Area and Perimeter

Math Playground

Math Playground

Interactive Sites

Splash Math

Fun Brain

Turtle Diary

Spirit Days

During the last week before holiday break the Leadership Team will be hosting some festive caroling assemblies at 9:40 a.m. daily.  We hope to spread some holiday cheer with the following spirit days:

Monday December 18th Holiday Hats   

Tuesday December 19th  Who-ville Hair day

Wednesday December 20th Celebration Socks and Slippers

Thursday December 21st Super Holiday Sweaters

Friday December 22nd Holiday P.J. day

Christmas Cheer Donations

Bengals’ Cheer 2017!

Hello!!

We are challenging you to bring in the themed items on the following days. We hope to make this the best Christmas Cheer the Bengals have participated in!!

Bengal Christmas Cheer Team    

Dec 4 - Pasta and Sauce
Dec 5 - Toiletries

Dec 6 - Breakfast
Dec 7 - New Books
Dec 8 - Snack Day

Dec 11 - Toys
Dec 12 - Canned foods
Dec 13 - Outside Accessories - hats, mitts, scarves
Dec 14 - Diapers

Snowflake contest

Grade 4   A 6-sided single paper snowflake but with some creative designs.
Grade 5   A single piece of paper but 3-D snowflake.
Good luck and have fun!

3 Division Strategies

The questions used in the video below are all grade 5 examples.  Grade 4s can still use each strategy, but can simplify the questions by dividing a 2 digit number by 1 digit.

Video of the 3 strategies for division

4 Multiplication Strategies

The questions used in the video below are all grade 5 examples.  Grade 4s can still use each strategy, but can simplify the questions by using only a 2 digit x 1 digit.

Video of the 4 strategies for multiplication

These lovely ladies found "Sid the Sedimentary Rock" while we were at the park.  Love that they got so excited about this!

Multiplication and Division Practice

For some fun MULTIPLICATION practice, click on the link below, then choose any of the games offered in the pictures (my favourite is Knock Down Multiplication).  Have fun!

http://www.multiplication.com/games/all-games

For some fun DIVISION practice, click on the link below, then choose any of the games offered in the pictures.  Have fun!

http://www.multiplication.com/games/division-games

More Division Games

http://interactivesites.weebly.com/division.html

Grade 4 Practice

Grade 5 Practice

October Update

For the month of October, our reading focus will be on summarizing, inferring and using evidence from the text to support our thinking.  Book talks and recommendations will be something we begin to talk about towards the end of this month.

Our writing focus will be to build on how to respond to a question in an organized paragraph.  Some students are even starting to respond to questions using multiple organized paragraphs.  Ask to see your child's language book every once in awhile… they’ve recently just completed a response to, “What ONE word would you use to describe what it is like to be a parent?”  Their responses were quite entertaining!

Much of our oral literacy focus over the next few months will come through presentations and active speaking and listening while working with a group.

In math, we continue this week to work on mental math strategies to help us solve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division questions.  Next up will be representing, comparing, and ordering numbers.

In science, Grade 4's are currently studying Rocks and Minerals, which will be wrapping up this week as they are working hard in class on their culminating task.  The grade 5's have just wrapped up a unit on Matter.

In social studies, the Grade 4's will begin their Canada unit next week.  The focus for the rest of this month will be on learning where Canada’s provinces and territories are as well as their capitals.  

Math Practice Questions

Extra Math Textbook Practice

September Welcome

Hello and welcome to our grade 4/5 class blog! Please check back here on a regular basis to keep in touch with your child's learning. In particular, the calendar link will be updated every couple of days, as new events/due dates arise. On the sidebar of this blog is an option for you to submit your email address so that you will be notified when there have been updates to the blog.

Thank you to all who got back to me so quickly with their email addresses so I could be in touch.  I appreciate your notes letting me know how your child is feeling around the September start up.  Now that the turnaround for the Junior grades has taken place, we can really get settled in.  Our class this year is a 4/5, consisting of 13 grade 4's and 15 grade 5's.

Under the 'Calendar' tab you will find a monthly link with our class and school events.  If you choose to print this, please check back to the link every once in awhile, as I update this calendar regularly as new events ‘pop up’.

This gave me a good laugh!