Fractions Fractions Everywhere!

Hello Class!

You have been working so hard naming fractions, creating fractions, and comparing fractions. How about a little fraction fun?

Try out these sites in the link at the right:

Cyberchase

Fraction Flags

http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/fractionflags/ffthirds.html

http://pbskids.org/cyberchase/games/equivalentfractions/index.html

Each site has games that help you to name, recognize and create fractions, and the site will tell you if your work is correct.

Have fun!

Mini-Project: Drummondville and Our School

Hello Families,

This week, following up on the work we started with Ricky Raccoon, we will be continuing a mini-project on Drummondville and D.E.S.. In our project, we are trying to answer 2 main questions:

What is special about Drummondville?

What is special about our school?

This project is allowing me to assess the research and teamwork skills the students possess. Different students will have different foci, and we will work together to complete the overall project as a Voicethread (you can see this using the Ricky link under "Learning Sites") and perhaps as an iMovie or podcast depending on how the work unfolds.

Also, a family asked for information about Magazine subscriptions for their children. I have added some links in the parent section to some magazines the kids really enjoy. Maybe just in time for Christmas ;)

Have a great week,
Kathy

RICKY RACCOON IS HERE!

Today our class welcomed Ricky Raccoon, a puppet that is travelling around the province visiting English schools. We have him for 3 days.

In those three days, we need to put together a part of Ricky's project. We must share information about our school and our town.

What should we say?

Tonight I am changing the homework. Please talk about what makes our school special, and why our town is a great place.

Please write your ideas in your yellow exercise book. We need to work on this right away, since Ricky leaves Friday!

Let's see what we can put together!