D.E.A.R. Time, Hot, Cold and Room Temperature Experiments and the Theme or Message in an Arctic Story

Literacy Week Day 1:
Today was our first day of Literacy Week. We wore Royal Oak Blue to school and had surprise D.E.A.R. time. D.E.A.R time stands for Drop Everything And Read! 

Feel free to bring a library book or favorite book from home to keep in your backpack or chair buddy so that when DEAR time happens you have a book you love to read close by! 

Science Experiments:

Hot, Cold, Room Temperature Experiment

We used thermometers to measure room temperature, cold water, hot water and we blended the hot and cold water together to see what temperature we would get from mixing equal parts of both. 

Ask me what my group recorded for temperatures? 

Ask me what was the hardest part of figuring out the temperature on the thermometer? 

What did we learn happens at 0 Degrees Celsius? What about at 100 Degrees Celsius? 

Tomorrow we are going to take some thermometers outside and measure the temperature of deep in the snow!!

Thermometer's can be tricky to read. We talked about looking at them from eye level and that it does make a difference if the numbers are above or below the zero. 

Above the zero is a positive temperature +
Below the zero is a negative temperature -

https://video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search;_ylt=AwrTccDld2Zagl8AVdoPxQt.?p=how+to+read+a+thermometer+for+kids&fr=yhs-adk-adk_sbnt&fr2=piv-web&hspart=adk&hsim


Arctic Stories

Today we reviewed the message or lesson in the Arctic Story "The Sky Sisters". We then watched another Arctic Story called "The Legend of The Northern Lights". We had to think about the:

Characters
Setting
Problem
Solution
Message or Lesson
and if there was any Magic in the story

You can watch the video of this story here and talk about these parts of the story at home:

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?p=the+legend+of+the+Northern+Lights&fr=yhs-invalid#id=2&vid=a600ebc30994e59b846eaed51e573958&action=view


Reminder: If you have an article that you would like to present "Like a News Reporter" please practise, using all of the think notes and props you would like to  make your reading interesting. Video tape yourself (ask mom, dad or big sister/brother or a friend). Then if you know how post it to IRIS or just email it to imlagrana@cbe.ab.ca. Today we shared two students work who did an amazing job of this. How exciting to watch as a class and see how much student's are improving their reading fluency by practicing reading to an audience.