Agenda Update

 The Week Ahead

Media Literacy- Students will be completing a commercial analysis on different advertisements - the focus will be looking at  hidden messages and different advertising strategies (see previous blog)
-Students will be preparing a book trailer for a picture book- the audience will be classes from kindergarten to grade 3

Reading Workshop- We have started our new novel "Undergrounders"- students will be completing a series of questions relating to a variety of different reading strategies
In guided reading we are looking at different biases in the media - we will be looking at the use of propaganda in the news media

Health- We will be working on safety skits this week

Science- We will be beginning our space unit this week and it will be integrated into our writing unit - Students will be designing an alien and researching a planet in our solar system

Math- We will be wrapping up our measurement unit this week- we will be focusing on some mental math strategies and moving into geometry - please bring protractors
**I apologize for the irregular shape question on the review involving the triangle. I didn't realize that there was a missing side. That was NOT on the test :)  ****


Daily Challenge:

READ & practice your times tables - We will be starting up our race track math again next week (We will be starting at x 4) Get a signature from your parents and you will get my signatures :))

Agenda Note

Agenda Info

Math- Please complete the blog review by Monday- We will be doing a SHORT review on Friday

Literacy

Reading- READ- We will be having our "half way" party for our 40 Book Challenge in February

Media- Tomorrow students will be given a work period to complete their commercial analysis - Remember, to use the form to guide you ***Just because a commercial is funny doesn't mean that it will be easy to analysis- Your mark is determined from the analysis NOT the commercial ****


Health- Thank you for all your support with the menu assignment :) They were
 Students will be starting their safety skits on Friday

Science- We will be starting our Space unit next week- More info regarding the Alien Assignment will be coming home next week

Measurement Review

Hi Everyone,

Here is a measurement review for you to work through. We will also being doing some review in class. Please complete review for Monday, December 18th. Our math test is rescheduled for Tuesday, December 19th, 2017.

Helpful Hints

Perimeter= add up all the sides of a shape

Area of a rectangle= Length x Width               

Area of a triangle= Base x Height ÷2

Area of a parallelogram= Base x Height

Volume of a rectangular prism= Length x Width x height

Volume of a triangular prism= Length x Width x Height ÷2

Surface area is the total area of all of the faces or surfaces - Remember this will be done in 3 different steps 

1. Select the most appropriate unit to measure each length or distance.

a) the thickness of a math text book

b) the thickness of your finger nail

c) the height of a maple tree

d) the lengths of the leaves of the tress 

2. Louise is in a video store. What items in the store, might be measured in these units?

a) millimetres         b) centimetres           c) metres           

3. Rename each measurement using the new unit. (mm, cm, dm, m, dam, hm. km)

a) 45.4 cm= ___________ m

b) 32 mm= ____________ dm

c) 453.2 g= ____________kg

d) 54 km= _____________cm

e) 2.145 cm=____________km

f) 321. 2 l= ___________kl 

g)32.2 mg= ___________g

4,  Find the area and perimeter of the irregular figures below. Show all your calculations and any formulas that you used.

5. Find the area of each of the 2-D shapes below.

 


 6. Nina made a sun catcher from a parallelogram with a base of 10 cm and a height of 5 cm. She wants to make another one with twice the area. What base and height could she use for the new parallelogram. List two possibilities.


7. Maria's family built a rink in their backyard last year. The rink was a 6 m by 7 m rectangle. This year they are helping build a rink at the school. This rink will be four times the area of their backyard rink. What are two possible dimensions of the new rink?

3-D Measurement

8. Calculate the volume and surface area of the prism below. Show all your work.

Daily Challenge

Find the volume AND surface area of the prisms below. 

Daily Challenge: Surface Area

Surface Area: Find the surface area and volume of the prisms below.

Commercial Assignment

Hi Everyone,

Agenda:
Menu and Cooking Assignment - Due January 16th
Holiday Recount- Due January 16th
Media-Commercial Assignment - Due January 24th

Today we started our media unit and looked at different advertising strategies that are used to get people to buy a product. One of the assignments in this unit, will require you to pick a commercial to show to the class. You will then have to critique the commercial using the format we did in class (see below).

Your commercial must be:
 appropriate for school
-selling a product


***Reading Challenge Tonight (if you don't have time tonight there will be another one next week. Make sure your parents sign your reading minutes :) *****

Product Name:

What is the overt message? (What is the obvious message?)

What is the implied message? (What is the hidden message?)

Who is the target audience?

What was appealing to you in this ad?  List and explain 3 things. 1. ________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 2.  ________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________ 3. ________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________

Math Challenge

A math challenge to keep you sharp after a holiday:) Review those basic addition and subtraction rules. Show your work. ****No Calculators****

1) 8 2 7 6 3
 − 2 1 4 9 8

 2) 9 1 9 2 5
     7 6 2 9 3

3) 6 4 6 5 3
 − 5 2 5 8 3 

4) 5 7 3 9 7
 + 3 6 2 3 4

 5) 4 8 1 9 8
  -  3 9 7 5 9 

6) 9 5 4 6 5
 + 6 9 3 1 1 

7) 8 1 7 5 4
 − 2 8 6 7 9 


8) 4 4 7 4 3
 + 9 0 3 7 4 

9) 7 6 0 5 1
 − 5 4 1 9 7 

10) 1 8 8 4 2
    +8 9 4 3 6