Good afternoon!
What a busy, busy day! We started off by working on some Math. The Gr. 4 students are finishing up their unit and they have a Unit Test on Tuesday. In order to study for the test, they have some Unit Review Questions (“Show What You Know”) for homework, and their extra workbooks are due on Wednesday. These extra workbooks are great to study from. Look at the “Quick Reviews” at the top of each section. The Grade 5’s are getting close to starting a new unit as well. They will have their Unit Test either Thursday of next week, or the following Tuesday depending on how Monday and Tuesday progress. Today, the Grade 5’s worked at practicing their long division, and trying some different division strategies as well. We reviewed estimation, working with base 10 blocks, and introduced a new mental math strategy. This strategy is very similar to the break apart strategy that we used in Multiplication. It looks like this:
Eg. 240 / 5
200 / 5 + 40 / 5
40 + 8
48
In Science today we conducted another experiment involving levers. We built a lever using a dowel, our shoulder, and some math books. We tied the books to one end of the dowel, and used our shoulder as the fulcrum. Students were asked to identify whether having the fulcrum positioned closer to the effort or to the load would be the most effecient method of carrying the books. We found out the closer the books were to our own shoulder, made it much easier to lift and much more comfortable to carry.
Homework: Read 20 minutes
Math: Gr. 4 – Unit Test (Tues.)
– pgs. 116-117 #1-15
– Extra Workbook (Wed.)
Gr. 5 – pgs. 106-107 #1-10
Science: Weather Watch Test signed and returned
Family Movie Night – tonight @ 7:00 pm
Math/Science Family Night – Feb. 13 @ 6:00-7:30 pm
Book Order – February 22nd
Classroom/School Science Fairs – March 4th and 7th