Good afternoon,

Students started looking at basic transformations today. The outcome that students are currently working towards is:

• Identify; describe and perform a single transformation of a 2-D object

Today students were looking at translations. A translation is when a shape moves along a straight line, without turning. We can say that it was translated from one position to another. We can also refer to a translation as a slide. There are lots of examples of slides in our day to day lives. Just think of a child sliding down a playground slide or a firefighter sliding down a pole! When we draw the shape in its new position, we draw a translation image of the shape. In Grade 5, we describe a translation by describing the numbers of squares that the image moves – left, right, up, or down. Check out the example below:

The translation arrow shows how the shape moved and joins matching vertices on the shape and its image. A shape and its translation image have the same orientation. That means they are always facing the same way.

In Social Studies, students read a poem about the fur trade called “The French in the New World”. Then students went over some facts about New France and the fur trade. We have been talking about these two subjects over the past few weeks, these facts were a summary of our learning. Students completed a worksheet, giving them the opportunity to share their learning on these topics. To complete our study of the fur trade, students were asked to build their own fur trade post. Students had to consider where to place the buildings, the proximity to a water source, to trees, to good land, and the which Canadian climate would most benefit their Fort. Check out some of completed Forts below.

Agenda:

Read 20 minutes

Reading Journal – due Friday

Math – pgs. 298-299 #1-4, 6, 7

Science – get Chemistry tests signed (ASAP)

Jive on Brett Drive – Thursday @ 6:00 pm