Grade 5 Class Novels
What are the main settings of our three main class novels?
Camp X: Spy Camp in Bowmanville Ontario
Nose from Jupiter: Cobourg Ontario
Hatchet: The Canadian Wilderness
What is the first step to add together 1/2 and 1/4?
Get a common denominator
What is the the definition for? "Organizes a business and takes on greater-than-normal financial risk in order to do so."
Entrepreneur
What were the 4 criteria for the Atwater Market Scavenger hunt snacks?
Local, organic, in-season and under $5
What does the word VERITAS mean?
Truth
Who were the main characters of our three main novels?
Camp X: Jack and George
Nose from Jupiter: Alan Dingwall and Norbert
Hatchet: Brian Robeson
When doing long division, what is the acronym used to remember the 4 steps that you have to do?
The real one and the funny one
Division/Dump
Multiplication/Monkeys
Subtraction/Sniff
Bring Down/Butts
What was the first STEM activity? (be specific) And what was the purpose of doing it.
Building a scale model of the solar system on toilet paper. To see the distance of the planets from one another.
What activity did Mrs. Scholefield run at Domaine Saint Bernard?
Cooking
What is the official name of the West Yard?
The Guzzo Family Playground
Where does Alan Dingwall's father live?
Vancouver British Columbia
What is probability? (Chose your words carefully!)
the likelihood of something happening or being the case.
What is a Polyhedron?
a solid figure with many plane faces, typically more than six.
What is the name of the place that we rented bikes at for our Urban Adventure?
Ma Bicyclette
What are the names of the head of the elementary school, middle school, high school and headmaster?
Mrs. Funamoto
Mrs. Manning
Mr. Downey
Mr Hannaford
What does Alan joke that his best friend smells like and why? Also, what is the name of his best friend?
Onions
His dad is a grocer and he drives him around in his car.
Victor
When doing long multiplication, with a 3-digit number times a two digit number, why do you put a zero in the second row? EXPLAIN. See the example on the board
Because it shows that the second row is multiplied by 10 times the actual number.
Who were the three CSI thieves and what did they steal?
Thomas L: beehive
Chenchen :ipad
Henri : coco
What is the name of the place that we visited where we tried out things that they use in space?
Cosmodome
What are the three building names?
Lucas Building, Mccaulay and Speirs
Who are the authors of our class novels?
Camp X: Eric Walters
Nose from Jupiter: Richard Schrimger
Hatchet: Gary Paulsen
What math is used in the gardens? Explain
Perimeter, Area & Distance (depth and space between seeds)
Name 5 of the STEM activities we did in class this year?
Many answers work
What was the name of the Geordie play that was about a girl who fleed Syria and and a boy who was shy and bullied? Also, what did they use as a prop instead of a real mountain?
The Mountain, chairs
What year was Selwyn House School founded?
1908