Grade 5

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 –