Great Graphs!

Homework

Choose one of the data sets below. Make a broken line graph for that data set. Then talk about 3 things that you know about the data. Who might want to use this data and what would they do with it?

Monthly Precipitation

 

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Cairns, Aus	400	410	430	190	90	40	20	20	23	23	90	170

   

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Prince Rupert BC	240	190	210	160	130	100	120	130	190	310	310	280

Monthly Temperatures in Ottawa (In C)
 

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Ottawa, On	10	12	23	30	32	35	35	33	32	27	20	16

Here is our anchor charts to help us for our graphing test tomorrow.

Science Review Questions

Hello Everyone!

Here are the questions that we created to help us study for our test on Energy on Wednesday. 

Don't forget to use your info sheet that you created from our class presentations to help you as well.  I highly suggest you know about the forms of energy we studied, and know some things about them.

Happy Studying!

Ms. Pike :)

Science Test Review

Learning Goals:

• Learn about how we use energy and resources
• Look at ways to save or conserve energy
• Understand how energy can be changed
• Know what renewable and non renewable sources of energy are

Learn about how we use energy and resources

• How does (a specific type of energy) work?
• Solar, nuclear, geothermal, wind, hydroelectric, biomass, (types of energy)
• How is (type of energy) used?
• Where can you find (specific type of energy)?
• What are some natural resources that provide energy?
• What are some benefits to and cons of using alternative forms of energy?

Look at ways to save or conserve energy

• We can use less energy
• Turning off lights when you are out
• Closing the tap when you brush your teeth
• Using clotheslines to dry small batches of clothes
• Using renewable energies:  geothermal, wind, solar, hydroelectric
• Look for other ways to find renewable energies

Understand how energy can be changed

• How can we use the energy from the sun to …..from the wind to…..
• How many ways can (this type of energy) be changed?
• What type of energy does (name) create?

Know what renewable and non renewable sources of energy are

• What energy forms are renewable and non-renewable?
• What do you think could be a future form of renewable energy and why would this be a good idea?
• Define renewable and non-renewable forms of energy.
• Can renewable energies be upgraded so that they use less materials?  Why or why not?
• What changes or modifications need to be made in order for us to use solar power more effectively in our homes?
• How could you change a non-renewable source into a renewable source of energy?

Question Wednesday!!!!!!!

Today was a questioning Wednesday.We were answering questions all week it was awesome.

We did all types of different questions, like on the line questions which are level 1 questions, between the line questions level 2 ,and beyond the line question which is level 3. The link is in the description

What are on the line questions?

 http://www.screenchomp.com/t/gTnHGxppcwjr

 

Can you give some examples of on the line questions?

http://www.screenchomp.com/t/87UtcCLOdkhw

 

                                      FROM GROUP 3   

                            

Now On to Graphing!

Hello!

We have just finished our unit on whole numbers, decimals and fractions.  I will be marking the test this weekend and hope to have your child's final mark back to them sometime next week.

Starting Monday we will be working on graphing until the end of December.  Here are our learning goals for the unit:

Learning Goals – Graphing

I will…

·        Identify if data is discrete or continuous data;

·        Collect and organize primary and secondary data;

·        Use scales on graphs;

·        Learn how we can use a little bit of data to make judgements;

·        Decide if the way that data was collected was fair or not;

·        Make conclusions about data I see;

·        Learn about, and calculate mean;

·        Compare two related sets of data and talk about what is the same and what’s different in the data;

·        Use different types of graphs to help me represent and compare data (e.g., stem and leaf plot, double bar graphs, broken line graphs

As you and your child come across different graphs, have them talk about what they notice in the graph and how they think the data was collected.  Have them make their own graphs about things that happen in your home.  Remember that we will be using different types of graphs like Stem and Leaf Plot, Double Bar Graph and the new one for Grade 5:  Broken Line Graph. 

