Happy Easter

There will be no math division practice this weekend. Have a Happy Easter! (Math practice will continue the following weekend).

Turn off the Lights: Earth Hour!

Earth Hour is this Saturday (in two days!) at 8:30. Remember to turn off all the lights on your home and have some FUN with flashlights or candles...play board games, read a spooky tale, have some family bonding time.

Show you are concerned about Climate Change! Our School is participating tomorrow afternoon.



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Weekend Homework Special Tasks

Due to the amount students struggle every year with division, decimals and fractions, we are starting weekend extra homework practice worksheets. They will come home Friday and will be due Monday morning. We will correct them as a class that morning and review mistakes and misconceptions.

Please take time to help your child, especially if their times tables are not memorized by now. Division is tricky when times tables are not known. Fractions will be difficult as well, as times tables are used to create equal fractions or reduce them.

Homework

Homework this week will continue to focus on our quest to have all students completing 50 times tables within a three minute time slot. We do daily speed tests to increase accuracy and timing. This week's focus is on the 7 times table. The homework also includes the drill for division speed, using the same seven fact family.
Grade 5 also has textbook work practicing multiplication; page 56 and 57 # 1 to 10 and # 36-38.

We are beginning to focus on two and three digit by one digit multiplying. Then moving towards double digit by double digit and finally long division.

Long division is always a challenge for students, and knowing times tables will help greatly.

Homework and Times Tables!

Homework this week is a focus on the 6 times table, especially for Grade 4. Times table memorizing come with repetition at home, and should be mastered by Grade 5.

As we creep closer to the BIG units: Fractions, Division and Decimals, marks often drop because of inability to see times table patterns.

Grade 5 has 6 times table as review (they should be memorized by now!) and extra textbook work.

Our class goal is to have everyone able to complete 50 times table questions in under 3 minutes.
We do speed and accuracy tests 3 to 4 times a week on our focus table (last week 4's, this week 6's).

Tuesday is busy!

As we are not in school Monday to send another reminder: try not to forget SKATING is right away on Tuesday! 10 am.

Crazy Hair Day is also on Tuesday, to kick off our school Spirit Week! Check the school website for all other days (or the newsletter!).

Miss.Sturgeon has the flu! Homework news too.

Miss. Sturgeon has the flu. Not a head cold, but influenza. Thank goodness she got her flu shot, so the duration should be only a few days instead one to two weeks! She is starting to feel a tiny bit better already and her fever is coming down. It's just that killer cough! Be sure to do extra hand washing, as it is obviously in our school now!

Homework will simply be a spelling sheet to practice, coming home Tuesday evening. The supply teacher should be sending it out. Practice on Mathletics and Prodigy to get those times tables speeds up!

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