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Weekly Objectives and Homework: November 25 – 29th

Hello! Thank you to those who were able to attend parent conferences, and students who braved it themselves! ;). We hope you all have a wonderful week and for those celebrating Thanksgiving, have a great evening celebrating togetherness, family, friends, and community.

Literacy

  • Reading – we will begin a new Storytown unit with a short story titled The Night of San Juan
  • Grammar – we will look at Main verbs, Helping Verbs and Linking Verbs
  • Writing – students will complete their fiction narrative writing

Numeracy

  • Students will review their skills in addition, subtraction, and multiplication and apply them to practical problems.
  • We will review how to multiply multiple digits; 2 by 1 digit, 3 digits by 1, 4 digits by 1, 2 digits by 2 digits. (column method)

Science

  • Students will learn to use their understanding of energy forms to compare and contrast how they are transformed and how they are converted.

Social Studies

  • Students will complete a Unit 2 Test  and work on Figuring distance in Maps

Homework

Literacy

  • Monday – Spelling Lesson 6 pages due Friday
  • Tuesday – Grammar workbook Pg 40
  • Thursday – Grammar workbook Pg 42  

Numeracy

  • Monday – Practical problems in composition book (+ and -). Due Tuesday
  • Tuesday – Mathletics, addition and subtraction logic problems. Due Friday                    We will review how to access these in class.
    • Totally Magic Grid and Navigate the Number Maze.
  • Wednesday – Column Multiplication, due Thursday   (Due to field trip, students lost class time). Homework is cancelled for now and will be moved to another day. 
  • Thursday – Study for test on Friday. Finish work that was started in class.                                         Practical problems and multiplication work in composition book.
    • 3-4, Skills Practice (#10-16 and #29-30)
    • Practical problems (5 problems to complete)

Science: Assigned on Friday from last week, due Monday. 

  • Science Video Activity:
    • Students will choose ONE topic for the videos
    • Write a paragraph:
      1. What did you learn about?
      2. Did anything surprise you?
      3. What is a fact you enjoy the most from the video?
      4. Do you have any questions about that form of energy?
      5. Was your KWL question answered?

Videos:

  1. Mechanical: https://youtu.be/Omt6vOpc_UQ 
  2. Electrical: https://youtu.be/Uf76pThNXZc 
  3. Light: https://youtu.be/d65mdTJaJTI
  4. Thermal (Extended) : https://youtu.be/gNM_9etcJT0 and https://youtu.be/f1eAOygDP5s
  5. Sound (Intro video and lesson): https://youtu.be/HblEhc0gses and  https://youtu.be/NygthknRzqk

Tests

  1. Friday – Addition and Subtraction practical problems. POST PONED till Tuesday, Dec. 3rd. Due to multiple lessons being missed this week

Reminders/Announcements

  1. Field trip on Wednesday, $8 cost from 8:30 – 10:30-45 at Mission House in Bodden Town
  2. Half day, Thursday for Thanksgiving: ASC available
  3. Monday 2nd December – Christmas Concert – students are to wear red or white tops and jeans
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Weekly Homework and Objectives 18th – 22nd November

Hello! Short week ahead, but be sure to check out all that is going on. (: 

Literacy 

  • Reading – we have finished reading The Bridge Home so this week the students are working on their book report. They will get chance to write each of their rough parts in class, then will copy up at home. This book report is due on Friday 29thNovember.
  • Grammar – the class will work on direct objects
  • Writing – The students have begun studying narrative writing and are writing their own story.

Numeracy

  • We will be learning about our 4 steps process of problem solving. Understand what they are asking in a question, key words and numbers, and how we are to solve the problem. This week will focus on addition and subtraction.

Science

  • We will begin our new topic on Energy. We will learn about some basic definitions of energy, the different forms, how energy can be transformed, cause change and conserved.
  • Students will watch a video for homework and write a paragraph on what they learned and return on Monday.

Social Studies

  • Grade 5 will be looking at Population growth and will also complete a Political Map test.

Homework 

Tuesday:

  • Science: Take composition book home to complete graphic organizer on energy. What causes change in your house? Students will fill out their graphic organizer with information, they need at least 10 items. 
  • Grammar: Page 38

Wednesday:

  • Numeracy: Mathletics (if they have 60% on an assignment or incomplete)
        • Some will receive a multiplication and division review packet for homework for the quarter.

Friday:Due Monday

  • Science Video Activity:
    • Students will choose ONE topic for the videos
    • Write a paragraph:
      1. What did you learn about?
      2. Did anything surprise you?
      3. What is a fact you enjoy the most from the video?
      4. Do you have any questions about that form of energy?
      5. Was your KWL question answered?

