Magnetism, Number Line Self-Assessment, Google Slides Feedback/Marks...

Magnetism

This week we have been investigating Magnets and learning about Magnetism. We explored magnets centres where we were challenged to complete a task invovling magnets.

We brainstormed all of the things that we already knew, and now after doing some exploring we brainstormed What we want to know now...

Important Vocabulary

We made predictions about what would be and would not be magnetic and then tested these objects out.

Ask me about some materials that are magnetic and others that are not?

We learned that NOT all metals are magnetic. Ask me which ones I know are?

We learned that with magnets opposites attract and like repels!

We also explored that when 2 magnets attract they pull towards each other, but when they repel they push apart.

We explored what part of a magnet is the strongest and came to the conclusion that the POLES are very strong compared to other parts of the magnet.

We talked about magnetic fields and next week are going to do an experiment that will let us see this invisible magnetic field for ourselves!

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

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/magnetism/

We are also exploring things in the read world that use magnets to do a job. Next week we will be coming up with some ideas around a magnetic invention of our own that uses either the force of attraction or the force of repelling to do a specific job!

Number Line Self Assessment

Yesterday we practiced double-digit addition questions using the open number line and gave ourselves a mini-self assessment.
Green means I understand it and can show you and feel good about using this strategy

Yellow means I missed some parts such as labeling my jumps, skips, and hops or adding up what I got to after each move, or I made a careless error but I can fix it, I understand where I went wrong, and I am confident to show where I made the mistakes and how to fix them.

Red means I would like some help because I am not sure of all of the steps or of where my mistake is or of how to solve these problems properly.

Ask me how I am felt about the assessment and what my next steps are?

Practice skip counting from Random starting points this winter break. It helps you so much with being able to move quickly and efficiently on an open number line and it ALSO helps with being able to determine and extend number GROWING patterns.

If this is still tricky practice it using a 100s chart. It is a very useful tool for learning the patterns of skips counting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9NMa10UNt4
PRACTICE!!

Google Slides

Most groups have shared their Google Slides Insect Research presentation with the class. They have reieved two wishes and a star constructive feedback about their presentation and two comments from me on the last slide of their presentation. One comment addresses the content and overall mark for the slideshow and the other comment has an overall mark with feedback for their presentation. Please visit this with your child and make sure they have seen their feedback/mark.