Good afternoon!

This will be a short post, with the concert coming up so quickly this evening.

Today we continued to work on our multiplication and division unit. Both grades are currently working through the multiplication chapters. Grade 4s are practicing working with alternative strategies to find solutions, and are using multiplication tables to find and recognize multiplication patterns. The Grade 5s are working at using some of the alternative strategies to multiply larger numbers. We will be reviewing these strategies and making sure that the students are comfortable, before moving on to 2-digit numbers. Please assist students in working through, and checking over their math homework whenever possible.

In Science today we played “Big Wheel” and congratulations to Group #2, you did an excellent job. I was very impressed with all the groups, and their knowledge of our current unit. Please take the time to review using the study guide for the unit test, which is tomorrow! Students should review:

  • Glossary terms (pgs. 53-55)
  • 4 forms of precipitation (pgs. 29-30)
  • 4 types of clouds (pgs. 38-39)
  • The Greenhouse Effect -how humans effect climate change
  • Weather Instruments – thermometer, wind vane, anemometer, barometer (pgs. 4-7, 16-21, 40)
  • The Water Cycle (pg. 28)

Students should also be comfortable discussing how air moves, and with the experiments that we conducted in class.

As a reward from the sticker board, students were able to play “Sugar, Sugar” on the Promethean Board, as a class, for 15 minutes today. I’ve posted the link to this game below, in case anyone was interested in trying to beat level 8 at home!

Sugar, Sugar – http://smartboard.someschoolgames.com/

Homework: Multiplication Quiz – Thurs. (4s and 9s)

                         Math: Gr. 4 – pg. 100 #1-7, 9

                                      Gr. 5 – pg. 90-91 #1-7, 10-12

                         Science: Unit Test – tomorrow

                                           Climate Project – January 10th

If you are planning on attending our Winter concert tonight, students will be meeting me in Rm. 167 (Miss Rose’s classroom) after 6:30 pm. The concert will start as close to 7:00 pm as possible, and we do ask that parents consider staying for the entire concert, rather than leaving during a performance, as this can be quite disruptive. The concert last night was just under an hour in length, and we are hoping to keep tonight’s the same. I will have indoor shoes with me for those that need them!