Field trip to Fort Whyte November 6
Homework:
Math - students: watch these videos to review the steps of 2-digit x 2 digit multiplication: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZjIT9CH6bM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aNSUlo5sSA
ELA - home reading November 16
ELA - Root/Suffix/Prefix test (see review below)
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Weather Report Inquiry
In your notebook, answer the following questions:
Pick one of the capital cities in Canada.
1. 2. What is the highest temperature the city has reached? What date?
2. 3. What is the lowest temperature the city has reached? What date?
3. 4. What is the average temperature in that city for an entire year?
4. 5. What is the average amount of precipitation in that city for an entire year?
5. 6. About how many sunny days does that city have in a year?
6. 7. How many hours of daylight does that city have on the longest day of the year?
7. 8. What is that city’s sunniest month?
Prefix, Root, Suffix Review
Root
- the main part of a word
- contains the meaning of the word
- sometimes called a base word
- can be a word by itself
- can be letters (from a Greek or Latin word) that mean something
Examples:
disorganized – organize
bicycles – cycl (cycle)
unlovable – love
preschool – school
painter - paint
Prefix
- letters that get added to the front of a word
- changes the meaning of the root word
Examples:
disorganized – dis - means not
bicycles – bi - means two
unlovable – un - means not
preschool – pre - means before
Suffix
- letters that get added to the end of a word
- changes the meaning of the root word
Examples:
disorganized – ed - means it is “past”
bicycles – s - means more than one
unlovable – able - means able
painter – er - means a person who paints
