June 14th, 2017

This morning we had our final lesson on Fractions and Decimals. This unit has just flown by! Today we continued to practice converted fractions to decimals. Students are already familiar with this, as we have been writing decimals in expanded form throughout the unit. However, today this was our focus. Students should be able to convert any fraction over 10, 100, or 1000 into a decimal. See the examples below:

- 4/10 = 0.4
- 0.05 = 5/100
- 9/1000 = 0.009

Watch your place value spots carefully! Some are trickier than the above:

- 82/100 = 0.82
- 83/1000 = 0.083

Remember, there are also equivalent decimals! Keep an eye out for zeroes that are only acting as place value holders:

- 800/1000 = 0.800 = 0.80 = 80/100 = 8/10 = 0.8

In Social Studies today, we looked more closely at the fall of New France. Specifically, we focused on the Battle on the Plains of Abraham. This was one of the most decisive battles of the Seven Years War. After France surrendered Quebec City, they were eventually forced to concede and surrender New France to Britain. This finally answers our overarching question for this unit: "How did we go from being New France to British North America?" Of course, there is some more British North American history that we still need to cover. My favourite topic, Confederation, is coming up tomorrow! Remember, you can follow our timeline on the "History" page to see any of the stops that we have made in our survey of Canadian History. We have been covering many of the Identity outcomes alongside these outcomes, which is why the "Identity" page is so much smaller. Sorry! 

Today was also our pond study with Inside Education. We are so thankful to Laura for all her help yesterday and today. We had so much fun learning more about wetlands habitats and marshes with her today. We started with some stations that were a lot of fun. We solved wetlands riddles, used binoculars to go birdwatching, looked for animal tracks and scat, etc. Next up, we did our pond dip. Using nets we were able to closely observe some of the wetlands invertebrates we have been learning about in class such as: water boatmen, freshwater shrimp, dragonfly nymphs, midges, and much more! Thank you so much to Finning Canada and Ducks Unlimited for sponsoring our trip today so that Laura could join us. We had a wonderful time. 

Agenda
Language Arts:
- Read 20 minutes

Math:
- Practice 11x tables
- Converting Fractions to Decimals Worksheet

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