Tuesday 1 October 2019

Math
Our last day practicing graphing. Grade five had some review exercises in the Nelson textbook and grade 4 collected some sport statistics to display in stem and leaf plots and double bar graphs.
COMPLETE ALL CORRECTIONS.

Data test on Friday:

Grade 4
  • Stem and Leaf Plots: read, construct, find the range, make conclusions
  • Double Bar Graphs - read, construct, make conclusions
  • Surveying
More review
http://www.math4.nelson.com/quizzes/math4quizzes/m4ch3l8.htm

Grade 5
  • Broken Line Graphs -read, construct, trends
  • Bar Graphs with Intervals - read, construct, range of data, end points of intervals
  • Collecting Useful data - population, sample, representative, random, bias
  • Correct way to conduct a survey
More review:
http://math5.nelson.com/quizzes/math5quizzes/gr5_ch3_les4.htm
http://math5.nelson.com/quizzes/math5quizzes/gr5_ch3_les2.htm

Both Grades
Deciding on the scale of the graph (what you count by on the vertical axis)
Labeling vertical and horizontal axis
Title
Colouring
Use of Ruler

Literacy
Today we talked about "Orange Shirt Day". Here is a summary of the history behind orange shirt day.
http://www.orangeshirtday.org/

Share with a parent the story "Shin-chi's Canoe". Tomorrow we will read "Shi-shi-etko".

Social Studies
Make sure you understand the way Canadian elections work. You vote for a MEMBER OF PARLIAMENT. The leader of the party with the most members of parliament elected, becomes prime minister of Canada.

We began our discussion of different types of governments. So far we have talked about a DICTATORSHIP and a DEMOCRACY. We will continue our discussion tomorrow.

Reminders:
  • Thursday Phys. Ed. BRING YOUR GYM CLOTHES.
  • Orange Shirt Day on Friday.