Friday, April 12th, 2019

The weather this week was windy, rainy and snowy!

In Language Arts we started a novel study! We are reading Ticket to Curlew. It is about a father and his son traveling from Jericho, Iowa to their new home in Curlew, Alberta. So far, we have read Chapter one, and are so eager to continue reading!

In Science we researched about three simple machines: the wedge, the screw and the pulley. We learned about their parts, how they move and forces at work. We also learned about different vehicles that move. We will get different choices of vehicles to build. These choices are: balloon cars, rubber band cars, mousetrap cars, gravity cars and spring-loaded cars. After building, we will have a race to see which one is the most efficient, and goes the farthest in a straight line. 

In Social Studies we pretended we were newcomers moving to Alberta. We took a picture of an old trunk and glued it into our visual journals. Then we talked about what possessions we would bring to start our new life in Alberta. We drew a picture of what we wanted to bring and then we described why it was important to us and how you would use it. 

In math we did a mad minute. This is when you get four minutes total to solve a row of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division equations. 
We also worked on a some questions where we grouped different items into arrays and made math sentences. 

Finally, we learned a new game called "Divide and Conquer". First, everybody starts with four cards, then one person picks up a card and sees if they can divide it with another card in their hand. First one to get rid of all their cards wins!

Passion Projects!

This week, Abhiroop presented his Passion Project about King Cobras. We learned that King Cobras are one of the most venomous snakes in the world!

Maddie also presented her Passion Project about Maui, which is a city in Hawaii. We learned that you can do a lot of activities there, like cliff jumping, go to a luau, and climb up trees. Thank you both for sharing!

Our spelling pattern next week: 

Focus: If a word ends in y preceded by a vowel, add s to make the plural.

holiday + s = holidays

If a word ends in y preceded by a consonant, change y to i and add es.

copy + es = copies

Some examples include:

holidays

parties

stories

flies

birthdays

copies

duties

ladies

counties

valleys

groceries

hobbies

libraries

highways

batteries

injuries

cherries

melodies

surveys

communities

Reminders:

• Start collecting materials for building our complex machine cars. You can bring: wooden sticks, bottle caps, straws, duct tape, toothpicks, popsicle sticks, sting, CDs, tape, plastic bottles, rubber bands, balloons, hot glue sticks, pipe cleaner and springs. 
• There is no School Friday, April 19th next week.

Have a marvelous, spectacular, supercalafrajalisticexpialadocious, relaxing, warm, magical and amazing weekend!