Videos:

  1. Mechanical: https://youtu.be/Omt6vOpc_UQ 
  2. Electrical: https://youtu.be/Uf76pThNXZc 
  3. Light: https://youtu.be/d65mdTJaJTI
  4. Thermal (Extended) : https://youtu.be/gNM_9etcJT0 and https://youtu.be/f1eAOygDP5s
  5. Sound (Intro video and lesson): https://youtu.be/HblEhc0gses and  https://youtu.be/NygthknRzqk

Reminders 

Parent Conferences:

  1. Thursday, 21st: 1/2 day NO ASC
  2. Friday, 22nd: NO SCHOOL 

Announcements 

  1. Field trip! Next Wednesday, 27th November.

Cost $8, please turn in by Tuesday of next week. (Covers bus and entry fee)

We will be visiting the Mission House in Bodden Town. As students have been learning about Cayman Living in Social Studies, this will be a great way for them to understand the way of life and heritage of Cayman.

  1. Book Report Due Friday, 29th November.

Bible Verse

“Here this, you Kings! Listen you Rulers! I, even I, will sing to the Lord. I will praise the Lord, the God of Israel, in song.” Judges 5:3

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Weekly Objectives and Homework 12th – 15th November

Welcome back! Hope you all had a relaxing long weekend and had an opportunity to think about and thank those who have served or currently serving our country.

Literacy

Grammar – this week we will be finish writing with nouns and move on to verbs – starting with action verbs.

Writing – We will begin a new style of writing – narrative. This week will serve as an introduction to planning characters, setting and plot.

Reading – we will finish our novel The Bridge Home this week and begin collecting notes and responses towards a book report.  

Numeracy

  • Students will be completing pop quizzes to review multiplication, prime and composite and odd and even numbers.
  • Students will be reviewing multiplication and division as we begin a new topic for quarter 2, computation and estimation.

Science

  • Students will begin our new topic on energy. Where does energy come from? What are the forms energy takes?

Social Studies

  • In Social Studies we are exploring the People of the Cayman Islands and completing a class census with a graph.
  • We will also complete an assessment on Political Maps.

Bible

  • We look at the life of Achan and the consequences of sin. (5B)
  • Faithfulness of Joshua and Caleb. (5A)

Announcements

Please be sure to sign up for parent conferences!

https://fbcs.setmore.com

Homework

Tuesday – Grammar Pg 34

Thursday – Grammar Pg 36

Friday

  • 5A: Think of 3 names for turtle competition with a reason why they chose that name, presenting on Friday.
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Numeracy Resources

Hello!

This space will be continuously updated with numeracy resources. From videos, games, helpful articles/websites, and relevant to class topics. Enjoy!

Websites

  1. Education.com: Games, practice problems, activities. https://www.education.com 
  2. Nrich: Go to ‘Primary pupils’, there are articles for students to read, investigative activities, games, and online games. https://nrich.maths.org 
  3. Topmarks: games for individuals and groups. https://www.topmarks.co.uk
  4. Jeopardy labs: Great way for fun review with friends at home or family. There are premade jeopardy games for a variety of topics and subjects. https://jeopardylabs.com
  5. Quizizz: Variety of free quizzes and levels to practice with different subjects and topics, all premade. https://quizizz.com
  6. We Are Teachers: Articles, games, activities. https://www.weareteachers.com
  7. Mathletics: www.mathletics.com , go to ‘Explore’ and students can attempt problem solving activities or games.

Websites for additional Practice

These site will contain a variety of practice problems in all areas of numeracy.

  1. Common Core: www.commoncoreworksheets.com  a variety of topics for numeracy for extra practice, studying, and subjects! (social studies, science, language arts, and writing)
  2. Worksheets to use as reference for studying: https://www.dadsworksheets.com this is a great site just to look up additional problems to practice.
  3. Education.com: Games, practice problems, activities. https://www.education.com 
  4. Math Aids: Has many practice problems in all numeracy topics. http://www.math-aids.com
  5. Numeracy and Literacy worksheets for review and additional practice.  https://www.superteacherworksheets.com

Number Sense

Place Value

Place Value review: https://youtu.be/T5Qf0qSSJFI

Decimal place value: https://youtu.be/KG6ILNOiMgM

Rounding decimals: https://youtu.be/m41qWPjSUdw

Comparing and Ordering Fractions and Decimals 

Comparing Fractions: https://youtu.be/KNdUJQ_qd4U

Mixed numbers to improper fractions: https://youtu.be/shpf9krdXQQ

Improper fractions to mixed numbers: https://youtu.be/shpf9krdXQQ

Fractions

Games

  1. https://www.weareteachers.com/fraction-games/

Adding and Subtracting unlike denominators

  1. https://youtu.be/pZEmFSP3Z0I – MathAntics

Multiplying Fractions

  1. https://youtu.be/qmfXyR7Z6Lk  – MathAntics
  2. https://youtu.be/CcDGRLosAf0 – Numberock

