Homework

Today we found the mean, median, mode and range of several sets of data about the Solar System.

Why was the mean sometimes very different to the median?  What else did you find surprising?

We completed the final Lexile test for this year.  We will pass on your Lexile score to your Grade 6 teachers so they will know where you’re up to next year.  Read like crazy over summer and flabbergast them with your mysterious improvement!  This is what a couple of kids did last summer.

In the afternoon we read a photo essay about what Earth looks like from space.  We also looked at a famous photograph taken by Voyager I called Pale Blue Dot.  I read Carl Sagan’s speech about it.

Say ‘cheese’!

 

Please return all books to the ES library!  They are due tomorrow.  Ms. Sylvia needs everything back to begin the renovations.

Also have a look around home and see if you have any other books that should be returned.  There are some from the classroom that are missing, and some that I borrowed from the ES library that were on the book stand.

 

Homework

As per last week.

 

Spelling List 1

jump          jumped          jumping

reach         reached         reaching

wait           waited            waiting

crack         cracked          cracking

burn          burned           burning

somber     snigger     statistics     column     transparent

 

Spelling List 2

proceed          procession          succeed          succession

serene             serenity               receive           reception

compete          competition

misconception     monotonous     sniggering     statistical     consciousness

imperceptible      magnificent     inexorable     indentation     omnipotent

 

Vocabulary

It is a misconception that teachers are somber and monotonous.

Stop sniggering at these statistics.

The magnificent, omnipotent tentacles on the dais were almost imperceptible in the dark room.

The fallible man felt so nauseous that he fell inexorably to the ground, lost consciousness and then disintegrated.