Weekly Assignments – May 25-29
Weekly Assignments Chart – May 25-29 Hello and welcome to week 8 of distance learning! We will have our class meetings on Monday and Wednesday at 11:00 am again this week, and I will be making phone calls according to the schedule. Please click here for this week’s Weekly Assignments Chart – May 25-29. Math! […]
Simplify Fractions
Bonus video: Equivalent Fractions
Hero of the Week – Winona LaDuke
May 25-29 “Be the ancestor your descendants would be proud of.” – Winona LaDuke Winona LaDuke is an internationally renowned activist working on issues of sustainable development, renewable energy, and food systems. She lives and works on the White Earth reservation in northern Minnesota, and is a two-time vice presidential candidate in the United States. […]
Update: Return to School Survey
Hi all! I hope you have had a lovely week. This is a reminder to parents to check for the survey sent out by the District about the return to school on June 1. We need to know if you are planning to have your students return to school so that we can plan for […]
Virtual Event Friday, May 22: IDAHAT Reimagined Celebration
This Friday the Burnaby School District’s SOGI Committee will be hosting a virtual version of the 7th annual International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHAT) event. Usually, the event is an in-school breakfast focused on high school students, but this year, the event is open for students K-12 and their families. There will be a […]
Hero of the Week – Mona Haydar
May 19-22 “The more I learn, the more I recognize that it’s actually everybody’s job to be more kind and more loving and more generous all the time.” – Mona Haydar Mona Haydar is an American rapper, poet, activist, and chaplain. Her EP is Barbarican (2018), and she is best known for her viral song “Hijabi (Wrap My Hijab),” a […]
Weekly Assignments – May 19-22
Happy Tuesday, Division 2! Weekly Assignments Chart – May 19-22 This week started with a national holiday, Victoria Day, so we just have 4 days of school this week. Please click here for this week’s Weekly Assignments Chart – May 19-22! Math: We have been developing an understanding of decimals over the past few weeks, […]
Fractions
What ARE fractions? Check out this video: This video helps explain a connection between fractions and decimals: Also, see my video with just one other example of comparing decimal numbers to fractions: If you would like even more explanation, watch this video:
Upate: May 14
Hello all! I hope you are having a great day. This is just a short notice on two things: There is a typo on the Decimal Numbers on Number Lines worksheet (Math 6.1). There are only 8 segments on the number line for the first question, instead of 10! Please draw in your own lines […]