Mrs. Breau's Grade 5/6 Class

Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Science Challenge

For this next challenge you may need to do a little bit of research. I will accept this challenge until the end of the week.
The English language is rich in nouns that describe groups of the same animals. (e.g. colony of ants, bed of snakes). For this activity I will give you an animal and you need to research what its group name is.

Animal Name	Group Name
Ants	Example colony
Snakes	Bed
Cats
Cattle
Chickens
Dogs
Ducks
Eagles
Elephants
Elk
Ferrets
Foxes
Frogs
Geese
Monkeys
Pigs
Turtles
Jellyfish

Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Update

Updates

Math- We are finishing up our patterning unit -We will have our unit test on Tuesday (November 29th) - A review will be completed on Friday and one will be posted over the weekend

Literacy- Reading - We are working on the different reading strategies through guided reading - Continue logging those reading minutes
Writing- We are finishing up our narrative unit - we will be doing some self assessment and peer assessment for the remainder of the week

Science- We will be presenting our animal kingdoms charts
-Investigating the fungi and Monera kingdoms
- Our school engineer will be coming in on Thursday to do a water filtration experiment

Daily Challenge:

These are the challenges you guys came up with ;) Good luck!
a)
5 10 25
16 8 64
120 14 840
1 000 000 50 25 000 000

Pattern Rule:

b) 11 4 38
7 3 15
4 8 26
13 7 85

Pattern Rule:

c) 13 7 49
24 18 126
86 80 560
65 59 413

Pattern Rule:

d) 3 5 20
6 7 47
7 2 16
8 4 37

Pattern Rule:

Bonus

8.2 12 49.2
15 8 70.8
20 4 30.8
33 2 16.8

Pattern Rule:

Monday, November 21, 2016

Math Challenge

These questions are very similar to what we did in math today. Each question involves an operation (multiplication, division, addition and subtraction) between columns 1 and 2 and then an additional step. So these are multi step questions.

25 5 3

36 6 4

49 7 5

77 11 5

Pattern Rule: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

3 9 6

5 11 8

8 12 10

9 15 12

Pattern Rule: __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Bonus – Come up with your own, to challenge our class tomorrow :)

Thursday, November 17, 2016

Thanks for another great week everyone. A quick update:

Science- You will be given one more work period for your kingdom - we will do a gallery walk on Tuesday
-If you think that you and your partner will not be done on time, you can complete some research at home and bring it in

Writing- Please be sure to submit your Remembrance Day letters if you have not already done so

Reading- Be sure to be tracking your reading minutes

Here are some patterning games to check out over the weekend if you have time :)

http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/mesg/html/math6web/math6shell.html

http://cemc2.math.uwaterloo.ca/mathfrog/english/kidz/Games6.shtml

http://illuminations.nctm.org/ActivityDetail.aspx?ID=28

http://www.funbrain.com/cracker/index.html

Thanks for another great week everyone. A quick update:

Science- You will be given one more work period for your kingdom - we will do a gallery walk on Tuesday
If you think that you and your partner will not be done on time, you can complete some research at home and bring it in and add it to your chart paper

Writing- Please be sure to submit your Remembrance Day letters

Reading- Be sure to be tracking your reading minutes

Here are some patterning games to check out over the weekend if you have time :)

Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Extra Practice

As requested, here is some more practice with the explicit patterning rule. Here are some the patterns you created in class today.

5.50, 5.55, 5.60, 5.65, 5.70...

Find the 77th term

485, 473, 461, 449 ....

Find the 37th term

And the final one, is from Daniel who was really trying to challenge us. Let's consider this one a bonus :)

100 000 000, 99 999 817, 99 999 634, 99 999 451.....

Find the 143rd term

Monday, November 14, 2016

Weekly Update & Daily Challenge

Hi Everyone,

Thank you to everyone who had a chance to come out and support our class during the Remembrance Day assembly. The presentations were very well done and presented with a respectful tone. We have yet another busy week in our classroom as we are preparing for our upcoming student lead conferences. Slips have already gone home to remind you of your date and time. Each interview is scheduled for a fifteen minute interval. If you need a reminder, please just send a note in your child's agenda.

Here are a few things that we are working on this week in our classroom

Math- We are exploring the explicit patterning rule

-We will be looking at different ways to solve word problems involving patterning

Literacy- Today we started our new class novel "Ghost Ride"

-We are working through the APE format (Answer, Prove, Extend) to respond to questions involving different reading strategies

- Students are working on a point view assignment connected to Remembrance Day in the form of a letter

- We will be completing a summative assessment in our narrative unit -Students will be given a prompt and asked to develop a plot line

Science- We are continuing to work through our biodiversity unit -This week students will begin a mini research on one of the kingdoms

**Picture Retake Day- Tuesday, November 14th, 2016

Daily Challenge- Explicit Patterning Rule

Term Number= First Term + ([term number -1] x common difference)

Solve the following questions

a) 21, 26, 31, 36 ...... Find the 44th term

b) 2.2, 4.4, 6.6, 8.8 ... Find the 32nd term

c) 215, 212, 209.... Find the 23rd term