Simplifying Fractions

  1. https://youtu.be/AtBUQH8Tkqc   – MathAntics

Adding and Subtracting Mixed numbers

  1. https://youtu.be/pynfj2bYRms

Division

Long division: https://youtu.be/KGMf314LUc0   (Math Antics – complete lesson)

Long division with remainders: https://youtu.be/HdU_rf7eMTI (Math Antics – complete lesson)

Long division: https://youtu.be/CcGB39f66RY (Numberock, fun song)

Computation and Estimation 

Practical Problems 

Method: U.P.S.C

U = Understand

  • Do I know what the problem is asking?
  • What are the key numbers and words?

P = Plan

  • What strategies or methods can I use? (Do I need to make a chart or draw a model to help?)

S = Solve

  • Take your plan and solve
  • Show your work

C = Check

  • Does your answer make sense?
  • Can you explain it?
  • Are your calculations complete?

Single step practical problems: https://youtu.be/5g3idxkYipU – a good way to review our method *slightly different terms but same explanation like our UPSC method!

Multistep practical problems: https://youtu.be/N_8srGGX0kk – more detailed and looking at how to break down a problem with multiple steps. Same channel from Single step practical problems, so slightly different terms but explains it the same way we discuss our method of UPSC.

Decimals

Multiplying – Beginning steps with regrouping: https://youtu.be/LWaNIb6r868

Multiplying – More depth, found at minute 3:46: https://youtu.be/kwh4SD1ToFc  *Covers all decimal arithmetic (addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division)

Multiplying song for steps – https://youtu.be/nHg4RVqQ12E

Division – Step by step, mentioned in previous Math Antics video, found at minute 7:54 : https://youtu.be/kwh4SD1ToFc

Division – Another option, step by step: https://youtu.be/HlEx1TN-dqY

Order of Operation 

Measurement and Geometry

Time

  1. www.roomrecess.com – Play ‘Time Hunter’
  2. https://www.mathgames.com/time – Grade 4 and Grade 7
  3. https://www.math-play.com/time-games.html 

Length, Mass, Liquid Volume – Metric Units

  1. Numerock – Reminder of Metric Units

https://youtu.be/djTNUp4XIRo

2. https://www.mathgames.com/grade5  – Geometry and Measurement sections

Diameter, Radius, Chord, and Circumference of a circle

  1. Diameter and Radius of a circle

2. Chord in a circle

 

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Weekly Objectives and Homework: November 4th – 8th

Welcome back, hope you were able to rest after such an eventful Reading Week.  Thank you for participating with character dress up day, the library evening, and encouraging your children to read!

Another week ahead, check it out (:

Literacy 

Reading – we continue on with The Bridge Home – we will finish this book next week and begin our first book report for the year.

Writing – The class will be completing their second expository essay this week on their chosen animal.

Grammar – This week we will study singular and plural Possessive nouns.

Numeracy

  • We will be reviewing our topics on comparing and ordering fractions and decimals for our test on Tuesday. 

Science

  • Students will be conducting an experiment on how weathering, erosion, and deposition affect Earth’s surface.
  • We will also learn how fossils provide evidence of Earth’s change.
  • We will be reviewing rock cycles, weathering, and deposition for our                                  test on Wednesday. 

Social Studies 

  • We will explore the various rocks that make up the Cayman Islands.  Also continue on with types of maps and map reading.

Homework

Monday:

Numeracy/Science

  • If your child has not completed the Quizizz assignment from last week, I’ve re-assigned it as a way to study and prepare for their upcoming tests. Below are the new codes.

          For each quiz go to: joinmyquiz.com

Math: 795728 (Monday)

Science: 168053 (Tuesday)

  • Students should be using their composition books to study terms, methods, and examples.
  • Unfinished science work

Tuesday: 

  • Science: Study for test on Wednesday. Use composition book, study guide, and quizizz for reference and practice.
  • Grammar: Page 29-30

Thursday:

  • Grammar:Page 31-32

Assessments

*Numeracy and Science tests will be graded and given the next day. Students will bring home to be signed. Please sign and return.

  1. Tuesday: Numeracy test
  2. Wednesday: Science test

Reminders/Events

 1. Friday, 1st November: Dress Down for Breast Cancer awareness, bring $1 and wear pink to support!

2. Monday, 11th November: NO SCHOOL for Remembrance Day (public holiday).