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Dear Parents,

I loved seeing the biography projects the students produced today. Very interesting reports, well presented and creative shoe box designs. Well Done Grade 5 ! This week the students are enjoying reading more of our novel Out Of My Mind and connecting with our partner classes around the world. They are working on adding and subtracting whole numbers, both with estimates and exact numbers. They have also completed some problem- solving with estimates and exact numbers. We completed our Science unit on Living Things and next week the students will choose an endangered animal to research with a partner in class.

The Open House is next Tuesday (15th October) at 6pm, I look forward to seeing you. There will be a chance to sign up for parent conferences, these will take place after mid-term break and you will also receive your child’s mid-term report at this conference. If you have started to think ahead to middle school / high school already – our school board president Uche Obi will be in my room at 6pm during the Open House to chat with you

Please ask your child the following questions to help review class time –

1. What are spiritual gifts ? How can you use your spiritual gifts ?

2. What did Melody want to ask the Wizard of Oz for ? What would you ask for ?

3. How did you do on the Mid-Chapter check ? How would you estimate this question – 89 + 62 ?

Thank you as always for your cooperation,

Have a great weekend,

Janine Nyyssonen.

We enjoyed making a model to represent the backbone – the spinal cord and the vertebrae. We want to add something next week to represent the discs.

Dear Parents,

We have had another busy and fun week in Grade 5. The students have worked very hard and are making good progress. In English we started our new novel ‘Out of My Mind’ and connected with other students around the world. They enjoyed connecting through edmodo and sharing thoughts on our kidblog. Today we made a ‘wordle’ about the character of Melody. In Math we started a new unit – Adding and Subtracting Decimals. They have been rounding whole numbers and decimals. In Science they enjoyed making models of backbones and next Thursday they will have another mini test on what they have learned this week and next.

Please ask your child the following questions over the weekend to reinforce concepts learned –

1. What is a wordle ? Go to www.wordle.net and they can show you how to make a wordle 🙂

2. Round the following numbers –  1,567 to the nearest thousand, then to the nearest hundred.  Round 7.6 to the nearest whole number.

3. Ask your child to explain ‘The Joseph Project’ to you.

The Remarkable Person project is due on Friday 11th October. Check out the grade 5 blog on the school website for new pictures.

Thank you as always in the cooperation of the education of your child,

Have a great weekend,

Janine Nyyssonen

Dear Parents,

What a busy and fun week we have had in Grade 5 ! The students completed Chapter 1 on Place Value in Math and also completed their first Science unit. We are celebrating completing our first two tests with cupcakes this afternoon 🙂 ( Thanks Ms Nettie )

A few students will be studying their Science paper to do a retake of the test on Monday.

In English the students have learned/ reviewed subjects in imperatives, simple predicates, conjunctions and writing good sentences.

Next week we start the Global Read Aloud adventure, please ask your child to show you the place on www.edmodo.com where they can log in and share thoughts with students form around the world. This is a moderated site so students can only post after it has been approved by a teacher, so all internet safety rules will apply.

Please ask your child the following questions to reinforce what was learned this week in class –

1. How did you do on the Math test ?   Are there any areas of Place Value you still need further help with. ( they can let me know on Monday ).

2.  What is the subject in an imperative sentence ? For example what would be the subject in – Take your books out.

3.  How did God use certain people in Joseph’s life ?

Thank you as always for the cooperation in the education of your child,

Janine Nyyssonen.

Dear Parents,

We have had a very productive week in Grade 5! In literacy the students have started grammar work on sentences, subjects and predicates. They have also completed comprehension work from Storytown and have had a speaking and listening assessment. In Math as we continue with Place Value, the students have been comparing whole numbers and decimals. The end of Chapter test for Math will be next week Thursday (26th Sept). In Science we enjoyed listening to a song that summed up The Circulatory System, and also learned about The Respiratory System.

On Monday (23rd Sept) the students have a music test on Essential Elements 2000 -songs #1-6.

Please ask your child the following questions over the weekend –

1. What are the major organs of the Respiratory System ?

2. Order these numbers from least to greatest – 5.2, 40, 40.48, 52.3

3. Ask your child to play the music songs #1-6 for you.

Thank you for your continued cooperation in the education of your child,

Janine Nyyssonen.

The Grade 5’s are studying about cells, tissues, organs and body systems. As we started looking at the Body Systems they completed an experiment looking at how quickly the body reacts – measuring the time it takes in seconds for them to catch a ruler –

The Grade 5 students enjoyed working with a partner to complete their work on Jacob –

Dear Parents,

We have had a fun and educational week in Grade 5 ! The students have completed their first piece of writing – from brainstorming, to drafting, to writing conferences, to revising, proofreading and publishing. I have high standards when marking writing and I was very pleased with their first efforts ! The students choose their first library books, please encourage them to read, read, read ! Let’s see if we can be the class with the most A/R points 🙂 In Math we reviewed the four step plan for problem solving and worked on decimals and fractions. In Science they students are continuing on with Cells, next week we start learning more about the Body Systems.

Please ask your students the following questions to review class work –

1. What is 0.5 as a fraction ?

2. Use the following vocabulary words in a sentence – maven, conceited, designated. ( a sentence for each word )

3. How did God promise to bless Abraham ?

Thank you for your continued cooperation in the education of your child,

Janine Nyyssonen

As the students reviewed and used the steps of the scientific method they came up with a hypothesis about which paper airplane would fly longer and faster – the smaller wing span or the wider wing span.

Then they had fun flying their planes outside !