Hello Parents,
I am happy to be back online and keeping touch! Students have been working well this term asand nd learning a lot.  Here is where we are working on and what we are moving towards in our various subject areas.


Math-students have completed their work on patterning and have moved onto learning about place value to numbers in the hundred thousands. Students must be able to represent a 6 digit number in various ways. For example :
432 145 (standard form)
four hundred thirty two thousand one hundred forty-five (words)
400 000 + 30 000+ 2000+100+40+5 (expanded form)
Where we are headed....
Students are also learning decimals to hundredths. For example 54.3 or 54.32.  Students are now learning to place numbers on a number line and will be moving towards learning to round numbers to the nearest ones,  tens, hundreds, thousands and ten thousands.  This will lead to adding and subtracting of large numbers.


Ways to help...
check out this website for some math games to play with your child
http://motionmathgames.com/how-to-understand-place-value-3-fun-family-math-activities/


Language Arts
We have been learning about the elements of a narrative story.  We have been working on answering questions effectively including supporting our answers.  After reading many books from the Mr. Men series, we have begun writing our own Mr Men or Little Miss stories.  We have completed our organizer and have begun our rough copies.  We will be publishing our books in the near future.
Where we are heading
We will begin reading a book called Hana's Suitcase soon as a class and have discussions around this book.  It is a non fiction  book about a child's experience during World War 2.  There will be a lot of rich discussions during the reading of this book. 
Science
Students are working through centers on the Human Body.  Each centre is focussed on one of the 6 body systems. (Ask your child to tell you what the systems are called) Students will then be choosing a focus and preparing a project about a body system and a disease that can harm it. 
Social Studies
Students have begun learning about local government and how decisions are made at the local level.  They had to choose a side about a fictious skate park going in beside our school and had a small debate about it.  They then wrote a letter to our mayor about what they think should happen and why. We will move on to learn about the provincial and federal levels and look at how 3 levels work together to help solve problems.


Remembrance Day
Students will be practicing for our Remembrance Day assembly next week.  The assembly will be on   Wednesday at 10:00 am in our gym. Parents are welcomed to join us.  The assembly is put on solely by the grade 5 students.
Students are entering a poster contest surrounding Remembrance Day.  I will be taking these posters to the Brampton Legion and they will be entered in a contest to win a prize. 
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Progress Reports and Interviews
Information regarding these 2 topics will be sent home early next week.  Please check your child's agenda each night for any information. 


That's a quick update for now! Hope this updates you on what we've been doing lately in class.  Please always feel free to contact me should you have any questions or concerns!