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! 

Friday, May 3, 2019

This week has been snowy, tremendous, excellent and cool!

In Language Arts and Social Studies we read chapter 4, 5 and 6 of Ticket to Curlew! A man named Eli helped Pa and Sam find water to build a well. He found water in the ground by using a tool called an auger that digs into the ground and finds wet soil. After they found wet soil with the auger, they dug a well. Sam's next task was to help build the house, cellar and a barn. The rest of the Ferrier family travelled from Jericho, Iowa, USA, to Curlew, Alberta, Canada to join them. 

In Science we started building our cars. First we gathered our materials out of the general supply bin and started building our vehicles. After we built we reflected in a video about what we built, what challenges we had, who helped us out and what our next steps were. Today, we are planning to have a science test run for our cars! After we test our cars, we will see if we need to tweak our vehicles to make our as far and as straight as possible. 

Last week, we collected final data about waste disposal at Panorama Hills School. We weighed and sorted the garbage, compost and recycling bins from each class in the school. This week we went to the same classrooms and asked them a few questions about how they use their compost, recycling and garbage bins. 

We learned a math strategy called the Distributive Property. In this strategy you spread the bigger factor into 100s, 10s and 1s, and then multiply the smaller number into each. Then you add your products together to get your final answer. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PM0cZ8PltD4

Passion Projects!

This week, William presented his Passion Project about sports. We learned that in Basketball you get 3 points if you score behind the 3 point line!

Our spelling pattern next week: 

Focus: Use an apostrophe to show where letters have been left out in a contraction. 

she will = she’ll

Use an apostrophe and s to show singular ownership.

ie: the bike of my uncle = my uncle’s bike

Examples include:

she’ll

wouldn’t

they’ll

how’s

let’s

where’s

we’re

desert’s

person’s

sister’s

bicycle’s

Arizona’s

child’s

aunt’s

cousin’s

Alberta’s

uncle’s

doctor’s

hasn’t

season’s

Reminders:

• Continue collecting required 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. 
• The no device challenge from Frisbee Rob is due next Monday, May 6th
• Library books due on Tuesday, May 7th

Have a fun, active, splendid, no-device weekend!