Good afternoon!
What a great day! Today we started learning how to write equations, using variables to represent missing numbers. For example:
Marie had 30 pencils. She gave some of her pencils to Joe. Now Marie has 10 pencils. Write an equation to help you solve this problem.
30 – p = 10
Once students write their equation, they can solve for p. In order to do this, I find it is good to remind students that all equations have an equals sign and are true. What we mean by true, is that both sides of the equals sign are equal to one another. So to solve equations, we make both sides equal.
30 – p = 10
30 – (20) = 10
10 = 10
Students know that p=20 because 20 is the only amount that will make the left side equal to 10, so that both sides match. Students are to be practicing this tonight at home.
Today we completed a quiz on Mapping. Students were asked to label to provinces and territories, as well as their capital cities. Many students struggled with this task. We are going to be doing some review, but please make sure that your student is studying their Canada maps at home. This is a Gr. 5 outcome that all of us would like to achieve before we start studying the regions of Canada. A good place to study is our Social duotangs, where we have a labeled map. Students can also use that map from their AGENDAS to help them. Want to practice at home? You can also play some of the games that we used in class at:
http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Canadian_Geography.htm
In French today we labeled our classroom. Students watched “Dans ma salle de class” for Watch It Wednesday. We then took the vocabulary words that we learned and labeled parts of our classroom. Students will be using these labels throughout the unit, and we will keep adding to our current knowledge about classroom vocabulary. See some of our labels below!
We had our first visit to the Library today. Students did a great job. I have asked students to sign out a non-fiction and a fiction book each time we visit the library. Students have until the following week (Wednesday) to finish and return their books. Not finished a book? Bring it back on Wednesday and sign it out again! Please try to remember that Wednesday is our library day, and to return all books to the classroom before this day. If books are left at home, often students are unable to get a new book that week, which can be disappointing.
Agenda:
Read 20 mins.
Book Orders – Sept. 27
Reading Journal – Friday
Spelling Quiz – Monday
Math: pg. 22 #1-6
Mathletics – 5 mins.
Science Project – Oct. 28th
Terry Fox Run – Tomorrow!
Picture Day – Oct. 2nd
Rock Star Day – Tomorrow!
Bullying Awareness Representative – Audition by tomorrow!
Student Council Campaigns – Oct. 1-8th (see Ms. Barrington or the classroom meeting book to sign up!)
