Family Literacy Day - January 27th

This special day is celebrated annually to remind parents that taking time to read or do an activity with your child every day, helps improve your child's literacy skills as well as your own!

What could you do with your child that will help improve their literacy skills, not take too much time, and be fun as well? The following site has ideas for 15 minute activities, facts & statistics, and videos about literacy and literacy tips. Click here to get to the website, then click on Family Literacy in the light blue directory bar at the top of the home page. Next, scroll to the activities e.g. 15 minutes of fun, downloads, and much more.

Make every day a literacy day! Have fun!

Homework January 14, 2016

Click here to watch a video about contractions.
Write the title, Contractions and the date at the top of your page.
Copy the first sentence about the job of the apostrophe, then write each contraction and its long form.

Telling Time

In math, we are learning about analog and digital clocks, practising telling the time, and calculating elapsed time. We have just finished a unit on linear measurement and know that telling time is another type of measurement.
The type of measuring tools and units of measure are different for each type of measuring. For linear measurement we use cm, m. and km as units of measure. Rulers, metre sticks, and tape measures are some of the tools we use to measure linear distances. What are the units of measure for measuring time? What are the tools we use?

Below, you will find a few links to videos that reviews how to tell time on an analog clock.
Click here to review telling time, click here, too.
Click here to practise telling time with words like, "past" and "to" a particular hour.

Early Canadian Communities - Early Settlers

Early Settlers in Canada

We have been learning about early communities in Canada. We have learned and talked about the First Nations Peoples and the Inuit People of Canada.

We will now be learning about the early settlers. The following website provides lots of information about early settlers or pioneers. See what you can discover about the way they lived, what their challenges were, and how they affected the lives of First Nations and Inuit Peoples.
Click here to read about pioneers.

The following site has various links to other sites where you can further research pioneers and their way of life. Click here to find the sites. Try the Great Upper Canada Pioneer Adventure. You will have to make decisions about various problems and situations just like the pioneers did!

Basic Math Operations 

Parts of Equations

We will be looking at various math operations such as addition (+), subtraction (-), multiplication (x), and division (÷). Let's briefly discuss the parts of addition and subtraction equations.

Addition

An easy addition equation may look like this -

          7 + 3 = 10
addend + addend = sum

The numbers 7 and 3 are called "addends".
The answer is called the "sum".
10 is the sum of 7+3.

The Equal Sign

The equal sign (=) says that what is on the left of the sign is equal to , or the same amount as, what is on the right of the sign.
Let's look at the equations

6 + 1 = 10 -3       and       6 + 1 = 3 + 4
   7            7                         7          7

The amounts on either side of the equal signs are the same. Can you see how I could have written many more equations?

Subtraction

An easy subtraction equation may look like this -

          10 - 6 = 4
minuend - subtrahend = difference

The 10 is the first number and it is called the "minuend". It is usually the greatest number.
The number after the minus sign is called the "subtrahend". In this case it is the number 6. It is usually less than the minuend, but can be the same as the minuend.
The answer is called the "difference".
The difference between 10 and 6 is 4.

Click here for further information.
The Math is Fun! website has a good illustrated dictionary that explains many math terms. Click here to look at it.
You can also review and practise number skills on this site - click here.
Worksheets can also be printed from this site.