Here is some information about those types of graphs:

Stem and Leaf Plot
http://www.purplemath.com/modules/stemleaf.htm

Double Bar Graph
http://www.basic-mathematics.com/double-bar-graphs.html

Broken Line Graph
http://www.ck12.org/concept/Broken-Line-Graphs/#all

We will also be using the website "Create A Graph" - But PLEASE do not use the pie or the XY graph as they are not our grade level. 
http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/default.aspx

Have A Great Weekend!
Ms. Pike

Fraction Fun

Here are some websites that you can visit to help you get a little more help with fractions:

http://studyjams.scholastic.com/studyjams/jams/math/index.htm
- only visit fractions, equivalent fractions, compare fractions and mixed numbers, and order fractions and decimals

http://www.mathsisfun.com/equivalent_fractions.html
A review on what equivalent fractions are

http://www.aaamath.com/fra42ax2.htm
an interactive activity for equivalent fractions

Enjoy!
Ms. Pike

P2`s energetic day!!!!!! =D

Today we did science about different forms of energy. Later this week we will be presenting what we learned. We had a list of questions to answer the different forms of energy.

Have a great Monday!!!!!

Group 3 =D

fun friday

In the morning we had math, and then we had french and then we did questions about the book 4 feet 2 sandals.Then we had math/language and we played bingo

What Did We Do Today?

We started our day with doing some math on the smart board, we got something to do in groups of 2 on a chart paper we had to roll a dice and put the numbers on a number line it was fractions!!! Then in french we practised our french song La pizza in groups. After recess we read the book Four Feet Two Sandals and we did some silent and guided reading

.After lunch we talked about energy and we made a screen chomp video (the link is below)
http://www.screenchomp.com/t/IovI2cYgMB

Then we were in groups of 5 and we did a project on power we chose different power topics and then we had some questions and answered them.Then we gave our group our mark how we did and we wrote what we need to improve on.

After afternoon recess we did DPA for 15 mins then we came in watched a video on empathy named do they know its Christmas.After watching the video our day ended with silent reading and we went home. we had a good Thursday!!!!!!!!! :)

Science Inquiry

Hello Everyone!

We are now jumping into our Science Inquiry on Energy.  We are working on drafting a general inquiry question and will post that shortly.

Here are some of our learning goals for the unit:
* Learn about how we use energy and resources;
* Look at ways to save or conserve energy;
* Understand how energy can be changed;
* Know what renewable and non-renewable sources of energy are.

At home, here are a few websites that you can visit to help you gain some background knowledge about the different forms of energy.

http://users.freshpond.net/j/jrobichaud@pollardschooldotcom/energyunit.html
(Please ignore steps 4 & 5 as they don't align with our Ontario expectations)

http://ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/energy/intro/index.cfm
All about fossil fuels

http://ecokids.ca/pub/eco_info/topics/energy/world/index.cfm
World energy facts

Happy Learning!
Ms. Pike :)

Grey cup madness

Today we went on a trip to the grey cup 100th anniversary. We made a class banner and did some football drills like going around a dummy and catching a ball and throwing it back to the person. After we went to the Eaton centre to eat our lunches. We also met Ms.Pike's dad at the Eaton centre. We went for a walk to Nathan Philips square and went inside a building that was part of the Municipal Government.  When we were about to go to Queens park we stopped at Tim Hortons and got hot chocolate.  From there we went to Queens park and there we saw a very old building. After that we went back to the bus and headed back to school.               
                           





                                  By: Samiul and Aaron                                                                       

Getting Ready For The Grey Cup!

Here are the questions that your group has to answer for Monday.  Be ready to impress your leader!

Remember to dress warm, wear running shoes / comfortable shoes, don't forget lunch!

Terrific Tue$day!!!!!!!!!

 On terrific Tuesday we  divided  subs  for math (not real subs pictures of subs on the smart board).We also read  our weekly story One Green Apple.  After lunch we went to the gym and we did some basketball drills then we played a basket ball game. It was really really really fun!!!!!! We all enjoyed the 2 periods of gym.We came back into the portable and did some silent reading to cool our selves down. We did health  with a supply teacher. We were learning about  the persuasive techniques used in advertisements.
                                             The day was awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
                                                        HAPPY DIWALI TO ALL THAT CELEBRATED
      AND HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL THAT CELEBRATED

Rememberance day !

