Here is the term 1 overview. These are the topics we will be covering this term. It is encouraged to have discussions and practice the concepts at home.
Grade ⅘ Mrs. Piroddi’s class
Term 1 Overview
Math
- Time (duration, analog and digital, 24 hour clock)
- Place value, rounding, expanded form, written form
- Financial Literacy (making financial plans and creating a budget, calculations up to $1000, using money to make change)
- Adding and Subtracting strategies
Science
Matter
- Phases (solid, liquid and gas)
- Changes (chemical and physical)
- Properties (mass, volume, shape, density, colour, texture)
- Solutions and mixtures (evaporation, distillation, crystallization, dissolving)
Social Studies
- Government and Election (levels, roles and responsibilities, elected and appointed leaders)
- Map skills (compass, legends, scales, types)
- Canada and its provinces (physiographic features and natural resources)
Language Arts
- Spelling strategies
- Vocabulary (meaning/definitions, Prefix and suffix, root words)
- Non-fiction reading strategies (main idea, inferring, text features)
- Sentence structure and grammar
- Paragraph structure (opening sentence and details)
- Oral language (telling stories, reading aloud, fluency and expression)
- Journal writing
- Extracting information and note taking
Career Education
- Exploring our strengths and abilities can help identify goals
- Family and community relationships is a source of support and guidance when solving problems and making decisions
- Leadership requires listening to and respecting the ideas of others (communication, support, motivation)
- Problem solving strategies
- Making positive connections in the class
French
- Francophone cultural festival and/or celebration
- communities where French is spoken
- Basic greetings and common expressions (bonjour, Comment ca va?)
