Math - Students continued work on identifying the relationship between decimals, percentages, and fractions. A large part of this work focused on equivalent fractions and how to multiply or divide to put fractions in their lowest terms or to make the denominator 100 in order to make easy conversions to the other forms.
Moving forward students will be doing work on operations involving decimal numbers and learning about the order of operations (PEDMAS).
Science - Students finished the week by completing their flight adaptation posters focusing on birds and insects and the forces of flight associated with different adaptations. Students are completing posters that demonstrate their understanding of the properties of air - air exerts pressure (including the difference in pressure at different altitudes), air takes up space, air is affected by temperature, air can be compressed, and air has weight. Students should work to have these completed by the end of next week.
We will be moving on to looking at propulsion of animals and aircraft, the parts of an airplane, and the movements related to these parts.
Practice supports and review materials can be found at:
D2L
If you need any help or are looking for supports not found here, please let me know at:
sthompson@cbe.ab.ca
Friday, January 31, 2020
Friday, January 24, 2020
Week ending January 24, 2020
Math - students completed work around number concepts that involved writing/reading numbers in different forms:
STANDARD FORM - 2 387 364
NUMBER WORDS - two million three hundred eighty-seven thousand three hundred sixty-four
EXPANDED NOTATION - 2 000 000 + 300 000 + 80 000 + 7 000 + 300 + 60 + 4
They also explored these concepts using decimal numbers. Students should be able to read/write numbers up to the billions place value and down to the thousandths.
Students should also be able to use their understanding of place value to order numbers from greatest to least or least to greatest.
The following link can be used to review many of these concepts.
Math Aids - Number concepts
We are currently exploring the relationships between fractions, decimals, and percentages. Work in this area will focus on being able to create equivalent fractions with a denominator of 100.
Science - Students have spent the last week learning about adaptations that birds and insects have developed to help them fly. They then needed to determine which forces of flight that these adaptations relate to (Lift, Thrust, Drag, Weight/Gravity). They will complete a poster using this information due Tuesday of next week.
Information about the assignment, as well as links that can be used to find information can be found using D2L.
D2L
Upcoming work will look at how streamlining objects helps reduce drag and also the parts of an airplane and how some of them help the plane to make movements in the air.
STANDARD FORM - 2 387 364
NUMBER WORDS - two million three hundred eighty-seven thousand three hundred sixty-four
EXPANDED NOTATION - 2 000 000 + 300 000 + 80 000 + 7 000 + 300 + 60 + 4
They also explored these concepts using decimal numbers. Students should be able to read/write numbers up to the billions place value and down to the thousandths.
Students should also be able to use their understanding of place value to order numbers from greatest to least or least to greatest.
The following link can be used to review many of these concepts.
Math Aids - Number concepts
We are currently exploring the relationships between fractions, decimals, and percentages. Work in this area will focus on being able to create equivalent fractions with a denominator of 100.
Science - Students have spent the last week learning about adaptations that birds and insects have developed to help them fly. They then needed to determine which forces of flight that these adaptations relate to (Lift, Thrust, Drag, Weight/Gravity). They will complete a poster using this information due Tuesday of next week.
Information about the assignment, as well as links that can be used to find information can be found using D2L.
D2L
Upcoming work will look at how streamlining objects helps reduce drag and also the parts of an airplane and how some of them help the plane to make movements in the air.
Friday, January 10, 2020
Week ending January 10, 2020
Happy New Year!!
Welcome back to school. I hope everyone had an enjoyable winter break.
Student progress can be viewed through PowerSchool. If you have not yet done so, be sure to set up an account. Instructions can be found through the links on the following site:
MyCBE Powerschool
Math: We are currently doing work around the Number unit, focusing specifically on place value and how to read and write numbers in a variety of ways (students should be able to read and write numbers into the billions and the ten thousandths). They will also work around understanding the value of a particular number based on its place value and how to determine if numbers are greater or less than others.
There are many sites online that could support practice at home. Feel free to try the one below:
Place Value - Khan Academy
Science: Students will be wrapping up their look at the properties of air. This week we looked at how air is fluid like water and how the movement of air affects the pressure it exerts. We also looked at how temperature affects air. Use the following page as a helpful review for these topics:
Properties of air
Any questions, please feel free to contact me by email at sthompson@cbe.ab.ca
Welcome back to school. I hope everyone had an enjoyable winter break.
Student progress can be viewed through PowerSchool. If you have not yet done so, be sure to set up an account. Instructions can be found through the links on the following site:
MyCBE Powerschool
Math: We are currently doing work around the Number unit, focusing specifically on place value and how to read and write numbers in a variety of ways (students should be able to read and write numbers into the billions and the ten thousandths). They will also work around understanding the value of a particular number based on its place value and how to determine if numbers are greater or less than others.
There are many sites online that could support practice at home. Feel free to try the one below:
Place Value - Khan Academy
Science: Students will be wrapping up their look at the properties of air. This week we looked at how air is fluid like water and how the movement of air affects the pressure it exerts. We also looked at how temperature affects air. Use the following page as a helpful review for these topics:
Properties of air
Any questions, please feel free to contact me by email at sthompson@cbe.ab.ca
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