Reading Unit- Inferencing

We have begun working on inferencing in our reading workshop block.

Learning Goal:
We are learning to make inferences about the texts we are reading. We can understand what characters are thinking, feeling, or doing without it being directly stated.

Success Criteria:
– I used information from the text
– I used my own ideas
– I used picture clues
– I put them all together to help me make my inference

Text clues + my own knowledge = inference

 

How to Help at Home

When reading with your child, ask them questions about how the characters might be feeling about events that have happened. Have them find a piece of proof from the book to support what they have said. They may also use their own personal connections to help them make an inference.

Science Project- pick up from library

Students’ ‘eco friendly house’ science projects have been on display in the school library for the past 2 weeks. If your child’s project is too large for them to bring home on their own, you may come into the school this week to pick up their project from the school library. If you are coming to pick up the project during school hours, please sign in at the school office first.

Grade 5 Trip Forms

Grade 5 students will be going to Innisfil Central Public School for an Enviro Adventure trip on May 9, 2019. Permission forms went home with students on Friday, April 26 and are due back at school by Tuesday, May 7.

Character Ed Assembly Tomorrow at 9:30

Students are asked to wear their house colours!

Writing Unit- Research Report

We are currently working on report writing. So far, students have brainstormed a list of topics they wanted to research. They then picked 1 topic for their research and have been working on determining 3 main ideas/focus areas within that topic.

We will begin researching our topics next week. Students have a graphic organizer to help them organize all of the information they find.

The final report will include an introduction, 3 body paragraphs, and a conclusion.

How to Help at Home:

-Ask your child what topics they had originally brainstormed to research.

-Ask your child what final topic they chose to research and what the 3 main  ideas/focus areas are for their paper.

 

 

Math Unit: Geometry

Students have been working on a unit in geometry.

Throughout this unit we have/will be working on:

 

Grade 5

-identifying and naming regular and irregular 2-D polygons.

-Using a protractor to measure and construct angles from 1 degree to 90 degrees and classify them as acute, obtuse, straight or right angled.

-Constructing triangles using rulers and protractors when given their angles and side measurements.

-Looking at lines of symmetry, parallel sides, perpendicular lines, congruency, and similarity in polygons.

-Identifying and constructing prisms and pyramids

Grade 6

-identifying and naming regular and irregular 2-D polygons.

-Using a protractor to measure and construct angles from 1 degree to 180 degrees and classify them as acute, obtuse, straight or right angled.

-Constructing triangles and parallelograms using rulers and protractors when given their angles and side measurements.

-Looking at lines of symmetry, order of rotational symmetry, parallel sides, perpendicular lines, congruency, and similarity in polygons.

-Building and sketching 3-d models using connecting cubes

 

If you would like to help your child practise at home, the following are some websites you can visit:

http://www.math-play.com/geometric-figures-game/geometric-figures-game.html

http://www.math-play.com/types-of-poligons.html

http://www.math-play.com/Angles-Jeopardy/Angles-Jeopardy.html

http://www.math-play.com/Polygon-Game.html

http://www.crickweb.co.uk/ks2numeracy-to

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I’m excited to be back in the classroom working with your child for the remainder of the school year.  Please check back here for updates on classroom activities, upcoming tests, and upcoming school events.