Good Afternoon Everyone!

I hope you had a great day! Tomorrow is day 5 (Gym and Music ).  Please wear your gym uniform to school and bring your shoes. Students will change into their school day uniform after gym. 

Lost and Found: 
Our lost and found items are now located in the gym. If items are not claimed by November 8th at 4pm, all items in the lost and found will be donated to our local Salvation Army. 

Our next extra-curricular activity is curling at the Acton Curling Club. The dates and times of our trips are Monday, November 4^th from 1-2 PM and Monday, November 18^th from 10-11 AM.  Students must bring a helmet to school for both days. Acceptable helmets are hockey helmets, ski helmets or bike helmets (without pointy ends), and indoor shoes to wear curling. It will be cold inside the rink, so please dress appropriately (mat, coat, mittens, etc). We are also planning a trip to the ROM on Thursday, November 21^st. It will be an all day trip so please do not order hot lunch for this day, as reimbursements will not be given, nor will hot lunches be saved. Permission forms will be going home early November.

Polar Expressions is back again this year and they are looking for students to have the chance to publish poems and short stories in an upcoming book. Information sheets have been sent. Students who are interested in this competition can do so on their own time, as class time will not be given. The deadline for poems is November 29^th and the deadline for short stories is December 6^th

Happy Halloween from Grade 5!

Inquiry into Language

Today we took up chapter 21 questions and students independently read chapter 22. Once they completed reading the chapter they read the short story at the end of the book and completed a crossword. Also, some students volunteered to read their Guy Fawkes Poem in front of the class. 

Percy Jackson - Please remember that comprehension questions are to be in full sentences that begin with a capital letter and ending with either a period, exclamation point, or question mark. Please use the book to help with spelling and to be sure to answer each question completely, with support from the book.

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today students worked on halloween activities that included learning the Roman numerals, money word problems, a reading with comprehension questions, word scramble, crossword, word search, and much more.

As of now our math test for this unit will be Monday, November 4^th.

Points to Remember

The small hand tells the hour, the large hand tells the minutes, and the skinny hand tells the seconds.

Every small mark on a clock represents the minutes. The total number of minutes between each number on a clock is 5.

A quarter after is 15 minutes after, half-past is 30 minutes after, and a quarter to is 15 minutes to the next hour. 

Before 10:00am, you write a 0 in front of the hour. After noon, you ad 12 to the hour. For example: 2 o'clock in the afternoon would be 12:00 + 2:00 = 14:00 24- hour notation 

AM – 12:00 midnight to 11:59 AM

PM – 12:00 noon to 11:59 PM

12:00 = 00:00

1:00 = 13:00

2:00 = 14:00

3:00 = 15:00

4:00 = 16:00

5:00 = 17:00

6:00 = 18:00

7:00 = 19:00

8:00 = 20:00

9:00 = 21:00

10:00 = 22:00

11:00 = 23:00

12:00 = 24:00

Estimating using friendly numbers  ( $499.50 + $228.85  e.g. 500 + 200 or 250 = 700 or 750). 

Rounding rules. If a number is 4 and below - let it go (round down) 23 = 20.  3. If the number is 5 and above give it a shove (round up) 26=30.

Friendly numbers  (a way to round or estimate) - $423.99 would round to $400.00 and $789. 11 would round to $800.00. 

Standard amount (eight hundred twenty-two dollars = $822) 

Written form ($745.50 = seven hundred forty-five dollars and 50 cents). We also counted money. Remember what each coin and bill are worth!

To find the surface area of a rectangular prism, multiply each face - length x width (l x w), then add the total area. For rectangular prisms that are congruent (all sides are equal), find the area of all three sides, add them together and then multiply by 2. For example, a rectangular prism with the sides 7 cm height, 15 cm length, and 10 cm width – find the area of front face, 15 x 7 = 105, then find the area of the side face, 10 x 7 = 70, then find the area of the top face, 15 x 10 = 150. Then add up those totals – 105 + 70 + 150 = 325 x 2 = 650 cm squared. When finding the surface area we use units squared (cm squared, m squared, etc.). 

For example: using the picture below.

Area of the front face: 11 cm x 6 cm  = 66 cm squared

Area of the side face: 6 cm x 5 cm = 30 cm squared 

Area of the top face: 11cm x 5 cm = 55 cm squared

( 66 + 30 + 55 ) x 2 = 151 cm squared x 2  = 302 cm squared

Therefore, the surface area of the prism is 302 cm squared

Volume of a rectangular prism: Volume = number of cubes in each layer x number of layers. The number of cubes is length x width and the number of layers is the height, so our formula to find the volume is l x w x h. When finding the volume we use units cubed (cm cubed, m cubed, etc.). 

Cubic Meters  - distance is measured in linear unit – cm, m, km. Area is measured in square units – cm ², m². Volume is measured in cubic units – cm³, m³. Linear units would be the perimeter of an object or the length of a pen. Square units would be the area of a desk or the area of a postage stamp. Cubic units would be the space in an elevator or the space in a closet. 

1 m = 100 cm

1 m² = 10,000 cm²

1 m³ = 1,000,000 cm³

Volume measures the space an object occupies (mL or L), while capacity measures the amount of liquid or gas an object holds (cubic cm or cubic m). Students worked on textbook questions and MMS lesson # 8. If students did not complete lesson #8 it is for homework. 

A few conversions to remember:

1L = 1000 mL

1 cubic cm = 1 mL

1 cubic m = 1000 L

1000 cubic cm = 1 L

Mass is the amount of matter of an object (how much an object weighs). The basic unit of mass is grams. When we add milli to gram (milligram), the milli means thousandths. So, one milligram is one-thousandth of a gram (1 mg = 0.001 g & 1000 mg = 1 g). When we add kilo to gram (kilogram), the kilo means thousands. So, one kilogram is one thousand grams (1 kg = 1000 g & 1 g = 0.001 kg). One tonne is one thousand kilograms (1 t = 1000 kg & 1 kg = 0.001 t). Please see the chart below to help.

	/1000		/1000		/1000	Move the decimal 3 spots to the left
mg	--->	g	--->	kg	--->	t
	X 1000		X 1000		X 1000	Move the decimal 3 spots to right
t	--->	kg	--->	g	--->	mg

Unit of Inquiry

Today students worked on halloween activities that included learning the Roman numerals, money word problems, a reading with comprehension questions, word scramble, crossword, word search, and much more.

The summative for this unit will have students recreating an ancient artifact from one of the civilizations we studied. More information to come closer to the end of the unit! As of now, we will be beginning the summative the week of November 18^th with a due date of Friday, November 29^th

Homework/ Reminders:

- Math Review due tomorrow
- Spelling test tomorrow 

- Math test on Monda
- Curling trip on Monday (bring a helmet)

Important dates/items:

Tuesday, November 5 – Guy Fawkes Day

Friday, November 8-Monday, November 11 – No School – Remembrance Day

Wednesday, November 13 – Kindness Day

Friday, November 15 – SJA’s annual Science Fair

Wednesday, November 20 – Picture Retakes
Thursday, November 21- Trip to the ROM please do not order hot lunch for this day

Wednesday, November 27 – Casual Day – please ensure you have paid the $20 cash for casual day

Friday, November 29 – Term 1 Report Cards Go Home

Have a wonderful night trick-or-treating!! 

Ms. Cass