Good afternoon!

We started off our day by doing some Math. The Gr. 4 students are working with equivalent decimals. This is not too challenging, as they have a good understanding of tenths and hundredths. With equivalent decimals we are exploring ways to represent that decimals are the same.

Eg. 0.4 = 0.40

We do this through modelling, drawing pictures, diagrams, etc. The Gr. 5 students are working on adding decimals. We learned three different strategies from our text today. We discussed adding using base 10 blocks to model, adding from left to right and estimating the decimal point, and adding left to right by keeping the decimal point. Left to right strategies can be challenging at first. Take a look at the example below:

Eg. 2.987 + 4.9

  2.987

+4.900   (Use equivalent decimals to make this 4.900!)

  6.000

  1.800

  0.080

  0.007

  7.887

Students are also welcome to use a more traditional right to left addition strategy, and we have demonstrated this strategy in class as well.

We will be having a class celebration on Friday! We are celebrating the completion of our FRIENDS program. Students will be finished our final booster session tomorrow. We also have a student leaving us. We will miss her a lot, and we wanted to have a little good-bye party. So… this Friday will be a class pyjama day, and we will be having a healthy food buffet. Please feel free to bring in some healthy treats! We will be playing some party games as well.

Homework: Read 20 minutes

                         Reading Journal – Friday

                         Multiplication Quiz – Friday

                         Spelling – NO QUIZ this week (CAT-4 Spelling Instead)

                         Math: Gr. 4 – pg. 204 #1-7

                                      Gr. 5 – pg. 202-203 #1-9

                         Health: Home Activity Booster #1

                         Book Orders: May 23rd