Math on IXL April 15th, Post #3 of 3

Math on IXL!

Hello Everyone,

Over the next month, in connection with the math portion of our unit, I will be asking you to specifically do skills on IXL related to decimals, money, word problems, and multiplication/division review.

You may still do Prodigy, Mathigon, Pickle Math, and the other optional choices listed on the blog. But IXL is required.

There are varying levels. I have chosen skills that fall under grade 5, unless you are working at a different grade level officially from previous work in class.

When you log in, you will see your name, along with 53 recommendations by your teacher Ms. DeTerra.

You need to do the  problems in the 53 recommendations before moving on to other areas of math.

Some of you are definitely ready to do the challenging areas first, but each lesson doesn’t take that much time. Please show me that you know how to do the 53 areas, and then we will move on!

For some students who are just now learning more about decimals, don’t worry, take it slow, and start with the basics before moving in to more complicated lessons.

Your user ID and password are in your Outlook mail.

This assignment is ongoing. Work on it a bit each day, or for 3 times a week. Sitting down to do this for more than 30 minutes may not be productive, so monitor how long you are at a computer.

I will keep checking your progress. At least 10 of the lessons are due by May 1st, Friday. I will post this in MS Teams Assignments, too.

The other MACC class at grade 4/5 is doing the same. I can see your progress online.

Please let me know if you have questions!   GO to IXL Math Online 

Read Aloud with Ms. D April 15th, Post #2 of 3

Hello Everyone,

Over the next few weeks, I will be doing open video conference sessions to read aloud the book Orphan Island by Laurel Snyder.

Thank you to everyone who attended the reading of Chapter 1 today! I hope you enjoyed it. It is a great story with a lot of descriptive detail!

Today we listened as Deen, the Elder of the island, left on the mysterious boat that comes once a year to Orphan Island for the Changing. What happens to Deen after he leaves on the boat? Why does a new child come on the boat in exchange? Why aren’t there any adults on the Island? Where do the new children come from?

If you missed today’s session, you can get the Kindle version of the book on Amazon.ca

Please don’t read ahead if you are planning to join us!

To join a read aloud session, just go to the General Channel of our MS Teams, look for the purple meeting announcement, and join us. Each day I plan to do it, it will sometime between 2:30 – 3:30 PM. It may not happen each day, depending on meetings, so please check the announcements.

I hope you enjoy listening to this great story!