Monday's "homework"

1. We will be having a class sale tomorrow!
2. Pyjama day tomorrow - please bring in a non-perishable food item if you're able to.
3. A newsletter is going home today.
4. For those students that have library books out, please bring them back tomorrow.  They were supposed to be brought in last Friday!

Wednesday's homework

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. Maths (in the workbook): pages 102 and 103
3. Northern project: This project should almost be done by now.  We'll have time in the computer lab today and Friday, but with our busy Christmas concert schedule that's about all the time we'll have.  Please remember that some of the work needs to be completed at home.

Parents: Are there any parents (or grandparents!) interested in helping out with our baking centres?  We will be doing them tomorrow at 11:15 to 12:00, and Monday at the same time.  If you're interested and able, please contact me at jxgalle@edu.pe.ca or send a note in with your child.

Tuesday's homework

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. Maths (using the math book) page 244 #3
3. Work on our project!

Monday's homework

1. Read in French - practice your grade 1 read aloud!
2. Maths (in the workbook) - pages 100 and 101
3. Work on your project!

Wednesday's homework

First of all, a few congratulations are due to our fellow students.  Congratulations to Andrew for winning a medal of excellence in Piano.  He received the highest mark in PEI for his age group!  Also, congratulations to Tyler and his basketball team. They won second place in the Sussex tournament!

Okay, on to homework:

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. Mental math
3. Math book: pages 232 and 233, number 3,4 and 7
4. Rough copy of the northern project due Friday

Monday's homework

NOTE: There will be no more vocabulary words until the New Year.  Instead, we will be using this time to work on our projects.

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. Math: book, pages 228 - 229.  #'s 1,2,4,5,6,7 and 8
3. Project: rough copy due Friday

Thursday's homework

1. Read for 20 minutes (in English)
2. Vocabulary words
3. Math - in your textbook on pages 224 to 225, please do numbers 1,2,4,5 and 7a

Wednesday's homework, plus a note to parents and grandparents

1. Read in English for 20 minutes
2. Study your vocabulary words
3. Finish #1 on the "adjectives" worksheet
4. 10 minutes of mental math

Note to parents, guardians and grandparents:  Tomorrow at 3:30 I will be having a meeting in my class with people who are interested in volunteering with PEI Volunteers for Literacy. We will be getting these volunteers to read to Elm Street students during the day.  If you're interested or know of anyone who might be interested we'd love to see you there!  If you can't make that time but would like to volunteer you can drop me a line at jxgalle@edu.pe.ca. 

Tuesday's homework

1. Read in English for 20 minutes
2. Study your vocabulary words!
3. 10 minutes of mental math
For those who are unsure of what to practice, here are a few ideas:

3 x 34    4 x 37   7 x 71   8 x 45  9 x 12

4. Finish your "contraction" worksheets.

A sneak preview of our math quiz tomorrow!

Here is one of the multiplication questions I will be asking on the quiz tomorrow:

25 x 781

Use whatever strategy you like (other than a calculator or your friend;) to answer this.

Monday's homework

1. Read in English for 20 minutes
2. Study your vocabulary words!  Spelling quiz next Monday!
3. Finish your division math sheet
4. 10 minutes of mental math
5. For music, please continue to study the words to your song!

A sneak peak at our new vocabulary words for the week

We will be looking at contractions this week!

I am - I'm
You are - You're
She is - She's
We are - We're
They are - They're (we've seen this one already!)

I will - I'll
You will - You'll
He will - He'll
We will - We'll
They will - They'll

Is not - isn't
Was not - wasn't
Were not - weren't
Did not - didn't
Should not - shouldn't
Would not - wouldn't
Could not - couldn't

I know there are a lot more than usual, but once we get it down it'll be easy!

Thursday's homework

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. Mental math for 20 minutes
3. Finish your vocabulary foldables (for our quiz Monday)
4. Music homework: Don't forget to study your music so you know the words for Monday!
5. Math quiz this Tuesday!  The quiz will have questions on multiplication and division.  As for division, there will only be 2 questions with a double-digit dividors.

Wednesday's homework

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. 10 minutes of mental math
3. Finish the math worksheets started today with Mrs. MacArthur
4. Finish your vocabulary foldables

Monday's homework

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. Mental math for 10 minutes
3. Math: page 211 (photocopied), #1,2,3,4, 25 and 26. EDIT: In light of the fact that these questions were written in the "old way," we will only do #'s 1 - 4 on the new worksheet.

Report cards are submitted, and are currently being printed!  I think they'll be ready to go by tomorrow or Wednesday.

Friday's film

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x867op_microcosmos-scene-2_animals#rel-page-1

Thursday's homework

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. Mental math for 10 minutes - don't forget that we have a multiplication quiz tomorrow!
3. Study your vocabulary words

Ordis aujourd'hui

http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/dividermachine.html
http://www.kidsnumbers.com/long-division.php

Wednesday's homework

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. Study your vocabulary words!
3. Ten minutes of mental math
4. Finish both sides of your math worksheet.

