a webcam and have fun making claymation, real animation moving objects or people in a silly way, or using paper to make traditional animations! I love it!

EXTRA NOTE: I downloaded the 2.06 version offered on the MediaFire site (the first link). It works perfectly!

Homework

Homework this week will come home on Tuesday, as Miss. Sturgeon is at a Media Arts workshop on Monday. Students need to review their fraction and decimal quiz and make any corrections. It will come home in the yellow duotang this week. In addition, an assignment will come home recorded in the agenda on Tuesday.

Homework

This week is back to 'normal' math text homework. The homework is as follows:
Grade 5- pages 382, 383, 384, 385 (all)
Grade 4- pages 159, 160, 161, 163

Math test re-writes

Please sign and return math tests and keep them in the yellow tests duotang. If you want to up your mark, or for those who should, the re-test is on Friday. Extra help is every last recess for those who want to review their errors and learn from them!

BRAINPOP FREE TRIAL!! This week only!

Yippee! Our class has a free trial for Brainpop for this week only...so go CRAZY watching amazing free videos and playing games that are both educational and very interesting! Just about every topic is there...and lots of science! If you enjoy history or biographies...they have everyone from Adolph Hitler to Isaac Newton. Go explore.

Username: kitty9
Password: gr45

HAVE FUN!!!!

www.brainpop.com

Scientists in Schools

Our Grade 5s will be having their Scientists in Schools visit on Thursday morning in our class! If you are in Grade 5, you don't want to miss it! We will be discovering more about wind power, working with real solar panels and discussing more about Renewable and Non Renewable resources with a specialist! FUN!

STUDY GUIDE HOMEWORK

We have a big unit test coming up Wed. May 16th in math. It is our measurement, perimeter and area test. For homework this week, students need to fill in their study guide. It is blank. It will be due Friday, and MUST be returned. We will correct the study guide and after all answers are rechecked, it will come home for the weekend to study with. If your child understands what is on the guide, there should be no surprises or difficulties on the test.

Homework Due May 4th

This week's homework is from the usual textbook, as follows:



Grade 4- pages 186 and 187. Then pages 190 and 191.


Grade 5- pages 246 to 248 all.


Grade 6 bonus text- pages 166-170 all.


Grade 5- Work on your science research project every night!

Science Project

The big science project has officially begun! Check for updates on our site, right here, for good websites to start out with. Many students have asked to do extra bonus activities, such as powerpoints, mini videos to play for the class, or creating items. This is excellent and encouraged! If a bonus creative idea wants to be done with a buddy, this is perfectly fine. Have fun! Good luck!

Homework April 23- 26

This week's homework will be a short assignment from the textbook, since it is a PD day on Friday. The homework will be expected on Thursday. Students not finished, or who haven't done the work will stay in at recesses Thursday to complete it and receive extra help on the concepts.

Text pages are:

Grade 4- pages 182 (all) and 183 (all) plus page 184 and 185 (all). It deal with measuring in meters and then kilometers.

Grade 5- pages 243 (read the top well, do the whole page), page 244 (all) and page 245 (read the top well).

Homework: April 16- 20

The last two weeks have been short weeks, and math worksheets were sent home instead of the usually textbook work. The 13 students who did not hand in their homework the last 2 weeks were kept in at recess or completed work at computer and gym times. This will continue for the rest of Term 3, as students are working on the learning skill of Self-Regulation and homework responsibility is a valuable skill.

On the weekend, students were told to study their 7 times tables for a check-up quiz Monday. The results of the quiz will be sent home this week, along with other small quizzes we have had the last month. Please take a peek and return.

This week, the textbook will be used again, for our Measurement unit.

The assignment for Grade 5 is : page 240 (all), page 241 #6-17 and page 242 (all).

The assignment for Grade 4 is : page 176 (all) and page 177 (all). Page 180 (all) and 181 (all).

Homework

The homework this week consists of different worksheets for Grade 4 and Grade 5. Hopefully they can be handed in this week on Thursday. A ruler should be used. If you do not have any rulers at home, please send a note and your child can bring home a loaned one from the classroom.

There is a Stations of the Cross presentation in the gym on Thursday, with our class taking the lead in the readings. If you wish to attend, please feel free to join us. The time is at the beginning of our third block, at 12:45, after students come in after lunch. The duration is roughly 45 minutes. Thursday is also our Bubble Gum Lenten fund-raiser for the Candleighters.

Homework

Miss. Sturgeon is happy to be back in the classroom, and is finally feeling better. In case it was missed, last week's homework was Grade 5- pages 175-177 and Grade 4 was page 216 #1-6, pg 217 # 1-3 and pg 219 # 1-3.

This week's homework is as follows: Grade 5- pages 178 to end of page 180. Use the dot paper provided. Grade 4 is page 222, read 223, do page 225 (use plain paper or wax paper to trace if you want to).

Please note, there will be a Grade 5 science research project coming home in the next few weeks. The students will hear a lot about it before the information gets sent home. Just a heads-up for April!

Sickness

Miss. Sturgeon has a bad case of Pneumonia along with fluid in the pleural lining of the lungs. She will be back as soon as she feels better, hopefully by Wednesday.

Homework

Homework this week is practicing word problem solving. We have been learning the KNOWS strategy in class, and the students have been doing a very good job applying it to multi-step problems. Try a few of the text problems with the KNOWS chart: Draw it in your math notebook!

Grade 4- Text page 352-353 all

Grade 5- Text page 266-267 #1-7.

K-What facts I know

N-What I need to find out

O-Operations I will use

W-What steps/Work

S- Story sentences

News

Now that the busy weeks of Report Card writing are complete, there is time to get this blog updated!

Our last class skating trip is this Tuesday, Feb. 7th. The students have been doing a very good job working on their skating moves and have exhibited good behaviour at the rink. Any volunteers that can make it out to our last skate, please come! It is from 2pm until 3pm.
Report cards will be coming home next week, February 10th. Please try to comment on the last page with your child. It makes a difference when students can review their own progress with their parents and comment on their next steps.

Our Grade 5 students have had fun with real pig organ dissections in science, as pig organs most closely resemble human ones. We looked at the heart, stomach, intestines and kidneys! The students found this fascinating... much more interesting than the plastic replicas and posters.

In language we are creating Greek Myths; full stories with settings, characters, plots and morals. The students will be tired of writing at the end of some days!

In math, we are moving away from Probability and Problem solving and gearing up for Geometry. Get ready for shapes and angles!

In Music, we are listening to Classical pieces, and orchestral scores as well as African drumming and singing. Students will also be using their voices to perform Multiplication Rap songs.

Homework may continue to have a extra worksheet here and there (it is always noted in the agenda if there is one) along with the regular basics of math textbook pages. This is to keep following with the classroom lessons, as the textbook is more focused on basics students should master.

The Groundhog predicted an early Spring...let's look forward to sunny spring days ahead!

Homework

Miss. Sturgeon is finally feeling better, her fever is gone and she will be back at work tomorrow. The homework worksheet that should have come home can be handed in on Monday, since the snow day also got in the way and students had one less night to work on it.

Grade 5 students will have a science test coming up, so keep your eyes open in the agenda for news of a study guide!

Welcome Back Homework

All-Study 4 times table for a Friday Quiz and Wednesday Mad Minutes. Use games like Sketch's World (link on multiplication.com) to help!

Grade 4 math text pages 132 and 133

Grade 5 math text pages 107 and 108

DON'T FORGET YOUR PERMISSION SLIPS, HELMETS and SKATES FOR TUESDAY'S SKATING! Any parents who are able to join, please come to help tie skates. It takes a long time to tie 28 pairs!