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Thursday HW
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Tuesday HW
1. Math Operations 1.0 sheet. We are practicing the techniques for this work in class. This is work that is meant to be covered by the end of Grade 5. We are taking it slow, but must make daily progress. We will do four of these, correcting each the next day before having a quiz next Monday.
2. Parental forms package completed, signed and returned.
3. Agenda cost is $7.00.
4. One roll of paper towel and one box of facial tissue for class use. I appreciate your generosity.
Greetings to the new and returning students in my class for 2016-17! I'm looking forward to meeting and reconnecting with all of you during this first week. We will jump right in to the school year with some ice breaker activities and some Math and Language reviews. As the first week goes by we will be preparing for the first Math unit in Number Sense and the first Language activities with News Journals and a novel study.
This blog, which is entering its seventh continuous year, will function as a daily homework listing and be archived as each week ends. Be sure to check out my class web page at http://areynolds.org/ all year long. My current updates are in progress but should be complete by next week. Plenty of useful stuff is posted, including downloads of class handouts which you should use to replace lost work. As part of my Eco-Schools effort I am reducing the number of extra photocopies I am producing. Usually the document can be downloaded and printed by students, using my web page as needed, by students.
At the bottom of this blog page is a calendar for the year. I have updated it for the year. I also use the calendar to make note of tests, field trips and other school events. I urge you to subscribe to the blog posts to receive daily updates of your child's activity. I do make time each day for agenda writing by the students and you should ask to see that book on a daily basis, but this page is a useful complement to that routine. I will not be signing agendas each day, but you are welcome to do so and include any notes in it that you would like to have me look over. Please have your child alert me to the note in the morning.
1. Math Operations 3.0 sheet. There is a quiz on Monday next week on all four. We are practicing the techniques for this work in class. Today we spent a lesson working through the algorithm for multiplication with 2 digit by 2 digit numbers and reviewed long division for a third day. We have corrected two already and will do two more before the Quiz on Monday September 12. Students that still have trouble with long division can generate extra problems using online sources, checking them with a calculator where necessary. We will revisit long division again on Friday.
2. Parental forms package and agenda $
2. Parental forms package and agenda $
3. Have a novel in class for Monday, September 12 to read during DEAR time: 90 pages or longer, no graphics for this one please.
4. One roll of paper towel and one box of facial tissue for class use. I appreciate your generosity.
5. Complete family tree to the best of your ability in the Inquiry Booklet. Return the booklet to school tomorrow.
5. Complete family tree to the best of your ability in the Inquiry Booklet. Return the booklet to school tomorrow.
Wednesday HW
1. Math Operations 2.0 sheet. There is a quiz on Monday next week on all four. We are practicing the techniques for this work in class. This is work that is meant to be covered by the end of Grade 5. We are taking it slow, but must make daily progress. We will do four of these, correcting each the next day before having a quiz next Monday.
2. Parental forms package completed, signed and returned.
3. Agenda cost is $7.00.
4. One roll of paper towel and one box of facial tissue for class use. I appreciate your generosity.
5. Select an inquiry question for your personal research project. We practiced forming such questions today with a look at ways kids get to school, why fingers get 'pruny', and why the moon appears in the sky with the sun sometimes. The questions should be rich enough that they can sustain an inquiry Ii.e., not answered simply) and be able to be presented visually in some way. I'll work with each student to refine a question but they should come up with some starting points.
Tuesday HW
1. Math Operations 1.0 sheet. We are practicing the techniques for this work in class. This is work that is meant to be covered by the end of Grade 5. We are taking it slow, but must make daily progress. We will do four of these, correcting each the next day before having a quiz next Monday.
2. Parental forms package completed, signed and returned.
3. Agenda cost is $7.00.
4. One roll of paper towel and one box of facial tissue for class use. I appreciate your generosity.
Greetings to the new and returning students in my class for 2016-17! I'm looking forward to meeting and reconnecting with all of you during this first week. We will jump right in to the school year with some ice breaker activities and some Math and Language reviews. As the first week goes by we will be preparing for the first Math unit in Number Sense and the first Language activities with News Journals and a novel study.
This blog, which is entering its seventh continuous year, will function as a daily homework listing and be archived as each week ends. Be sure to check out my class web page at http://areynolds.org/ all year long. My current updates are in progress but should be complete by next week. Plenty of useful stuff is posted, including downloads of class handouts which you should use to replace lost work. As part of my Eco-Schools effort I am reducing the number of extra photocopies I am producing. Usually the document can be downloaded and printed by students, using my web page as needed, by students.
At the bottom of this blog page is a calendar for the year. I have updated it for the year. I also use the calendar to make note of tests, field trips and other school events. I urge you to subscribe to the blog posts to receive daily updates of your child's activity. I do make time each day for agenda writing by the students and you should ask to see that book on a daily basis, but this page is a useful complement to that routine. I will not be signing agendas each day, but you are welcome to do so and include any notes in it that you would like to have me look over. Please have your child alert me to the note in the morning.
Let's have a great year!
