Jump Rope for Heart, Anne of Green Gables, Buoyancy and Nova Scotia!

Reminder: Tomorrow is Jump Rope for Heart day at school. We will be skipping from 1:30-2:30. Please wear red tomorrow. If you have not returned your Jump Rope for Heart envelopes and have raised money please bring them in tomorrow. 

Hello! Tomorrow is our Jump Event Day! There are a few things we want you to remember for tomorrow:

1) Wear RED in support of the Heart and Stroke Foundation

2) Remember to bring in your pledge collection envelope

3) If you have your own skipping rope, please bring it to school. Don't forget to put your name on it.

4) Get ready to get your hearts pumping and have some fun!

Make sure you eat well and get a good night's sleep so you will have lots of energy for our Jump Day!!

We also want to send out a MASSIVE THANK YOU to Royal Oak Sobeys for donating oranges to our school so we can enjoy a healthy snack after the event. THANK YOU SOBEYS!!!

Literacy

This week we have started reading Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery. We are reading the shortened version for kids and a graphic novel of Anne of Green Gables. 

We have been visualizing in our heads as Mrs. Lagrana reads and drawing our ideas in our Visual Sketch-Books:

Ask me about the characters so far. Who are they? What are their personalities like? Where is the setting of this story? Do I know where in the world this story is taking place? 

Math

In  math we read a book called "Bisabuelo Gregorio". It is about a boy (Carlos) who wants to figure out how old everyone in his family was when he was born. 

We were challenged to solve these challenges for Carlos using the strategies we could think of such as number line, t-charts, pictures and equations.

This week we will continue investigating different strategies for subtraction and working together to prove our answers. We are working on showing our math thinking. 

In the next few weeks we would like to put together a time line of our own families. In order to do this we need you to send in a completed survey with your child's information:

My Family Survey

Me: 
Siblings:
Mom:
Dad: 
Grandpa:
Grandma:
Great-Grandpa:
Great-Grandma:

If you want to include pets you can do so! 

If you can please send this information into class by Monday April 30th it would be greatly appreciated. Just written on a piece of paper is fine. Your child will then put it into a chart and use this information to answer subtraction and addition questions to figure out age differences between family members and to create a family timeline depicting everyone in their family. 


Science
Buoyancy

We have started learning about Buoyancy. We learned that some things sink and some things float. 

 We experimented with testing out if different objects sink or float. We looked at +Buoyancy, -Buoyancy and Neutral Buoyancy.
Mrs. Lagrana challenged us to try to find something at home that has positive buoyancy, something that has negative buoyancy and something that has neutral buoyancy. Please test this out at home and take a picture or a video or just bring the object into school to share with us! 

East Coast-Nova Scotia

We have been learning about Nova Scotia. Yesterday we learned about the geography and land of Nova Scotia including important Bodies of Water.

We watched a time-lapse of the tide coming in and going out at the Bay of Fundy. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3LtEF9WPt4

We drew our understanding of these concepts in our Visual Sketch Books:

Today we continued to look at the land of Nova Scotia and learned about their plants and climate

http://www.novascotia.com/about-nova-scotia/weather