Monthly Archives: September 2015

Parent/Student/Teacher Conferences

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Dear Parents,

We will be holding parent/student/teacher conferences all day on Friday October 9th. During this conference, we will discuss your child’s learning path and progress thus far this year. Please note that, in Grade 5, we expect the student to be present for this conference.

There will be no school on this day, so you are free to enjoy family time together after your conference! Of course, our specialist teachers will also be available should you wish to meet with them as well.

Here is a link to a sign up sheet for the conference day. If you are unable to meet on the 9th, please do contact me and we can make another mutually convenient time to meet.

I greatly look forward to this time of sharing together with you and your child!

Warm regards,
Jamie

Powers of Ten

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This morning 5R spent some time exploring the relationship between place value columns and exponential values of ten, or powers of ten.

First we looked at some visualizations of large numbers, starting here, and then continuing on here.

Then we looked at a teacher example, an earlier version of the video below, finding powers of ten in the environment. Afterwards, students for busy starting to build their own video representations of place value charts.

While the content we were exploring focused on the relationships between place value and the exponential values of ten, we were equally focusing on the research skills of finding, organizing and presenting information.

Keep an eye out for student videos, coming to their blogs soon!

Powers of Ten from ZIS Grade 5 Mr Raskin on Vimeo.


  
  

“The Door” – Steps 4 and 5

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Welcome to the next steps.

You have tried to make the script, gotten feedback, learned basic storyboarding, swapped scripts, made someone else’s script, given feedback and now…. Now, you can revise your script and, paying very close attention to the original scenario and all of the parameters and limitations of all stages… Produce your own improved and storyboarded script.

Follow the steps below for the next stages of this project…