Tuesday's homework

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. Mental math for 10 minutes - to those who worked on flash cards today: please remember to go through your flash cards.  Make sure you know your facts!  You'll be evaluated again on Friday!
3. French - make sure you finish your sheet on visualisation (in your carnet de lecture) on Zamboni. 
4. Vocabulary words - take a few minutes to look them over.  Our evaluation will be next Monday.

Video for Monday's science class

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7jp6v_microcosmos-scene-1_animals

Math homework answer key

First worksheet (with the snowmen, left to right):

5r3;  12r2;  21r1;  5r2;  8r3;  4r7;  43r1;  14r4;  2r6

Second worksheet (with the wizard):
a) 154r1  b) 168r2 c) 226r1  d) 66r4  e) 83r3  f)114r5  g) 353r1 h)38r5  i) 151r3

Tuesday's homework (to be done for Monday)

1. Read in English for 20 minutes (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)
2. Mental math for 10 minutes (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday)
3. Finish up the two math worksheets started on Monday and Tuesday's centers

Monday's homework

1. Read in English for 20 minuutes
2. Mental math for 10 minutes: this is a new homework, and will be different for each student.  First of all, those students who have not yet memorized their multiplication tables should do so.  For those who have memorized it, they can work on simple mental math problems.  Here are some examples:

5 x 25, 10 x 45; 11 x 45, 4 x 45; 6 x 12, etc, etc.

This should be done mentally, without pencil or paper.

Monday's videos

Inuit introduction
La vêtement inuit
Les igloos
Les inukshuks

Thursday's homework

I've neglected the blog this week!  Here is the homework:

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. Study your provinces and territories - we have a quiz tomorrow!  Don't forget that you need to be able to properly spell our provinces and territories in French, and you must be able to name their capitols and identify them on a map.
3. Math - Finish the work begun in class today!

Happy Hallowe'en!

No reading to do tonight!  Enjoy yourselves and don't eat too much candy!  I would like you to take a moment to study your vocabulary words.  After correcting today's spelling quiz I'm noticing unnecessary errors.  Take a few minutes a day and you'll have no problems come Friday.

A hint for tomorrow's spelling quiz

On tomorrow's spelling quiz I will be supplying some definitions.  You need to write down the proper word for the proper definition.  The last question on the quiz will be:

Faites une phrase avec le mot "québécois."

Study your foldables!

Also, this week's vocabulary words will be:

Île - du-Prince-Édouard
Nouveau -Brunswick
Nouvelle-Écosse
Terre Neuve
Québec
Ontario
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Colombie-Britannique
Yukon
Territoires du Nord-Ouest
Nunavut

A few things to remember

This Monday we will be doing our spelling quiz.  You are responsible for the definitions as well as the proper spelling!

Our Harry Potter Party is this Monday.  Wear your costumes!  I'll bring some treats, but you are welcome to bring some as well (although you certainly don't have to).

On Friday we are having our quiz in Sciences Humaines.  You are responsible for knowing the provinces, territories and their capitals!  In French! 

Any parents who would like to email me with their ideal interview times are welcome to do so!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Wednesday's homework

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. Study your vocabulary words!  If you did not complete your vocabulary definitions, please do so tonight
3. Maths: Finish the math sheet.  Do your best!  If you are unable to do it but I can see that you tried you won't lose any homework points.

Art

For those of you collecting objects for our art project with the grade ones, here are some ideas:

http://mrskarensclass.blogspot.com/2010/10/fall-and-e-week.html

Monday's homework

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. Vocabulary words
3. Math scribbler: page 42

A preview of the week to come

Our new schedule starts this week!  This will take a bit of adjustment, so be patient and be flexible this week!  We will be starting back on centres this week.  The centres are:

1. Tic Tac Mots
2. Maths: les réglettes
3. Lecture partagée: Les ours polaires
4. Des filmes du nord
5. DEAR
6. Lecture guidée

First of all, here are the links to the videos you will be watching during your centres this week:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVY8LoM47xI (I'm hoping this one will work at school since it is a youtube video)

http://videos.howstuffworks.com/wgbh-nova/2354-the-franklin-mystery-failed-sea-voyage-in-1845-video.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVY8LoM47xI

Wednesday

1. Read in English for 20 minutes
2. Our spelling quiz has been moved to Monday!
3. Maths: exercise book, page 39, #2
4. Don't forget - we move to our new schedule this Monday.
5. Have a great long weekend!

Tuesday's homework

1. Read in English for 20 minutes
2. Study your vocabulary words - there will be a spelling quiz tomorrow
3. Maths - in the exercise book, page 38.  This was started in class today, so many people may have completed their work already.
4. Sub orders are due tomorrow. 
5. Please don't forget to remind your parents or guardians to sign your agenda to confirm that you have done your reading for tonight!

Monday's homework

1. Read in English for 20 minutes
2. Study the English vocabulary words
3. Finish your math sheet
4. For those who are ordering subs for next week, the envelope needs to be in for Wednesday.  I have more if you'd like to pick on up tomorrow!