Today is our Remembrance Assembly and we will Remember our Canadian solders who fought in war for our freedom .Our class will be responsible  for the assembly.This is our class wreath,  we read a book called A Child`s Garden and we did a q-chart for the book. 

Q- CHART FOR A CHILD`S GARDEN



A CHILD`S GARDEN

OUR CLASS WREATH

From the awesome group 3

Our celebrity day

Today we were researching about a celebrity but first Ms.Pike showed us a template of what we were supposed to do. Here is the template.

We did the big template on Oscar Pistorius. In the afternoon we started our own templates about famous
people.

From,
        The famous group 3.

The world best day

In the morning we were doing a math game for math and this how you play the game:

* first you cut the lines in a paper with  fractions 
* then you put all the cut fractions into a paper bag
* then find a partner, then each partner picks one piece out of the bag and makes rows
* the first person with 3 rows wins!

In French, we were practicing our vowels.  We were told that we have a test on Friday. 

After recess, we worked on our concept chart for the month.  It is on responsibility.  We came up with lots of ideas of examples of what responsibility.  Then we all came together to make a good definition of what we think responsibility means to us.  When we had a little time, people were working on finishing things that they didn't have done.  The rest of the people were reading books.

After lunch we were working on government.  We learned about how we could make a party, and then make lots of people vote for the party. 

After recess, we went to the library to do Media with Ms. Prezens and we were talking about a project that we are going to work on.

And that's how it was.

Group 2 - But mainly Dheer :)

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       

Picture Tuesday

We began our day with math we played a fraction game in which we have to pick a card and then we have to place the number on the smart board by the box and we have to make a whole number by adding the card number.(eg-1/ 4 or 2/ 6)/  We had two teams the left team won.  We can use the digital fraction strips by visiting this site:
http://www.abcya.com/fraction_tiles.htm


Then we did french in french we were learning about our parts of the house the bathroom,bedroom,living room,dining room we also learned the parts (e.g.-the basin in the bathroom ,the sofa in the living room etc.)

After recess we we completed our casi and then our assignment was to complete our unfinished work (casi, kapok tree,the summary of the book ,the summary of the commercial and the book log)  Then we had lunch. 

After lunch we went to get our picture everyone were dressed neatly no one had worn clothes like the joker.  We stood in the gym by height order tallest to smallest. We all took our class photo and then our independen photo in different poses.  Then  for our dpa we played basketball and our day end by watching the history of Canada which helped us in social studies.

Fun Monday

In the morning  we learned the new unit  in math. The new unit is about whole numbers fractions and decimals.

In french we had new groups which most of us liked.  We read a story called why the sky is far  away for casi.

After lunch we wrote ten things we did this morning till now. DID YOU KNOW THAT WHATEVER WE DID IS PART OF THE GOVERNMENT!!?? That  was soo cool.

              YOUR AWESOME GROUP5!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bellmere Best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today was one good day in our life!

When we got in the class room we stated it off with some math. 

We had french then recess.

 After recess we read one of the CASI stories.

When the lunch was finished we went to the assembly.  We were the people who were presenting at the assembly.  We made a video that showed all the different ways we show respect in our school.  Then our principal, Mrs. Legassie told us that the video was awesome and that she wanted a copy of it for the front of the school.

Then we had DPA.  We played basketball and handball.

We finished our day off with library.

Group 4.
                                                                          

Terry Fox day

Today in the afternoon we had the Terry  Fox run. Our goal as a class was to reach 42.2 km which equals a whole marathon also that is how  much terry fox ran in a day. We ran 1 and 1/2 marathon altogether.

                                                         This is how we figured it out.

This was our Terry Fox day.We had so much fun.

Don't forget to bring back your math test signed

Group 3

The weird day

In the morning we had a math test on patterning.  

In the afternoon we watched our video that we are presenting at the bellmere's best assembly.  We also got to play basketball.

We had a good day.

