Good Afternoon Everyone!

I hope you had a wonderful day! Tomorrow is day 3 (Gym, Music and Casual Day). Students who are not participating in casual day please wear your gym clothes to school and bring your gym shoes. Tomorrow is our bake sale and casual day. Bring in your money to enjoy some delicious treats!  Lastly, on Thursday summatives are due and Friday is our Museum of Ancient Civilizations from 2:30-3:15pm. 

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

Join us on Friday, November 29th for our Museum of Ancient Civilizations:

Book Fair: Book Fair Family Shopping Event tomorrow from 2:30 to 6pm families can shop and enter to win our $25 book fair prize. Please ensure you go through front reception to get a visitors badge. 

Inquiry into Language

Today students worked on their student reflections for our units of inquiry. Tomorrow we will complete pg.10 of the report card and work on our student-led conference packages. 

Inquiry into Mathematics

Today students explored rounding decimals to the nearest whole number, nearest tenth and the nearest hundredths. To help us round we can use a number line or use our rounding rules. If its 0-4 we round down and if its 5-9 we round up. 

As of right now our test well be Friday, December 13th. 

Points to Remember

Most large numbers are written in short form instead of having to write the large number in standard form. For example, 5 ^½ million is written in standard form as 5, 500, 000. 42, 400, 000 can be written as the decimal 42.4 million. Keep in mind the rounding rules; 0-4 round to the floor, 5-9 round to the sky. 

Exploring thousands and writing them as fractions and decimals. We used a place value chart to help us.

Tens	Ones	.	Tenths	Hundredths	Thousandths

We also used base ten blocks to help. Please see picture below. A fraction is written as 314/1000. We say it as three-hundred and fourteen thousandths. The decimal would be 0.314.

Comparing and Ordering Decimals: There is 3 different ways that we can order decimals. The first way we can order decimals is by using base ten blocks, the second way is using a place-value chart, and lastly we can use a timeline.

Unit of Inquiry

Today students continued to work on their Ancient Civilization summative. Tonight students are to complete their artifact and the good copy of their written component. 

Please join us on Friday, November 29, as we open the Grade 5 Museum of Ancient Civilizations from 2:30-3:15 PM. This will allow Grade 5 parents the opportunity to view the students hard work. Please see flyer posted below and the one that was sent home. 

For our Ancient Civilizations summative students will be recreating an ancient artifact from one of the civilizations we studied. As of now, we will be beginning the summative the week of November 18^th with a due date of Friday, November 29^th. A kind reminder that all summatives are to be done in class only, and to not be done at home unless otherwise stated. 

Homework/ Reminders:

- MMS pg. 50-51 due tomorrow
- Complete artifact and written component due tomorrow
- Bake sale tomorrow 
- Casual day tomorrow
- Summative due Thursday
- Spelling lesson #12 due Thursday
- Museum of Ancient Civilizations on Friday 

Important dates/items:

Wednesday, November 27 Casual Day and bake sale
Thursday, November 28 - Ancient Civilization Summative due

Friday, November 29 Report Cards Sent Home

Tuesday, December 2 Term 2 Begins 

Thursday, December 5 Student-Led Conferences

Tuesday, December 10 Christmas Concert (JK – Grade 2)

TuesdayDecember 17 Christmas Concert (Grade 3 – Grade 8)

Wednesday, December 18 Casual Day

Thursday, December 19 Spirit Day: Red, Green, & White Dress Up

Friday, December 20 Christmas Holiday (No School)

Friday, December 20 - January 7 Christmas Holidays (No School)

Have a great night!

Ms. Cass