Homework for October 15 – 22

Homework: October 15 – October 18^th (due on Monday of next week because of Learning Conferences)

PARENTS: There is more homework than usual, because students do not see me on Thursday or Friday of this week. They have both of these days, PLUS the entire weekend to complete the assigned work.

Math:  Please complete Weight Worksheet, finis observations from Weight experiment (after Tuesday in lab) and complete (in your math work book) all of the division tables for every number between 4 – 9.

Wordly Wise: Please complete Lesson 3 – but please do not complete 3B: we will be completing this lesson in class.

Reading Response: Please complete your 20 minutes of reading per night and write a synopsis on our class blog. You should also answer the following question about your reading:

                What is the main conflict or problem in the story? How does the main problem effect the main characters? Is the problem one that you have experienced or one that you might experience in your life? Write about how you feel about this main problem/conflict. How would you feel if you were experiencing the problem?

Language Arts: You should be practicing your oral presentation of the folktale we practiced a couple of weeks ago. We will be recording them and making them into a podcast. Remember to think about the way you are telling the story – your voice is very important to helping the audience understand the meaning of the story.  Our written folktales are also due soon (by the Friday before the break) so, if you are still working on the rough copy you might want to start taking it home and asking your parents to read and/or edit your writing.

5DA News – From Stijn van der Burg

The class of 5DA has done some efficient work this week. We have started our measurement unit for math (although I am still confused with converting). We have also each made a house out of either Lego or cardboard. Then we measured the furniture and people in/outside of it. WE have worked on the rough copies of our folk tales and made schedules for the time to come. One of the daily routines is the morning activity, and one of the weekly routines are the jobs – although the dragon tamer job will probably turn into the mouse tamer.

By Stijn

Learning in the Science Lab

We did some learning in the science lab today.    We had the chance to use our well-resourced science lab in our new math unit, which we began today. We are starting to learn about the different kinds of measurement units such as centimetres, metres, kilometres and milimetres. Students spent some time today measuring different objects and recording their results. Excellent work today.

Homework for October 8 – 13

Homework is due on October 13th:

Math:                     Complete both sides of the measurement worksheets (14.1/14.2)

Metric Room – Remember that your metric room is due on Friday.

Language Arts:     Spelling – Studying words from Wordly Wise (Lesson 2). Test on Friday the 13th.

ProofReaders Challenge – Proof read and correct (on the sheet) the short story.

Reading Response – Synopsis, plus a two paragraph response to the following question:

Put yourself in the shoes of your main character. Would you make the same choices and decisions that they have been making throughout the story? Defend your answer with well thought out reasons.

Homework for next week AND a note to parents and teachers….

Hello!

Find below the homework instructions for the following week. I hope that by getting this information out a bit earlier every week we might be able to cure some of the homework struggles. Thanks again to all the parents who offered their valuable input on Tuesday night! Thank you.

I also wanted to share some successes with parents -

The Blog is amazing. Students are writing and sharing amazing things about literature and they are discovering things about books and themselves as readers that I don’t think they otherwise would. A truly wonderful thing has happened – our ESL students have started to post about their own reading experiences. What a wonderful event. Please keep it up and, parents – please encourage your children to use this tool.

The students in 5DA have had a month of remarkable discoveries and accomplishments. To mark the one month anniversary of fifth grade, I spent a couple of minutes sharing with the children how wonderful they are and the great leaps they have taken as the year has gotten under way. Your children have learned about culture, folk tales, narratives, social justice and technology. A wonderful start – keep it up!

 We did have a sad loss today – when I came into work this morning, it was to the death of Twinkle Toes – our smallest Dragon. A loss that wasn’t a surprise to me or the students as she was quite small.

Find below the homework for next week – which I will explain in FULL detail to students on Monday.

Best to everyone and have a wonderful weekend!!

Miss Daniel

Homework October 1

Reading: Reading 20 minutes per night

Reading Response: To be complete on Thursday night or Friday morning via the blog. Include your synopsis and a thoughtful response to the following questions:

What surprised you most about any of the characters? Why?

Wordly Wise: Lesson 2 (to be taken up on Friday afternoon and marked over the weekend)

Math:  Student Sheet 19 and 20, study for your end of unit math test.

Students are doing an amazing job posting on the blog site. The conversations about literature are amazing. Keep it up! I am really proud of you.

Things we are working on this week: Writing our own folk tales, Photo Story, End of Unit 1 in Math

  Picture DAY!

Lizard King!

Elementary School Open House

Parents please remember to come by ISB on September 25th.

I look forward to seeing you all!

Elementary School Picture Day

Just a reminder to 5DA students -

Photo day is on September 26th.

Homework for September 17 – 22

Homework: 5DASeptember 17 – 22Due September 22^nd Language Arts:

Students are expected to complete Lesson One of Wordly Wise. Students should complete the activities inside the workbook.

We are starting our Folk Tale ‘stations’ this week. Students will not be able to finish the good copies of their stations during class time. They will need time at home to work on the good copies of these mini projects.

Reading:

20 minutes of silent reading per night and the completion of a Reading Response entry. The entry should be completed on Thursday night and entered into the classroom blog (found at: http://5daniel.edublogs.org). If students do not have access to the internet they can come in early (as of 8:00am) on Friday morning with their rough drafts and will have one hour to type in their Reading Response.

Math:

Student Sheet 9, Practice Sheet A, Practice Sheet B.

Social Studies:

Students are beginning a large research project this week (see instruction page) and will need time towards the end of the week to work on this project.

If you have any questions – please come and see me or send me an email: daniell@isb.be.

You can also reach me at: 04.7901.0375