Welcome to
FOURTEENIA's
Weekly Update
Wow! What a busy week!
Science
We saw the night sky
in the Northern Hemisphere. We were amazed at
how easily it was to identify major constellations on our own after
spending only 45 minutes in the Star Lab. We walked through a whole
year’s rotation of the cosmos while bringing ancient myths to life. I can identify
constellations such as Ursa Major and Minor, Orion, Cassiopeia, Draco, and Leo
as well as identify solitary stars such as Polaris and Sirius.
We discovered aviation firsthand. We
rotated through five stations to make close observations of the physics of
flight: air pressure and Bernoulli’s principle, the movement of air molecules,
angle of attack, principles of lift, drag and turbulence, wing shape, airplane
control surfaces and motions, and the differences between shuttle flight and
airplane flight. The stations made the usually invisible forces of flight
visually available using smoke checks, wind tunnels, remote-control airplanes
and model air molecules to bring science to life. We recorded our observations
in a logbook, answered questions that encouraged us to connect our data to
problems of wider significance and deduce further hypotheses from our
observations.
We even built rockets! We had
to think about the mass and launch them with Alka-Seltzer and water.
Thank you to all of our parent volunteers.
We would not be able to attend these amazing trips without you.
Social
We participated in Student Vote Alberta. We set up our room to represent a polling station. All the Grade 5/6 classes took turns voting and rotating through through the various roles. The complete Student Vote Alberta results are available here: http://studentvote.ca/results/ab2019
Math
We weren't able to fit in a lot of math this week due to all of our special activities. We worked a little bit on our fraction centres and also did some analysis of the Alberta election results. We calculated the percentages of votes that each party received in our Ranchlands student vote and compared them to the provincial percentages. Ask me about our Ranchlands results.
If you want to check out how Ranchlands or Nolan Hill/Sherwood communities voted, please go to these sites:
L.A.
We continued our focus on story writing this week. We worked on adding descriptions of the setting using the 5 senses and also talked about how to include character description. We read some picture books to identify similes, metaphors, personification and onomatopoeia and started to think about how we could include these literary techniques in our stories.
Quest Theatre Performance
We saw an amazing and powerful performance about Treaty 7 and Alberta history from an indigenous perspective. Ask me about my favorite part of the play and what I learned about the history of Alberta.
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