Math games to help practice basic math facts

1. Sheppard Software has addition, subtraction, multiplication and division games that are a fun way to increase your math fact recall speed. http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/math.htm
2. Here's a link to a fun and fast multiplication facts game where you get to drive racing cars. http://www.arcademics.com/games/grand_prix/grand_prix.html

Locations of our penpals' schools

Both the Italian and Albanian classes  received our packages in the mail last week. They are busily writing replies and their teachers will let me know by email when their letters have been mailed.

One class is in Durrës, which is the second largest city in Albania.  It is an ancient city, one of the oldest in the country. The population of Durrës is about 260 000. http://www.durres.gov.al/

The other class we are writing to is in Missaglia, Italy. It is in the northern part of the country in the region of Lombardy. Missaglia is a small community of about 7 800 people. http://www.comune.missaglia.lc.it/

School Photo Day is Monday, 30 September 2013

Wear your biggest smile!

What to review for the Data Management test

Grades 5 and  6

Be able to give examples of each of the three ways we've used to collect data:

1. Observation
2. Survey
3. Experiment

What is the difference between primary and secondary data? Give examples.

Know how to create intervals for tallying data and use them to make a bar graph. Remember:

• all numbers in the set must be included
• numbers cannot be duplicated
• intervals must be equal in size

Grade 5 - Be able to:

• create a broken line graph
• calculate the mean and find the mode of a data set

Grade 6 - Be able to:

• create a line graph
• find the mean and the median of a data set

TDSB Homework Policy

It is expected that students take home and complete work not finished in class. After an absence, students are expected to get caught up on work they missed, whenever possible. It may not be possible to catch up on some lessons that involve group work, direct teaching and/or specialized equipment and  materials.

In addition, practice and review before tests, working on assignments and projects should also be done at home.

To view the TDSB Homework Policy, click the link below.

http://www2.tdsb.on.ca/ppf/uploads/files/live/102/199.pdf

Collecting and Graphing Primary Data

In Math, we have been learning about collecting data. We know three ways to collect data:

1.  Survey 
2. Experiment 
3. Observation 

We have talked about primary and secondary data. Students wrote their own surveys and collected primary data by asking their classmates their survey questions. Next, we used Microsoft Excel and Word to create bar graphs of our primary data. Here are some examples.

Adventures in the Bone Zone Part 1

On Tuesday, morning Ms Nadja from Scientists in School did a workshop in our class. The students dissected owl pellets and discovered what prey the owls had eaten. We found mouse and vole bones in the pellets and sorted them. Using a picture guide, we pressed the bones into Plasticine to show how the skeleton would be put together. Here are some of the results.

Spelling List 3 - Healthy Eating Vocabulary

Grade 5 - 1. energy 2. calorie 3. protein 4. vitamin 5. mineral 6. product 7. package 8. label 9. alternate 10. sodium 11. vegetable 12. nutrient Grade 6 - 1. influences 2. sensitivities 3. allergies 4. beverage 5. carbohydrates 6. protein 7. convenient 8. healthiest 9. lifestyle 10. function 11. nutrients 12. calorie 13. maintain 14. breakfast This week's activities: word scramble (provided by teacher; definitions

Example Infograph

Create infographics

Meet B.O.B.

B.O.B. arrived in our classroom yesterday. It took Mrs Lloyd Thomas a while to put him together. He'll be helping the grade 5s learn about the human skeleton, bones and joints.

Do you know what B.O.B. stands for? Bring the answer written on a piece of paper to Mrs LT tomorrow to win a prize.

Today's Math Homework

Grade 6 - worksheets on Mean, Median and Mode
Grade 5 - textbook page 86 # 1 and 3; page 87# 6

Tertiary and Complementary Colour Landscapes and Cityscapes

Spelling List 2 - Science Vocabulary

Grade 6
1. invertebrates   2. backbone  3. arthropods  4. molluscs  5. amphibians 6. reptiles  7. cold-blooded
8. mammals  9. classify 10.  species  11. fossil  12. diversify  13.  phylum  14. endangered

Grade 5
1. system 2. skeleton 3.  joints 4.  skull 5. vertebra 6. femur 7. calcium 8.  marrow 9. protect
10. muscles 11. functions 12. support

This week's spelling activities: sentences; word search provided by teacher

Media and Technology Survey

Ask a friend or family member to complete the Media and Technology Survey that you brought home today.  It will only take them a few minutes. You can read the questions to them if you like. Please return the completed surveys to school on Monday. We will be using the data in our math lesson.

