Friday, May 10th, 2019

This week has been mind-blowing!

In Language Arts and Social Studies we read chapters 7 and 8 of Ticket to Curlew. Sam's little brother Matt wanted to go exploring and got lost on the prairie. It was starting to get dark, and they got lost. They found wagon ruts to follow, but they were still a long way from home. Then one of their neighbour's children was rode up in a wagon and offered to give them a ride back to their house. Sam explained to Pa why they were late and they went to bed. The next day Pa gave Sam, Matt and Josie a dappled gray horse named Prince that would take them to school and make sure they didn't get lost. 

In Science we continued building our cars. After we built our cars, we logged onto the computer and made a reflection video about what changes and tweaks we made to our cars. Last Friday, we also had a test run and made a goal for how far and how straight we could make our car go. 

This week in Math, we learned a math strategy called the "Partial Product" strategy. First you grab the bigger number and put it in your equation, then you split the larger number into each place value and multiply each place value by the smaller factor. Finally, you add up the products to get your final answer. 

Here's a video that breaks down how it works:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-6Owg7joIQ

Passion Projects!

This week, Gavin presented his Passion Project about planets. We learned that the earth is the most capable planet to support living things!

Kevin also presented his Passion Project about Paris. We learned that originally the people who lived in Paris did not want the Eiffel Tower to be built. They also love macarons. 

Our spelling pattern for the next week two weeks: 

Focus: A prefix is a word part that is added to the beginning of a root or base word to make a new word. Every prefix has a meaning, and it changes the meaning of the root or base word.

pre = before

re = again or back

im or non = not

con = with or together

Examples include:

nonsense

prepaid

control

returned

impractical

nonstop

conduct

preview

report

imperfect

nonprofit

refills

construct

immovable

precaution

predict

convince

impersonal

impure

reaction

Reminders:

• The volunteer tea is scheduled next week on Tuesday, May 14th 
• Scholastic orders are due next week on Thursday, May 16th 
• There is no school next week on Friday, May 17th 

Have a spectacular weekend and enjoy Mother's day!