Ms. Mullins Grade 4/5 Class

Monday, June 6, 2016

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!
Today (Mon. June 6) will be my last after school help session for the Gr.3's and tom. (Tue) will be my last after school help session for the Gr. 6's.
Our math assessments will be this Wednesday and Thursday for the grades 3 and 6's. The 6's will write all morning and the 3's will write all afternoon.
Please be reviewing facts nightly and make sure the students get lots of rest! They have been working so hard and I am very proud of them.
Have a wonderful week.

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!
It is hard to believe that we are coming into the month of June. Students should be reviewing their facts nightly. I will be doing some final wrap-up assessments throughout the month of June.
Gr. 3 and 6 provincial math assessments will be held next Wednesday and Thursday, June 8&9. Please be sure your child is well rested.
My extra help classes will be Tuesday for Gr. 6 and Wednesday for the Gr. 3's.
The grade 3's will be having a small quiz on Wednesday and it will cover edges, vertices, and faces of 3D shapes along with sorting various polygons according to number of sides. For ex. triangle-3 sides, quadrilateral -4 sides, pentagon- 5 sides, hexagon- 6 sides, octagon- 8 sides. The 4's will be describing rectangular and triangular prisms and they will have to construct these 3D shapes from a net.
Grade 6- we have been working on transformational geometry. This includes translations(slides), reflections (flips) and rotations (turns) of a shape. We have also starting investigating when to use certain types of graphs to display certain types of data.
Have a great week everyone.

I hope everyone had a great weekend!
First of all, I would like to congratulate all of the students for being so well behaved at the Confederation Center on Thursday.
Grade 3/4 class will continue to work on naming solid shapes and being able to determine how many edges, verticies, and faces each shape has. We will also start to look and the difference between polygons (regular and irregular) and non-polygons. The students will learn to sort the polygons according to number of sides. Please work on math facts nightly.
Grade 6 will be working on transformational geometry. This includes performing successive translations, rotations, and reflections of shapes. Please continue the math fact review nightly.
This week the grade 6 will have an extra help class on Tuesday from 245-345 and the grade 3's will have their help class on Thursday from 245- 345.
I hope everyone has a wonderful week.

I hope everyone had a beautiful weekend!
The grade 3 and 4's have been working on sorting and classifying 3D shapes. We have also been learning about verticies, edges, and faces of solid shapes.
Grade 3 assessments are coming up on June 8 and 9, so please keep reviewing those adding and subtracting facts each night. I will also be having an extra help class for the gr. 3's on Thursday, May 12 from 2:45-3:45. If students plan to stay, they will need to have a note for their homeroom teacher and they will have to be picked up. This will be a great opportunity to review outcomes from throughout the year.
Grade 6's will be having their quiz on order of operations on Tuesday (I was planning on having it last Thursday, but I was at a meeting). The math assessments are coming up on June 8 and 9 and I will be having our first extra help class this Tuesday, May 10. If students are planning on staying, they will need to get picked up at 3:45 and they must have a note for Ms. Howman to say they are staying.
Have a great week everyone!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful weekend and is enjoying this beautiful weather!
The grade 3's and 4's just had a quiz on adding, subtracting, units of time, and telling time. I will send these quizzes home tom. with the students. Please sign and return. We have been working on our next outcome which is investigating 3D objects such as spheres, cones, rectangular/triangular prisms, and cubes. Students are exploring how many edges, vertices, and faces each object has.
The grade 6's have finished up constructing and sorting triangles last week and are moving into their next outcome which is understanding "order of operations." There will be a small quiz on Thursday.
I will be starting to have after school help sessions for the gr. 3 and 6's. Their provincial assessments are coming up on June 8 and 9. I will be sending out a letter on Wednesday with the dates and times. I would encourage the students to stay and get extra practice! :o)
Have a great week everyone!

Wow! Hard to believe we are into spring.
Grade 3/4 Math- we have been working on telling time on digital and analog clocks over the last couple of weeks. The 3's have also been working with units of time (seconds, minutes, hours, days, months). The 3's have also been working on adding and subtracting numbers to 1000, while the 4's have been working on adding and subtracting numbers to 10 000. I will be having a quiz on these outcomes on Friday for the students. I would ask everyone to keep practicing their facts. That is my homework expectation....10 min. each night.
Grade 6 Math- We have been working on classifying triangles according to sides and angles over the last two weeks. Students have also been constructing different types of triangles and understanding that the sum of the interior angles of a triangle is 180 degrees. We will be having a quiz on this either Thursday or Friday of this week. Please keep reviewing facts at night.
I will be starting to have some extra help classes the second week in May for the grade 3 and 6 students in order to prepare for the math assessment in June. I will send home a parent letter close to the end of April.
Have a great week everyone.

Grade 3- the students have been doing a great job working with increasing and decreasing patterns. They have remembered the 3 key parts when explaining a pattern....The pattern rule is it starts at 150 and adds 25 each time. The students need 1) starting point 2) adding or subtracting 3) the amount. We are now working on representing data with tallys, line plots, and tables/charts. The grade 3's have also been learning how to interpret information from bar graphs and this week we will be learning to construct them. Please continue to practice facts nightly.
Grade 4- the students have been looking at patterns in multiplication charts, 100's charts, and patterns in tables. The grade 4's started working with pictographs and bar graphs last week and we will continue to work on this concept this week. It is very important to be working on their multiplication/division facts to 81 nightly.
Grade 6- we have been working on input/output tables and finding the pattern rules within these tables. The 6's learned how to plot ordered pairs onto a Cartesian plane and then we worked on finding a pattern, creating a table with that information, and then graphing that information. I will be assessing them on these outcomes Thursday, Feb. 25. Please work on math facts nightly.
Have a great week everyone!