Literacy Homework over Break, Magnetic Inventions and Ornament Fun!!

Literacy

This week will be our last week of practicing Reading Like a NewsReporter using the article that we printed out from www.teachingkidsnews.ca


We have improved our fluency so many ways:

This week and over the break our Challenge is to improve or Fluency by:

Reading Voraciously
Reading Smoothly

Over the holidays have your child continue practicing their article and reading and re-reading it until practice makes perfect! Please have them when ready pick out a few props and do their reading as fluently as possible while you video tape it and upload it to IRIS. After the break we will all watch each other's Reading Like a Newsreporter and practice one more time with new articles of choice in the New Year! 
Have fun with it! Use a green screen or props or music to make your News come to life!!
Also have your child READ READ READ and discover new genres or types of text they are interested in to inspire a love of reading. 

Magnetic Inventions

This week we have been investigating different types of magnets and looking at the Poles of a magnet:

We also looked at the force of Repulsion in more detail when we talked about car races and making a car move! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxZKLUAzQ7g

We also took a look at some real life uses for magnets and talked about how some inventions use the force of attraction and some use the force of repulsion and some use both:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oac3B1iJy7w
https://sciencing.com/5-uses-magnets-kids-12016642.html

After break when we return to school we will be designing our own magnetic invention:

We will be thinking about creating something that will use repelling or attracting to solve a problem or do a specific job. 

Ornament FUN!

Today we made ornaments to bring home for the holidays. If you celebrate christmas they can go on your tree and if not they also look beautiful hanging in a window and catching the light.