Jan 23-30

This week in math the students continued to learn about fractions. Students learned how to create equivalent fractions, including putting a fraction in simplest terms. For example, 8/12= 2/3. Students also learned how to represent and convert mixed and improper fractions and how to compare fractions. There will be a quiz on these concepts on Wednesday. 

In language students finished their PSA or news clip on a social studies issue. We looked at exemplars and wrote a piece entitled, "A Person I Admire." Students also wrote a shortened CASI reading test, which is a standardized reading test. Ask your child about his/ her mark and their reflection on it. 

In science students have been busy creating their project. We will have our egg drop and distance flights on Monday.  

Important upcoming dates:

Mon., Jan 26: egg drop and distance flight

Wed., Jan 28: math quiz on fractions

Thurs., Jan 29th: pool, homework due, Glen Ames form due for grade 6s

Homework for this week:

1) Read for at least 20 minutes each night. You will complete a "retell, relate, reflect" on the book that you are currently reading next week in class. 

2) Complete the fractions work for math. 
3) Complete the grammar work on adverbs. 
4) Ensure that your science project is complete and at school on Monday. (Anyone who is not finished by today, Thursday, can take it home to complete it independently.)

5) Make a Bitstrips comic that clearly explains a concept related to your science curriculum. 

Grade 6s: Newton's 3rd Law, Bernoulli's Principle, thrust, drag, gravity, lift, elevator, aileron, rudder

Grade 5s: - tension, compression, force, load, forces of nature and how they effect structures, how sports equipment protects the body from the impact of forces

Best,

Bronwyn Davidson