Halloween/Dress Up Day

Reuse your plastic!

Maths Topic 5 Practice Test Answers

Topic 5 1 B 2 D 3 A 4 C 5 D 6 C 7 C 8 D 9 C 10 A 11 B 12 B 13 C 14 D

Stories With Meaning: An Introduction to Defending Big Ideas

Salt and Sand

Pyrite - Fool's Gold.

Thank you, Darius, for reminding me about this really interesting material.

Pyrite

Home " Minerals " Pyrite Its nickname is "Fool's Gold," but it often contains a surprising amount of gold! Pyrite is a brass-yellow mineral with a bright metallic luster. It has a chemical composition of iron sulfide (FeS 2) and is the most common sulfide mineral.

The History Halloween

Holidays

Kids learn about Halloween. The history and facts about this holiday with scary costumes and candy called All Hallows Eve.

Week 10 Update

5th Grade Weekly Update

Dear Parents, 

October approaches its end and our Fancy Dress Day will be held next Thursday, October 31st. This can only mean that our mid-semester break is approaching. Please note that there will be no school on Friday, November 1st  and Monday, November 4th.   

With time seeming to fly due to all of the fun that we are having and all that we are accomplishing, it will be the middle of November before we know it, so please keep in mind that our Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held in the afternoons and evenings from November 11th to 15th. I look forward to discussing your child’s progress with you then.

What we learned this week

Maths: Topic 5 – Dividing by two-digit divisors. Topics 1-4 Cumulative Multiple Choice Test next Tuesday.

Literacy: Summarisation/My Side of the Mountain/Nouns TEST

Science: Chapter 1 – Properties of Matter: Chapter Review and Test

Social Studies: Ch. 4 New Frontiers

What we will learn next week

Maths: Topic 5 – Dividing by two-digit divisors & Topic Test

Literacy: English Unit 3 Verbs/Novel: The Tiger Rising – Defending Big Ideas - Introduction to interpretive reading. 

Science: Chapter 2 – Forces and Motion

Social Studies: Ch. 4 New Frontiers

Announcements:

Student of the Week:

Well done, Matthis Lee. Check out the Student of the Week page on the blog to find out more.  

Dojo Masters:

Thanks for all the hard work this week. Please check the Dojo Masters page on the blog to see who our masters for this week are. 

Reminders

1. Dress- Up Day: October 31st. Parents and younger siblings are welcome to join.
2. Please ensure that your child logs in to Achieve 3000 every time an article is assigned as homework.
3. Please sign your child’s homework book every day and ensure that they have completed their homework.
4. Please sign any tests sent home and send them back the very next day.
5. Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held from November 11th to 15th.

Have a good weekend!

Mr. Robus

Teacher vs Educator

Professor Henry Wei, Senior Research Associate at the Robustanian Institute of Research and Personal Growth and Development, submitted this interesting explanation that I had not seen before. Thank you, Henry, for listening to the ramblings of an ancient Robustanian and going a step further to see what else has been said about the matter.

Difference Between Educator and Teacher | Educator vs Teacher Definition, Focus

Educator and teacher are two words that appear to be synonyms at first, but there are subtle differences between these two words. When compared with educator, teacher merely refers to a job title; teacher is a person who teaches in a school. But, an educator is a person who educates students.

Geothermal Energy

Thank you, Phoebe, for sending this additional research last night.

What's Good and What's Bad about Geothermal Energy? - Kids Discover

Heat from the earth, called geothermal energy, is another clean and sustainable source of power. Geothermal energy is nothing more than the internal heat that is contained in the rock and fluids beneath the earth's crust. The Earth's core is about 4,000 miles (6,437 km) beneath the surface and is possibly over 7,200 degrees F (3,982 C).

Advantages and Disadvantages of Geothermal Energy - Mechanical Booster

Geothermal energy is one of the significant forms of energy, but a lot of people don't know its importance. It is one of the underestimated forms of energy, but its impact cannot be neglected. In this article, we will learn about the advantages as well as disadvantages of the geothermal energy.

Optical Illusion

This is great! Thanks, Henry!

Why is the Chicago River dyed green once a year?

Meet the man who dyes the Chicago River green for St. Patrick's Day

On St. Patrick's Day, Tom Rowan will do the same thing he has done that day for the past 56 years: He'll make the Chicago River run green.

Deep Sea Mining

Thanks for the research, Fee Bee Zee!

We Are About to Start Mining Hydrothermal Vents on the Ocean Floor - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus

Forty years ago, scientists found alien life. Not on another planet, but on Earth, in the deep sea, in places where plumes of steam and nutrients heated by volcanic activity fed entire ecologies of creatures adapted to harness chemical energy rather than energy from the sun.

