East Coast Communities and Culture

This week we read a book called Hold on, McGinty by Nancy Hatry and Don Kilby

This book begins in the East coast and the main Character Jack McGinty a local fisherman is unable to find anymore fish in the Atlantic Ocean and ends up traveling to Vancouver where his daughter lives to find a fresh start on West Coast.


We looked at a map of Canada and added the East Coast and Nova Scotia to our map.

We will continue looking at some of the cultures and people that make up this part of Canada; both their past and their present day to day lives.



Science
Boats and Buoyancy

Yesterday we started looking at a few different types of boats. We started with the wooden row boat that Mcginty used to catch fish. We looked at some boats that would be common on the East Coast of Canada and what their purposes would be.

We looked through the discipline of a Naval Architect in order to become designers of a boat that will:

-float
-be stable
-carry a load
-be waterproof
-be safe and strong in a storm
-be able to move


https://www.bls.gov/ooh/architecture-and-engineering/marine-engineers-and-naval-architects.htm

We will be building these boats next week Monday April 15th. We will have some of these materials available at school but if your child has a particular design in mind, please have them bring the materials to school on Monday. We want them to build at school and be involved in the design and eventually redesign process. 

These are the materials that we brainstormed as a class. The ones with checkmarks are materials that we have some of at school to use. Please remember if you want materials to build with that are not on the list or not check marked please bring these materials on Monday.