Ms. Parent's Grade 5/6 Blog

Hey grade 5/6's! Today, we are going to divide our focus (heh, get it?)  in two different directions: For Grade 5 - Dividing and interpreting the remainders as fractions or decimals .  For Grade 6 - Dividing using decimals in the dividend. We have attached videos for both grades to lead you through these skills (choose the ones that match your favorite division strategy!). Then answer the following practice questions.  Grade 5 - Task  9 (gr. 5) - Complete this activity sheet → Grade 5 Division Practice Grade 6-Task 9 (gr. 6) - Complete this activity sheet → Grade 6 Dividing with Decimals Practice Grade 5 Videos: Remainders as Decimals or Fractions:  Please watch this video to learn the different ways we can express remainders! Numberock Song-- Fractions into Decimals: If you want to learn how to express the remainder as a decimal (without using a calculator) watch this fun music video! Short Division with Decimal Remainders: For th

Welcome to our Working Wednesday! Today is a work day! Please use the day to work on your persuasive essay. You can check Monday’s blog for this assignment and for resources related to essay writing.  Remember: Use your T-Chart and your graphic organizer to support your writing.  Focus on the structure of an essay with your individual paragraphs  Persuade/convince your reader into understanding your side of the argument.  Good luck and word hard!  We will collect essays on Monday, May 4!

Another week, another too late to call it Mathematical Monday Assignment: Last week, we learned how multiplication and division are related, as well as exploring division fact families  (please click this link for the answer key!).  Fact families are all great and good when you have small amounts to work with, but what happens if you are faced with a larger number (or even decimal numbers)? This week, we are going to learn strategies we can use when dividing large numbers (much like we did for multiplication!). Instead of having everyone learn every strategy, we thought we would provide you with videos on how to do each strategy, and you can choose the one you want to learn (note: you don’t have to watch every video! Just the one strategy you think you would like to use! You can always go back and watch the others should you not like the first strategy you picked!) Once you have chosen a strategy, we want you to practice using it with a few division questions! Click the name of

Hey Grade 5/6 Crew!  We just want to tell you how great we think you are!  You all have been working so hard on your online schooling.  We are really proud of you!  We are really proud of your parents, too!  Hopefully, you’re taking it easy on them!  It might surprise you… but they really do know a lot!  They’re great helpers.  Be kind to them!  Today’s Assignment: Technology Persuasive Essay ( This is the last step of our Technology Task )  We would like you to work on this throughout the week and it will be due on Monday, May 4th, 2020 (Happy Star Wars Day!).  You could write a paragraph a day and spend time reviewing it with your parents and making edits or you can write it all at once and spend time editing through the week.   Using your graphic organizer, you will write a persuasive essay responding to the question “Does Technology Make Our World Better or Worse.” WAIT? An ESSAY?? WHAT’S AN ESSAY??!!  Remember! An essay is typically 3 o

Weekly Update: April 24 - May 1 Dear Parents, Guardians and Students, We are starting up Week 5 of our online learning!  It’s been wonderful connecting with the students again on Google Meet.  Please note that there is a change to Ms. Gilbank’s Google Meet time for this week only.  The other Google Meets remain the same.  Please see below for an outline of our weekly plans.  Week at a Glance:  Week Five - April 27th - May 1st Monday:  Persuasive Essay Writing   Tuesday: Long Division Strategies Wednesday: Persuasive Essay Writing (continued) Thursday: Division Strategies continued and practice;   Google Meet 1:00PM- Ms. Gilbank  Friday: Your opportunity to catch up on all of our weekly tasks;   Google Meets (Ms. Parent 10AM; Mrs.Pallesen & Mrs.Warrener 11AM). *Persuasive Essays will be due Monday, May 4.   Our focus this week will be using a graphic organizer to write a multi-paragraph persuasive essay where students take a stance on an i

Over the last two weeks, you have been extending your understanding of the area and perimeter of rectangles and polygons. For your assignment today, we are going to ask you to draw a bird’s eye view of your favorite room in your house. You can include the furniture, artwork, toys etc. that are in the room you are sketching. This can be done with paper and pencil, you could use Google Draw in a Google slide, or you could even design it in Minecraft. Make sure you take a picture/screenshot of your build in Minecraft to share with us if you use that program. Here are a couple of examples: Once you are done drawing your bird’s eye view of the room, the next part of this assignment is to calculate the area and perimeter of this room. You can use standard measurements (if you have a tape measure/ruler) or non standard units of measurements if needed (pillow, stuffed animal etc.) Please make sure to show your work (formulas and calculations) and submit your work to your t

