I hope had a great night. This week we have a little bit of a schedule change. Tomorrow is day 3(Library). Thursday we will be back to our regular schedule of a Day 5. Chip and candy sale is still happening tomorrow. Casual day is tomorrow. Student-Led Conference (Pick-A-Time) information sheets have been sent home. The website will go live on Thursday morning.
A message from our Librarian Mrs. Hayward
Hot lunch orders for December are now available. The website will close on Friday, November 30th at 3:00pm sharp! This months special is spaghetti and meatballs. Please make sure if you are planning a vacation or being away to not order on the days your child will be away from school. **Please remember to correctly order under the right grade and teacher. **
Oakwood Academy is holding a Poinsettia fundraiser for the holiday season, to raise money for some new sensory items. The Poinsettias are red, pink or white and make a wonderful holiday gift, and are a nice way to spread holiday cheer. Order forms were sent home today. The class that sells the most Poinsettias will win a $50 gift card!! Order between November 1st and November 30th. The only form of payment will be cash. Thank you in advance!
March Break Camp registration forms were sent home. If you are interested please fill in the form and bring it back to school as soon as possible.
*Please note that students doing any after school activity, soccer, karate, yoga, etc. will be charged until 4:00 PM in aftercare, when they will be dismissed to their program with their coach!**
Unit of Inquiry
Today we continued working on our summative. For our ancient civilization summative, students will be required to re-create an ancient artifact from one of the three civilization we learned about. An information package and rubric was sent home. We will begin our in-class summative on Monday, November 19th and the due date will be Thursday, November 29th. A kind reminder that all work is to be completed during class time only, unless other wise stated.
We are inviting Grade 5 parents and family members to our Grade 5 SJA Museum of Ancient Civilization Artefacts on Friday, November 30 from 2:30-3:15. We look forward to seeing you there!
Inquiry into Mathematics
Today we explored thousandths, and ordering and comparing decimals. Thousandths is located 3 spots after the decimal in the place value chart (0.000) and is represented by a single cube if working with base ten blocks. When using base ten blocks and decimals, we work the opposite of whole numbers. For example, a thousands cube represents a whole number (1), tenths is represented by a 100s block (0.1), hundredths is represented by a 10s block (0.01), and finally thousandths is represented by a single cube (0.001). Here are some examples of changing fractions to decimals; 6/1000 = .006, 17/1000 = .017, 123/1000 = .123, 2 321/1000 = 2.321. **Remember that when reading the decimal in words, we use and. For example, 2.123 = two and one hundred and twenty three thousandths.**
When comparing and ordering numbers, we need to remember that as we go from tenths to thousandths the numbers get smaller. So 0.406 is smaller than 0.457, and 6.0 is bigger than 5.976.
Place value chart and changing fractions into decimals
Comparing and ordering decimals (lowest to greatest)
Points to remember:
4.9 = 4 and 9/10 (tenths)
4.99 = 4 and 99/100 (hundredths)
4.999 = 4 and 99/1000 (thousandths)
¼ = 0.25
½ = 0.50
¾ = 0.75
- 2.25 million is written in standard form as
2, 250, 000.
As a decimal we write it as 2.25 million (2 whole million + 0.25 million) and as a fraction it is ¼ of a million (25 is ¼ of 100).
Place value decimals:
4.623
Tens
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Ones
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.
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Tenths
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Hundredths
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Thousandths
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4
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.
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6
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2
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3
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Expanded Form:
4.623
4 + 0.6 + 0.02 + 0.003
Inquiry into Language
Today in language we wrote our student comments for our report cards and practiced our song for the Christmas Concert.
Homework:
- Spelling lesson #12 due tomorrow
- Math Lesson #2, 3 due tomorrow
- Casual day tomorrow
- Bring in money for chip/ candy sale
Important dates/items:
Wednesday, November 28 – Casual day
Thursday, November 29 – Summatives due
Friday, November 30 – Term One report cards go home
Monday, December 3 - Term 2 Begins
Thursday, December 6 - Student-Led Conferences
Tuesday, December 11 - JK-2 Christmas Concert
Tuesday, December 18 - 3-8 Christmas Concert
Wednesday, December 19 - Bake Sale & Casual Day
Thursday, December 20 - Bake Sale & Christmas Spirit Day
Friday, December 21-Tuesday, January 8 - Christmas Break - No School
I hope you have a wonderful night!
Love,
Ms. Cass
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