                                                                                                                                            

Respectful Tuesday

In morning we solved some math problems.
Then in french we drew our family.
Then we attached a rope and added the title  to our terry fox's timeline

After recess we did silent reading  and we added plenty of books to our classroom library we got Amulet 3,4,5.6, and we had plenty of books of Geronimo Stilton.
We went in the school and took different pictures of showing respect as our class is going to perform in the Belmere's best after.
That we went out and played basketball

Group 1

Mad Monday

On Monday morning, we did math with a translating pattern.

In french we did a mini project on our family portrait.

In the afternoon we finished our Terry Fox time line, but we  had  our voices to high.  We  had  a  fabulous  gym we were practicing running for the terry fox run it was fun.this  was  our  mad  Monday.

Group 5

Terry Fox Friday

In math we did a problem about finding out how many toothpicks we would need to make 20 squares. 
After when we were done, Ms. Pike marked the work.

In language, we chose a partner and we took a book and read it.  Then we used our summarizing template to summarize the main events.  We then wrote out a summary paragraph about the book.  A lot of people forgot to indent at the start of the paragraph, and some people forgot to include the title of the book they summarized.

Today we had a really good day. We played doctor dodge ball and we had lots of fun playing doctor dodge ball. We divided in 2 groups. Each group then broke into two teams.  After one group played, then the other group got to play.  We rotated for a few games.

We continued to work on our time line about Terry Fox.  In our groups we decided what events we would add to our time line.  After we wrote the events onto a card and then on Monday we will put that onto the time line. 

It was a really amazing day!
Have a good weekend!

Group 4

Government

Today we learned a lot of stuff about government.  People brought in different artifacts that were from their home and were about the different levels of government.  We had the most artifacts from the Federal level of government.  We attached them to our chart about what we know about government.

For math, we worked in groups of two to solve a problem.  We all used a table of values.  The problem was about a girl eating popcorn.  At the last part of our lesson we had a congress and gave each other feedback in the form of a star or a wish. 

We also worked on our recount of Terry Fox's life.  We are going to make a time line with all of his life events. 

We read a story about a camel who wanted to be a ballerina. 

We had a good day,
Group 3

Our day!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Today in the morning we did math, in math we had to make some models of some patterns.After that we had silent reading.Later on for language we did our S.W.B.T.S(somebody,wanted,but,then,so/summary)for the story Goldilocks and the three bears.We had to do it in Goldilocks's or the baby bears perspective.This is a picture of the book......

In the afternoon we worked on our three levels of government Federal, provincial,and municipal.We got assigned one level each group and we researched about that part of the government.You can see what we did.

After that we shared together what we found.Later we had DPA and we played basketball.We had a lot of fun!!!!!!
                              Well,this was what our day was like!!!Group 2!

Terrific Tuesday

Today  Ms Pike returned our time lines, we also pinned it up today.

For math, we talked about the categories that we are being evaluated on:  Knowledge and Understanding, Thinking, Communication and Application.  We found examples of each type of question.

It was raining so we did not have recess. Today at french we also were a lot noisy when we were picking our chairs . We also did a summary of little red riding hood using the graphic organizer of:  Somebody - Wanted - But - Then - So to help us along. 

In social studies we asked questions about the Canadian Government and will answer them as we go through out unit.

We did an on-line arm workout for DPA. 

We also visited the Book Fair in the library.  On Friday we can go back and purchase the books that we like.  Our class book order is also due on Friday.

By Group 1

We Spoiled Our Gym Time

Our day started off with a really good morning. 

Everyone was listening in the morning, they were tired so they didn't say anything.  We were able to do our work faster and easier.  It was quiet in our room and we were all able to work to the best of our ability.

We had a wonder word for the day:  It was walkman.  We know what it was.  It was a machine that you could carry around with you to play music. 

After lunch,we had a discussion about people with cancer. It was huge and really scary and exciting.  The main person we were talking about was Terry Fox.  He ran to defeat cancer but sadly had to end his race in Thunder Bay after running 3339 miles.  He raised 2 million dollars on his own, and a telethon also raised 10 million dollars. 

 We were all too excited about going to gym, so we spoiled our chance of gym time because some people were being unsafe in the gym.  So we had to head back to our class.

