I hope everyone enjoyed their weekend! A reminder that we are doing our paper mâché activity tomorrow, so students will need a change of clothes, so they do not ruin their uniforms. Students should come to school dressed in uniform.
Our science fair awards assembly is coming up.
And we also have our annual book fair at the end of this month!
A few quick reminders:
· Tomorrow is a Day 3.
· Aftercare invoices for the month of October have come out and were due Friday, November 15th, 2019 (which is today). Any questions can be directed to Ms. Chiappetta at echiappetta@stjudesacademy.com
· Photos from picture day were sent home with week. Picture day retakes are occurring on November 20th.
· Our trip to the Warplane Museum is this Thursday, November 21st.
Inquiry into Language – We started the day by writing our OWA post-assessment for term one which was a legend/fable.
French – After this, we had French with Mme. Stella, which you can read about on her blog (https://stjudesfrench-stella.blogspot.com).
Gym – After recess and lunch, the students had gym with Mr. Orr, which you can read about on his blog (http://tysonorr.blogspot.com).
Inquiry into Flight – Students worked on their projects regarding how society and the environment are affected by flying devices or vice versa.
Inquiry into Math – Today, we started our new unit on fractions and decimals. Today, we examined how we can add fractions together that do not have a common denominator. We add them using models.
We looked at hexagons in groups. We had 3 shapes, triangles representing 1/6, parallelograms/rhombus’ representing 1/3, and trapezoids representing ½. Students were to find as many ways as they could to add these shapes to create a whole hexagon. Once they did this, they wrote a fraction sentence showing how each of these fractions represented a whole.
Students will note that each of these different denominators could be added together to create a whole. There were 7 possibilities:
1. 1/6 + 1/6 + 1/6 + 1/6 + 1/6 + 1/6 = 1
2. 1/3 + 1/6 + 1/6 + 1/6 + 1/6 = 1
3. 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/6 + 1/6 = 1
4. ½ + 1/6 + 1/6 + 1/6 = 1
5. 1/3 + 1/3 + 1/3 = 1
6. ½ + 1/3 + 1/6 = 1
7. ½ + ½ = 1
We are going to continue looking at the addition of fractions with uncommon denominators tomorrow using fraction strips.
Homework:
- Math: Pg. 122 # 1-4, 6-8
- Math: Extra Practice Worksheet
- Tomorrow is paper mâché - students should come dressed in full uniform and bring a change of clothes for the activity. Preferably, this should be something they are not worried about getting dirty.
We do our best to complete work in class. In the event this is not possible, it will go home for homework.
As always, please feel free to email me with any questions.
Mr. Conte