January 8-11

Weekly Update

Room 14

Math

Thank you Caleb for our Estimation 180 challenge this week:

This is a stack of paper.

Guess HOW MANY ! Papers are in the stack.

Guess what’s too Low?_________

Guess what’s too high? _________

What’s your answer?    __________

In math this week we focused on the problem solving strategy of acting out a problem. Ask me how I solved this problem:

Jill has a pair of black pants and a pair of brown pants. She has a white sweater, a yellow sweater and a green sweater. She always wears black boots. How many different outfits can she wear if each outfit consists of a pair of pants, a top and a pair of shoes?

We also learned about integers this week. Integers include positive and negative whole numbers and 0. We practiced putting temperature and elevation integers in order. 

Check out this site for lots of great math games:

https://nrich.maths.org/9413/page/0

Math interactives:

https://nrich.maths.org/9415

L.A.

We worked on our book review for the Tale of Despereaux, including character development and the climax and resolution of the problem. We will finish up our published copy next week.

Rick Riordan

J.K. Rowling

We also focused on our author research for our book project. We wanted to find out about the life stories of our authors and what inspired them to become writers. Remember that our research should be just about completed. Next week we will work on writing our report in paragraphs which include connecting words. 

Science

We learned about some influential people who impacted electricity. These are the five inventors we discussed:
1. Alessandro Volta 
2. Alexander Graham Bell
3. Thomas Edison 
4. Benjamin Franklin
5. Nikola Tesla

We explored snap circuits. 

Other

Art

We have been working on Op art . Op art is short for 'optical art'. The word optical is used to describe things that relate to how we see. Have you seen an optical illusion before? Op art works in a similar way. Artists use shapes, colours and patterns in special ways to create images that look as if they are moving or blurring. Op art started in the 1960s.

Buddies


We explored ourselves as learners and then interviewed our little buddies about their learning. Ask me about my strengths and areas of growth.

TSN 

We will be starting next week. Ask me what I picked for my top 4 choices.