Short Week!

Reminder: There is no school Tomorrow, Friday or Monday. See you back at school Tuesday February 19th! Have a great break. 

Literacy

For literacy this week we have started reading Polar Bears in the Arctic. This is the non-fiction text that goes with the Fictional Magic Treehouse story Polar Bears Past Bedtime. 

This week we will be practicing listening for important facts about the arctic and recording them as we listen. We will also be thinking of wonders and questions that we have while reading, in order to generate some researchable questions that we might be able to find out more about in our ongoing study of the Arctic. 
Ask me what I learned about the sun and Arctic? 

Land of the Midnight Sun

One fact we learned from the book was about the earths tilt and its rotation around the sun and how that causes many months of no sunlight and just a few months of complete sunlight.

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



Asking Questions is an important way to help us understand what we are reading. We can ask questions before, during and after reading.

Parent Pipeline

Arctic Centers

Landmarks and Symbols

Today we looked at different landmarks and symbols of the Arctic. 

We read a book called Hide and Sneak by Micheal Kusugak.

This book talked about Inuksugaq and Inuksuks and how they were built and used as landmarkers to help people in the Arctic find their way home. There are different kinds of inuksuk and some serve different purposed but all are symbols of the Arctic. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKQ97rOwBH0

We also learned about a mythical creature called the Ijiraq. Ask me what I learned about this character in the story. 


Science

Yesterday we finished graphing our different temperatures from around the school:

Graphing is tricky. There are so many steps to remember when making a bar graph. There is data to record. There is horizontal and a vertical line to label. You have to space out your information so that it is neat and not to squished. You have to draw a bar straight as can be, using a ruler to help. We will continue practicing these skills of creating and interpreting graphs with weather in Calgary and Iqaluit as well as important temperatures and heat sources. 

http://www.abcya.com/fuzz_bugs_graphing.htm

https://jr.brainpop.com/math/data/tallychartsandbargraphs/


We also looked at Sources of Heat, measuring heat and Where Heat comes from?

Sources of Heat

We also looked at molecules and what happens when they gain energy.

Next week we will be using thermometers to measure the temperature of snow, ice and cold water.