May 30, 2011   Parents and Guardians of Grade 5 and Grade 6 Math students:   Monday, is the final day of Grade 5 Math assessments.  Your child has worked tiredlessly to complete mental Math, multiuple choice, basic facts and constructed responses.  Students were engaged and I felt they worked very hard to do their best.  Thanks goes to those who helped in any way to prepare your child for this assessment.  After Monday, focus will be put on Probability and more work on Shape and Space.  There will be no tutoring, for the remainder of the year, for Grade 5. Grade 6 is writing a cummulative Math test.  They are working very hard and will finish this on Monday/Tuesday, depending on class.  Mrs. R. Turcotte      “While we try to teach our children all about life, our children teach us what life is all about.”

May 14, 2011   Good evening, parents and guardians of Grade 5 and Grade 6 students.  There is only a little over a week before the Grade 5 students begin writing their Grade 5 Math Provincial Assessment; dates are May 25,26,27.  There is much to do to get ready and students are encouraged to work extra hard to review and practice all strands.  Each night the students were given the abc/123 textbook questions as well as the nightly practice of facts.  During class, the students are working on possible assessment style questions as they complete a sample booklet of both multiple choice and constructive response questions.  It is hoped that you revistit these with your child to help keep it fresh and to keep them connected to Math on a daily basis.  I have asked to kids to visit the website, nightly and to work on the sample assessment for Grade 5.  Go to Provincial Math Assessment Grade 5 Sample 2011.   Tutoring will be on Monday and  Tuesday, this week..  there will be no tutoring on Wednesday. Grade 6 are working on cumulative activities..  As well, terms such as Cartesian plane, coordinate grid,successive transformationsand creating designs.. Mrs. R. Turcotte   Life is full of beauty. Notice it. Notice the bumble bee, the small child, and the smiling faces. Smell the rain, and feel the wind. Live your life to the fullest potential, and fight for your dreams

April 25, 2011   Good evening parents and guardians of Grade 5 and 6 students.  I hope everyone had a good Easter weekend.  Grade 6 finished their Math test on Thursday and will get tests back on tomorrow, NOTE:Grade 5 Provincial Math Assessment will begin on May 26th. All students will be expected to write.  We still have a lot of work to finish before this assessment.  Students will be completing work on geometry, Space and Shape, as well as Statistics and Probability.  Students will hear words such as, attributes of various polygons, transformation, translation, reflection, rotation, certain, possible, impossible, first hand and second hand data,as well as, interpreting double bar graphs. Please encourage students to share their daily activities and to revisit all operations and strategies.  These are in their Math duotangs.  It is hoped that all children will be present during the next few weeks so that all areas will be delivered and students will feel confident when writing.  Tutoring will be on Wednesday at the usual time.                                                Have a good week, Mrs. R. Turcotte.                                                   If you can Dream... You CAN do it    

March 27, 2011   Parents of Grade 5 and Grade 6 students, we will be continuing in our work on completion iof units, and working on key words and activities for Measurement and Geometry.  Please reinforce measurement units by asking your child to estimate lengths and then to have them find the actual.  An activity to reinforce area and perimeter is to visit the website on www.spyguys and www.virtual angles, and www.polygon game. As well making reference to how many of one unit is in another, is encouraged...example ..10 mm=1cm,  100 cm= 1M,  1000mm = 1M,   1000cm= 1Km,   1 000 000 mm = 1Km.  Talk about the kms when traveling and have your child look at distances on maps to find the differences.  Your child was given a conversion chart to help them with the changing of units.. This week, some of the students experienced problems with the mental math because of the time we have been away from some of the strategies. All students are encouraged to study strategies each night and to reinforce through practice.    PARENT TEACHER: It is hoped that most of you will be able to get into Parent Teacher.  If not, please feel free to call me at any time for a scheduled appointment.  Have a good week, Mrs. R. Turcotte.                                    Today's preparation, determines tomorrow's future