Yikes!
Between all the snow days and days off, I've gotten a bit slack. Rest assured the homework your darling children should be writing daily has been updated regularly!
LA - we are on to spelling words 41-55. This is mainly to encourage students to think about those words we use every day, rather than guessing.
We are working on a how-to / procedural writing, which is to be finished / good copy by Thursday. A rubric has been given out and gone over so they know what the expectations are. Click here for the page students were given.
Students will have to present their writing, either in person or they have the option to record themselves at home and bring that in to show. The writing should be able to stand on its own though, and shouldn't need props or anything else to make it a good explanation.
Math - we have started our new unit on fractions / decimals. Talk to your student about when / where we see these numbers in real life, and have them read those numbers to you.
For those of us who might be rusty, we read like this:
1234.56 would be one thousand two hundred thirty four AND fifty six hundredths. We call the decimal "and" and don't use that word anywhere else in our number reading.
This Thursday will be hat day. Students can pay $1 which will go toward the grade 8 end of year trip and wear their hat / bonnet / whatever in school for the day (except for Oh Canada!)
