*********************************************************************************
1. Intro/Title Slide
2. Appearance
3. Physical Adaptations
4. Diet
5. Habitat
If they had trouble completing or were absent from school I have asked them to try and login at home tonight and add to their slides so they will be caught up for tomorrow.
Tomorrow we will be working on:
Slide 6. Predators
Slide 7. Interesting Facts
Thursday will be Slide 8: Problems Facing the Polar Bear/or Problems facing the Seal
Friday we will have a last day/catch up day to put it all together, add a link, and spell check our work.
Since Google Slides and even using computers are a new skill for many, thank you for supporting your child at home so that they have the additional practice time necessary to become proficient at using this wonderful technology. Later they will get to present their slide show and we will have it printed and added to even more for them to show off during our Celebration of Learning in April.
Writing
Today we reviewed Verbs (Action Words), Nouns (Person, Place or Thing) and Adjectives (Describing Words)
Adjective Song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-zz6KVN27s&t=68s
Noun Song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DBiEqpzo18
Verb Song!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ineCCpqpZrM
We used adjectives and verbs to generate small pieces of writing about our Arctic Research Animal. We tried to Show not Tell so that our Readers (Audience) would know that we were writing about a Polar Bear or a Seal without us telling them....
For Example:
Polar Bear-----SHOW DON’T TELL!!
Use your adjectives and verbs to describe who and what
Think about:
Sight----size, shape, colour, texture, markings, interesting features
Feel? Either feelings the animal is having or how you imagine they would feel if you touched them
Smell? Do they smell anything as they are walking, swimming in the Arctic
Sound? Do they hear anything as they move through the Arctic? Wind? Ice? Air? Water?
What are they doing?
Her gigantic padded paws helped her to navigate through the crisp, cold icy tundra. She was hungry and desperately looking for her next meal. As she plodded through the snowy tundra her thick winter coat helped her to stay toasty and warm. The wind stung her eyes and she worried that soon it might start to snow. Her stomach grumbled fiercely as she continued her search along the slippery sea ice looking for her next meal.
These descriptive sentences will help us when we write story beginnings and Arctic Stories.
Drawing a Polar Bear/Drawing a Seal:
If I practice drawing my research animal at home, using these videos I will become an expert at it!
Polar Bear
Arctic Seal
Math
In math we were challenged to solve an addition problem and a subtraction problem using a t-chart. Ask me how I did it? What is different about when I solve a subtraction problem?
Current Events Affecting the Arctic
In math we were challenged to solve an addition problem and a subtraction problem using a t-chart. Ask me how I did it? What is different about when I solve a subtraction problem?
Current Events Affecting the Arctic
Global Warming
What is Global Warming?
Greenhouse Effect:
We talked about how it is affecting the Polar Bears:
https://polarbearsinternational.org/climate-change
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/arctic/wildlife/polar_bear/habitat/
We also talked about How we can Change? If the Climate is Changing: How can we Change it or slow it down? We will be exploring this idea further in the weeks to come.
https://polarbearsinternational.org/climate-change
http://wwf.panda.org/what_we_do/where_we_work/arctic/wildlife/polar_bear/habitat/
We also talked about How we can Change? If the Climate is Changing: How can we Change it or slow it down? We will be exploring this idea further in the weeks to come.
No comments:
Post a Comment
Note: Only a member of this blog may post a comment.