Jot Notes, Insulating Materials, T-Shirt Factories and more!

Reminder: There is NO SCHOOL tomorrow Friday March 1st as it is a PD Day. 

Today was our last day of Alien-In-Line Skating. We got to play a cool game and skate with the lights off and the disco ball!!

PINK SHIRT DAY

Today we celebrated PINK SHIRT DAY and talked about how we can make a difference and help spread kindness and inclusion.

We made pink shirts with slogans to display in our hallways:

Literacy

This week in Literacy we have been practicing making Jot notes when we are reading for research. There are different purposes for reading. Sometimes it is because we are interested in a subject, sometimes it is purely for entertainment,  and sometimes it is to learn specific facts. During our Arctic animal research we have been reading articles about our chosen animal and making jot notes about what we are learning.

After making Jot notes for each of our graphic organizer categories it is much easier to create each slide of our Google Slides presentation because we already have the important information and just need to add it into our slides in bullet or list form. Today an article on the Polar Bear came home. Please use the graphic organizer and page provided to do some jot notes on this important Arctic animal. 

Next week we will continue to add information about Habitat, Predators, Problems and Interesting Facts to our Animal Research slides.

Insulating Materials

Yesterday we did an experiment to learn about insulation in the Arctic. We looked at Polar Bears and made polar bear mitts to determine the difference in temperature we felt when using one versus not using one. Ask me what I learned?

Next week we will do one to simulate how Blubber helps animals in the Arctic!

We have also been looking at how we insulate ourselves against the cold, how our houses use insulation, and how animals use insulation in the wild to keep warm. 

Next week we will be designing and building insulators. Our challenge will be to keep an ice cube as cold as we can over a 1 hour time period. 

Here is a list of materials that we brainstormed as a class:

-cotton balls
-sponges
-fur
-foam
-paper towels
-tinfoil
-duct tape
-sand
-leaves
-fabric
-wood chips or sawdust


We will provide the 2 plastic cups but if you have something else that you would like to use (so long as it is cut and ready to use) feel free to send it in.  Please talk with your child and send in any materials that your child would like to build with by Tuesday March 5th. Please send them in a bag, labelled with your child's name so they are easy to store keep organized. 

T-Shirt Factory Math Investigation

After reading a story about the Masloppy Family and hearing how Nicholas organized all of the t-shirts into rolls and loose to keep his inventory organized we have been practicing using this strategy to help us organize double digit numbers and add them together accurately.

Ask me what my T-Shirt Factory Name is!! 

Ask me to show you how I organize the numbers into the T-Chart and use it to then find a total number of T-Shirts by adding the numbers together?

Impact of our Thermostat Challenge: 

Thank you for participating in the Thermostat Challenge. We totaled our class degrees and Before the challenge our total Heat usage was at 462 degrees Celsius. Our AFTER the challenge by going down 2 degrees from our normal temperature brought us to a class total of 419 degrees. We subtracted as a class 462-419 to figure out that as a class we saved a total of :

43 degrees of heat energy!! 

We graphed our before and after usage. Imagine if we did this all of the time and as a whole school, community, city, country and even world!!

Iqaluit Video

We watched a video on Iqaluit and learned a few new things about living in the Arctic. Ask me what I learned? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x30lPvBuFA4