Thursday's homework

*I'm feeling under the weather and won't be at school today!  I will be finishing up my phone calls to parents tomorrow and at the beginning of next week.  I'll also be handing back all your graded English essays tomorrow. Have a nice day!*

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. Math worksheet (double digit multiplication)
3. Spelling quiz tomorrow!  Study hard!

Wednesday's homework

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. Spelling quiz this Friday!
3. Math worksheet

Computer class tomorrow

http://www.mathplayground.com/multiplication05.html

Tuesday's homework

1. DON'T FORGET YOUR MULTIPLICATION QUIZ TOMORROW!  Make sure you're comfortable with the multiplication table!

2. Maths: Practice this with your parents, if possible: 13 x 15 ; 13 x 87.  If you've forgotten how, check out this website:  http://www.webmath.com/k8ipmult.html . It'll show you how to do it, step-by-step.

3. Read in French for 20 minutes

4. Spelling quiz this Friday!

A great website for multiplication

This site does require some downloading, but it's worth it!  It's a multiplication (or any other operation) site that plays like a video game.  I put it on the side in our links, but I thought it would be worthwhile to include it in it's very own post.

http://www.bigbrainz.com/

Thursday's homework

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. No specific math homework tonight - just study your multiplication tables in preparation for our math quiz this Wednesday!
3. Memoirs - published by Tuesday.

Wednesday's homework

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. Finish your "crab" math sheets
3. Don't forget to bring in all your various forms: cross country permission, choir permission, green "early departure" forms, and your signed math quizzes!

Ordis avec Mme. Crossman-Richard (lundi, le 3 octobre)

Bonjour les ami(e)s!

Voici notre site web pour aujourd'hui:

http://multiplication.com/interactive_games.htm

Vous pouvez choisir n'importe quelle site, mais n'oubliez pas d'être silencieux!

Bonne journée!

Mme.

Monday's homework

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. Math: work in math book, pages 82 and 83, number 1, 2, 5, 7 and 11
3. Book order in by Thursday please!

Wednesday's homework (sorry for the delay these past two days!)

1. Read (in English) for 20 minutes
2. Maths (to be done in the exercise book): pg 28
3. Parents: please remember to sign your child's agenda

Test question!

For those of you regularly checking the blog, here's a sneak peak at some of the test questions for Monday:

6. Estime chaque somme et chaque différence.  Explique ta stratégie.
a) 1 858 + 3 523 _________________________________________________________
b) 6 709 - 755 ___________________________________________________________

I'll put up more tomorrow!  Some of you can even put answers in the comments section if you're REALLY motivated.

Today's computer lesson

Bonjour les ami(e)s!

Voici les sites webs pour aujourd'hui:

http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/kids/flash/games/storePuzzle.html

http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/Canadian_Geography.htm

Notre but aujourd'hui est d'être capable de trouver toutes les provinces et territoires en Canada!

Finalement, un jeu pour pratiquer la valeur de position:

http://www.mrnussbaum.com/placevaluepirates2.htm

Thursday's homework

1. Read in French for 20 minutes, then write about your book in the "Compte Rendu" found in your carnet de lecture.

2. Maths: cahier pages 24 et 25.

3. Terry Fox permission forms

4. Hot lunch order due tomorrow

5. Fundraisers due tomorrow.

Wednesday's homework

1. Read in French for 20 minutes.  Don't forget our goal - to be finished a book by tomorrow!  We will be filling out a form about our book, so you might need to read for a bit more than 20 minutes tonight. Let me know if you don't think this will be possible.

2. Math: We'll be working in our exercise books today.  Do pages 22 and 23.

Tuesday's homework

1. Read in French for 20 minutes.  Don't forget your goal: finish a book this week!
2. Math: work in the book.  Page 55

Monday's homework (up a bit late!)

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. Math - finish the sheet we started in class today.  Don't forget - pg. 19: uneven numbers, pg. 20: the whole page

Thursday's homework - last homework day of the week;)

1. As usual, read in French for 20 minutes.  This time, when you are finished reading, I would like you to write up a quick summary of what you have read this week.  Talk about any new facts you have learned, what you liked or didn't like about your reading, and anything else you think I should know.

2. Math: We're working in the book tonight.  Page 51, #4 and #7 (a only!)  We are starting to practice estimating - this is what we'll be doing for the rest of the unit.  Send me an email if you have any questions! 

jxgalle@edu.pe.ca

3. Hot lunch orders are due tomorrow!  Cost is $3.25, and the order will come in next Wednesday. 

Wednesday's homework

1. Read in French for 20 minutes
2. Math: to be done in your "exercise book." Page 18 (#1), page 19 (#'s 1, 3, 4, 5 and "Va plus loin").
3. Parents: Please sign your child's agenda once they have completed their work!

Tuesday's homework

1. Read for 20 minutes in French
2. Maths (book): pg 45, #'s 1, 3, 6, and 10

Bonjour tout le monde!

Hello to the students and parents of 5B!  Here's the first (of many) blog posts this year.  I'll be using this blog to keep us up-to-date on homework, assignments, and upcoming events at the school.  The blog will be written in English so that everyone can understand what's going on.  Check back daily!