Group 5

Going to the Dr.

We had a supply teacher today.  Her name was Mrs. Jones.

We did a math problem.  At first people didn't really get the problem, but after they figured the problem out. 

Also, we did our good copy of our personal time lines. 

We learned about different types of fiction books:  historical fiction, science fiction, and realistic fiction.

We played Dr. Dodge ball during gym.  Whenever we get caught we have to freeze.  The Dr. has to touch the people who have been hit by the ball.  So they could be free.  If the Dr. gets caught, we are all out.  It was a tough and fun game.

Have a nice weekend.
Group 4

The Noisest Day!

Today we called it "The Nosiest Day" because everyone at our group was so noisy.  We kept talking, and not listening.  When the teacher was talking, we were talking as well - Ms. Pike was not impressed!  We reviewed our class norms and the afternoon was quieter.

For math, we did a problem about predicting if we would have enough cubes to finish a design.  Some people were not finished the math, and had to sit out of DPA to finish it.  We also went over an answer to a problem that we did earlier this week and gave some descriptive feedback on it.  We call our feedback "A Star and A Wish"  A star is something that was done good, and a wish is something that can be improved upon.

Our lines have been good the whole week.  Other teachers are complementing us on how good our lines look. 

In writing, we took our significant events and made a rough copy of our time line.  We chose 10 events that were really important to us and put them on our time line.

We ended the day with DPA.  We played freeze tag.

The Noisy Group 3
(Who will be quieter tomorrow)

The Great Day

We had lots of fun in math.  We did a problem about finding out the amount of grass seed needed to make a full bag of mixed seed.  We got to pick our own partners - We liked that.  A few people shared their answer and they got a "star" and a "wish" of something that they did well on, and something that they can improve upon.  People used different strategies to help them solve the problem:  multiplication, charts, and addition.

In writing, we got to work on our dot jot notes for our personal time lines for what happened that was good and bad in our lives. 

We also talked about why readers abandon books and made a list.

In French class, we sang some songs. 

At lunch some people in our class had cross country. 

In Ms. Prezens class we shared our time line dot jots and sorted through ones that were significant.  She also shared with us her time line to age 13.  She also showed Ms. Pike's timeline as well.  When we compare Ms. Prezens and Ms. Pike's time lines they had different numbers of  good and bad events.

For DPA we played frozen tag outside.  It was lots of fun.

Respect Tuesday

Today we did a lot of work around our character trait for the month, respect.

We reviewed our definition for respect that we created yesterday.  We added new points which were examples and non-examples from our life about respect. 

Our Concept Chart with our updated thoughts.

A close up of not showing respect.

In the afternoon we read the lyrics to a song.  The song is called "A Little Respect."  We came up with what we thought the song was about.  It turned out to be a rockin song - we thought it was going to be sad, and slow but we were wrong - in a good way.

We updated our class norms to include:

* show respect to teachers and students; and
* take care of the materials in our room and our school.

Our list of class norms so far.

It was a really respectful Tuesday in P2.

Group 1

Homework:
* think up more events for your timeline;
* practice 6 times tables.

Marvellous Monday!

In the morning we had a great time.  We all listened and the coat room was nice.  We did a math problem about figuring out how much trail mix Grandpa would need to make 5 servings.  When we write our math answers we need to remember to check our success criteria to make sure that we:
* have clear thinking;
* show what operation we used (addition, subtraction, multiplication or division);
* our answer is in a final sentence.

We made posters about respect.

We had gym and we played dodge ball.  We had so much fun. 

Today was also the day that the Grade 5's got to play at the playground. 

It was a Marvellous Monday!

Group 5.

Week 1 - Summary

Hello Students and Parents of P2

I want to thank your children for making our first week back to school an enjoyable one.  The students are really keen to learn, and are picking up the new routines and classroom rules very quickly. 

Beginning next week, we will start getting more in-depth with our curriculum expectations for the Term. You will find out more about these expectations at our upcoming Curriculum Night on September 20th. 