Hey grade ⅚! We hope you had fun yesterday, grooving to your song parodies! If you haven’t checked it out yet, please take a look at our new Google Classroom -- we will soon be posting assignments in there and asking you to use the Classroom to turn them in (don’t worry-- we’ll walk you through how to do it!). Today we embark on an epic journey of exploration and discovery, of coming together and taking apart, of groups and remainders, those who fit in and those who stand apart… that’s right, we’re learning about division ! (Now don’t make that face-- division is awesome! We’ll help you through it!). Please take a look at the link below for today’s assignment (this link can also be found in our Google Classroom under “Classworks”): Division Fact Families As with last week’s math assignment, there’s no need to hand it in to us -- this is for your own practice and knowledge (please check your answers as you go-- there’s nothing quite as frustrating as finishing a whole b

Welcome to Wednesday Grade 5/6s :) We thought today would be a nice opportunity for you to have some time to work on your song parodies! You can spend time writing your lyrics or recording yourself singing! Feel free to use programs like GarageBand or iMovie to record yourself singing with a karaoke version of the song or record yourselves singing with your family :)  You can also use the day to finish up your persuasive essay graphic organizer or any other tasks you might have missed over the past few weeks.  There are no links for today’s assignment :) Looking Ahead to Google Meet Friday Our focus for our Friday google meet will continue to be CONNECTION with one other.   In preparation for our Google Meet on Friday, we would like you to come prepared for the following circle discussion:  Choose one item that represents a healthy way that you are dealing with social isolation.  It can be a hobby, mindset, or creative endeavor.  Be prepared to share w

Construction is complete! We have a new Google Classroom !! Maybe you have had a chance for a sneak peek already. (Check your email for an invite).  After you have had a chance to look around the Google Classroom,:  Click on the Classwork tab Find the topic “Week Four” Click on the question symbol. Read and follow the instructions.  We can’t wait to read your responses! You can also find our new classroom by clicking on the waffle-dots in your Google account. Oh, and here are the answers for last Thursday’s Area and Perimeter Tasks. How well did you do? Grade Five Area and Perimeter Answer Keys Grade Five Extra Practice Answer Keys Grade Six Area and Perimeter Answer Keys Grade Six Extra Practice Answer Keys

It was wonderful to see so many smiling faces on our Google Meet platform last Friday. We hope you had a wonderful weekend and you are ready to tackle another week!   We hope you enjoyed the Song Parody Design Challenge that was set out for you on Friday.  Take some time over this week to make plans for your song.  We will give you more designated time on Wednesday towards this task.   A big task for us this week is working towards writing a persuasive essay .  We will work through this in a few steps, so please don’t panic.  Today, you will be given a graphic organizer to start organizing your ideas about technology.   Click here to access today’s assignment Journaling Task #6: Technology Graphic Organizer  You are all AWESOME!!!  Keep up the GREAT work!!  PS... WE WILL KEEP OUR SAME GOOGLE MEET TIME!  Ms. Parent’s Google Meet Time: Friday, April 24th @ 10:00am  (We will be meeting every Friday at 10:00am) SEE YOU THEN!

Weekly Update:  April 20-24 Hi Parents, Guardians and Students, Welcome to Week four of our online learning! We loved seeing so many of your faces on Friday’s Google Meet! If you had any difficulties getting into the session, please shoot us an email and we will try to sort out the problem!  Thanks to everyone for all your hard work last week!  Week At a Glance  - Monday :  Persuasive Essay Organizer - Tuesday :  Google Classroom Introduction; Area and Perimeter Answer Keys - Wednesday : Song Parody Writing - Thursday :  Math - Basic division fact families - Friday : Area & Perimeter Challenge + Google Meeting Ms. Parent’s Google Meet Time: Friday, April 24th @ 10:00am  (We will be meeting every Friday at 10:00am) *Please remember to continue to add your ideas and thoughts to your Gratitude page !!  A big task for us this week in Language Arts will be working towards writing a persuasive essay. In math, we are moving into basic division facts and str