1st years, click the link below. You may watch or skip the intro. You will need to click on Lessons on the bottom left of the TV. Then choose Division of Whole Numbers and watch the videos.

2nd years, click the link below. You may watch or skip the intro. You will need to click on Lessons on the bottom left of the TV. Then choose Multiplication and Division of Whole Numbers and watch the video.

http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me5l/html/math5.html

Week of August 31 to September 4

Happy Week 3!

Math Facts:
Our focus for the week is addition review 2. Make sure any missed or incorrect problems are written out 3 times each for homework.

1st Years:
This week we are working on multiplication. We are multiplying whole numbers 2 digits by 2 digits and 2 digits by 3 digits. We are also working on multiplying multiples of 10.

2nd Years:
This week we are working on adding and subtracting positive and negative numbers.
Here are some notes we took in class:


positive + positive = positive
negative + negative = negative

Subtracting a negative is the same as adding.

Subtracting a positive or adding a negative is SUBTRACTION!

2 like signs when subtracting = positive
2 unlike sign when subtracting = negative


AS ALWAYS PLEASE ASK FOR HELP IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND. I AM NOT A MIND READER. NOT UNDERSTANDING IS NOT A GOOD REASON FOR NOT DOING YOUR HOMEWORK.

Week of August 24 - 28

Welcome to week 2!


Math Facts:
This week we are going to continue on our math facts review. Our focus is review of addition facts. Monday thru Thursday the class takes a 60 second practice test with 40 problems. Any problems they miss, they will have to write 3 times each for homework.


1st Years:
We will begin working on Unit 1: Number and Operations. This week we have Lesson 1: Multiplying Whole Numbers. When you multiply, the numbers being multiplied are called factors, and the answer is called the product.


2nd Years:
We will begin working on Unit 1: Number and Operations. This week we have Lesson 1: Integers. Integers are whole numbers and their opposites. Integers can be compared using a number line. As you move from left to right on the number line, the numbers are ordered from least to greatest. All negative numbers are less than zero. Use <> to compare numbers.

WELCOME BACK!

Welcome back to the 2009-2010 school year. This first week we will be doing things a little differently. We will all meet in room 38 on Monday. Tuesday we will break up into two groups, check the list on the doors in the morning. The rest of the week we will be meeting in the two different rooms to start.

PE will begin on Tuesday. Please make sure you have tennis shoes that tie, a water bottle and a good attitude.

This year we have a breakfast program available starting at 7am. Check out the menu in the classroom.

I look forward to this school year. Let's make it the best one ever!

March 9 to 13

This week we are working on multiplying, again. It seems that many of us just need a little more practice. Each day we will have a new worksheet to help practice our skills.

Don't forget to work on your math facts nightly.

Also, remember that we have early release Tuesday thru Friday. (12:20 dismissal)

No school next week for Spring Break!!!

Paper Drive Starts Today!!!

Today starts our first ever Telesis Paper Drive! For every new full ream of paper brought in, our class earns 1 point. 12 or more points earns our class a Field day during PE time. The class with the most points will earn a pizza party. The contest will run until February 27th. Thanks for your support.

Booster Club Fundraiser Tonight

The Booster Club is inviting everyone out to Scoops tonight from 5 - 8. Located at 2014 McCulloch Blvd.

Visit their website here: Scoops

Week of December 12 - 16

This is the last week of the semester, can you believe it is here already. This will be a wrap up week trying to make sure we have as many objectives mastered as we can. We will also be working with decimals this week. And, as always, we are continuing our work with our math facts.

Here is a cute poem that I found about decimals by Grandpa Tucker:

Big D
It may come as no surprise

We decimals are line up guys.

Plus and minus will turn out fine

If you will form us in a line.

To add and subtract all you must know

Is to keep us dots all in a row.

Don't worry what's on either side

If you line us up we'll march with pride.

When I am under the division sign

Put a dot above me on the line.

If there's no number to our right

No need to worry through the night.

Just use a zero in each empty space—

Don't move us, cause we're in the right place.

Keep the two of us in a little stack.

In division we go piggy back.
Multiplication with us gets hairy,

That's then we are a little scary.

We do a slide step, then a bow,

Listen up, I'll show you how.

First multiply and forget we're there

Leave us out and we won't care.

Do you have the answer?

Let's begin:Here's the way to put us in.

Above the line start at each dot,

Look to the right, see what you've got.

Count up the spaces there on the right

Add them all up and hold the sum tight.

Now use the slide step, just start on the right,

Remember the sum, keep that number in sight.

Slide past that many, stop and now bow.

Drop the point there, now you know how.

Yes, decimals are usually line up guys

But for multiplication we apologize.

Learn to use us, we're all you've got:

We're America's only number dot.