Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Changig Shape, Speed, and Direction


We continued learning about money in our math measurement unit. Today's lesson was about making change. Students practiced making purchases and giving change using play money. They used place value subtraction and counting on to find the change. Students used estimation to check their work. Students then used these skills on practice questions.


 

In arithmetic we reviewed finding factors for a given product. Students have practised finding all the pairs of factors for a given product using skip counting and known multiplication facts.

In language, we continued working on list 17 and 18 spelling  words. We began a new language unit on the writing process. As a class we read about the writing process and reflected on how we used this process in our storytelling unit.

In our forces unit, students observed that a force can be used to increase and decrease the speed of an object, change the direction of an object, and change the shape of an object. We used a balloon to demonstrate this. Students worked in groups to change the shape of an object, make a toy car move faster, slower, and change direction. We ended our forces lesson by watching a DVD about forces.

Students attended French, art, and gym class today.

Homework & Reminders

  • Review list 17 spelling words
  • MMS p. 98 & 99, unit test on Dec. 17
  • Arithmetic p. 97 & 98
  • Support the grade 6 bake and toy sale now till Wed. Nov 18 ($.25-$5)
  • Thursday, Dec. 19 is the last and full day of school. School begins on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014
  • Gala tickets are on sale after school ($10 for a child, $65 for an adult)
  • Food Drive continues till the Christmas Concert
  • Christmas Concert

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