Friday 29 May 2015

May 29, 2015

Look up the functions of the six organelles

Study for math test: linear equation, patterns, slope, intercepts, probability (1 hour test)

Thursday 28 May 2015

May 28, 2015

Math: Four people play Rock, Paper, Scissor.  What is the probability of getting a tie game?  Show your work

Wednesday 27 May 2015

May 27, 2015

Math test on June 3.  Probability, linear equation, patterns, y=mx+b (slope and intercepts)
STUDY

Finish second page of cloze passages

Tuesday 26 May 2015

May 26, 2015

Math Probability: dice, spinner, 416 phone numbers and licence plates

Cloze passages: 1 sheet (can do both sheets if you have time)

Put water bottle in freezer to freeze water. Bring frozen water to school

Please put deodorant on tomorrow morning.  Leave an extra clean T shirt in locker

Monday 25 May 2015

May 25, 2015

Math: Calculate the theoretical probability when flipping four coins.  List all the combinations (order is not important).  How does the experimental results compare to the theoretical?  Explain

Cloze 20 to 23

Friday 22 May 2015

May 22, 2015

Send me your speech if you want suggestions and constructive criticism for content

Cloze 16 to 19

If you want to improve your SS quiz (Upper and Lower Canada), study and redo the SAME test on Monday

Floor plan for school building.  Calculate the area that the building cover.  Convert sq metre into sq feet (1 sq m = 10.76 sq ft).  Get the area in sq ft, then we can estimate the cost of the new roof

How many 416 telephone numbers are there in Ontario?

Thursday 21 May 2015

May 21, 2015

Math probability: complete the coin flip questions.  Convert tally into decimal.

Print out speech (double space).  Cut it out into small sections and glue on index cards.  Start memorizing the speech.

Wednesday 20 May 2015

May 20, 2015

Cloze passages #12 to 15

History text, read and learn page 184 to 191 (Upper and Lower Canada).  Quiz tomorrow

Bring five identical coins (pennies or nickels would be better).  Please don't bring Kurgerrands (look this up if you want to know what it is)

Tuesday 19 May 2015

May 19, 2015

Language: Cloze passage 8 to 11 (grade 5 level)

Math probability: four spinner questions.  Calculate the theoretical  probability and complete the experimental data by spinning/ tallying the outcomes (spin 70x per spinner).

- are the theoretical and experimental results the same?  Why not?

- bring five pennies or nickels to school.  Must be the same coins


Friday 15 May 2015

May 15, 2015

Complete and practice speech by Tuesday May 19, 2015

Cloze passage 1 to 8, grade 4 level
80% to 100%: great reader.  No problem decoding and comprehending at the passage level.  Use different strategies for reading
55% to 79%; average reader. some problem with reading.  Use some strategies to decode and comprehend
 <55%:  struggle to read at that level

Share Starbucks and Tim Horton's Excel with parents.  How to save up $4 million.  It is not that hard.  Just brew your own coffee everyday.

Wednesday 13 May 2015

May 13, 2015

Sign science quiz and history test (War of 1812).  The History test is out of 18.

Share Gauss test results with parents.

Open House tomorrow.  BBQ and games at 5:30pm and parents can visit classrooms at 6:30pm.  Kwok will be at school at around 6pm

Gauss test solution (2014) is posted below.  Review the questions you did wrong







Sign science quiz and history test (War of 1812).  The History test is out of 18.

Share Gauss test results with parents.

Open House tomorrow.  BBQ and games at 5:30pm and parents can visit classrooms at 6:30pm.  Kwok will be at school at around 6pm


Tuesday 12 May 2015

May 12, 2015

History quiz tomorrow, War of 1812,

page 138 - 144; 166 - 169 of text book

Monday 11 May 2015

May 11, 2015

Sign History test and Science quiz

Plot up two broken line graphs, with the coffee data from last week, age-saving-saving + investing.

Practice and time speech.  Should be 3 to 5 mins

Saturday 9 May 2015

May 8, 2015

Tim Horton's coffee calculations.  Two scenarios:
1) Brew your own coffee and save the money
2) Brew your own coffee, save and invest the money with a 10% return.

From age 18 to 34, how much is the total value of the saving?


Read two chapters of the book that is given to you (Learn to Earn or Adventure Capitalist)


Check the Open House powerpoint to see if I have missed something. (Yes, I know, Andy's quote and Anab photo is missing(

Thursday 7 May 2015

May 7, 2015

Excel:  8th Wonder of the World, Compound Interest.
- use Excel formula to calculate year end total for Ashley and Dan to age 54
- must put in formula shown in class
- who has more money at age 54

Ask for monthly allowance from parents.  Offer to do work in your house (cleaning, take out trash and blue boxes, shoveling snow, water the lawn etc)

Wednesday 6 May 2015

May 6, 2015

Math
- plot the following equations (sorry, cannot write exponents in blog)
y = x2 (translation: x to the power 2)
y = 2x2 + 1 (translation: 2 times x to the power 2 plus 1)
y = 2x2 – 1 (translation: 2 times x to the power 2 minus 1)

Are these linear equations?  Explain

Tuesday 5 May 2015

May 5, 2015

Plot up the following linear equations and find the intercepts
y = –2x
y = –2x – 3
y = –2x – 5

Send Open House Powerpoint Presentation to Kwok
- academic achievements
- extra curricular activitieis
- social interactions
 - one quote from your writing this year

Sunday 3 May 2015

May 4, 2015

Where to put nuclear waste in Ontario.  Read this article from Toronto Star

http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2015/05/03/is-a-kincardine-deep-geological-repository-the-solution-for-nuclear-waste.html

History test tomorrow.  STUDY