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1. Have a terrific, safe and healthy holiday! See you after the break. Don't forget to turn clocks ahead an hour this weekend.
2. Math notes:
- We finished up with Unit 10 in class today. We will have a unit test sometime during the week we return from March Break.
- We start a new unit at that time on Transformational Geometry (flips, slides and turns) with a Math workshop from the University of Waterloo's math department.
- The final Measurement assessment (volume and capacity, relating units of measure) had a class average of just over 75%.
Thursday HW
1. MMS pages 154-55.
We made many connections to real world driving situations in our distance, time and average speed lesson today. The students seemed very knowledgeable about those types of circumstances and applied them well to the math topic.
2. Math Quiz on Unit 10, Lessons 1 and 2 tomorrow.
1. MMS HW book pages 152-53.
2. Math Quiz on Unit 10, Lessons 1 and 2 on Friday March 8.
The quiz on Monday March 4 (Volume) had an average of 83% and the previous one (on Money and Surface Area) had an average of 74%. Great work boys and girls!
1. MMS HW book pages 94-95; pages 150-51.
2. Math Quiz on Relating Units of Mass and Capacity & Volume tomorrow.
3. Math Quiz on Unit 10, Lessons 1 and 2 on Friday March 8.
1. MMS pages 92-93 and pages 148-49
2. Social Studies booklet page 1
3. Math Quiz on Wednesday March 6: Capacity and Volume / Relating Units of Mass
We started a new math unit today on Patterning. It is very brief and will be completed within the week before the Break. The unit recalls vocabulary from the earlier Patterning unit we did (growing, shrinking, alternating and recursive patterns; terms, input/output machines, and rule statements) as well as graphing skills we recently studied (origin points, ordered pairs, labels and titles, interval and scale choices, and ruler use). The primary area of difficulty in the early going is recalling how to determine a patterning rule. I found that was rather fuzzy in the students's minds.
