Jump Rope, Landmark Numbers, Acadians and Buoyancy Questions to test!

Reminder: Please send back your Alien-In-Line forms as soon as possible. It is starting next week and we need to have all forms in so that all students are able to participate.

Yesterday an invitation came home for our Volunteer Tea. If you are able to attend please return the portion stating yes or no so we can plan for adequate food and seating.

Jump Rope for Hearth Finale...
Yesterday we had such fun participating in Jump Rope for Heart. We jumped our hearts out!! 

Math

We have been talking about using an open number line for subtraction

We also practiced getting to landmark numbers. Landmark numbers help us subtract and add more efficiently and easily!

We practiced answering age difference questions about Carlos, using the number line strategy and filling out the chart we had started at the beginning of the week. Tomorrow we will work on figuring out how old everyone was when Mara what born!

Counting backward by tens, fives and ones is tricky. We have been practicing this. We drew a personal number line from 0-100 and made note of all the landmark numbers.  We then practiced counting back by tens. We remembered that between every decade there are 9 ones.

https://www.education.com/games/skip-counting-by-10s/


Count by tens Forward and Backward Song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7stosHbZZZg


Social Studies

As we continue learning about Nova Scotia we have started to learn about the Acadian People. 

Acadians are people who came over from France many years ago to farm and live in villages in Nova Scotia. They built dikes to prevent their crops from being flooded and were able to filter out the salt water through this system to use the water that washed into their ponds and marshes. In this way, they were very successful farmers. 

When French immigrants first settled in Nova Scotia, the land was not farmable because it was salty from the ocean water. They built dikes (a series of dams) to prevent too much water from washing nutrients from the soil. 

Ask me what I have learned so far about Acadian People. 

On Monday we will have a guest speaker in (our very own Kindergarten teacher Ms. Dixon) to talk about her experience growing up Acadian in Nova Scotia. 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=av4JZMEUI4g

Acadian Fiddles
http://www.acadianfiddle.com/artists2/2015/daniel-leblanc

Acadian Spoon Competition in Nova Scotia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJGJUeqL51k


Science

From continuing to hypothesis and test a variety of materials to see which ones sink or float or have neutral buoyancy we came up with some questions:

If I put something that floats into the water and then put things that sink inside of it will it still float or will it sink?

Is plasticine/clay buoyant? 

If I make a ball with plasticine will it float? If I change the shape of my ball will it float? Does the shape of something matter or help it to float or sink better?

How much cargo can my floating device hold before it sinks? 

Tomorrow we will be testing all of these questions out. We will use the Scientific Method:

1. Question
2. Hypothesis
3. Test
4. Observe
5. Conclude

Can you make something that floats sink by adding enough weight?

Does shape matter for floating?