Hi blog readers! This week we have had a lot of fun and interesting learning opportunities. On Monday we had a field study to Telus Spark. First, our class split up into small groups to explore the area. They even had a new exhibit where you could lie on a bed of nails, see how much water is in you, and even drink out of a toilet! In the second half of the day, our class made shadow puppet shows including one about a knight, one about space, one about a baby polar bear and one about a cube. We have been exploring with light, shadows and mirrors to complete some challenges. We have discovered that light bounces off of mirrors and goes where you didn't think it could go. Shadows are interesting because they are the opposite of light. In our exploration, we tried to see if you can detach shadows from your body. Some of us think you can and some of us think you can't. Have you ever tried finding news online? How about news written at a level that can be changed to suit your reading ability? Well, we have just discovered a website that is called Newsela and it is a great resource to practice reading comprehension and learning about current events. There are topics like geography, government and economics and wildlife. In government and economics, there are articles about the Cold War, the Cuban Missile Crisis and other things related to that. We just finished making a "million cube". It is like a giant version of a one centimeter square cube and it represents one million of those "mini" cubes. We used our million cube to help picture the number 30 million. That is the number of bison that roamed the plains before the Europeans came. We used ribbon to show the edges of a rectangular prism that would be made if we had enough million cubes to represent 30 million. The prism would be one meter high, ten meters long and three meters wide. If each one centimeter cube represents a bison, we can imagine the difference between 30 million bison and the number left after the Europeans killed them - 1000. In less than 100 years, that is a BIG difference!
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