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!