This week, we finished up transformations with a fun review (ask your child about Plickers!), a transformation performance task and a mini quiz. Students did really well and learned a lot! Please ask your child to see their quiz - it went home in their backpacks today (Friday). We also did some coding, and learned a lot about sequencing, loops and conditional statements. Ask your child what character and game they coded. Students also explored how to code using a Micro Bit too! We even made a "Coding Help Desk" where students could ask 'expert coders' their questions!
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This week we practised plotting points in the coordinate grid (Gr 5 in the first quadrant and Gr 6 in all four quadrants) and reviewed translations & reflections. We also tackled rotations, which are traditionally a harder part of the math curriculum for students. We really focussed on growth mindset and being kind to ourselves: for MANY students, rotations are quite difficult to see. So, we'll keep that in mind, try our best, and know that if we're struggling with this topic, we're not alone! Students enjoyed a three day rotation, which included 1) Transformation Battleship, 2) an online review activity (found in Google Classroom) and 3) transformation task cards. See below for photos of the fun! Below are some photos of our rotation learning: If your child would like more practise on transformations, reflections and rotations, feel free to review this video and try these tasks below:
This month, our amazing student teacher, Ms Millotte, is teaching about transformations. This includes reviewing how to plot points in the coordinate grid and learning about translations (slides), reflections (flips) and rotations (turns). Generally, we are keeping the Grade 5s in the first quadrant (positive numbers) and the Grades 6s in all four quadrants (includes negative numbers). This week, we tackled translations and reflections: Students loved a 'cut and paste' activity where they solidified a lot of math vocabulary (coordinate grid, origin, X-axis, Y-axis, prime). Fun! We also did some hands-on work with geoboards: Students also enjoyed creating their own images and then reflecting them! This was great practise to label our images with with "prime" coordinates (A, A', A''). This lets us know which image is the original and which is the first reflection (A') or the second reflection (A").
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March 2021
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