The "Catching a Snowflake" art look absolutely beautiful. Everyone worked hard and should be proud of their masterpieces. If you did not finish, make sure you bring a spare shirt on Monday to complete your art. Chalk pastels are a pretty, but messy medium.

Literacy
Make sure you have your Word Study duotang and notebook at school for Monday. We still need a bit of work on making SINGULAR words PLURAL. Some words follow a rule and some do not. The exceptions you must memorize. Here are the links for practice:
https://www.slideshare.net/MsMax26/irregular-plural-nouns
https://www.education.com/game/irregular-plural-nouns-skirace/

Make sure you have your simile for Monday. We will add them to our literacy devices bulletin board.

Math
In grade 4 we practiced measuring in millimetres and using millimetres to solve problems. In grade 5, we practiced using different units to describe objects. Changing to different units was important in this lesson. For example, could someone be 1630 mm tall? It's very difficult to picture that many millimetres. In centimetres this measurement in 163 cm, which is 1 m 63 cm. If you think about that, most people are on average between 1 m and 2 m tall, so it makes sense.

Here's a sketch of a bed to help you with the last questions:

Decimal test on Wednesday. You should know how to:
Represent a decimal tenth (grade 4) or decimal hundredths (grade 5):

• on a number line
• standard form
• expanded form
• words (how it is read)
• place value chart
• base-10 blocks
• picture
• money (grade 5)

You should also be able to count forward and backward by tenths (grade 4) and hundredths (grade 5). Remember counting forwards is like adding and backwards is like subtracting. NO FRACTIONS ON THIS TEST.

Sample questions grade 4:

• Represent 1.7 five different ways (see above)
• How would you read 6.1?
• Place the decimal numbers on a number line 0.7, 1.2, 1.9, 2.4; labels the divisions on the number line
• What decimal is shown on the number line?
• Describe 3 things about 0.9 (e.g. it's more than half; it's less than 1; it would take 9 jumps of 0.1 to get there from 0.....)
• How many tenths if 3.6? (each whole has 10 tenths so it has 36 tenths)
• Count backwards 5 times by tenths (0.1) starting at 3.2

Sample questions grade 5:

• Choose a decimal hundredth between 2 and 3 and represent it five different ways
• How would you read 7.39?
• Count forwards by 0.01 5 times starting at 1.65
• What decimal is shown on the number line?
• What decimal does each representation show?
• Place the decimals on the number line 2.38, 2.45, 2.81, 2.13; label the divisions on the number line
• Leo counts forwards by 0.01 starting at 1.90, Joseph counts backwards by 0.01 starting at 2.13. When is the first time Leo's number will be greater than Joseph's number? Show the counting.

Social Studies

Think about possible different industries for the natural resources in the Interior Plains (Thursday's post). Be ready to complete your chart tomorrow. Your goal is to try to have your brochure done by the end of the week. This week we will begin discussing the Arctic. Brrrr..... feels like the Arctic here. Did you know the average daily temperature in January in the Arctic is about -35 degrees Celsius?