Spider Web Words, Community Comparisons and Reading like a Researcher!

Jump Rope for Heart Fundraiser - Update  

THANK YOU for helping to make our Heart and Stroke Jump Rope for Heart event a success! Our online total is $10,203 and we are still waiting for our cash donations to be totaled. Congratulations Students, family and friends, we smashed our goal of $5000. Based on our online totals alone, we are one of the top fundraisers in the city.

Jump Rope for Heart has informed me that they will have all totals completed by the end of the week and they will then submit the order for student prizes. As soon as I get another update, I will let you know. 

Thanks again for your unbelievable support in this amazing cause. I am very proud to be a part of such a supportive and giving community.

Charlottes Web
Making Spider Webs and Choosing a word for Wilbur:

Today we read chapter 17: Uncle and Chapter 18: The Cool of the Evening in our Charlottes Web Novel Study. If you would like to follow along or re-listen to this chapter at home just follow this link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLOsVUMlnl4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2NArClKzD8

We learned some new vocabulary words. Charlotte is starting to move WEARILY and be LISTLESS and she is beginning to look SWOLLEN. We talked about what each of these words meant and used some synonyms to understand what kind of a description the author was trying to create. 

Ask me what my word was for my web and why I chose it?

Social Studies

Today we continued comparing the 3 Canadian Communities of Iqaluit, Nunavut, Peggy's Cove, Nova Scotia and Calgary, Alberta. 

We are looking at things like:

•  geography/land
•  culture/traditions
•  resources and landmarks
•  languages and population,
• transportation and food
• people/jobs

We are looking at similarities and differences between these distinct Canadian Communities. 

Ask me what I think are some of the biggest differences between these communities and what are some things that are the same? 

Science

We have been research an insect and practicing Reading like a Researcher or Reading like a Scientist. We have to pay attention to text features like headings, bold print and diagrams so that we can figure out what is important to take notes about and what not to. 

We are collecting information about:

• Diet
• Appearance
• Interesting Facts
• Habitat
• Life Cycle
• Predators

Next week we will be using the websites to add to our book research and we will be making a booklet and a google slides presentation about our insect. If you have a book at home about your insect or information you would like to bring into class please feel free to do so. 

Math

Prisms:  A solid object with two identical ends and flat sides: • The sides are parallelograms (4-sided shape with opposites sides parallel) • The cross section is the same all along its length. The shape of the ends give the prism a name, such as "triangular prism"

https://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/prisms.html



Pyramids: a shape or structure with a polygon for its base and three or more triangles for its sides which meet to form the top. All pyramids have a top point (apex). 

http://www.mathsisfun.com/geometry/pyramids.html