Well, are you feeling refreshed, revived, tired or jetlagged? I am a little of everything having flown to Australia on Saturday morning for a wedding on Saturday night and a plane ride home all day Sunday… I haven’t survived on this little amount of sleep since I was a teenager I am sure.

We are missing 4 students today due to vacations, tiredness and illness so the classroom feels a little quieter than usual but it is really great to see the kids again; they make the career I have chosen very satisfying and I am enjoying catching up with them about their holidays and how they are feeling with 4 months left til they leave their elementary days behind them…that is right parents, in 4 months it will be summer vacation and you will have a 6th grader on your hands!

This week in class…

We will work to finish our unit 7 in Math for a test next Monday. On the test the students need to know how to:

*understand and apply scientific notation
*understand and apply powers of 10
*understand and apply order of operations to evaluate expressions and solve number sentences
*add and subtract integers
*understand and apply exponential notation
*determine whether number sentences are true or false
*understand the function and placement of parentheses in number stories
*compare and order integers

If they follow this Revision Guide it should help them get prepared

Unit 7 Assessment Review
Part A

1-9                       Order and Compare positive and negative numbers
7-10; 18-26        Add and Subtract positive and negative numbers
10                        Identify number sentences and tell whether they are true or false
11-17                   Understand and apply order of operations to evaluate expressions and solve number sentences
11-17                   Understand and apply the use of parentheses in number sentences

Part B

27-33                Add and Subtract positive and negative numbers
34                      Understand and apply scientific notation, powers of 10, and exponential notation
35, 36                Create and use line graphs

Practice Problems
Pg. 72 1-6; pg. 4 1-14; pg. 76 1-10; pg. 77 1-14; pg. 79 1-6

We will continue to draft and revise our essays to submit them this Friday and celebrate our achievements.

In Reading we will be looking at biographies and memoirs

In Social Studies we will finish off our Migration Unit and start looking at Current Affairs

With only 4 weeks til our Spring Break, there is a lot to get done over this short period and so the students will need to remain focused and organized to meet goals and deadlines.

Thanks again for entrusting me with your child.