Please practise your recorder at home, and make sure your recorder and green
music duotang is at school every Tuesday and Thursday morning.
We are continuing to work on fractions as well as decimal fractions (tenths
and hundredths. Students need to be able to use decimal and fraction
format. For example, two tenths is written as 0.2 and thirteen hundredths is
written as a fraction 13 over 100 0.13. We continue to review fractions in
class...comparing them, putting them in order, building them with tiles.
Anytime you see or hear fractions being used in regular life, take note of
what it is and what it means. For example, in time, 1/2 past means 1/2 of
an hour past. There are 60 minutes in an hour, so 1/2 hour is 30 minutes.
Any practice in fractions, decimals and decimal fractions would be helpful.
On my links page, there are some math sites that explain how to do math
concepts and there is a worksheet site (Dad's Super Worksheets) if you are
interested in providing your child with extra practise.
We have just begun a research project on animals that live in the wild in
Canada. Students may print off research information at home or may go to the
public library to get books, but most of the notes will be taken in class.
Students will learn how to take key information from books or the internet
and then use the key information to write their own sentences using their own
phrasing and words.
Practise basic multiplication facts and related division facts.
Practise long division (2 digit by 1 digit) at home. On the Links page,
there are 3 new links to help you learn how to do long division (Links 9, 10
and 11 from the top). Remember, because there are so many steps, it is
normal for it to be hard to do and it takes lots of practise and repetition
to learn it. If you need your parents' help, ask them to listen to or read
these three links with you. Also, I have written a little explanation on the
links page about how we are learning it in class.
Read every week day for 20 minutes. This may include reading to yourself,
reading aloud to someone, or listening to an adult or having a strong reader
read to you. You and a reading partner can take turns reading to each other.
You can read longer than 20 minutes if you like. On weekends and school
holidays, please read for 25 minutes (or more) every day.
Practise basic facts (adding up to 20 and subtraction from 20). The goal is
for you to say or write the correct answer within 3 seconds. If you already
know your adding and subtraction facts, work multiplying multiples of 10 (ie.
20 X 7, 200 X 7, 20 X 40, 50 X 500, etc.)
Review and practise multiplication with and without carrying numbers to
regroup, and adding and subtracting with and without regrouping.
OPTIONAL
Other options for homework (if you or your parents would like you to increase
your homework)include:
Find a topic of interest to you on the Internet. Read about it. Create a
presentation about your chosen topic which you can show, read or demonstrate
to the class. **Topics must be suitable for 9-10 year olds! If you are
reading or demonstrating, make sure you practise it so it is easy to listen
to.
If you like to write, keep a journal about the enjoyable activities you have
done, describe places, people and things, keep a list of ideas of things to
do or things to write about, etc.
Watch or read about the news. Discuss with your parents or friends what you
have seen or heard and what each of you thinks about the news reports, how
you think it should be different, or what could be done about it, if you
don't like what is being reported.
Try to learn the names of all of the provinces and territories. It's even
better if you can remember where they are in Canada and try to recognize the
shape of Canada and some of the provinces and territories.
Students have be given a 7 page list of all of the No-Excuse spelling
words and are expected to edit their work for correct spelling of the No-
Excuse words (and use of capitals and periods to show where sentences begin
and end) before handing it in.
