Wow!

Both the principal and I were very impressed with how mature and responsible our students were during the Lockdown practice today. Our class was quiet and did a quick job of getting into safe places. Well done Grade 5's!

---Miss. Sturgeon

Welcome to our Student Teacher!

A big welcome went out today to our student teacher from Queen's University. Miss. O'Reilly will be joining our class all day until mid November! I am sure you will be hearing her name shortly as she works with your children. The students made her beautiful cards last week, full on introductions and questions. It's going to be fun!!

Homework

In addition to the regular homework, please make sure you are logging in to PRODIGY. There are now 20 rounding practice questions hiding in the game during your battles! Good Luck!

Problem to try at home

Our class puzzled over a problem today. The answer was debated, but will only be fully solved next week. Try at home with mom or dad and see what they think the answer might be...

There are 10 markers in one  Crayola box. A crate holds 200 Crayola marker boxes. How many crates are needed for 20,000 markers?

We had the following answers most often:
10 crates,
100 crates
and 20 crates. Hmmmmm...Which is correct?

Class Dojo

Our Class Dojo parent links are coming home to activate today. Class Dojo will let you peek at your child's learning skills (as opposed to their academics). You can use the info on the blue sheets coming home this eventing to link to Dojo, as well as Prodigy, which will give you a weekly report of areas of strength and weakness for your child's math.

HAVE FUN!

Miss. Sturgeon

Xtra Math!

Our class is proud to launch Xtra Math as a pseudo-replacement for our Mathletics. It is very different in format and is structured to give students a workout with their basic facts in all four operations. This allows students to advance to problem solving in the classroom more readily, as they are not bogged down by figuring out basic times tables, division etc. Practice daily for best results! It's like a daily vitamin!!

Parents--- invites will be sent home soon. You will get an awesome weekly report of your child's math progress!

VIDEO FOR PARENTS and one for STUDENTS below:

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Mathletics- Sad News

It is with sad news that we tell parents and students that Mathletics is no longer supported for K-6. Students will be able to use Mathletics in Grade 7. If you still can access your account, it will be old work/last years math. Nothing new can be added, teachers do not have access.

Miss. Sturgeon