Week 28

In our novel study Ticket to Curlew, we read Chapter 1. In Chapter 1 a boy named Sam moved from Jericho, Iowa to Curlew, Alberta. They moved to Alberta because they wanted to build a farm. Advertisements promised that Alberta's soil was rich and ready for farming. We learned some interesting words, for example an adze is for cutting and shaping wood. 

In Science we researched websites about wedges, pulleys and screws. We chose a car to build after watching videos of how to make a balloon powered vehicle, gravity powered vehicle, spring powered vehicle, mousetrap powered vehicle and elastic/rubberband powered vehicle.

In Social Studies we had to put ourselves in a settlers perspective. We created a mind map about what we might bring in our trunk. We chose items that were important to us and that we would use in our daily lives in our new home in Alberta. 

In Math we learned about arrays. Arrays are when objects are in grouped. You can group items based on what you see. For example, if you have 30 items in total you may have 10 groups of 3 items, 3 groups of 10 items, 2 groups of 15 items, 15 groups of 2 items or 6 groups of 5 items. To help us with our division facts, we also played Divide and Conquer.  

During Sophie's passion project, we learned about the most popular baby names in 2016. We also learned about the most popular names in the world. Amelia and Mohammad are the most popular names in the world.

During Lucy's passion project, we learned about coding. We learned about coding vs hacking and that you need to code before you hack. Hacking is illegal. Coding uses symbols, letters and numbers. Coding is needed for making games, such as Fortnite and Apex.

During Mekhi's passion project, we learned about live streaming. We learned about a youtuber, named Ninja who made $500,000 from his live streaming. You can stream by playing games.

Our spelling pattern next week: 

Focus: If a word ends in y preceded by a vowel, add s to make the plural.

holiday + s = holidays

If a word ends in y preceded by a consonant, change y to i and add es.

copy + es = copies 

Some examples include:

holidays

parties

stories

flies

birthdays

copies

duties

ladies

counties

valleys

groceries

hobbies

libraries

highways

batteries

injuries

cherries

melodies

surveys

communities 

Reminders:

• Start collecting materials for building our complex machine cars. You can bring: wooden sticks, bottle caps, straws, duct tape, toothpicks, popsicle sticks, sting, CDs, tape, plastic bottles, rubber bands, balloons, hot glue sticks, pipe cleaner and springs. 
• There is no School Friday, April 19th next week.

Have a marvelous, spectacular, supercalafrajalisticexpialadocious, relaxing, warm, magical and amazing weekend!