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The students had a very busy week as they completed their final project for our Waste in Our World science unit. I appreciate the support and dedication at home to make these wonderful creations. This assignment will take time to fully assess and return back to students. The final mark is a combination of their creation, their presentation and their logbook.
The students also looked at one impact humans are having on our environment. We watched a collection of clips about The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. We also looked at the following news article about how we are planning on cleaning up our oceans. https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/10/health/ocean-cleanup-test-trnd/index.html In math students completed their third check in, which was focused on T-charts and input/output charts. Students will be continuing our unit of patterning as they begin exploring missing values in equations. To support our student learning, students should be continually practicing their skip counting both forwards and backwards. Being able to count by 2, 5, 10, 20 and even numbers such as 3, 4,6 and 7 are very important to support our mental math development. Prodigy has also been updated so it can be practiced this weekend as well.
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**A reminder that the science projects are due on Tuesday Oc 23rd. The projects need to be completed with the logbooks also finished. The students will be presenting their work next week and all three (project, logbook and presentation) will be used to assess the final mark. This week, the students have continued their learning of patterning. We have started to look at different formats of patterns. The form we investigated this week were input/output charts or T chart patterns. Students learned how to find rules and fill in missing values. The work below is questions that students should be able to solve. To practice more patterning questions, use the following links: http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me3us/flash/lessonLauncher.html?lesson=lessons/11/m3_11_00_x.swf http://www.learnalberta.ca/content/me3usa/flash/index.html?goLesson=11 In science, students were working to apply their scientific concepts in realistic scientific problems. Students learned to brainstorm scientific vocabulary, plan a solution and then represent their ideas clearly. We worked to ensure we had academic vocabulary and stay away from words like stuff, things, good, and bad. Students completed a two-question quiz this week where they had to apply these skills. Samples of these questions are posted below. Your child should be able to apply their knowledge effectively to solve either
The students have started exploring numerous forms of patterns in math this week. They reviewed how a mathematician would record repeating patterns. They can prove this to you by creating the following patterns. Repeat the core 3 times. ABBA ABCB ABBCD Students also proved they understood how to skip count forwards and backwards by a variety of numbers. We focused on counting by: 2, 5, 10, 20 and 100. Students should be able to start counting by these numbers from any number you give. For example counting by 2 can look like this: 2, 4, 6, 8, 10 1,3, 5, 7, 9 145, 147, 149 178, 176, 174 Prove to your parents you are an amazing skip counter. Students also began searching number patterns for clues and rules to complete the pattern. The image below is examples of this process. In science, students spent the week planning out their science project. The big idea is to find a problem they see in their daily life. It could be related to them, a family member, pet or something in their community. They need to think how they can design and build something out of recycled materials to solve the problem. Students have come up with an idea, drawn their first draft design and are ready to start the building. The building will be completed at home and brought to school on October 23rd. If the creation is too large, a video or photo can be sent in to share. Students also have a logbook with sheets and questions they need to complete. We appreciate the support at home with this process. We are very excited to begin and are looking forward to sharing our wonderful creations.
Students have started their first multi-stage science project. Parts of the design stage will be completed at school with the building being completed at home. The students brought home a project booklet today with all the resources needed. If the booklet gets lost, I have attached each document here digitally.
Further exploring place value has been a focus this week. Students are making sure they understand each value in a four-digit number.
Meaning: 4 379= 4 000+300+70+9 With this information we started to combine two numbers together to find the sum (answer to an addition equation). Students worked to align each place value for correct addition. We built the numbers with base tens as we worked through the questions so students could see why each place value aligned. Card game to practice place value Materials: Deck of cards Paper Pen/pencil for each player Objective: Build the largest 4-digit number possible Value of cards Ace=1 2-9= their value face cards=0 steps
We also started some patterning in our Homeroom time. Use these links to practice repeating patterns. http://www.abcya.com/patterns.htm http://www.abcya.com/shape_patterns.htm In science, students were learning about resiliency in learning and never giving up. This is going to become very important as they start new projects that involve planning, designing and building. We read a collection of stories to help us learn these skills. These stories can be found in our learning commons, local libraries or on line. The stories were: Rosie Revere By Andrea Beaty Ada Twist Scientist By Andrea Beaty Iggy Peck Architect By Andrea Beaty The Most Magnificent Thing By Ashley Spires |
AuthorHello, My name is Mr. Baker and this is my third year at NCS teaching Math and Science. Please visit my blog regularly for updates on what is being done in the class as well as for extra support with your learning. Archives
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