Making Faces: Complementary Colours

Today's Math: Broken-line and Line Graphs

If not finished in class, please finish at home:
Grade 5 - Page 66; questions 2, 3 and 4
Grade 6 - Page 75; A to F and 4.

On Their Way

Our introductory penpal letters and self-portraits are now in the post and speeding their way to our new friends in Italy and Albania. It will be very interesting finding out what their communities and daily routines are like compared to ours. We're starting Social Studies with some mapping skills this year and will locate our pen pals' schools to get a sense of where they are located.

Today's Math - Nelson Mathematics Text Book

Class time was given for these review, from last year, questions. Work should be completed at home if it hasn't been in class.

Grade 6 - 68 & 69
Grade 5 - 60 & 61

Spelling List 1

Spelling List 1 - Data Management Vocabulary

Monday, September 9

   A.  Teacher dictates pretest.

B.  Check your words and make corrections where needed.

C.  Write an interesting sentence for each word. One word per sentence only.

D.  Write a dictionary definition for each word. Use either a book or online dictionary.

E.  Study your words for 10 minutes daily.

F.  Hand in your notebook with the finished work on Friday.

G.  Teacher dictates final test on Friday.

 

 

Grade 6 Spelling List 1   

 

 1. graph 2. interval 3. axis  4. scale 5. label 6. represent

 7. survey 8. results 9. greatest 10. vertical 11. horizontal

12. favourite 13. precipitation 14. temperature

 

 

Grade 5 Spelling List 1 

 

 

1. graph 2. interval 3. axis  4. scale 5. label 6. represent

7. survey 8. results 9. greatest 10. vertical 11. horizontal

 

12. favourite

 

 

 

 

 

 

Colour Wheels

We reviewed primary, secondary, warm and cool colours. Grade 5s will be learning about complementary colours and grade 6s will work with mixing tertiary colours in our next lessons.

Self Portraits

We drew self portraits and wrote introductory letters to our penpals in Italy and Albania. As soon as they are all complete we'll pop them into the post.

Can you guess who these Room 13 students are?

Summer Survey

We found out some interesting things about our class when tallying and graphing the results of the "Summer Survey".  Together, we created the Success Criteria for graphs and referred to it throughout the process. Here are some of the graphs student partners created.

Welcome to Room 13

Dear Parents & Guardians

I am returning to King George School refreshed after my year off. I very much enjoyed spending time doing the things I like most including travelling, cycling, reading, writing and photography. Learning new things like how to edit films and some new art techniques was most gratifying too.

The rules and routines of TDSB and King George School are in the front of the student agendas and will be reviewed during the first few days of schools.

Here are some routines and expectations specific to our class:

• Spelling pretests will be dictated on Mondays. Students will make their corrections and complete the weekly activities. Some class time will be given on Mondays and Wednesdays. Completed work will be handed in on Fridays. Final tests will be dictated on Fridays also. 
• Homework will typically consist of Math, Writing, Reading Science, Health etc not completed in class; studying for tests; projects and larger assignments; music practice (violin or recorder). 
• Agendas must be at school daily and will be checked by the teacher at lunchtime. I will closely monitor students who require extra support to make sure that the information they need is recorded.
• Daily Presentations: As part of the Oral Visual Communications component of our language program, students will take turns giving short daily presentations. These will be first modelled by the teacher. Names will be draw and dates assigned well ahead of time so that students will be well prepared . The topics for the Fall are: September – Souvenir, October – Poem, November – True or False, December – Quiz.
• Pen pals: To enhance our Language and Social Studies programs, I have paired up with two other classes of grade 5/6 students. We will be writing by snail mail to our pen friends in Italy and Albania and learning about their communities and cultures. We will be using the school’s mailing address and students’ first names only.
• Friday Folders: Each Friday, a durable plastic folder, in the picture above,  will be sent home with completed, marked work and classroom notices enclosed. Please review your child’s work and return the empty envelopes to school each Monday. 

 I am looking forward to working with your child and a productive and fun school year.

 Regards, Mrs. Annette Lloyd Thomas