Dear Parents, Today, to give the kids a break after their Math test yesterday and to introduce the new unit, we played a bunch of probability based games which the kids seemed to enjoy a lot. Then, we did a breathing exercise in order to…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with our Math test on Geometry. I am in the process of marking them and they will likely be on FreshGrade at some point this week. After, students had snack and went to Music. Following, we had DPA and…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with our spelling test. I have marked them back and handed them to students and will put them on Fresh Grade. Then, I did a review for the Math test. Students copied down concepts that they should study for…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with practicing drawing 3D shapes and breaking it down step-by-step on the board briefly. Then, I went over drawing lines of symmetry for various shapes and we practiced drawing the shape symmetrically over a broken line. We also played…

Dear Parents, Today, we started with reading a bit of “Wonder” and then we did a couple of Math games practicing counting the number of vertices, edges, and faces on various 3D shapes. I have linked one of them below: https://mrnussbaum.com/vertices-sides-edges-and-faces-online Students then worked on…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with applying our vocabulary of perpendicular and parallel to 3D shapes and how to label this on 3D shapes. We reviewed the difference between faces, edges, and vertices as well. Then, students worked on: G5: pages 238 & 239…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with a reading comprehension assessment for me to gauge student understanding of the Literature Circles booklet and novel that we completed. Then, we had snack and DPA. Then, we labelled some new parts of the cells and went through…

Dear Parents, We started off today with doing some group work sorting shapes into various Venn Diagram sections by attributes including: parallel lines, perpendicular lines, quadrilaterals, lines of symmetry, etc. The kids worked together so well! Then, students were assigned textbook work (sorry I forgot…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with reading a bit of Wonder and then I reviewed some questions from the Grade 4 quiz and some more Grade 5 questions. I had students complete an exit card to see how much they understood. Some students are…

Dear Parents, Today, we started off with reviewing common mistakes on the Math quiz (we only got to Grade 5 quiz practice today but will do Grade 4 quiz practice tomorrow). Students used lap whiteboards to practice various questions which we took up the answers…