Our character trait for the month is Respect.  We are going to start looking at the different ways in which we show respect (to ourselves, the environment, to others) and how respect is shown to us.  We are also going to continue to look at personal narratives and will begin to write our own.  In math, we are going to continue to look at patterns in shapes, numbers and the world around us. 

Thank you again P2 for a great first week - I have a feeling that week 2 will be even better!

Ms. Pike :)

Dodge Ball Friday

We played Dodge Ball today in gym.  We had so much fun.  We played "Bug Dodge ball."  In this kind of dodge ball we have a lot of balls.  Two people are "bugs"  they then try and hit the others with the ball (they are soft balls) anywhere under their chest.  If a person gets hit by a ball they have to be a dead bug and lie on their back.  Then if anyone touches them they are free from being a bug and can start to run.

Today was a good day because everyone lined up good.  Everyone brought their forms back so we were able to have gym.  Everyone also had fun playing Bug Dodge Ball. 

We went outside to read a book called "When The Relatives Came."  It was a good book.  It was a narrative book.  It was someones personal narrative about when their relatives came over for a visit. 

We had math today.  We did some number patterns.  Some of the patterns were a bit tricky, but then everyone figured it out. 

We hope you enjoyed this.  Have a good weekend.
Group 4.
:)

Our Whole Day

Today we had a class discussion to talk about the different ways that we choose books.  Some of these ways were:
* look at the back cover
* choose based on your level
* choosing randomly
* the title interests us
* the pictures appeal to us

In the afternoon, we then organized our classroom library into genre.  We had the following lables:  chapter books, non-fiction, fiction, mystery, sport fiction, sport non-fiction, biography, action and poetry.  We need to remember to keep our classroom library clean.  We have two classroom libraries:  one from the school and one that has Ms. Pike's own books.  We have to keep the spines of each of the books on the outside of the bin, we have to keep them in their correct bin (they go back where they were).

We did some problem solving on a patterning problem about caterpillars.  We found that there were seven different ways that we could have solved the problem.  Here is a picture of the different strategies that we used:

We had a good day!

Please don't forget to return all of your forms by tomorrow or else we can't have gym!!!!!!!!!!

Our Second Day

Today we made a list of our daily jobs.  Each day, one group will cover all of our classroom jobs.  Its easy to remember what group it is, because it goes with our daily schedule.

In Math, we picked a partner and then we made a pattern with pattern blocks and colour tiles.  We remembered some things about patterning:  attributes, shapes, colours, types of patterns, changes in a pattern.

We talked about how we the back of the room to look.  We made a list of what our expectations were, and then made our bags and shoes look like that.  This is a picture of what we want it to look like.

We added a new word to our "wonder word" list.  We inferred correctly and our definition matched our thoughts.

In Language, we learned about the reasons that people pick a book, and why people get rid of books. 

We talked about (and voted on) what activities we want to do in gym this fall.  We made a graph to show our results.  From this graph we learned that most people liked dodge ball and that no body liked basketball.

A great day in P2!!!!

Our First Day!

Hello out there in cyberspace!

Welcome to our first day of Grade 5.  Today we had a very busy and productive day.  We met our new teacher (Ms. Pike), our new classmates, and started to make some decisions about our classroom.

One of our first orders of business was to decide if we wanted a class blog, a twitter account, or both.  We paired up and told our partners what we thought of the idea.  Then as a class we shared our reasons for "yes" we should have one or "no" we should not have one.  After much discussion we decided that we should have a class blog but not a twitter account.

 

 

We then worked in a table group to create some possible names for our blog.  We wanted something that was easy to type and not too long.  Each table brainstormed ideas and then voted on what they thought the best one at each table was.  We then put these possibilities on a chart and talked about the pros and cons of each one.  When we were done we had narrowed it down to two possible choices.  We then took a class vote to see which one we liked the best....

 

 

 

 

Our winner was bjpsgaret5p2!  BJPS stands for Bellmere Jr. Public School, the Garet comes from a French word for grade and the P2 is the portable we are in.  A great class collaboration!

 

Just a reminder that the package that was sent home today needs to be filled out and returned to the school by Friday at the latest.  This is important information about your child, and needs to be updated each school year.