On Monday, January 22, we went to Heritage Park to learn about Canada's history. We learned about the railroad built across Canada. John A. Macdonald wanted to connect the west side of Canada and the east side of Canada. He found a piece of land that the the U.S wanted but so did he. He told the people of the west to come to the land (which was called Rupert's Land) because there were free farms. He also told the people in Europe. He never mentioned the negatives, like the cold weather. A very rich and important person put in the last spike (a spike is a type of nail). When the last spike was put in, a kid photobombed the picture! His name was Edward.He was very bored at his father's farm and he heard about the war in China. He decided to go there on his horse. When he reached Revelstoke, he found out the war was over. Since he was by the railroad, he wanted to get a job. After a few years, when the photo was being taken, he crawled under all the businessmen, popped up and photobombed the whole thing! We had Kid Inventor Day (K.I.D) last Wednesday. We made our own Olympic sport, which was ski jump and bobsled combined. Our vehicles had to jump off a ramp like a ski jump and land successfully. They also had to make a turn without flipping over(like a bobsled). Right now, we are planning to make some adjustments to our vehicles.
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Our first week back from the holidays has been a cold one! It has been too cold for recess, so we have been inside a lot! We have used some of our recess time building with K’Nex. We had tons of fun making K’nex machine models and learning about the simple machines we use in everyday life like egg beaters, elevators and bicycles. Then Ms.Blair decided that we should all build seesaws out of K’nex materials to learn about 1st class levers, which was even more fun than making stuff with the instructions. We looked at Ethan’s and Roman’s creation and they helped everyone else build theirs.
Can you spot the possessive pronoun in that last sentence? We have been learning about possessive adjectives and possessive pronouns. Here is a sentence with a possessive adjective: Is this your seesaw? In this sentence, the word “your” is a possessive adjective. Here is a sentence with a possessive pronoun: The K’Nex creation is theirs. In this sentence, the possessive pronoun is the word “theirs”. Revision is an important step in writing. To practice revision, we started by writing sentences about our preference for breakfast or lunch. When we put all our sentences together, we realized we really needed to revise our writing if we wanted it to be clear. We used cut and paste in Google Docs to move sentences so that all the “breakfast sentences” were together and all the “lunch sentences” were together. Next week, we will organize the sentences in each section. We have been working on multiplication and different arrays to represent multiplication. We learned a new game that uses arrays but to do that we had to learn some multiplication. We have learned that you can use doubling to find multiplication facts you do not know. For example, you can double the product of two groups of four (8) to get the product of four groups of four (16). Similarly, you can double the product of four groups of four (16) to get the product of eight groups of four (32). In french we are learning colours. Did you know that, in French, the color orange is spelled the same as the fruit? Welcome to our first post of 2018! After a relaxing break, we are ready to dive back into some of the topics we explored earlier in the year, as well as topics that are new. One topic we studied earlier is plant growth and change. We collaborated with Dr. David Bird, from Mount Royal University, to study the affects of genetic modification on a plant called Arabidopsis. Our plant experiment did not go so well, since very few of the Arabidopsis seeds we planted ended up germinating. Maybe we will try again before the year is out. Another topic we have studied is light and shadows. Leading up to the Winter Solstice Celebration, we had a lot of fun exploring light and shadows using flashlights, ray boxes, mirrors, lenses and prisms. We used our knowledge of light and shadows to create a wonderful light show for the Winter Solstice Celebration to go with live music played by the band in the darkened gym. We projected lights onto the walls of the gym, spun illuminated objects, used an overhead projector to create art, presented choreographed movement with glow stick-adorned costumes and created a shadow show. We look forward to diving into wheels and levers in the days ahead!
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