Did You Know…? Giraffe’s tongues are 24 inches long and bluey-black to help avoid sunburn.
Good afternoon,
Today the Gr. 4 students worked at subtracting 4-digit numbers. We reviewed using friendlier numbers, which is a strategy that we have been working on throughout this unit.
With using friendlier numbers, students change one or both of the numbers to something “friendlier” to work with. However, don’t forget to include what you changed in your final answer. In the examples above, the first student changed 2031 to the friendlier 2000 by subtracting 31. Since they subtracted 31 from 2031, they also had to subtract it from 856. You want to keep your numbers the same difference apart! Now they were left with 2000-825. However, the student realized that this wasn’t much friendlier. It would be better if we changed 825 to a friendlier number and had some zeros on the bottom. So, they added 75 to get to 900. Because we added 75 to 825, we have to add 75 to 2000 as well. Now they are left with 2075-900 which is easier to solve! 2075-900 = 1175.
The second student changes only the second number. They change 856 to 900 right away by adding 44. The student solves 2031-900 which is easier to solve. 2031-900 = 1131. Since we added 44 earlier, we have to remember to account for it now! We need to solve 1131+44 to find the final answer. 1131+44 = 1175.
Finally, we also learned to subtract using a right-to-left strategy. To help us we used the following video:
We will continue to practice subtracting 4-digit numbers tomorrow. We are actually almost finished this unit and will be having a Unit Test next Friday! Remember to practice at home using your Mathletics.
In Language Arts today we held a Book Raffle. Students were allowed to “bid” to read one of the Booktalk Books from our presentation yesterday. Students all need to read their new book tonight so that we can use them in class tomorrow.
In French we began to learn about French colours. This is a review for some of our Grade 5 students, but they will need to remember their colours from last year for some of our upcoming topics of study, so it was a good time to review. Students learned 11 colour words today:
| Rouge – Red
Jaune – Yellow Orange – Orange Vert – Green Rose – Pink Violet – Purple |
Bleu – Blue
Brun – Brown Noir – Black Gris – Grey Blanc – White |
Students also reviewed what we had learned with this Word Scramble:
Finally, we were able to check out this cute video that can be used to help review colour words:
Don’t forget that all of our notes, videos, and activities are posted on the French page!
In Social Studies today we took a small break from researching our regions. Today we focused just on the Canadian Shield region – as this is a region in both Alberta and the rest of Canada. As a class we explored some artwork from members of the Group of Seven that featured the Canadian Shield. Then we read a poem by another Grade 5 student. You can view the artwork or poem yourself below:
Students were then asked to work on their own or in pairs to come up with their own poems about the Canadian Shield. I am really looking forward to seeing what students come up with!
Agenda:
Read 20 minutes
Language Arts:
- Book Club Reading (schedules on Reading page)
- Read Booktalk Book (due tomorrow!)
- Words in Motion Poetry Contest (due Feb. 4th)
Math:
- Gr. 4 – pg. 71 #2
- Gr. 5 – Assignment (due Monday)
- Gr. 5 – Test (Monday)
- 7x Tables Quiz – Tuesday
Science:
- Hypothesis Check-In – Thursday
- Classroom Science Fair – March 7th
French:
- Colours Scramble – Wednesday
Book Orders – due Thursday
Secret Project Ideas – Thursday
Toque Tuesday Assembly – February 2nd ($2 donations encouraged)
Timberlea Spirit Week – February 1st-5th
Grade 5/6 Floor Hockey – Wednesday, 3:00-4:00 pm
STEM Club – Monday, 3:00-4:00 pm
Cross-Country Ski Club – January 28th
Grade 5/6 Basketball – Tuesdays, 3:00-4:00 pm
Family Literacy Night – TODAY, 6:00-7:00 pm, School Gym
