Retelling, Viscosity, Doubles Practice and Telegrams from the Past...

Literacy

This week in Literacy we are focusing on the comprehension strategy of Retelling a story. Being able to retell the important parts of a story in sequential order is an important way to tell if we are understanding what we are reading. 

Today we were introduced to the 5-finger Retell strategy also known as the fist-to-5 model for retelling:

We will be practicing using this model all week to help us retell the important parts of a story. 

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SCIENCE
Viscosity

Today we set up an experiment to do with testing the viscosity of different liquids. We will be Racing Liquids down a cookie sheet to what liquids will flow faster than others? Why? 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Ty07Jelhwg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVQw0svRHZA

We brainstormed some different liquids with different viscosity. On Wednesday we will test these out by having a liquids race! 


Math

Doubles Practice

Today we reviewed our doubles facts to 24. 

Knowing our doubles can really help us when we are solving double digit addition equations.

We played power of ten DOUBLES! Ask me how to play the game?

Telegrams from the Past

As we learn about the past one mode of communication we have researched is the Telegram. We read some past telegrams from the Government of Canada between London Ontario and British Columbia talking about the condition of the Chinese Railway Workers and problems they were facing. 

Today we brainstormed what it would be like to be so far from home, away from our family and friends, working at a very hard and dangerous job in a new Country. We empathized with how it might feel. 

We then had to imagine we were those workers and think about if we had the chance to write a telegram home who would we write to? We used the format of a Telegram to come up with a message for our imagined loved ones. Ask me who I wrote to? What did I say?