Last week was Bully Prevention and Awareness week. Our class (and school) really focused on Kindness and what that looks like, feels like and sounds like. We wrote some beautiful descriptive comparisons which I posted on my twitter feed. We read books about kindness and participated in the St. Anne annual UPSTANDER circle. The kindness theme is an ongoing theme in our classroom and we will continue to work on kindness activities.
We wrapped up our Unit on Addition & Subtraction and the students had a test. Assessments will be sent home soon. We started a new unit in Patterning. This unit is going very well due to the fact that we have already spent so much time on place value and skip counting.
In Language, we worked on our Kindness descriptions as well as our Pop Rocks descriptions. Pop Rocks were a great example of how we can use all of our senses (sight, smell, touch, sound, taste) to describe our experience. After much brainstorming, discussion and comparisons, the students wrote a descriptive paragraph about Pop Rocks. The activity was followed by a fun art activity.
A Forces (science) review was sent home last week. You do not have to return anything and it can stay at home. Your child can study from it/ work on the questions at home. We talked about how to study: reading and looking for important information, researching, writing out their answers, answering their questions out loud. There will be no spelling homework this week so that students can focus on reviewing Forces. I will also be sending home the Forces Vocabulary Sheet (for question 4)
Here is the review sheet again:
Science Review - Forces - Test Monday,December 2nd, 2019
1. What is a FORCE? A force is a push or a pull acting on an object
2. What can FORCES make an object do? Forces can make an object -
a) start to move - e.g., pushing a swing
b) slow down - e.g., pulling the reins of a horse
c) speed up - e.g, pushing down on the gas pedal of a car
d) change directions while moving - e.g, hitting a ball with a bat,
pushing a swing
e) change shape - e.g., bending something
f) stop - e.g., pushing on the brake pedal of a bike or car
3. What are the different types of forces?
4. Forces Vocabulary - see below
5. What is a Landslide? A Landslide takes place when dirt, debris
(garbage), pebbles, rocks and boulders slide down a slope together.
Sometimes landslides are small, and other times they are very big
and they can involve the whole side of a mountain.
We cannot stop a natural disaster from happening, but how can we
help to make them less damaging?
6. What is Erosion? Erosion is when water or wind slowly removes
(wears away) soil, rock, and other material from one area and moves
it to another area.
What is the easiest and most natural way to stop erosion?
7. Name some other Natural Disasters.
8. What type of metal does a magnet attract? iron, nickel and cobalt
What type of metal does a magnet not attract? brass, copper, zinc
and aluminum
What are some other objects that a magnet attracts?
What are some other objects that a magnet does not attract?
What does attract mean? What does repel mean?
9. How are forces used in our daily lives? Identify whether these
ways are a push, a pull or both.
10. What have you learned about gravity?
Forces Vocabulary
We wrapped up our Unit on Addition & Subtraction and the students had a test. Assessments will be sent home soon. We started a new unit in Patterning. This unit is going very well due to the fact that we have already spent so much time on place value and skip counting.
In Language, we worked on our Kindness descriptions as well as our Pop Rocks descriptions. Pop Rocks were a great example of how we can use all of our senses (sight, smell, touch, sound, taste) to describe our experience. After much brainstorming, discussion and comparisons, the students wrote a descriptive paragraph about Pop Rocks. The activity was followed by a fun art activity.
A Forces (science) review was sent home last week. You do not have to return anything and it can stay at home. Your child can study from it/ work on the questions at home. We talked about how to study: reading and looking for important information, researching, writing out their answers, answering their questions out loud. There will be no spelling homework this week so that students can focus on reviewing Forces. I will also be sending home the Forces Vocabulary Sheet (for question 4)
Here is the review sheet again:
Science Review - Forces - Test Monday,December 2nd, 2019
1. What is a FORCE? A force is a push or a pull acting on an object
2. What can FORCES make an object do? Forces can make an object -
a) start to move - e.g., pushing a swing
b) slow down - e.g., pulling the reins of a horse
c) speed up - e.g, pushing down on the gas pedal of a car
d) change directions while moving - e.g, hitting a ball with a bat,
pushing a swing
e) change shape - e.g., bending something
f) stop - e.g., pushing on the brake pedal of a bike or car
3. What are the different types of forces?
- contact force - muscular, frictional, tension and compression
- non-contact force - magnetic, electrostatic, gravitational
4. Forces Vocabulary - see below
5. What is a Landslide? A Landslide takes place when dirt, debris
(garbage), pebbles, rocks and boulders slide down a slope together.
Sometimes landslides are small, and other times they are very big
and they can involve the whole side of a mountain.
We cannot stop a natural disaster from happening, but how can we
help to make them less damaging?
6. What is Erosion? Erosion is when water or wind slowly removes
(wears away) soil, rock, and other material from one area and moves
it to another area.
What is the easiest and most natural way to stop erosion?
7. Name some other Natural Disasters.
8. What type of metal does a magnet attract? iron, nickel and cobalt
What type of metal does a magnet not attract? brass, copper, zinc
and aluminum
What are some other objects that a magnet attracts?
What are some other objects that a magnet does not attract?
What does attract mean? What does repel mean?
9. How are forces used in our daily lives? Identify whether these
ways are a push, a pull or both.
10. What have you learned about gravity?
Forces Vocabulary