Tuesday 26 January 2016

Week of January 25, 2016

We are fast approaching Term 1 Reports! The students are working on the following:

LANGUAGE: Students have continued with Reading excerpts and answering COMPLETE sentences. This continues to be an area of need, and we will continue to reinforce using the question in the answer, using information from the text and their own ideas to formulate their BEST RESPONSES.

We are also focusing on SEQUENCING events to reinforce order of events. This is a way of preparing them for upcoming Term 2 writing - including essays.

HOMEWORK SUGGESTIONS:

Non-Fiction Reading and Comprehension

Non-Fiction Reading #2

MATH: We are detouring to learn / review PERIMETER and AREA. I cannot stress enough HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR THE STUDENTS TO SHOW ALL WORK! The answer alone represents only a portion of the alloted marks.

This includes:
STATE THE RULE               i.e. P = 2 (l+w)
PLUG IN THE NUMBERS           = 2 (4+5)
SOLVE THE NEXT STEP            = 2  (9)
SHOW THE ANSWER                = 18 cm

The solution above is worth 4 marks. Stating the answer alone represents 1 / 4.

HOMEWORK SUGGESTIONS:

SHOW ALL STEPS FOR THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

Perimeter of a Quadrilateral REVIEW

Perimeter of a Polygon

Perimeter of a Triangle






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Tuesday 12 January 2016

Week of January 11, 2016

Language / Social Studies: Since last week, we are combining Social Studies / Language. We are examining the article: "Getting the World to Agree; The 2015 Paris Climate Change Conference"
Vocabulary: 
emission, lobbyist, binding, developing, industrialized, pre-industrial, imbalance, perma frost

Tasks to be completed: students will read the selection, participate in discussion, answere questions IN COMPLETE SENTENCES  (and participate in answer take-up) and complete a crossword puzzle to find further content-related material. 


Mathematics: As we are ending our latest Math unit, students are practicing some of their skills for an upcoming assessment. Please look for your child's initials for homework related to their work. 








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