Spelling Week 10

Spelling Words

1 excite
2 concern
3 imagine
4 continue
5 enforce
6 propose
7 condition
8 resident
9 possible
10 [mystery word]
11 consist
12 prefix
13 sensitive
14 suitable
15 vacant
16 preserve
17 dangerous
18 vacation
19 terrible
20 accident

Challenge Words confront
preamble
astonish
excellent
reversible
juvenile
amateur
durable

Academic Words:

solid liquid gas boom prospector bust treaty reservation

Week 9 Update

5th Grade Weekly Update

Dear Parents,

We are more than halfway through October now so the end of the first quarter is fast approaching.    With time seeming to fly due to all of the fun that we are having and all that we are accomplishing, it will be November before we know it, so please keep in mind that our Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held in the afternoons and evenings from November 11th to 15th. I look forward to discussing your child’s progress with you then. We still have a little less than a month left until then, but I hope that you will look ahead and ensure that you will be able to attend the meeting. 

What we learned this week

Math: Topic 4 – Dividing by one-digit divisors.

Literacy: Summarisation/My Side of the Mountain/Nouns 

Science: Chapter 1 – Properties of Matter

Social Studies: Ch. 3 The Civil War and Reconstruction/Chapter Review and Test

What we will learn next week

Math: Topic 5 – Dividing by two-digit divisors.

Literacy: Summarisation/My Side of the Mountain/Nouns – Unit 2 Test

Science: Chapter 1 – Properties of Matter – Chapter Wrap Up and Test

Social Studies: Ch. 4: New Frontiers

Announcements:

Student of the Week:

Well done, Janelle Yeh! Check out the Student of the Week page on the blog to find out more.  

Dojo Masters:

Thanks for all the hard work this week. Please check the Dojo Masters page on the blog to see who our masters for this week are.

Reminders

1. Dress- Up Day: October 31st. Parents and younger siblings are welcome to join.
2. Please ensure that your child logs in to Achieve 3000 every time an article is assigned as homework.
3. Please sign your child’s homework book every day and ensure that they have completed their homework.
4. Please sign any tests sent home and send them back the very next day.
5. Parent-Teacher Conferences will be held from November 11th to 15th.

Have a good weekend!

Mr. Robus

Maths Topic 4 Review Test Answers

Topic 4

1. D
2. C
3. A
4. B
5. A
6. B
7. D
8. B
9. C
10. B
11. D
12. C
13. A

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit

Week 9 Spelling

My Side of the Mountain

Spelling Words 1 fashionable
2 comfortable
3 different
4 suitable
5 merchant
6 profitable
7 student
8 possible
9 resident
10 terrible
11 absent
12 vacant
13 servant
14 valuable
15 accident
16 horrible
17 honorable
18 reasonable
19 remarkable
20 laughable

Challenge Words 1 excellent
2 prominent
3 extravagant
4 durable
5 reversible
6 urgent
7 distant
8 migrant

Academic vocabulary

1 atomic theory 2 compound 3 molecule 4 assassinate 5 reconstruction 6 quotient 7 dividend 8 divisor

Happy Martday Birthin

Week 8 Update

5th Grade Weekly Update

Dear Parents,

Our eighth week together has come to an end, which means we’re nearly halfway through the first semester of Grade 5. We have a poster in our room representing the forty weeks of the school year and we are crossing out the weeks to practice working with fractions which come up in a future Maths topic. At this point in time,  eight of our forty weeks together have drawn to a close (that is one fifth) and by the end of Week 10, a quarter of Grade 5 will be over. 

With this in mind, and as the end of October draws nearer, we will have our Fancy Dress Day on Thursday, October 31st which is the week after next.

What we learned this week

Math: Topic 4 – Dividing by one-digit divisors.

Literacy: Styles of Narrative/Personal Narratives

Science: Chapter 1 – Properties of Matter

Social Studies: Ch. 3 The Civil War and Reconstruction

What we will learn next week

Math: Topic 4 – Dividing by one-digit divisors. Topic 4 Test next Friday.

Literacy: Summarization Skills/My Side of the Mountain

Science: Chapter 1 – Properties of Matter

Social Studies: Ch. 3 The Civil War and Reconstruction/Chapter Review and Chapter 2 Project Presentations

Announcements:

Student of the Week:

Well done, Rady Chin. Check out the Student of the Week page on the blog to find out more. 

Dojo Masters:

Thanks for all the hard work this week. Please check the Dojo Masters page on the blog to see who our masters for this week are.

Reminders

1. Dress- Up Day: October 31st. Parents and younger siblings are welcome to join.
2. Please ensure that your child logs in to Achieve 3000 every time an article is assigned as homework.
3. Please sign your child’s homework book every day and ensure that they have completed their homework.
4. Please sign any tests sent home and send them back the very next day.

Have a good loooooooooooong weekend!

Mr. Robus