Posted: December 18, 2010
December 18, 2010
MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! HAVE A VERY JOYOUS AND FUN-FILLED HOLIDAY!!
Good evening, everyone. Can you believe this, only four days left in this school year and your child has covered so...much, thus far, in Math. Both Grade 5 and Grade 6 classes, wrote tests on Thursday and Friday, on decimals and multiplication and division. As well, Grade 6 had some time in the computer lab working on www.aaamath.com. I have seen so much growth in the students over the past four months. Confidence, is helping them achieve and knowing that making a mistake and learning from the mistake is helping them become more successful. It is in due to their hard work and encouragement from home. The flex time has been so beneficial to the Grade 6 students where they get help in a smaller group setting. Students seem to be taking advantage of this time and the results are very encouraging. We will continue with these strands after break as well as more focus on division and the reinforcement of fractions. Because of these outcomesI have provided activities to ready your child for these upcoming concepts.
This exercise during the hoildays will keep your child connected to math while having fun tracking what happens over the days leading up to Christmas!!
Christmas Baking
Take your favorite recipe, double it, convert it to metric and use only a teaspoon and ¼ cup to measure. Use an oven thermometer to compare the actual temperature to the stove setting. Convert this to Celsius. Or be extra crazy for math and change the ingredient amounts into math questions! By the way, how long does it take a turkey to cook in seconds?
Recipe Converter
Christmas Recipes for Kids
Check out this great site with Gingerbread Man Math Activities!
Christmas Budget
Get everyone to prepare a shopping budget and stick to it! Teach the kids how to use a spreadsheet. Compare your actual expenditures with your budget at the end.
Teaching Kids the Value of Bucks
How to Use a Spreadsheet
Christmas Lights
How many Christmas lights are on your house? How many extra watts of power are they using? How about your street, the neighborhood, your city, the world?
How much energy and money can a community save by switching to LED lights?
How Christmas Lights Work
The following is a quote from one of the old favorites...The Grinch who Stole Christmas...
And the Grinch, with his Grinch-feet ice cold in the snow, stood puzzling and puzzling, how could it be so? It came without ribbons. It came without tags. It came without packages, boxes or bags. And he puzzled and puzzled 'till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn't before. What if Christmas, he thought, doesn't come from a store. What if Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?”Enjoy the holidays and remember to stay safe. See you all in the 2011!!! Mrs. R. Turcotte