Sept. 17

Homework for Sept. 17

Reading log (every night, every night please minimum of 20 minutes and log your entry.)
CASI reading assessment takes place tomorrow.
Please have a good night sleep and make sure you eat a good breakfast so you can be fresh for the assessment.

Postcard Exchange. The date for the initial five postcards was pushed up. We need to send the first five by tomorrow. A few students have taken their postcards home and will return them tomorrow. Oct. 15 is the deadline to send off the remaining 45 cards.

Math assessments continue.
Some students have already finished and are starting the review of numeration (multiplication and division). Next week we will continue to review numeration by learning rules of each of the times table/divisibility rules.

single digit multiplication,
two by two digit multiplication,
three by two digit multiplicaton,
single digit division
division with two digit divisor
(For now we will work with remainders but it is hoped that you will be able to divide using decimals and round off answers to the appropriate decimal places in the future.)

For practice with rounding click here for a game.

For on-line multiplication practice see here (try drills and test..this is not a problem solving site, just practice with numbers)

If you haven't seen it, this is a fun site that helps you practice all of your math strands.
It's funbrain's Mathbrain.

Sept. 15

Homework for Room 303

Assigned:
Reading log (read 20 minutes minimum) then record your date, genre, title and reaction to what you have read. You may be brief and record just a few sentances.

A majority of students completed their first entry successfully and accurately today. Keep up the good work! :D

Toronto postcard. Media/Writing

In class you have given your choice of your top five post cards to send in to Imagiverse.
Here is the link to the Imagiverse postcard exchange.
http://web.mac.com/imagiverse/Imagiverse/2009_Postcard_Paragraphs.html
Photographs of late year's postcards from around the world:
http://imagiverse.org/activities/postcards/


Tuesday/Today
step 1: review the Toronto fact sheet
step 2: make notes / highlight information you think is important to write for your own postcard about Toronto
step 3: add your own ideas / notes in your Language notebook

Tomorrow
step 4: begin writing your postcard paragraphs about Toronto/Upper Beach
step 5: write a paragraph describing why the postcard photo you picked was your number one choice
step 6: edit and rewrite for homework

Thursday
step 7: rough copy postcard including school address
step 8: good copy postcard in notebook
To know:

Parts of a letter
salutation eg. Dear class,
body (your paragraph(s) with details)
complimentary closing eg.

Sincerely,

Miss R
Start thinking about Friday's reading response (due Monday)
How is a letter similar / different to an e-mail?
What is the "proper" format for an e-mail?
Do you write letters or e-mail differently for different audiences?

Overdue:
Paper bag/three items
- a number of students completed and submitted their bags on time
- a number of students required an extension
For those requiring another day, please organize and prioritize your time. The school year will only get busier. Use your planner or set up an on-line calendar to remind you of dates when assignments are do.
yahoo and gmail have excellent on-line calendars.

Math - math assessment continues this week
I suggest that every student has his/her own math set and calculator, though there are a number of items that are available for borrowing.

Reading- CASI assessment to be done at the end of the week.